Timelapse test!

Oh Mein Gott! A video of me drawing!!

Lately, I've been wanting to try out recording myself drawing, potentially to do some process videos in the future.  I had debated between doing video vs. a series of still photographs, and in the end I decided that for timelapse stuff it'd make more sense to just do interval photography.  For more involved things that would require audio instruction, video would probably be more appropriate.

So for a first attempt, it wasn't bad, but I did notice two things right away after assembling the video: 1) I should turn off autofocus next time, to prevent the camera from focusing on my shoulder when I step into the frame,

2) I need to figure out a better framing than just a vertical aspect ratio. Even though it's cropped close to the drawing, when it's uploaded to youtube there's the awful black sidebars.  I don't care for those on other videos, so I felt like a bit of a hypocrite having them on mine.  Next time that won't be the case.

New Year of Art

It seems every year around the holidays I taper off in my posting, and then it takes forever for me to get back into the swing of it.  So hopefully this post will jumpstart my blogging again!  Here's a handful of stuff that was done a while ago and recently.  The mock design sheet is for ArtOrder's reinvigorated artorder Nymph challenge.  I'm hoping to put out one more before Monday, but that's kinda up in the air at the moment.

Post Illuxcon sketches

Week after returning from Illuxcon, and already Thanksgiving is around the corner.  Illuxcon itself was fun!  I got to meet a ton of new people and make some new friends, and I even had the chance to meet some artists I really admired.

Unfortunately I am terrible at keeping a photo journal of this sort of stuff, but I did scan in some of the sketches I did while there!

Zbrush sketches and trolls

Just some quick doodles before I head off to Illuxcon - Some trolls, a bust I sketched in zbrush, and some more work on the Avaceratops.

Sketches...

Cheesecake and Death

Not necessarily in the same picture, mind you.  The final of "GameOver", and some drawings out of the sketchbook, including some cheesecake practice!

Game Over Illustration

A warmup portrait, and some developments on an illustration I'm working on.  Enjoy!

Horrrrrnbills!

This is from the latest assignment - designing an animal.  Being a fan of hornbills, I opted to do the hooded hornbill.

Past two weeks of character design homework...

Two assignments from the past two weeks - librarians and storytelling moment involving a bench and two characters.

Pirates!

Third week of the character design class - Piraaaaaaatteess!

These came out a lot easier than the crusaders did.  The little captain was really fun to draw once the idea came about in my head, but I think I still have a soft spot for my idiot-boy pirate on the left.

Also, I've been sculpting dinosaurs!  The first was a generic ornithopod that I did to try out some creature sculpting, while the second is a Avaceratops. It's still in a neutral pose, but I'll be posing it into something more dynamic after I finish him up detail wise.

Crusaders

Here's some character designs done for this week's assignment: Crusaders!

My initial ones I think were too caught up in trying to design, and not enough in capturing the energy of the character, so I did a second batch to try and rectify that.  I think I came closer to the mark.

Monsters!

This past week I started Nate Wragg's character design class over at CGMW!  The first assignment was create a monster based off a simple shape (triangle, circle, or square.)  Here's what I did.