EF Tutorial -- Panoramas For Everybody: How to Create Panoramic Shots Without Fancy Equipment.

Panoramic shots create dramatic photos.

Sunset in Baguio City.

This tutorial will teach you how to create your own panoramic shots without fancy cameras or expensive software.  All you really need is a camera and a way to crop pictures.  For the purposes of this tutorial, I'll use a basic (and free) program called IrfanView to show how simple the process is.

Projects -- WIP

When I'm not working on daily sketches, I'm usually tied up with school or other projects that I'm currently working on. I mentioned that my Avian Guardian sketch was concept art for a friend of mine and that's what I'm currently tied up doing. The rest of the concept art for that project is probably going to make it up here but for a sneak preview, here are a few of the rough sketches we have so far:





--RWHC

Design Diary -- Artistic Benchmarks

Most people who know me are probably right in accusing me of being a pack rat, keeping old stuff for nostalgia's sake. Unlike my co-blogger Azureon, I like keeping the old art that I've created. For me, it really helps to see how far I've come and encourages me to keep pushing myself to improve.

Nintendo's Metroid series has always been one of my favorite sources of artistic inspiration because of its imaginative setting and immensely likable heroine. I also tend to draw something Metroid related whenever a new Metroid game comes out.

As I was looking through my art folder, I came across these three drawings that have become my very own artistic benchmarks.

Samus Aran (2004)

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (2006)

Corruption (2007)

I'm so glad I kept these. I wonder how much will change the next time I update my benchmarks.

--RWHC