Sketches And Excitement

I did these character sketches the other night. I didn't really plan them.

I just drew and then there they were.

I like them. I think they might live in that hotel I talked about a couple of posts ago.

In other news, I"M GOING TO SIGGRAPH TOMORROW!!!!

 

The Conference is going to have an amazing keynote session with 8 top notch 

animated film directors such as Pete Docter and Chris Sanders.

Holy crapcakes. I'm going to geek out so hard.

Maquette Sculpting

Today I decided I wanted to try my hand at sculpting. REAL sculpting. 

None of that Sculptris nonsense. (I also do that) Sculpting digitally is fun,

but I like having something tactile and getting my hands a bit dirty.

To start, I amassed some supplies.

Including the most important supply for any of my creative endeavors: snacks!

 

I used that sheet of tinfoil as armature wire because I'm too unemployed to have real wire.

After about an hour this is where I was.

Then I upgraded my setup, using an old drum practice pad as a rotating stand

so I didn't have to keep picking up the sculpture and jacking up the armature.

 

I added clay in small increments, and used my knowledge of anatomy 

to build up the musculature and such.

  I used bulldog and gorilla anatomy as reference.

 Then I improved my setup even more!! I used some books to elevate my workstation 

to keep myself from hunching over too much.

A face began to take shape.

 I made a support out of a D20 and some random foreign currency from my desk.

And this is where it stands after about 3 hours of work.

House Painting.

 I didn't actually paint a house. I just painted a house.

 A nice bike ride led me to this house and I sat by the side of the road to paint it.

I got more strange looks than I ever have before doing this painting.

This one lady slowed down to about 5 miles an hour and rolled by 

making direct eye contact with me. It was weird.

 And here's two random sketches that I particularly like.

Monday.

Yesterday was Monday. I drew these things yesterday.

Just some random doodles.

Damn you, technology.

I had a bunch of drawings that I wanted to scan, but my scanner is in a really bad mood today.

It wouldn't let me turn off the auto crop thing so a lot of my drawings were cut in half.

Eventually I just gave up and decided to post what I had. 

You win this round, technology. 

Weapons made from car parts.

Monster doodles done while watching WWE Smackdown.

More monsters and Randy Orton being put through a table.

 Some cars and Good old Vladimir

Some randoms. I've starting sketching a lot with prismacolor chisel tip pens. They're pretty sweet.

And I love this guy. This was one of the rare drawings that went exactly how I wanted it to.

I got the exact attitude and style I was going for. 

Go me.