Two ladies

Tired of flailing drawings of sexy ladies with screwed up torsos, I default to drawing Rosie the Riveter-esque blue collar women, the opposite of what you'll find in Cosmo. It's for humor, but it's creepy how much easier they are to draw.

The other chick was a goofy minigun drawing, but it looked tolerable when I cropped the bottom half off during scanning.

"She/I looks like a pumpkin."

I can't recall how the conversation started, but my friend Laura was described as a pumpkin with her hairband one day. Then the following happened:

"HA! Are you drawing Laura as a pumpkin?"
"No... *cough*"
"Yes you are."
"You're drawing me as a pumpkin? Let me see."

Three doodles on the same page I did when wondering how one would go about designing a space environment for a comic. Got sidetracked when I realized I'd drawn FemShep from Mass Effect giving a debriefing from a Wing Commander game.

"Science!"

For some reason this day I kept hearing a friend of mine say "Science!" in his cartoon voice in the back of my head. This drawing was the result... except for the brat in the corner. The people I was with said it looked like Professor Membrane from Invader Zim. So I fumbled a poorly drawn Dib without looking up what he looked like.

Today I'm uploading about four months of doodles I made hanging out at a cafe and sandwich chain I frequent. Rather than make a giant single post they'll be mostly 1-2 drawings per post and a short description.

Teddy

Pencil/Pen done at cafe:

Final image:

Timelapse of (most of) the work between the two:

3D Modeling/Animation II final

Welcome to community college.

Here you get to take pretty much whatever class(es) you want and hopefully pick up some job/life skills.  Or, if you forget to turn in your homework like I do... things get murky.

So the rig we were mostly experimenting with this semester was pure FK.  Basically you set up control objects on joints that don't render, and treat it like claymation in zero gravity.  After the midterm I Frankensteined the top half of that rig with an IK (Inverse Kinetics; honestly no idea how to explain this one) rig at the center pelvis/waist joint and somehow broke the thumbs.  Don't ask, I'm still not sure how I broke them.

The project had ups and downs to say the least, though the greatest down was trying to mimic a 2D movie in 3D.  Aside from inconsistent scene staging, character scale, limb placement, and lighting (this last one is normal in all movies actually) and uhhh... well it's a terrible idea for a class project.  Making up my own "inspired" material from a stolen source would have netted a project multitudes better than trying to copy frames and key frame/tween them.

Anyway, there will always be more excuses about things like painted weights (how joints influence the vector points--where the lines cross on the models), but this  enough excuses, on with the material:

Just a Landscape

A landscape was requested of me, to which I responded that I didn't like doing landscapes because I wasn't any good at them.  My friend told me that was more reason to do one, and had back-up that I needed to get over it and work on it.  Probably was a motivational speech with a twinge of sarcasm so I'd actually listen.

It has issues, but I zoned out and somehow my reluctant acceptance of the challenge produced this.  Was fun to work on by the end.

Drawn in red animator's pencil and Micro 08.

Crayon Is Not As I Remember

Friend demanded I draw in her sketchbook instead of my own, and that I use her box of too-many-crayons that she and another guy where going crazy with.  So I obliged this challenge and banged this out instead of working on the storyboard homework I was supposed to be doing.

Quickie photo taken with my phone and posted here for posterity.

I Don't 3D Model Very Often.

Currently taking my third class at a local community college (Maya1, Maya1 repeated, Maya2).  Self-improvement and learning need to start somewhere, I think I personally do best when launched first from a classroom setting and then tossed into the wild.

More doodles for the week

Forced myself to sit down and do something. Of the scribbles for the week, these are the only four I didn't delete. No particular reason, these were just fun to do so I kept them.

Not putting in enough time currently.