A weekend in Sonoma

Ola everybody.

Some people, like me, gets lazy sometimes

you know
and I haven't been painting for awhile

I guess you can tell

Oh yeah my new website is done

The link is here.
Updating my website made me realize how much I sucked I mean how much I've improved over the years.... Better take those crappy drawings down quickly before anyone else sees them. Hmm, that means five years later I'm gonna look back at this and feel equally embarrassed. But hopefully I'll be fabulously famous by then and anyone who says otherwise will get a "off with their heads!" Muahahaha ... .ha.

Old Record Player Render

I spend two weeks on this gramophone, the model was bought online but it was way too high poly and I ended up rebuilding half of it. It is fun to make Asian style art, I'll see if I can do more of it.

Face Render

I found this face model on Modo's inventory so I used it. It wasn't very good looking and I had to adjust it a lot, especially the ears. I tried my best to make the skin look decent using Modo's shader system, in theory there should be more layers and the shader should be more complicated. But considering I'm doing this at home with nobody to help me figuring stuff out and I had instant noodles for lunch today cause I had no time to make better lunch this is good enough.

One night I was scrutinizing over the render and trying to see what should be fixed next, I was suddenly afraid that the eyes would open up and look back at me. But that wouldn't happen because 1. it's silly and 2. I didn't make any eyeballs for it, so there's nothing behind those eyelids! (Somehow that sounds even more scary.)

Miniature French Chair Render

I bought the model on-line and tweaked it quite a bit, and redid all the UVs cause it was unusable. Texturing this one is pretty fun. I still need to learn more about Modo's rendering tricks, but it's not too difficult to handle.

Photoreal Render

I'm working on some photoreal texture work.

Tuesday Gesture Drawing & Long Pose

That model doesn't really have that much of a pony tail, I just saw him as a top Arabic assassin, and he whips his hair tail to wrap around people's neck and rips it off! Right now he's pondering on his next move, because he had doubts whether his opponent really deserves to be dead.

Tuesday Gesture and Long Pose

This gesture class we were told to concentrate on bring out the story side of the poses, think about what are the models doing first, and the drawing must communicate that successfully. I also got some corrections from the instructor, which made the drawing made much more sense.

The long pose model has a face that belongs on a dollar bill, I'm sure one of them Kennedys or Roosevelts looks just like that. I suggested to him that he can have career being politicians' double; good money, though they tend to get assassinated.

Trees

I'm always on the look out for good looking trees these days, I found a couple in Bend, Oregon this week while vacationing there. There are mostly pines and junipers up there, not too interesting shape-wise, and sometimes there's a good one but it's well concealed, so it's hard to find the perfect one in a visually pleasing setting.

Tuesday Gesture Drawing & Long Pose

This nice looking black girl is back for a two week pose, yay. She's very interesting to draw.

On another note, I have several nemesis in my life, one of them is the revolving door. I have not yet successfully passed through one without making a fool of myself. It happened again today :-(.

Tuesday Gesture Drawing & Long Pose

I sort of drew the model as if there were a wheel of stinky cheese under her nose hahaha.

Tuesday Gesture Drawing & Long Pose

Today's gesture drawing pasted by really fast, I didn't feel like it was an hour and half at all. All I remember was I didn't have enough time to finish my sketch again and again, and then the time was up.
It was a two week pose for the long pose session, I thought I try watercolor and ink today on the same model.

Tuesday Night Long Pose

I only caught the end of gestures at noon due to meetings, so not much to show there. I'm studying how other story artists do their gestures and hopefully rub off on some of their greatness someday.

Tuesday Gesture Drawing

I only went to gestures this week, I was going to do long pose but I have to work late. Really late. but I'll take working late over no work.

Tuesday Gesture and Long Pose

I was advised that I should not use watercolor for gesture, it's hard to change and can't do much details. I guess I was hoping to do some quick shading as well with the watercolor brush but seeing the lighting set up does not favor shading, I might as well draw with pen next time.

Bunny swims in shallow pool

Bunny enjoys having a blast in very shallow pools, the kind that your tummy touches the ground when you float horizontally. This pools happens to have a bit of snakes in it. They are harmless though, and very statuesque.

Tuesday Gesture Drawing & Long Pose

I did both gesture and long pose on tuesday in our newly finished art room. It was very tiring doing both, and a very long day. I had trouble with the model's face, probably was because of out of practice for a month.

What lies ahead

It's a cliff if you can't tell from my crappy rendering. I really should do more live sketches of cliffs before I draw imaginary cliffs. There's more to the story later I just got tired shading all this.

Tuesday Gesture Drawing

There won't be tuesday night long pose for four weeks, but Gesture Drawing session at noon is still going for a bit so I checked it out. It's been ages since I did gestures, I was never very confident with it, especially with a pencil. So today I tried using brush strokes hoping the mess would blur the apparent lack of good lines... We did a bunch of 1 minutes poses and a bunch of 3 minute poses. I was completely exhausted at the end of it because it was so fast and tense.

Tuesday Night Long Pose

This is a two-week pose, so I'll be finishing the bottom half next week, taking my sweet time shading things. I already tried to draw as small as it can fit in my scanner, and it still doesn't fit!
I realized while looking at this that I have a slight proportion issue. Gotta get it right before I start shading next time.