Colors DS

Finally got Colors DS!!! Now I am invincible!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!




An apologetically small (thanks to lack of a secure wireless) and rather awkward copy of John White Alexander's Repose.
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* They say its a good habit (and also a nice way to learn) by copying master paintings and whatnot.. but for whatever reason I've always been skeptical of that. I guess I'll try it at some point to see if I'm actually getting anything out of it.

-- Azureon

Daily Sketch -- Avian Guardian

This here's a bit of concept art for a friend of mine. This giant statue, erected by a tribe of Avians, stands at the desert's edge, watching vigilantly for trouble.

My buddy, Azureon, keeps telling me to stop making shadows using black or gray. So this is a study in colors and boy, was Azureon right! This way of doing it is so much better. No blacks in this one! Just a lot of dark reds, purples, and greens.

--RWHC

daily sketches

stuff i did at the internship, all of which took the entire time i was there thanks to my lack of leet speedpainting skills.
first day:

second day:


Done on Photoshop CS2, using custom brushes by
bluefley's imaginefx tutorial (because i'm too lazy to make my own).

--Azureon

Daily Sketch -- Hand of NOD

Here's another quick sketch experimenting with tools in Painter. This time, the scratchy palette knife. Click on the picture to view the full effect.

--RWHC

daily sketch

"wth is that?"
"MEEP."

Butbutbut ... what the hell is a MEEP?

From June and onwards, I have no excuse. Lestthemawsoflazinessconsumeme.

- Azureon

Uncomfortability.

My oh-so-awkward sketchbook pages. Not as pretty as James Jean's (the SVA Illustration posterboy) or one of the old painting masters, unfortunately. I'm trying to get back into the habit of drawing from life, drawing anything in that damned book, which I used to do alot last last year (and was a whole lot better at, I think).

Unfortunately, because I grew up drawing on stray floating bits of A4 paper (thanks to being underexposed to anything art), I don't sit well with these tightly bound books of doom. They tightly close around me, archiving my every move! (like the camera and the yearbook, other archival daemons I try to duck and hide away from as much as possible). The more enjoyable times I've had drawing were on A4 paper, like the pic below:



Eh, screw the sketchbook. Looks like I'm going to be ditching it altogether and just carry sheafs, no... loafs of A4 paper instead. Even at the cost of me looking like a total idiot. Perhaps someday I can get comfortable with it so that I can actually EFFECTIVELY USE those piles of sketchbooks lying around. Let's hope for that.

-Azureon

Daily Sketch -- Scribbly Spore

Aaaaah.. now that finals are over, I can get back to tending this li'l aquarium that we've built for ourselves in this corner of the intarwebs...

Over at dA, I found this tutorial by one of my favorite artists, Ursula Vernon. I wanted to try it out because the scribbly method looked really interesting and here's what I came up with:

One of the things I really like about these daily sketches is the fact that you can experiment with new techniques quickly and not worry about it being a finished product. I really like the raw energy that this style brings and I want to be able to refine this technique more so that it doesn't look quite as messy as this one ended up being.

--RWHC

daily sketches

Felt like painting koi, so koi you get. Or something akin to it.

*If there is at least ONE thing i must achieve this summer, it is color theory and color management. Damn JPEGS for their data loss.

--Azureon

daily sketches

for now, this is what i am able to spit out for the much delayed daily sketches.

i will try to make it daily.


not feeling very colorful at the moment, but next time, and hereafter, i will stop doing limited color/monochromatic scenes since i'm getting sick of them, not to mention that this became an experiment gone horribly out of proportion;it bleached out this past school year to a grayish darkish shade that is neither color nor uncolor but the gastric discharge of a stubbornly formless beast.

Now time to go sink into that pleasant unconsciousness called Sleep. For some reason, I seem to be getting very little of it, thanks to being nomadic for the last few weeks.

- Azureon