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.

Just Two Digital Doodles

First, an on/off evening with Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro:

Not a bad app by any means, but everything seems destined to resemble a sketchbook (the name is very literal) with markers and ballpoint pens. The paintbrush will probably resemble gouache when I get used to it since this app seems to rest between a random doodling app and something a designer/student would use to avoid spending hundreds of dollars on Prismacolor pens. Haven't spent much time with it so I'm on the fence about how much I like it.

Entry to a Halloween themed contest:

Won a $15 video game for a few hours of work last Friday when I realized the deadline was coming up fast (0100 PDT/1900 AEST, unless they do daylight savings). I still have major issues drawing curved lines that don't wobble (as in I can't) on my tablet, but that's just part of the game due to the mostly frictionless surface. Instead of blue shadows smudged, I wish I'd instead just mixed a darker color and done it with a hard edge since this method here isn't working out for me.

Springish Round-Up

As I was posting the last one Saturday night/Sunday morning, I remembered these scans I still hadn't posted. So, yea, I never could decide about whether or not I should make a group posting of the older drawings of single posts with some backstory over what I did. Now enough time has passed that I can't even recall what those drawings were without looking at my scans folder, and to make it worse I've posted a few times since. So, just gotta toss them out there and move on.

Just wanted to draw someone puking.

This was caused by reading either an article or diatribe (I forget which now) about anthropomorphic animals pre-dating the current furry culture.

Started as a salaryman who didn't care as the world broke around him, became a man frozen in time invincible to the influces, then became a frozen-time frame. I should have written down my ideas in a quick checklist first so they all could be integrated.

Quicky doodle with pencil and a Tombo calligraphy pen because all my drawings at the time had no sense of motion. Ended up really liking this due to how it compared to everything else I drew that night.

Really like these masks, and didn't use a source image. I need to double-check my pencil work more before jumping to ink.

Friend of mine has been requesting a drunken leprechaun for a while. Forgetting what one looks like, I drew a drunken, homeless dwarf and had to be reminded about the extra buckles, red hair, and mutton chops. Good warm-up though.

There you have it. A handful of drawings I did on the side I did mean to post, but for various reasons didn't think they deserved their own posting or flat-out forgot to.

Who's Hungry?

Had a large blank file open (1200x1000 or 1500x1500, forget which) and was just messing around with Painter's pencil tools as usual. This giant tablet is a sketchpad that I occasionally use for coloring. Point being that this spawned from one of my several tiny doodles I had kicking around.

As for the drawing, I'm still hazy about pen tools when it comes to digital works. The hard edge is always too much for me no matter what I do, though I'd like to think I'm getting better at it, maybe I'm just getting used to it. Didn't have a clear intent when I started this, not even a colorset in mind. Also, despite my love of reds, I'm red/green colorblind and have no idea what this actually looks like... I hope it's somewhat close to how I'm perceiving it.

Beanstalks

A friend looking over my sketchpad noted I was sorely lacking in drawing scenery and environment and challenged me to draw a sci-fi scene. Promptly I went over a mental checklist of sci-fi novel stereotypes and came up with the standard orbital elevator, which he informed me is more commonly known as a "beanstalk".

The drawing itself was a bit sloppy, and you can see the loose doodles behind it. But all the while I drew it, I kept imagining a bunch of blue. Dunno why, just seemed a a way to do it. The execution of digitally painting it blue however did necessarily go as planned on all fronts, but a stepping stone is a stepping stone.

I'm sure I could tweak it more, but I've spent enough hours re-re-repainting it to figure out what I had in mind as I moved along. It hit that point where one needs to take notes of what did and didn't work, and the project must be set aside.

Also, I'm not sure if it's my colorblindness or not, but goofing off with the overlay (a layer of pure orange to dim the intense blue) I found that I actually did like the inverting one, even if it wasn't what I had intended.