After a couple months of trying out WordPress, I official returned to Blogspot and I don’t plan on leaving again. It’s been fun WordPress!
Switching blogs
I may be switching back to Blogspot in a couple weeks because my favorite artists and bloggers use it, and it’ll be easier for me to follow them and leave comments. Still trying to figure out what to do about a portfolio site but I’m keeping my wordpress one up for now.
For now, I have a lot of projects going on so no real changes yet.
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It’s been a while, so I’ll give you one of my recent sketches to look at. My friend sent me a dirty song and I was inspired.
I also updated my illustration page on my “portfolio site.” I’m still not sure how I like having WordPress to put my work up. Everything’s still kind of a mess, but I’m trying not to jump from website to website like I’ve been doing the past couple years. Perhaps I should invest in a domain name.
New York
I visited New York this weekend and brought my sketchbook along. I did the drawings below as well as some really bad life drawings that prompted me to go back to drawing in big sketchbooks.
One of them looks like Tangled. I’m actually really obsessed with Eyvind Earle’s designs for Sleeping Beauty, so I roughed that drawing out with Earle in mind before boarding my bus. I do have Glen Keane’s pencil drawings for Tangled pinned up over my desk, that might explain the Disney’s Rapunzel girl.
I borrowed Jon’s Once Upon A Time In The West DVD. So good!
Hot Cocoa Run
Drew these the other day during a quick Starbucks run for hot cocoa. I need to practice hands more.
Sword Fight
I haven’t let my apartment in days (with exception to a Starbucks run each day to keep me sane) because of all the work I have to do. So I’ve been watching movie after movie. Guess which one I watched today! Well you probably can’t. I watched Pirates of the Caribbean. The fight scenes are my favorite parts, so I took a couple hours off my thesis work to do a quick illustration. I didn’t take time to check for tiny mistakes or research clothing and rock formations, so it’s not perfect but it’s pretty good for a couple hours.
Christmas Eve
My friend, Chin, did a Photoshop painting demo for me yesterday. I hope I only get better with Photoshop from here. I was trying to imitate Chin’s painting process, just to give it a shot. Thanks Chin!
I was really excited to see my schoolmate and friend, Anthony, using pixel art for his junior animation, and I was impressed with his color palette and animation style. I’m glad he uploaded it on Vimeo.
Today’s Christmas Eve, so I hope everybody’s at home enjoying the holidays with their family and friends. Merry Christmas!
Thursday Night
Sketched this self portrait thing last night. I gave up pretty quickly when I figured I needed to get back into observational drawing. It’s been a while.
My classmate and fellow Gundam fan, Aaron, animated this. I’m posting this because it’s awesome, and I asked him how he made the fire/energy effect and I want to keep his answer in a safe place: my blog.
“I used Particles in After Effects to flow up and combined with a glow effect, vector blur, and light burst. I used a luma to make the center of the aura transparent (I made it so the beginning color from the center was white and keyed that out)”
Thanks Aaron!
