art and paintings of a mischievous and magical nature.
It did waaay not flow easily today. Not happy with it but its still an improvement so I guess that’s a plus.
I’m going to need to buy some more blue paint before I start to play with the sunlit sky.. Gah and I’ve used almost half a tube of white so far.. oh well.
Kinda weird tho.. I didn’t work on the parts I wanted to work on..
{edit: oops this was day 5}
got a good 2 1/2 hours of slapping pigment around.. was nice but eventually aching feet and the palette told me it was time to call it a day.
I got 2 sides of the planet rendered… Not really happy about the empty hillside one… but not really sure what to add to it. maybe something will come to me overnight.
Kinda went totally ocd on the plantlife (thanks wen)
here’s a detail
Anyway.. it’s a good day’s progress i think.. tomorrow I’m seriously going to have to tackle the gears in the planet and figure out how to get things to work together.. oh well.
Got a good couple hours in last night. I was originally just going to put in the base colors for the earth and grass and block out the buildings… buuut.. I simply had to paint something instead of just filling in boring flat blocks of color.
I wound up having a great time, put on the headphones and tuned out the universe for 2 hours… bliss!
Anyway here’s a crappy cellphone picture (color corrected in photoshop) (and the trees were still wet so that’s why theyre shiny.)
Spent the weekend playing around with acrylics with Wendy.
Took the plunge and started on a big canvas.. It’s definitely a big project, maybe a little too big.. but it’s actually been a lot of fun so far..
here’s the (1) initial sketch done as a doodle during a meeting at work. (2) A brief color rough / enlargement done in about 20 minutes on the pc. and (3) finally the first couple of scribbles to get it onto the freshly gessoed canvas.
Here’s a picture of the canvas with more of the sketch transferred.
Not a bad start Got most of the base colors for everything laid in..
Been playing around learning some flash bits n pieces..and Holy moly! it’s starting to make sense. Gradually…
But man.. is flash slow performance wise. Anyway here’s today’s little excercise. It’s not entirely properly OOP since I didn’t extend the base MovieClip class and just slapped the functions into the various instances.. But New classes are the next thing I’m tackling.. and then passing and fetching javascript data back and forth for flajaxy goodness.
tilebounce
Hmm so I’m grandually getting comfortable wiht the whole MCV arhictecture of dev elopment. I’ve decided to more or less just give a pass to Ruby on Rails for now and see about getting cakephp up and implemented to my workflow.
Having a hard time with the initial mental gymnastics to fully embrace it but it’s gradually starting to make sense.
For now, though, It may be time to just take a break and take a look at some bigger picture items and play around with my paints while things gel.
So, It’s been a good year. Overall… Though I’d say the first 7 months or so really…er.. sucked.. The last 5 have been absolutely spectacular.
The holiday’s are just about gone. My christmas tree is still up and glorious and the presents are scattered around the house. The remnants of nerf battles past lie scattered around in the corners.
The amazon wish list was a success Including an awesome score of a copy of Descent: journeys into the dark, Feersum Endjinn, a nice iPod alarm clock and other goodies!
But, it’s about time to start a pet project… and no time like the beginning of a fresh year to do so. Soo… I’ve cracked open some Ruby on Rails tutorials and am gearing up for the start of an actual development. I need to crank out some milestones and a basic design guideline and then go from there.
But on the other hand… I did get some cool canvas boards that are just itching to get slathered with paint, not to mention my copy of painter has been doing good things.. so maybe that will distract me..
Boy, life is hard with too many hobbies… 🙂
Well it looks like the comicpress theme broke the site in Internet Exploder… so I’ve switched to a generic template until I can find the problem.. Who knows maybe there’s a new version of comicpress that’ll magically fix it.
But for now at least it works in IE again.
Just to put a smile on your face.
Spend some time doing more of the simple illustration type work that seems easy to do for me. Decided to work it all the way out to the end and add a gaudy faux frame etc etc..
I reccommend looking at the full size version so you can see all the details.
OOPs deelted this accidentally earlier. Lets see if this works.
Finally got around to watching some of my painter tutorials and just getting comfortable with the basic tools of painter. Its way different from Adobe’s suite of tools but its finally starting to feel comfortable.
Eventually I took this into photoshop to do some final tweaky bits and immediately it was noticeable how much extra work it is to introduce the texture in painting with photoshop.
Normally I’d have given up on this one by now. But this last rework of the figure seems to have started something I can work with. Vaugely inspired by War (of the 4 horsemen type) from Niel Gaimen’s Good Omens book.
Gonna put it aside for a while and the the mind chew on it for a bit and mayb pick it up tonight or tomorrow.
OOPs deelted this accidentally earlier.
Finally got around to watching some of my painter tutorials and just getting comfortable with the basic tools of painter. Its way different from Adobe’s suite of tools but its finally starting to feel comfortable.
Eventually I took this into photoshop to do some final tweaky bits and immediately it was noticeable how much extra work it is to introduce the texture in painting with photoshop.
