Finished. Well finished with it anyways.

So talking to Sam about finishing this digital painting and he was like "whoa I never take that long of a break from something. I only allow myself X number of hours on a piece and if I don't get it done in that time I move on."

I'm going to try and work on setting time limits for myself because unfortunately I am really bad about putting things aside and starting on other things then flip flopping endlessly until either it gets dropped and never picked up again or I end up not touching it for months at a time. So. Just to wrap this one I gave myself only one night to finish it up. Well at least get it decent. So here it is. Officially moving to my completed folder and out of my life.

This was my first one using Sam's B&W technique and getting some feedback and pushing through the first painting... if when you look back at that old post I do have to say it's come a long way from there. So overall a good learning piece. Moving on now.

Sorry Vin, you never got to color. Maybe the next one.

Happy Holidays.

Happy Holidays everyone! From myself, Thomas and little Vin!
Here's to the world not ending. I don't know about you but I was kind of hoping it would end. I really wanted an alien invasion so I could fulfill my dream of being a space marine...

But anyways. The looks like nothing changed. NO WAIT! I made a Holiday Card!  This is completely new! I don't think I've done one since... my first year out of college! The world IS changing! So sorry it's not a postcard that you can get in your mailbox. You'd probably just throw it away anyways. So here you go INTERNET JUNK MAIL!

Hope everyone has a great holiday season! See you in 2013!

Lunch Studies: Feet

So my office mate and I have started doing digital paint studies at lunch. It's only an hour every tuesdays & thursdays but its nice to actually allot some time to just painting.  And its much faster than setting up and tearing down to paint outside.

Well we started off with feet. I just picked a body part that I wanted to work more on. Anywho here are some of the sketches and paint studies we did this past month. Our next subject is comic book characters. I'm painting Psylocke, which is good because it's forcing me to work with stuff I'm not comfortable doing.

I rarely like a Psylocke I make, because well as a character I really like I don't ever feel she looks right and two. I suck at drawing asians, really asian looking asians at least. I'm horrible at it. So my goal is to make this chick look asian. I'll post up some stuff later. Again it's a bit slow going and with the holidays even more so. Anyways. FEET.

Space Chimp

Space Chimp was completed. Sorry that was probably like a month ago now.. I managed to finish Space Chimp, the four page short, which was originally scripted for 9 pages and cut down to 4 so other people could have space in our awesome art book. :)

I'm not super happy with it, and it getting cut down doesn't really help either. Story is truncated and sloppy, dialogue is poor. Unimaginative panel designs and layouts, and overall suckage. But there are other cool thing from other people in our book Powerlines: Vol 1. Where you can find this silly story in print form. Which makes it slightly better I guess.

update.

Slowly but surely... now even slower...

So since working on this last time, I got a puppy. Unfortunately it's slow going as the puppy has been taking up a lot more of my free time. She's finally getting into a routine and I'm finding more time to do other stuff.

But we are putting together an artbook at the studio, and I've agreed to submit some art. So for the next month or so that's probably what I'll be focusing on. Anyways. Here's the progress on my other piece. To Be Continued....

Work in Progress

UNFINISHED! More Mistborn stuff... Vin saying hello to Straff Venture and his horse.. (though you can't really tell)

So with a lot of help from my awesome Art Director/co-worker, Sam Deats. I am trying to work more on my digital painting.  Which is what' I've been up to the last few days/weeks. Just started one in his sort of approach to digital painting... well his approach but my less than awesome style. I'm going to need to ask him for some advice on this one... Not sure whether any attempts to flesh out shit in the foreground (straff & horse) will just ruin everything...

Struggling a bit. This isn't even the first one I did. I started two others but they were just straight up shit and I hate them. Hahaha. Yeah I don't mind this one much. now I just have to figure out how to get past this part. One thing I don't do much of is complete works. This is usually the state in the piece where I go.. okay cool, done, and my artist ADD has me scribbling away on something else.

But I really need to push myself, beyond this point. I have to practice making shit complete! So I'm going to have to spend more time on this.. we'll see if it comes out better or worse... cross your fingers...

Panty Raid!

So was playing around with some designs for Vin, more specifically Vin in her undergarments. I got really excited to play around with some animation, and I've been kind of doing some rough storyboards/animatic for the awesome fight scene between Vin and Shan Elariel...

Which mostly takes place with Vin in her underwear. I couldn't decide what those undies would look like though. The book describes her as wearing a thin sleeveless top with shorts. So it's kind of vague but to be honest I imagined her in a corset (although I realize in the book she removes it when running)... I think it would be a little hard to remove a corset while running, unless it had those eyehooks, but then she's mistborn so she doesn't wear metal...

So yeah ignore the dress design, I'm not really sold on it at present, and color won't matter since I'm just playing around, probably won't go to cleanup on any of this....

Sheesh. Planning a fight scene between more than two people is super difficult too. I'm at the point where I need another establishing shot with multiple people and I'm a little stuck on how I want to handle it..  if you want to see what I have so far you can check it at my DeviantScrapbook.

http://endoftheline.deviantart.com/art/Vin-Vs-Shan-Elariel-316411551

I must apologize profusely it's in a very rough state,  and none of it is timed out properly, and there's not as many camera moves in that because I retardedly worked out on the main timeline.. as I get further I'll move them into symbols and mess around with the shots, and angles some more.

I haven't even gotten to the atium part. Good god that is going to be a nightmare.