Old Man Drawing

Yeap, finished and handed in this afternoon to Bridget! Whew.... Haha, I wonder if I have something for old people. The very first cg that got me a prize featured an old man. My very first human bust sculpture was an old man. And now, another old man. Maybe the eyes? Gotta admit, I kind of liked the expression of the old man in this picture and decided to draw it down. Or maybe cos the wrinkly image of the elderly allows me to break away from the usual standard perfection of a human face...

Still feels the picture lacks some 'real-ness' to it, a small thumbnail of it now makes me feel that the left side of his face is in fact quite flat... But I submitted it anyway... letting it go there. Maybe a few years later, it'll be a joy to review this picture again, I hope so...

What did I learn there.... 2b doesn't go well with hb pencils for me...and less force! Every line counts!! (which leads to 6 hours of painful rendering... gotta do something about the time there one day.... not this moment though...)

Homework is taking a different turn...

2 hours... and this was all I managed to do for drawing homework. When Bridget said she wanted a fully rendered portrait, the atelier way, I kind of went '...okie' in my head. It's gonna take a long time to get it done nicely, and it's gonna overshoot 2 hours with my current skills.... What is atelier? I'm kind of wondering, and tried searching up google for that. Seems like it's all realistic and stuff... >_< Painful discipline there.

Anyways, it kind of balanced out with the other homework, cos at least this doesn't need any brainwork... 3D needs ideas for spoon designs, 4D needs ideas of interactivity, and the freeeeking logo for 2D needs ideas... Yea, think I need to think harder for that, if Ms Amy ever sees that logo I made now, she's gonna scream 'what happpppen??? Why liddat??' T_T (我没脸见你啊啊啊Ms Amy! >_< !!!)

. emptying my thoughts .

Was feeling pretty stressed these days... an invisible stress maybe. Just the start of uni life and there are many things to be done. Maybe not many, it's just about 5 assignments..? three of which required some reading and understanding, the other two are just drawing stuff... A lot of craft work, something that I like to do. Yet, the time limit and the info needed to be digested has made it a pretty depressing state. Maybe it's time to really settle down with a concrete plan...



Something I did after trying to find the most comfortable resting position. The normal 'lying on your back' position isn't as good as the 'suspending ur head at the edge' position. You get to relax your body a bit, and above all, ur head will feel too heavy physically to think about anything. (or maybe ur brain will be too busy trying to register your new perspective that you forget what you are trying to think?) Works for me :p

Zar, creed, erhn

Have been wanting to draw zar again eversince i got the dark arund (yay! all black!! XD). Wanted to express the blacks so played around with the negative space... somehow... didn't turn out nice.. Maybe too dark...



Medium: colour pencils on black paper

And while searching for some reference pics for an upcoming personal project, found this!



Yeap, Creed and Erhn, one little girl (who plays the ice wizard) i met in cass last time. She's... undergoing puberty i guess XD so lotsa dramas going on while she's around. Likes to stick around her buddies (and when i say stick, it's superglue type), pyscho me into her guild, drag me around cass and fight in places where she ends up tombstoning. Yea, it's the tombstoning part that makes me wanna go nowhere(I'm no bishop nia...). A while after some more buddies entered her maple life, she started leaving me alone. Dunno what happened, she got hacked...by her close friend in school, a few times... The last i saw of her.. she remade a character, taking up the bow and arrow.

While looking at her going through so many things during that time, it makes me wonder why one would wanna immerse oneself into the society behind the screen so deeply. Relationships and all, presented in pixels, truly virtual? What's real anyway? Maybe i haven't ventured beyond the screen to understand that. Or maybe i dun wanna understand that, it's just giving myself more problems. XD

Flash-er in the making...

Hmmm.... a week and two days since i started working... and things are quite ok. Still trying to et used to macromedia flash tho. It's similar to illustrator in some ways, but the pen tool in flash is definitely unfriendly...



Did a short 3 page comic when i came back yesterday, about me and flash... or Flasher... haha. Lame-o. XD

Julliant

I had this pose and scene set in mind for sometime, but never really quite got the right character to fit in. Initially thought of mages, but their clothes covered the silhouettes too much. Until I saw a pic posted by a forummer. Man, why didn't I think about a bowman in ades? So did a sketch of it, and rendered it out. Named after the forummer's character.