Squirrel Crossbreeds

As the title suggests, I'm back from my undeclared birthday hiatus. :D I've been strangely busy the last week and a bit so once again I've not had a chance to make much, which is frustrating. e_e 

The first thing I made was this little model... thing in Maya:

First I wanted it to be a squirrel, then I changed it to a cat, now it's some kind of weird mole/shrew/rabbit crossbreed that I sat in a hole. I have since tried to texture it but thanks to me being stupid and not having a power supply near, I completely lost what I had done when my battery ran out. Go me!

Next up is a drawing I did for a friend who asked to commission me. This is one of his characters & isn't part of the actual commission, so it should be okay to share I hope:

Her name is Chen and she's a Pokemon-based OC. I had lot's of fun drawing her. :D 

Finally is this painting I did of an owl pendant that my Dad's girlfriend gave me for my birthday:

This was the first time I've drawn something from a study on my desk instead of from the computer screen, so I'm sooorta happy with how it came out. I also improvised with the chest a little because the real thing has about 100 tiny 'diamonds' on it and as much as I love painting, that wasn't going to happen today. D:

That's all I have for this week, though now I've actually done a study I think I might try and do a few more (with backgrounds!) as well as those environments I talked about last week. 

Thanks for reading if you did and have an awesome week! 

(~^-^)~

Lazy.

That's pretty much the only word I have to describe me the last couple of weeks. ): First I got sick, then I pulled a muscle in my neck, now I have a blog post that's 2 weeks late with not much art. Not good! D:

I do have SOME things to show though, so I guess it's not all bad, right?

Here's a WIP I've spent the last few days on. Not solidly, just casually. I can't seem to concentrate on anything long enough to get it done quickly at the moment, so who knows how long it'll take. >_>

I'm pretty certain that I'm gonna muck up the background but we'll see how it goes.

Next up is more Animal Crossing art. I know, I know, I'm overdoing it - I don't really care. It's fun to draw. :D It'll pass eventually I promise.

I also made a Facebook banner for someone, though I'm not sure if they'd be happy with me posting it here so I won't. 

Finally to finish off, here's a larger sized image of Pascal that I painted a little while ago in my picture of Tommy Des Brisay. Hopefully he looks a bit nicer this size. :D 

That's all I have for this week, I'm gonna set myself a target of 5 studies for next week, so we'll see how that goes. I also want to get working on anatomy which would be nice to sneak in too. :D 

Thanks for reading and have an awesome week! 

(~^-^)~

 

IT'S. TOO. HOT.

It's too hot. :( I haven't made much this week because I've been in a constant hot weather sleepy-mode and I've also been out places. I'm sorry! D:

The one thing I did make this week does link into the weather, though, so do I  get + points for keeping a theme going..? No? Okay. :C

I actually have a story to go with this, so I guess that'll help fill this blog entry up a little. :'D

Here's the comic, I called it Tan Lines:

Basically what happened was I went to stay with relatives, we went to a party (gasp!) that was filled with people who were either a lot younger or a lot older than me, so I ended up sitting on a wall awkwardly for about 4 hours.

I get self concious about my arms so I couldn't take my hoodie off for longer than about 5 minutes, which combined with how hot it was resulted in a really silly looking tan line. I didn't realise until I had gotten home that I had a tan up to where my sleeves were rolled up, so now I look like I've dipped the lower quarter of my arms into the sun. :D 

Moral of the story - LEARN TO TAKE YOUR HOODIE OFF IN 25 DEGREE WEATHER. SERIOUSLY.

I am silly.

Oh I also made an Emoticon for the first time in a year or something like that, so here's a link to that because uploading the file here breaks it.

Have an awesome week!

(~^-^)~

 

Someone take me to Disneyland

This week I've spent a lot of time on one piece and not much time on others, though I did get 2 Environments done as promised! No stern talking to for me, yaaaaay. :D

The first environment took me about 20 minutes and is some kind of snowy mountain thing:

 

There are some aspects of it that I could be happier with but I guess for 20 minutes it isn't too bad. :'D I definitely need to put a lot more work into environments if I want to get better at them, though.

The second one is more mountainy hill things, just without snow. :D This took about the same amount of time, possibly a bit longer:

Out of the two of them I think I prefer the first one, though the second one was more fun to work on. It was nice getting to mess with different colours that weren't just blue. :'D I MUST DRAW MORE.


The final thing I've done this week (which ate up the most time) is a digital painting of a guy called Tommy Des Brisay. He's a 22 year old Autistic Canadian who posts videos to youtube under the channel 'Lookyus' and I'd strongly recommend having a look. :) Tommy's constant joy and optimism towards life has been hugely inspiring to me and I couldn't not paint him. I think he's amazing. :D

I'm happy with how Pascal and Tommy came out (for the most part), though the background bugs me a little. I think it's probably the Perspective but I'm not sure. Either way, it was nice to work on and I hope that Tommy and his family like it! :D 

That's all I have for this blog, I'll hopefully have some more environments to show next time.

Thanks for reading if you did and have an awesome week!

(~^-^)~

I draw too many Korean Males

It's true. :( This blog post is going to be full of them, the next blog post will, probably, be full of them. It's an issue.

I'm actually a little disappointed that they're all I've been painting :'D it shows that I'm just sitting in what's turning into a comfort zone, which isn't cool. :( 

SO. If I don't have at least 2 environment pieces in my next blog entry, you guys are allowed to shake your fists at me profusely. And maybe call me names. Maybe.

The first painting I did is of Sehun from EXO with his annoying as hell to draw  beautiful rainbow hair. It's the first time I've ever attempted hair that's more than one colour and I still think it looks a bit thin and flat, but I gave it a go. 

Next up is Tao, also from EXO~ I think this one turned out better in terms of hair and it actually looks more like him, so yay! I think overall he took me just over 2 hours to paint which is a huge improvement compared to how slowly I used to paint. I do want to try and nail the idea of actually getting them to look a lot more real if I can, though.

That's all I've got this week ): though I have doodled down some stuff in a sketchbook that may or may not get turned into comics.

I also got hold of a copy of Color and Light by James Gurney which I'm very excited about. :D I haven't had time to read through much of it yet, but I like what I've read so far so I'm looking forward to putting some of the lessons from it into the works. (:

The last thing I did that I don't have any evidence of to show ( ;>_> ) is some Sketchup work of what I was hoping to turn into some kind of mountain scene but ended up losing, so that sucks. ): I'll be making another one, though! :D 

And FINALLY, on a non-games related note; I'm thinking of getting some of my character printed onto Stickers and Acrylic charms. I'm not 100% sure who I'll pick yet though I know I'll be getting some of my Tea and Monsters Logo, so I really I was just wondering if there's any interest there. 

If there is, let me know! 

Take care and thanks for reading if you did, see you guys next week. :) 

(~^-^)~

First Year: Get!

It's official, I passed first year! :D 

The above image is my official reaction image, by the way. 

I'm mega happy with the result I got :D there were some areas I felt I let myself down in along the year, so to pass with a grade I'm happy with came as a nice surprise. I can definitely say that I've been given extra motivation to give it my all next year so September, if you're reading this, please hurry up and get here!

Other than getting my grade, this week has been filled with a lot of half finished digital paintings and things I wanted to do but couldn't because of various reasons. Also for those of you that care, Jason got fired in the Apprentice. My heart weeps.* ): 

I did however, make a 'comic' about our new dog Toby. :D 

He's a huge cutie and very sweet but he just won't leave me alone. I don't really mind this because dog cuddles are the best but when I'm trying to work/draw/sleep or drink delicious tea and a Yorkshire Terrier decides to land on my knees, it can cause a few issues!

Something else that I guess I don't really need to talk about but would like to is the possibility of using a laptop that has UDK being snatched away from me... again. ;>_> The first time I thought that the charger was broken - my dad fixed it in about half a second by plugging the socket in properly. Yeah. That really happened.

This time, however, with the charger working and all looking great, I turned it on with high expectations to find a blue screen and a reboot 'Steph help me I'm broken' screen. Great! So now I don't quite know if I'll ever be able to form a bond with UDK, I guess it'll have to wait a little longer.

Sorry for the lack of content AGAIN. I may as well just change the title of this blog to that. Screw 'Life in Games Design', 'Sorry I didn't do squat' is where it's at. 

Have an awesome week and thanks for sticking with me! :D 

*I'm not using a spoiler tag, it was over a week ago and if that's a spoiler for you then you need to sort your priorities out by watching The Apprentice instead of reading this blog! 

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"You posted WHAT on Youtube?!"

Apparently I started writing an entry with this title before I went to York but for some reason it went to drafts... ;>_> So here I am using it, finally! 

This week I've spent a lot of time away from my tablet in terms of personal projects as I've been moving back to Newcastle from uni for the holidays. Combine that with a housemate moving out and visiting my Grandma every day and you're left with not much stuff to show. Sorry. :C 

Fortunately, though, I do have some things to show! Not much, though they're better than nothing. :)


The first thing is the actual reason for the title of this post and can be found here.

I've always loved watching speed painting videos. Probably more than I should do, actually. Another thing I've always loved the idea of is actually making my own... and here it is! The quality isn't too great because I used the video that I got saved from a livestream of the painting, so I apologise for that. I have however figured out a way to do it in much better quality so the next one will be much better. :D 

Either way I hope you enjoy watching it if you do - I'd love to get some feedback on it. :)

The second thing I have to show this week is a digital painting. I've wanted to do another one for a while and since I had a friend's birthday coming up I saw it as the perfect opportunity! :D So, here's Bang Yongguk from B.A.P:

He was a tonne of fun to paint and actually didn't take as long as I thought he would :D it took me about 3 hours give or take. It's still a fair amount of time but I'm getting there!

Taking a step back from digital painting for a little while has made me realise how much I really enjoy it, so look forward to some more of these popping up in the next few weeks including the half finished one I'm currently working on.

That's all I've got for this week ): I'll have way more time to do my own thing come the end of June though, so this lack of things is only temporary. :D 

I hope you have an awesome week and thanks for reading!

(~^-^)~