041113_ too long

It's been way freaking way way freaking too long since I've posted and I am done with that. That being not posting. I've been getting caught up in the crap of being a professional and liking games like CS:GO too much. 

Of course, playing isn't bad, in fact, I make new distinctions about art every time I play another video game. Working in the industry certainly makes you attuned to every little thing about the craft of game making. 

I recently began playing Age of Empires II HD with some of my family, like old times, and I've been really blown away by how much is done strictly to serve the the player. There is no slavishness to realism in the visual sense. Horses are as big as houses, etc., everything has a consistent visual hierarchy which makes discerning what is happening on screen actually feasible.

But that's just a ramble. Someday I might try really writing/talking/videoing about these nice visual qualities in games and all of the smart decisions that are made by some art peoples in the games industry.

Enough chat. Here are selection of scans from the past couple of months in my sketchbook. I'm ashamed that there are not more that I actually like. I've allowed my relationship with my sketchbook to become a little too casual. All of these are pretty much graphite and ink.

My tools of choice for anyone that is curious:

.05mm Pentel Twist Erase mechanical pencil

.03mm Copic Multiliner

.03mm Pilot Hi-Tec C

Thanks for looking.

eth.

pen and pencil

Here's a bunch of sketchbook pages I scanned today. They very in date. One I did two days ago but the rest are pretty old...from April. Yep!

eth.

071412_sketchbook pages

Hey everybody! This is what I draw in my sketchbook. Not exactly recent things, but I haven't gotten around to scanning lately and I still wanted to share. I'll do my best to post more regularly. 

This last one is a series of 15 min studies I did because these are the things I struggle with. Early morning atmosphere. Foggy midday weather and diffuse lighting. Hard edged objects.

Thank you for looking!

eth.

012911_anatomy

I picked up Barcsay from the library earlier this week and I've started studying, not in the way that I have in the past, just drawing and trying to remember, but really looking and taking notes, trying to understand how things work. I really like how Barcsay has orthographic drawings and detailed things. More to share soon enough!

011711_sketching...

I've been enjoying a little bit of freelance illustration here and there lately. This is just a sketch...a little "children's" book project.

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041009

Yet another day...self portrait...I really need to scan some other stuff...dang. I started my new workshop at KCAI today. It's essentially figure sculpting. It's the third and final workshop, it is also supposed to be the most intense of the three...I have to say, I'm feeling it already. The assignment this evening is to sculpt my hand out of clay...not as easy as I thought/hoped. I'll be going in bright and early tomorrow as well...

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The self portrait of the day...and also a digital character painting I did the other day...not perfect by any means, I did it in like...2 hours.

040409

day I worked a lot in studio on other things...so this is what I did with ink pen. Whee...

040209

sketching...blah. I'm busy with homework. Test tomorrow...busy week.