Showing posts with label sketch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sketch. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2015

Suddenly Gamejam Season

Last weekend was Sonen game jam. Next week (17th april 2015) is Ludum Dare, I haven't organized anything, but I'm still considering it last minute. 
For sonen, this time I participated much more casually with an intent to get an excuse to learn using Krita with only my laptop (built in drawing technology) I have been avoiding it because of a whole host of problems, inconveniences and simply being out of my comfort zone. Dragging out the trusty and superior wacom tablet was always too tempting, so for the gamejam I elected not to bring it. Of course, this resulted in no game entry this time. Though I did make a few sketches on the last day where I caved and brought the wacom tablet.... (sigh, but I don't regret it!)

All in all it was successful:

  • Krita doesn't seem to crash anymore (why? I don't know.)
  • Ntrig now has pressure sensitivity in krita (driver update+krita update+nvidia update)
  • Contributed bug reports to krita community
  • Met some cool old and new people
  • Rediscovered my favourite photoshop brush
  • Laptop can be used for drawing in a pinch or with external keyboard
The problem with the vaio flip is that both krita and photoshop are cumbersome without hotkeys, and the vaio hides the keyboard under the screen in tablet mode. Perhaps with a third, simpler drawing app I could enjoy lap-drawing better, might try microsoft paint again, it does have the undo button in plain sight unlike the others.


1-4  reverse process on a "pokefusion" sandslash and machop
5 pokefusion beedrill and ghastly drawn with only my favourite photoshop brush (chalk with low flow)
6 abstract brush practice

The above image is the result of my doodling. I use a little photoshop plugin called "layersToSprite" to automatically output layers into one image, but lately I can't control how many rows it adds due to a weird problem I can only fix with a fresh windows install. (do not want) I also realize they are in the reverse order so that is something to keep in mind next time.

Saturday, February 28, 2015

DnD character design scribbles


I'm playing in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign set in Elderscroll lore, in Morrowind.
For this reason I have to figure out what my lizard person actually looks like. I am going to be a pirate ninja lizard, so I'm tempted to base it off a black iridescent snake, but I like the hooded one too.
The red faced one is based on a frilled neck lizard, because the character is borderline feral and specializes in punching things. I Thought the aggressive neck display and colouring would go with the angry punchy charcter, apparently it doesn't speak. It's name is JAWS so I should probably emphasise that more. half shark maybe.
This sheet also depicts events in our trial dungeon, we fought a skullfaced ox dude, and Jaws was paralyzed for the whole match while being poked at by zombies. My supposedly professional ninja also failed to attack anything due to bad dice rolls sweaty hands.


Friday, September 26, 2014

Desucon Quest competition winner announced!

Back in 28.06.2014, I walked around as a quest giver at Desucon, a cosplay convention. People who completed my quest got a balloon and a business card as a reward, with a chance to enter a raffle for a free sketch.
Boosterspice was the winner, (they successfully found Waldo in the convention) and requested a Steampunk machine for their sketch. I look forward to the next event!


Thursday, September 25, 2014

Speedpainting forest fire creature


I have been streaming twice weekly lately, and aim to do a speedpainting every wednesday. The picture was drawn from a photograph I took of a bonfire some years ago, obviously I added the dragon creature. I chose this for studying colour and smoke, while I also need more familiarity with the forest.




Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Ludum Dare game jam result

I participated in the ludum dare game jam with the hacker space Bitraf in oslo. We didn't manage to get the game working in time, but here are the assets I drew for it. The game jam only lasted 2 days.
The game was supposed to be about the life of a horse-fly, (the green eyed bug) They slice open human skin to lick their blood, so the arm is the "boss" if you like. Dragonflies are casual enemies to be avoided.
The game was supposed to have a funny control mechanism where you control the wings independently, thus making it hard and funny to steer. I still like this concept, so I may work further on it in the future sometime.



Saturday, January 26, 2013

Dream 26.01.2013 Skyrim, Argonian

Unfinished rendition of dream.


Full dream below. Short version
(Click on the links to see the inspiration source for some items.)

I find myself in a new age (myst). A large donut shaped island with a lot of snowy forest and some ruins. I can see an overview map in my head. As I slowly approach, more trees become visible and the dream looks less like the myst chanellwood age and more and more like skyrim. I see some balloons tied to bushes and many interesting colourful things. I wonder who's birthday they are for? I decide not to approach the empty forest birthday party and explore cautiously in the opposite direction. On the ground amongst the bushes I find a dead man with a sword. The sword is longer than my arm, not so heavy and silvery angular. It has a green symbol on it that I perceive as very beautiful. This indicates it has some kind of magical properties. At this point I have become my character from skyrim, an argonian. I approach a fortress, there are many people inside, they live there. They have fires and warm houses and food. There are guards patrolling the walls of the fortress. I am cautious, though these people are nice, I know they will turn hostile if they see my sword. I think I give the sword away, or people take the sword from me. I turn invisible and steal it back, they don't know it is me who have taken it, but as I leave they realize and they start chasing me. Though I can conjure demons and turn invisible, they manage to chase. I suspect this is because I leave footprints in the snow, so instead of running I spring from tree to tree at an unrealistically high speed. But as the trees drop snow when I hit them, the people are able to follow.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Dream avatar

This is a series of doodles where I attempt to narrow down the shape of a creature in my dream (I was the creature) in the dream, I called it "skyfish pod" as it doesn't resemble my skyfish in any way, but has it's properties and personality. The shapes of things in my dream is not set in stone. They differ from scene to scene, it took me a long time to discover this fact as ordinarily we think of dreams like a movie. Only when I started drawing "phsyical" dream locations on paper, did I realize that all the information was conflicting. I concluded that dreams do not consist of a 3D simulated space, but of ideas that we interpret into a setting, loosly. I have many different still images in my head that together make up this skypod. In one scene i had human legs and clothes, and in another I had a long body and one tail, for every "scene" the facts would change, but they were all trivial facts. The figure in the right hand corner can be considered a sort of average, or true form of what I feel the dream was trying to render, and were more often than not the shape "seen" in the dream. The figure had elements from creatures in videogames (panzer dragoon) dolphins, and past drawings I have done lately.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Brainmooshing my logo

The progress on my logo/watermark for putting in my works from now on. I don't know what I want to do from here, I'm fairly happy with the elements it is made of (skyfish, skyfish eel form, and my initials) I need some outside feedback or maybe a completely different concept. I will be putting links in all my work from now on though.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Allison Theus Lock

I procrastinated and a lock came out. Kind of inspired by FZDSchool
Locks are a creature race designed and owned by Allison Theus

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Heavy sandwich


OM NOM NOM  NOM.

My bro told me to draw HEAVY eating SANDWICH, so I did. That fez hat is kind of spectral.  OH WELL.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

28. Purple Prose

Wikipedia told me purple prose is overly flowery writing detrimental to the text. I thought I'd represent that with  visual art by having a simple childlike drawing of a flower and then fill it with details, to show that no matter how much I spruce it up the basic shape of the flower would still be naive, but my plan failed since it ended up looking rather funky.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

24. Blue moon

This one was quite spontaneous, as many of the later ones were, but I seem to have discovered a comfortable zone in my doodlework that I enjoy doing.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

This week's life drawing

I'm still working on trying to find a unique way of drawing from life, I don't have any one style I favour over others yet, nor a favourite medium. I feel I made some progress with these though, so far in Life drawing, I have meant to do something similar to the reference I looked at, but every time I kept going back to classic-like rendering, overriding my previous decisions of whether or not I should use one colour for shadows and another for light, blend the colours, what colour is warm, what is not, and what colour to convert the model into on the paper. All those things I would decide upon and then ignore, resulting in messy, undescriptive images. This time I managed to stick with my decisions better though. Some of these are progress shots.

1

2.1
First time using these watercolours on a proper painting, I was unusued to how they interact. I liked the northern lights like effect in the background wash.

 2.2
Trying to go darker with the colours, I quite liked the drip from the top with no pigment, would like to use that in the future.

 3
 4.1

 4.2
I'm enjoying how the colours blend in this one, but it doesn't show too well on the digital picture.

 5.1
Trying to be a bit more spontaneous and mimic the inkwork I did in my sketchbook in the last post, but I think it looks very different. 

 5.2
I was a bit late on this one and didn't get to go into detail before the model moved when I was working on the face.

 6.1
Worked out the proportions before rushing in with colour, no idea what it would turn into.

 6.2
Realized I was doing classical shading at this point trying to build up realistic colours, so I stopped that and did the next step instead.

 6.3
Looks a bit like an exray now. I don't fell any particular way about that. I think this one might be my favourite out of the session.



Friday, March 23, 2012

Ink sketches

Did these A5 sketches with a fineliner and penbrush. I'm being confused as of late about artist styles and trying to decide what I want to do as an artist. At the moment I consider this kind of work fun, unlike my digital, painting, drawing from life, who can quickly get frustrating. I suppose it is because I'm not trying to achieve anything with them other than drawing weird things.



Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Procrastidragon!

Procrastinating IN uni today, by doing unrelated art experimentation! Deadline tomorrow! (Better than playing minecraft?) Also made some photo.....things....something about exposuring light on magic paper and putting it in liquids and images happen. (no computers involved!) I don't even. I forgot those photo magics in uni so you have to wait until tomorrow to see them. Meanwhile: dragon.
Generic dragon GO!

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Dream diary 8+9 march 2012 dream sketches

You might wonder "what even!" this is, and I admit these hasty scribbles might be hard to understand. What you see here is Generic fleshmonster (left) Burned gasmask dude (middle) and Dragon royal guard (right)
Full dreams below.

Dream 8th of march. Cause: Talking about silent hill, halo and hellsing (anime) before bed = nightmare.

I get the oppertunity to play the 'next installment of halo' and find myself with friends within a game world, fully immersed. Gradually as we play we find that this halo isn't a first person shooter at all! After all, we are in some sort of institution, insane asylum, school or maybe an office building, close quarters, having to avoid enemies and with no functional guns. The tone is paranoid and twitchy, having to time our runs in corridors to avoid being spotted or heard. As time pass on, my immersion overcomes me and I no longer remember it is a game, and the horror elements start to take over. Me and my friends huddle in a classroom like room, maybe 5 meters across, picking up any sharp objects we can find to defend ourselves against a horde of monsters we know have detected us. I find a long knife like object that looks a lot like the embalming tools from skyrim. It had a carved pencil like surface. I knew this was not really suitable for defending against melee type monsters who would batter or eat me, But what can you do? It was very tense. As the fleshmonsters approached, the lights started flickering and we find ourselves having to fight in darkness, and eventually a "boss" type character appeared. He looked nearly human, but much larger, with blue skin, wearing a suit. His eyes were large and red and could be expelled explosively from his head to act as poisonous splash damage bombs. He was very angry with us, and hated the fact that we were "similar" to him. By that I am unsure if he referred to us looking human, or having started to gain some paranormal like abilities (levitation, teleportation, telepathy) This being had mysterious powers as well, and started messing with our vision, turning everything flickering black or static. Since I could teleport, I managed to avoid the enemies for some time, but we were all herded into a smaller room with only a few meters of space to move, and we were about 7 people and 5 fleshmonsters at this time, so combat became necessary. I drove my embalming tool into the head of one fleshmonster's head, and my other sharp object into his shoulder. As our vision became more and more messed up, we were left to blindly wailing around us, stabbing anything fleshy we touched. How could I even know what I was killing anymore? A collective feeling hung over us that it was really a matter of all for their own, and so we were killing our friends as well as enemies. Quite dire and very sad. Once the hordes died down, there were only two of us still alive, me and another girl. Oddly we were not particularly emotionally impacted buy this and proceeded to escape out from the generic creepy facility. Long rusty hallways later, we were outside a enormous dam with rusty bridges going across it. Masses and masses of people were exiting, and it seemed we were not the only ones going through hell. Above the dam, a few human silhouettes could be seen flying. I met my brother on the thin bridge, and we walked towards safety trying to find a place to rest, but I never quite felt secure.
Then I woke up!

9th. This dream was really long, and I don't remember much of it, but whatever.
Someone showed me what "game of thrones" was, it turned out to be some sort of story (game,video) about conflicting nations, except the nations were all very very different and not at all human. The first nation I went visiting were an underwater sort of atlantis people, mostly humanoids but some dragon-turian things (depicted right in picture) The second place I went to were humanoids with magical powers and witches. There were also a cyborg tribe and a jungle tribe. I had to go back and forth and relay information between the peoples. The magic humanoids had killed their royal dragon without the queens permission (corrupt advisor ordered it while she was away or asleep or something) and I went to warn the atlantis people and not have them kill their dragon. The dragon that was killed was turned into a feast meal, I got to try some. It was like chicken skin filled with white rice and beans and tasted pretty good. Yum dragon. The deus ex cyborg guy had lizard cyborg feet and had a one night stand with an evil witch. He woke up in her bed not remembering anything and talked to his miniature lady conscience/AI thing (woman with golden feathers) He really could not figure what happened, probably got cursed.
Then I woke up!

Friday, March 9, 2012

Life drawing

Result of today's life drawing gatecrash, I didn't take time to measure the proportions and just started painting/drawing. I used mechanical pencil first then some dry old felt pen. I was supposed to go crazy and experiment with wild brushstrokes but it ended up just a teeny little bit crazy instead of supercrazy.


My tutor Carl Melegari Encourage me to put some water on it and I did, intending to go crazy, but it didn't go crazy anyway and looks pretty similar to what I would if I was trying to do things classic-like but sligthtly rough looking. I don't have feel any particular way about this. Next time I must go more crazy (I always tell me that but then it just doesn't go crazy...) I added water to the already applied ink with a waterbrush. A2. (the little guy is watercolour)