Thursday, September 8, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Back from the Summer
Well I never left, I just had my equipment in boxes while I was out of college.
Not like anyone is reading this, this is basically my private-public online journal (oxymoron, no?)
I tried to go back to digital painting once more. I found out that my absence in the digital medium did more harm to me than good. Maybe I was too excited to start, that I forgot to plan ahead. Either way, I gave up on it.
That doesn't mean I gave up on the idea. This time around, I'll be planning out the character, the position of the sketch, etc. Learn from my mistakes
On a different note, I tried to make chibis! I tried to create something that was in between caricatures and traditional chibis, but it came out to be an unholy mix between chibis and Rugrats. Oh well, I'll learn from this as well!
Not like anyone is reading this, this is basically my private-public online journal (oxymoron, no?)
I tried to go back to digital painting once more. I found out that my absence in the digital medium did more harm to me than good. Maybe I was too excited to start, that I forgot to plan ahead. Either way, I gave up on it.
That doesn't mean I gave up on the idea. This time around, I'll be planning out the character, the position of the sketch, etc. Learn from my mistakes
On a different note, I tried to make chibis! I tried to create something that was in between caricatures and traditional chibis, but it came out to be an unholy mix between chibis and Rugrats. Oh well, I'll learn from this as well!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Revert
I'm temporarily halting my tablet use. It feels that I'm hurting my skills, so I'm going to start coloring with markers. Maybe I'll find a painting technique that I can imitate when I get back to tablet work.
The image on the left is of Ophiuchus, drawn for a weekly activity at the WIP Podcast forums, which focused on zodiac signs. This piece was the beginning of drawing traditionally. I felt that the scratch markings all around the image was too boring, so I went over on GIMP and added a background texture, plus a gradient to frame the figure (I may not be painting, but I might as well use some technology for my benefit. What is not seen in the image is the sketch that was drawn using a red charcoal pencil. That was also removed using GIMP, leaving only lines that I wanted (from the pencil outline). I forgot how charcoal is very messy :P.
On the right were some concepts for the theme of music for the same forums. The idea of insects and musical instruments seem to fit very well. So I made beetles that represent a guitar, and a lyre (misspelled as lye :\).
And finally, a sneak peak at a fictional city that I am working on for my future webcomic. I barely added some buildings for the central part of the city. I wanted to give a variety of sizes and orientation, I'll possibly added different shapes to other buildings as well, since all of them are box looking. The city has a scale of three to four miles in diameter. Forming a city from the ground up is hard!
I hope to come back using the tablet with a more knowledgeable approach at drawing and painting. And possibly have a greater understanding in what style I want to incorporate on my webcomic.
The image on the left is of Ophiuchus, drawn for a weekly activity at the WIP Podcast forums, which focused on zodiac signs. This piece was the beginning of drawing traditionally. I felt that the scratch markings all around the image was too boring, so I went over on GIMP and added a background texture, plus a gradient to frame the figure (I may not be painting, but I might as well use some technology for my benefit. What is not seen in the image is the sketch that was drawn using a red charcoal pencil. That was also removed using GIMP, leaving only lines that I wanted (from the pencil outline). I forgot how charcoal is very messy :P.
On the right were some concepts for the theme of music for the same forums. The idea of insects and musical instruments seem to fit very well. So I made beetles that represent a guitar, and a lyre (misspelled as lye :\).
And finally, a sneak peak at a fictional city that I am working on for my future webcomic. I barely added some buildings for the central part of the city. I wanted to give a variety of sizes and orientation, I'll possibly added different shapes to other buildings as well, since all of them are box looking. The city has a scale of three to four miles in diameter. Forming a city from the ground up is hard!
I hope to come back using the tablet with a more knowledgeable approach at drawing and painting. And possibly have a greater understanding in what style I want to incorporate on my webcomic.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Not much has happened
Drawing and painting-wise, nothing has happened. It feels like I'm overexerting myself when it comes to sketching, nothing feels right.
I know this will pass, it always has.
I know this will pass, it always has.
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