Antipenultimatum

Zombies!

2009-04-14T15:37:00.001-07:00

Yeah, this is what happens when i read the entire Zombie Survival Guide in a few days. Coincidentaly, I am now convinced that Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name" (the opening song from the new Casino Royale) can fully be interpreted as being about zombies. Damn Straight.

Love the third panel, and I think the fourth turned out well. The eighth didn't scale up that well though, it's supposed to be a far off shot of the area and a gunshot. Some people missed that, so explainations ahoy.

I Candid It Again

2009-04-14T15:20:00.001-07:00

More candid drawings of people! It's, uh... not creeping folks, I swear. They get to see it afterwards, and I know them anyways. Well, the ones here, that is... uh, wait I mean...

*door slams*

Old Works

2009-04-14T14:27:00.000-07:00

So turns out I had a pile of old sketches a such that I hadn't gotten around to uploading here, but now have. I especially like the fellow with the cigarette. Turned out well.

The topmost and bottommost are from images, the middle tow are doodling.

Lightshow

2009-03-04T19:11:00.000-08:00

I was walking home one foggy night back in november when I cut through a schoolyard en-route. From there, I saw this incredible view of the intersections at the far end of the field, where the points of light shining in the thick fog made for a beautiful sight.
So I got my digital camera and tried taking a couple of shots of the spectacle. Naturally, the damn thing wasn't good enough to capture it at all. However, it did manage to grab the little points of light, and I found that moving the camera mid-shot had some cool effects. These would be the best of those.
Neanderthalic misuse of technology triumphs again! Well, mostly. Not every image remained crisp after being blown up, but the patterns are still pretty. Plus, one or two did stay crisp! It's win-win!
...-ish.

Pretty Beasties

2009-02-27T20:26:00.000-08:00

Whoops! Accidental hiatus there. Well, to make it up to you, here's some drawings of animals I made. The uh, drawings that is. That I made. I still can't craft functioning creatures yet, I've tried an it's just-it's messy. I mean, biological experimentation is hard.
...I mean, uh, not being illegally practiced by me or my associates. I used pictures for reference. Pictures. From a book. Yeah.

Personally, I like the big ol' Crocodile the best. After doing the "realistic" versions form the pictures, I took the basic shapes and made little toony ones, as seen below.

No toony love for the Golden Takin, though. He knows why.

I Candid It

2008-11-04T14:34:00.000-08:00

Recently I started drawing people candidly. It's a good way to practice observational drawing without the subject getting self-concious and checking at you frequently. The poses and actions are more relaxed and natural this way as well.

The fun part comes from the challenge this method presents. That is, because they don't realize they're being drawn, they can tend to shift quite a bit. Or leave. So you have to move quickly and pick your targets carefully. Select people who'll be more or less in the same place for an extended period of time, say someone reading or sitting at a computer. Not that hard to find. A really cool aspect is that in a sketch of a group of people drawn candidly, it'll end up as a sort of disjointed timeline shot of the area. By the time you've finished the second person, the first will have moved on, etc.

Thinking that for the next time I do this I'll hop on a bus and sketch passengers or find somebody in a lineup. That'd be a neat image... a single person in several stages of the line.

This last guy is actually a good fourty years younger than he looks. My pencil is secretly a magical aging ray. Ooooo!

First Post

2008-10-20T23:51:00.000-07:00

Hark! A new era has begun! One with bold, rapturous promises such as content to follow! The mind boggles at what is yet to come. Boggles I say.