I made a thing! Press play!
In my first week on the job I did some training stuff to better familiarize myself with Nuke…and I had just watched the new Hobbit trailer so I guess I was in an elfy-spidery mood.
SO EXCITED FOR NEW HOBBIT AND LUXURIOUS LUSH ELVEN EYEBROWS
Q:what helps you get out of artists block because I am in deep. :(
I think the most important thing is to just draw without judging yourself until you start coming out of your block—just draw SOMETHING, anything, even if it’s an exact copy of something you’ve drawn before, it doesn’t need to be brilliant—just draw something for the sake of remembering how fun it is to finish a drawing! It can be the dumbest thing ever, it really doesn’t matter. Also, go outside, take a break, take a walk, watch people, observe nature, dabble in a new hobby, expose yourself to new music or movies or artists—something to give your mind a break from what you’re used to! Surround yourself with things that inspire you. Good luck!
I meant to go to sleep and then I discovered a fun way to paint in photoshop! Continuing in the vein of drawing really really old abandoned characters…here’s deerboy again (Soma) and a big ol’ bruiser (Dmitri)!
I’m definitely going to continue farting around with this technique but for now I SLEEEEEP
They are friends
I wanted to try redesigning a character I haven’t drawn for like ten years!! SO I DID.
He was some kinda deer owl thingy obvs ok
Q:your work is pretty cool! out of curiosity, which 3d program do you use?
Anonymous
Thank you! In school I used Maya and Renderman, seasoned with Nuke and After Effects to taste.
I’m not a fan of Daario but I really wanted to try drawing him more by the book’s descriptions…just to see if I could get him to look NOT completely stupid. I don’t know if it worked hahahaha
I understand why they had to change his appearance from the regular blue hair/gold mustache/whacky beard/gold teeth/painted nails thing—but did he have to become TOTALLY monochromatic? That man is as brown as it gets. Pops of color, people, POPS OF COLOR.
OH GAWD I’M SORRY I forgot him since he was probably just moping around all night wishing he was the virile young buck he used to be while Dany and Missandei had a nail night!!! (That’s what I would do if all my boiz were out sacking cities.)
But for reals, I do love Ser Barristan too. Guest artist: MY BOYFRIEND WHO DREW ON BARRISTAN’S FACE
Can everyone just calm the hell down and remember that these three magnificent gentlemen are still around?
Going on hiatus again—I’m moving to Shreveport, LA to my first real grown-up apartment so I can begin my real grown-up job as a 3D/art generalist thingy at Bill Joyce+Brandon Oldenburg’s Moonbot Studios!
(That’s right, making obnoxious comics about job hunting actually paid off!)
While I get settled in/utilities (namely internet) set up, I might be a little scarce fror a while…but fret not my little doves, I shall return shortly. And now I must get my teeth drilled because I have cavities. :I WISH ME LUCK.
Every once in a while someone will ask me about how I color stuff, so I made a process gif for this painting!
Usually I make a way better drawing than the piece of crap that I started with…it would have saved me a lot of grief later on. Then I start with blocks of color, each on a different layer, lock the pixels on that layer, and paint into those color blocks. Or I will layer more effects (like bounce lights and translucence and glow) into clipping masks above the main layer.
By the end, to polish it off, I’ll just put a layer on top of everything and tweak color all over the place with my brush. (Sort of a bad idea if I want to go back and make revisions but for the most part, it’s super organized in folders & layers burhurdhurf)
As you can see I was moving stuff around and redrawing things in this painting up til the very end…I usually don’t redraw THAT much but I was having a hard time with this one.
Hopefully it’s kinda helpful for those of you who were curious! (And I promise I’m done posting this haha)
Daenerys Targaryen, kicker of asses and taker of names!
I made this for HBO’s official Game of Thrones fan art challenge contest, I really need an Iron Throne replica for my new apartment homygawd.
Reblog to get the questions off the top of my page -__- Hah
(via asketchoficeandfire)
Source: kendra-p
Q:oh another question concerning 21 ^^ what are your opinions on the young children who get titled 'child prodigies' for their 'abstract' paintings, do you think they are really prodigies or just children playing with paints and canvas? is their art considered good art?
Anonymous
I find it really hard to comment on these kinds of things, because really I have very little understanding or interest in the world of “fine arts.” If there’s anything that child prodigy stories like this suggest, maybe it’s that demand for the art makes the art “good”. That said, I believe that good art has an intention behind it. Sometimes that intention is to tell a story, or communicate a mood, or an idea. I find myself drawn to works of art that communicate any of these concepts clearly. Is a very young child capable of applying that kind of thought to their artwork? Personally—I’m skeptical.
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