Holy Crap I love Deviant Art

I just uploaded a couple of sketches, and I got a comment and 3 favorites within two minutes. Wow, talk about a thriving community!

Sketchbook Dump

For some reason I do not yet know, I just cannot stick to one sketchbook.  I have about three different ones containing drawings that span the course of 10 years, and none of which are even a quarter used up.  I have a drawing from 2000 and a drawing from 2008 five pages away from each other.  It makes it very hard to archive my work.

But in any case, that's what I'm trying to do here:  In the next week or so I will upload pictures from my sketchbooks starting from the very earliest--my cringeworthy middle school Anime days--to my most recent.  Along the way I hope to discover patterns and trends in my work that will, with luck, allow me learn where my problems lie and help me become a better artist.

Warning: Nudey post

So I'm taking Figure Drawing II this semester, and in addition to being a welcome break during the day, it continues--just like the first class I took with Doug--to teach me more about drawing than I've learned in the last 20 years.  That being said, it has been a significant struggle getting "back in the groove", so to speak, so bear with me here (and pardon the hack Photoshop job--much better cleaning up will happen in the future).

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Color

I recently had my first encounter with what is probably a chronic frustration among website designers: the wildly varying color temperatures of different monitors.  In my case, I had carefully devised a color scheme for my website based on the output from a PC monitor, which tend to be blue.  When I got home to admire my prodigious work on my Macbook, however, I was horrified to find that all my blues were gray and all my grays were yellow.  It looked awful.

I guess it just means I need to get more chummy with the HTML color codes so I can know what the "true" colors are.  Sigh.

More sketches

Believe it or not, I've been hard at work!  I just haven't been able to upload the pictures.  But, I have a brand new Macbook Pro with a built in SD port so more updates are coming.  =)



The guy at Utrecht.



Backs are really hard to draw.

Money!

I win more money!  I got first place in the CIS Summer Research Program and got $75 to Barnes and Noble.

Even though I'm technically not undergrad anymore...  (Shhh)

Speed-sketches

I know I'm severely behind on my updates, but come on: we both know that the whole "daily" thing was just for show.  Anyway, I apologize for the sincerely shitty quality of the photos; my camera was out of battery so I took them on my phone.  I tried to color correct in Preview (Apple version of Adobe Reader for you Mac-phobes) but I failed somewhat miserably.