Round 2!

Here's another attempt! 3 new colors this time around :/ they worked well together. I sorta just worked my way around the color picker! lol enjoy nonetheless... Might be a few more of these on my own until I actually pick up a reference :| I like the feeling of working around the face until it looks right. That's probably a bad thing but I'll learn :)

Oh, more white hair too... since I don't know how to paint it yet. ADVENTURE!

Edit 3/4/2009: MAAAAAAN the lips are really flat looking here. Back to the drawing board I suppose!

stupid attempt

I wanna try painting but... I need to get materials.

Here's an attempt at painting in SAI without reference based on what I know :/ Which isn't saying a lot! Also it's because I'm too stubborn to use ref other than using myself or a model. I'm scared of thinking someone would think I ripped off a pose or something. I will draw as needed with a model until I know the body well enough >:I So basically... I paint from memory of what I know (I know, sounds like something every artist does blah blah) but I don't mean it that way. What I'm saying is.. because I don't sketch often, I try to compile everything I've examined, learned and liked about things I've seen into something I can put on paper (or screen) Without having to draw it over and over to get it right. I honestly try to get it right the first time around, which is why it's so frustrating the second or third time around! I'll keep scribbling on the same picture until it looks right out of too much pride for my work. :) So yea... seeing as I don't paint it's not TOO horrid! For that I'm glad.

Turned out nice to start but then I added solid elements in and yea... not the best idea but it's what I like to do. Maybe one day I can make it work to my advantage. You know, when it doesn't suck! But that's not what this blog is for. Maybe one day I'll come back and finish it. I was genuinely tired of looking at it. Her chin and face in general is misshapen... and I feel some elements I had at the beginning I sort of scribbled around have been lost. The lips flattened out alot too, maybe even need to be nudged higher... got alot of contrast issues... her eyebrows are brown and kinda high up and the same color as the skin... ugh, there are so many things I could point out but I'm sick of judging myself. Time to try again... this time with reference!
I do enjoy the nose though (:3

Venting

Took me about an hour... I tried my coloring again... but I'm horrible at picking colors. I'm glad it looks SOMEwhat cool though. Just the color choices weren't what I hoped for. Enjoy... cause I'll never finish.

One of my old sculptures

Upon request~



I feel I can do soooo much better now. Sorry about the bad photos and lighting...

concept update

Just fixed her face... that's all. May change later if I find something more wrong with it. I'm nitpicky like that. :P It's alot different when you see it straight ahead on the screen rather than laying on the table.

Moar concepts

So my task is to work on the valkyrie in pre production class. I am so thrilled. Not only that, everyone said it was alright that I do the maquette! So expect to see this woman in clay sometime next month!

So here were some more costume changes... Well, one anyways. The purpose was to incorporate feathers, they didn't like the bodice too much on this one but wanted to incorporate more of the older version I had, (hair, etc) in to this one. I tried to make a feathered skirt, they liked that but told me to make it shorter! So WILL DO!


Everyone throughout the weeks decided to do drawings in their style so.. I thought I'd drop the JL one and go with my own for a bit. This next one is only a template so I can draw clothes over it. I started in class but then continued at home... IN THE DARK. So that's why my lines are insane. I used a 2H pencil, then an HB for the darker lines, and a .03 mechanical pencil for detail. I'm going to erase and reposition the head since it's been bothering me. Otherwise it's fine.

Lichtenstein + Chipotle= ???

Yea, pretty much stayed up doing this... it's not perfect, and I'm not too proud of it. But what I AM proud of is that I actually attempted at something and didn't stop. I guess I'll revise this for the second turn in in week 7... I really wanted to give it that screen tone look but photoshop wasn't working for me.. ah well. All in all it's an ok piece. Thanks goes to http://uponthoufaircat.deviantart.com for the subject and the artist... Lord knows I'd spend all night trying to think of my theme...


So yea... I have to get up early tomorrow and finish off the valkyrie. Not entirely FINISH but.. make more dress concepts. :/ and revise two short scripts.

Also, Mortal Kombat VS DC Comics? INSANE.... I don't know what to think of it!