So one of the reasons I'm back in the art mode is cause of my good friend mic? as mentioned in my first post. I've also drawn us a bunch of times so here's some samples.
09/09 - This was part of his birthday present this year, done completely in Illustrator. I made a print and replaced the cover of a cereal box with this, lol. Oh yeah, we got a big sweet tooth if you can't tell =P
01/09 - I did this one in Corel Painter X. Just some color experimentation. And I did his face in his trademark online smile as depicted on his shirt on the above piece.
09/08 - And this was a present for his birthday last year, haha. It was based off a picture where we did a "beefcake" and "cheesecake" pose. Yeah, we're really weird.
Anyway, come check out some of his art on his blog. He does update it sometimes. Maybe now that I've linked him, we'll be seeing more of his lovely works ;D
Goooo, Manny Pacquiao! Drew this right before the Pacman/Hatton fight on 5/2/09. Holy crap at knockout on the second round! Pretty much every Filipino household that night was something like this -> PAC MAN!!
So I finally took a sketch session with a live model (yes, a nude one). First one I've taken since 2002! Poses ranged from 30 seconds to 30 minutes. Here's the best of the batch:
10 minute pose
10-20 minute pose?
30 minute pose
Great way to study the human form, much better than the Google image search screen references I've been using. More to come in the future!
When I'm bored, I draw girls. They're much easier to draw than guys, imo. Here's some random sketches I've done this past year.
This started out as a girl sitting on a couch. Somehow, I turned her into a mermaid.
Hey, so I like cats. This is supposed to be a young girl and her kitty.
Haha, yeah. I drew this after a weekend of partying it up in Las Vegas.
Just a fairy. I intend on coloring some of these in the future. I had just been trying to get my groove back in the penciling department. Coloring comes next so stay tuned!
Other than drawing, I'm also watching anime again after a long haitus.
Mugen from "Samurai Champloo". I don't know why I made his hair like Huey from "Boondocks".
A tribute to L from "Death Note". Ok, so I never watched the anime, but I did catch the movie at SFIAAFF and caught the first 10 issues of the manga. He's my fav cause he's a dessert fiend!
It's Misa-Misa also from "Death Note". This was actually based of different photo images of a cosplayer.
I've attempted to draw Angie twice already so I'll repost it here.
The first time was on the Oekaki Doodle Board on here in 2002 using the PaintBBS applet and my wacom tablet. The board is currently down, by the way =(. It was basically a place where anyone could register and leave their own sketches. I've been trying to revive it and it may have a relaunch soon.
I drew her again recently in my sketch book in April 2008. I needed to practice drawing a realistic face again so I chose her. At this point, I used a dull 2H and HB pencil for shading.
Ok, so I have reoccurring character in some of these posts, so here's how it all came about.
It started out as something I modeled for the 3D modeling class back in 2001. She was molded entirely out of the basic shapes - spheres and cylinders. After her, all the other characters I made were molded from the default human form models that came with the program.
Luckily, it came out pretty good.
I liked it so much that she became the girl in the Trippun video. Since her torso was bent around so badly that I had to replace it completely for the animation.
She also made an appearance in GF Quest Game. By this point, she was a catgirl, tripping people and now kicking them in the face!
I toned her down for a recent sketch I did in her original form as catgirl.
Hmm, I never even gave her a name, just "catgirl". Oh yeah, and her bangs covers her right eye, because she doesn't have one -- literally! I only gave her one eye, lol.
Before you go any further, you might want to check out the actual GF Quest game or else you won't know what I'm talking about here. This post does contain spoilers so beware.
So the game basically spawned from that Trippun video I did. It was a project for a multimedia class where we had to incorporate different types of media. What better than a game where you can make interactive?
The initial goal was to include actual animations into the game, but being short on time, it ended up being just 3D images (modeling done in SoftImage).
There's actually a hidden kind of easter egg type thing in there where you try to hit on a girl with a pick-up line. It doesn't work anymore so don't worry, but what happened was it would save the line into another page where other people could see. Man, the people things wrote not knowing that it would be posted! I apologize to anyone who got angry about that, but it's all anonymous, so who cares? So if you haven't seen it yet, I have a bunch saved up until about 2003 in the "pick up line" link on the top bar.
I made the game in 2002 and it's actually the part of my site that generates the most traffic at the moment. I was looking for some ideas of stuff to draw, so I ended up doing some updated artwork based off the characters in the game. I did the above on 7/2/08.
And if you ever played it before, this would be a familiar scene, lol.
I've been very rusty when it comes to my drawing skills. Here's some the practice sketches I've done based on real world references just to relearn the process.
Hands have always been a problem for me. I sat down one day and drew nothing but hands.
I'm currently in the process of "finding my style". I haven't refined it in quite some time now. So I tried to toon up some pics of different expressions. I this was done in April 2008.
About three months later, I revisited the same exercise. I'm getting more confident with my strokes and even getting more details on the noses! Yay!
Some time in May, I bought a hairstyle magazine and then tried to get some of the hairstyles down.
So I learned that the best way to get better is to draw, draw, draw. You learn new things all the time with the process and you WILL improve.
I took a three week crash course drawing class at DeAnza which turned out to be the most beneficial drawing class I've ever taken. I'm not sure if Lee Tacang still works there, but he's an awesome teacher.
I recommend anyone who wants to draw to people to take AT LEAST one class with figure drawing including nude models. No, not to be a perv! You actually really learn a lot about the human form that way. The pic above started as a nude, and then she put on clothes and we drew the clothes on top. It was a great excersize to learn how clothes hangs off the body.
In this pic, we had to draw the person in front of us, while they drew you. We only had time in class to do it, so you had to be quick.
This was a huge drawing where we had to use the grid approach to reproducing a photo. I chose a Nike ad where there was a lot of detail in the texture of the guy's skin and hood.
More details, plus other sketches can be seen on the pencil sketch page.
