So I had been going around thinking of doing a new project. I didnt know what it should be, until last night while staring at the lost trying to sleep.
I've been working on a piece of artwork of my Warlock character in World of Warcraft in a Tier 11 set (looks pretty much like a medieval executioner), but I have had some problems with the coloring and such, so I havent finished it yet.
I am so happy about the piece and the way I have made it, that I decided that I want to give it a go at 3D again and try make the same picture but only in 3D as well! It will require a lot of work and post-processing, but I think I can make it. :)
I would show off how the picture look so far though, but I would say it ruins a bit the fun! I will try to finish the picture soon though, because it really annoys me to see a good picture like that just rot in my CG folder...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Random
Been in random drawing mood lately, which is good. Last night I finished up a drawing of a character from the old assed serie I have been working on ages ago. Earlier I made a character from that serie as well, this time around this is obviously someone else with almost the same outfit. Here is the picture:
Like I said, it is a rather quick one, so I havent focused that much on making it look too pretty at all. I just wanted to try and draw an old character in a "new" style, since this character was drawn way back when everything just had to look like some silly anime stuff (not that my stuff doesnt look silly anymore! :P).
Either way, her name is Scarlett, obviously named after Scarlett O'hara because I have a thing for that name. Scarlett is like most of the other main characters in my story thingie a student who studies abroad in Japan in the *insert random japanese city name*. She was adopted by a british family, because she became an orphan at a very young age. Throughout her life she had to deal with some psychological problems, she was certain that she had some psychic abilities, but no one would believe her so she had to take a lot medication to keep the "strange thoughts" at bay.
One day she found out that she had relatives in Japan, but there was no exact trace to who they were and where they lived, but it motived her to learn more about the Japanese culture and decided to move to Japan to study at this international school. At this school she made many friends, both local and students who come from foreign countries, one person i particular, called Zoë, a partially french/american woman, became good friends.
Obviously since this is a totally magical girl ish crappleshizzle, she gets contacted by this strange woman who tells her that something is amiss at her school and she was chosen to protect her fellow students and friends and shit. She gets this random robe and rod-like weapon to beat the enemies senseless.
Oh yeah, and obviously her hair is dyed! That is why I made it look like the roots are growing out.. because its totally unnatural to have silly hair colors.
Like I said, it is a rather quick one, so I havent focused that much on making it look too pretty at all. I just wanted to try and draw an old character in a "new" style, since this character was drawn way back when everything just had to look like some silly anime stuff (not that my stuff doesnt look silly anymore! :P).
Either way, her name is Scarlett, obviously named after Scarlett O'hara because I have a thing for that name. Scarlett is like most of the other main characters in my story thingie a student who studies abroad in Japan in the *insert random japanese city name*. She was adopted by a british family, because she became an orphan at a very young age. Throughout her life she had to deal with some psychological problems, she was certain that she had some psychic abilities, but no one would believe her so she had to take a lot medication to keep the "strange thoughts" at bay.
One day she found out that she had relatives in Japan, but there was no exact trace to who they were and where they lived, but it motived her to learn more about the Japanese culture and decided to move to Japan to study at this international school. At this school she made many friends, both local and students who come from foreign countries, one person i particular, called Zoë, a partially french/american woman, became good friends.
Obviously since this is a totally magical girl ish crappleshizzle, she gets contacted by this strange woman who tells her that something is amiss at her school and she was chosen to protect her fellow students and friends and shit. She gets this random robe and rod-like weapon to beat the enemies senseless.
Oh yeah, and obviously her hair is dyed! That is why I made it look like the roots are growing out.. because its totally unnatural to have silly hair colors.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
*aim*
So, I was working on a new artwork. I was really proud of it, until I tried shading it (I had already amde the basic coloring, so all I would need to shade it and it would be done.) so I got mad and decided to pull out another "old" project... And I finished it within 10 minutes. I only needed a few coloring here and there, and then it was done. Can't believe I didnt finish it before! So here it is:
This is my roomate and really good friend's character at World of Warcraft. Her name is Liora and the attire she has one the picture, isnt what she got in the game of course, but what my friend wanted her to look like, if she was a "real" hunter, if you get me. I tried to make some perspective in the picture, so it looks like she is having the bow right in your face, thus its blurryness. Atleast I think it is important to make sure to make it look proper in perspective, as I have seen many who have made a digital drawing and tried to show perspective without the use of depth of field or perspective blur.
Either way, enjoy this new work. Maybe in a few days another one will come up, if I manage to find out how to pull those shadings out. Argh!
This is my roomate and really good friend's character at World of Warcraft. Her name is Liora and the attire she has one the picture, isnt what she got in the game of course, but what my friend wanted her to look like, if she was a "real" hunter, if you get me. I tried to make some perspective in the picture, so it looks like she is having the bow right in your face, thus its blurryness. Atleast I think it is important to make sure to make it look proper in perspective, as I have seen many who have made a digital drawing and tried to show perspective without the use of depth of field or perspective blur.
Either way, enjoy this new work. Maybe in a few days another one will come up, if I manage to find out how to pull those shadings out. Argh!
Friday, May 20, 2011
Smokin' the ex
As the title suggest, I have finally become a little bit more creative! As in that I have actually drawn something! I am rather surprised with myself... Starting and finishing a drawing in the same day is unlike me, but at the other hand, I began drawing around 10pm, and now it is.... 3am. So it took me a good deal of a long time anyway. Either way, here is the drawing:
I came up with the random idea when I was thinking of drawing a character that was having a photo in her mouth. I wasnt sure how and in what context, but I quickly imagined that she was kind of "smoking" it with a matchstick close to it, but as seen on the picture, that was changed to a cigarette later (more to that in a momentos).
The story behind the piece is rather cliché; the girl was hurt by her ex, she kept the picture of him for a while, but then she decided to burn it in an untraditional way... By poking a cigarette to the picture while holding it in her mouth! Silly, I know, but I liked the idea anyway. :P
I found it cooler that she used a cigarette instead of a match, but I also like the idea with the match, yet it might look a little bit silly that way, I think, so I asked my slave, aka. boyfriend, for some help, although he is clueless when it comes to artwork, yet I think it was the right thing to do as he said with switcing out the match with a cigarette.
In case it isnt obvious, then I slightly choose the colors to fit the theme. I see orange as a fiery color like fire, so I put it together with "rage" or "anger" or "jealousy". While her green eyes and fingernails means more like a "break" on the anger or a fresh start, like a green sprout. Funny thing is, when I looked up the color meaning, they meant something totally different than I imagined:
Orange:
Positive: Steadfastness, courage, confidence, friendliness, and cheerfulness, warmth, excitement and energy
Negative: Ignorance, inferiority, sluggishness and superiority
Green:
Positive: Monëy, health, food, nature, hope, growth, freshness, soothing, sharing, and responsiveness
Negative: Envy, greed, constriction, guilt, jealousy and disorder
But I guess in the end we all have different ways to interpret things, right? Either way, I didnt really give the colors much thought, aside that the picture shouldnt be all orange/brownish, or else it wouldnt be able to catch your eyes, that is also why I choose green, mostly because it is complementary to red, which is also dominating the picture together with the orange, which makes it seem to stand out a lot. If you look for the green, then the green colors are mostly focused on areas that tells the story...
Her eyes are green, they look sad but they are leading you downwards and you will see the picture, check out the text, it says "I love you", but there is more green shit around it and its her nails, what is she holding in one of her hands? A lil cigarette to burn the crap out of the picture.
Oh yeah, did anyone notice the freckles and the fact she is a ginger? x) More red/orangeness ftw.
Wow, did I just spend half an hour writing an analysis of my own drawing? I think this is the first time I actually ever gave it that much thought to actually write a long ass of a wall of text to blab about a single picture... I think I should head to bed.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
The creativity unfolds...
... sadly not in the drawing department!
For some reason when I finished playing Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening, I decided to play an old game by the same developers, BioWare, called Jade Empire. The storyline is a bet bleugh, the controls are bleugh... but I really like how they potrayed the asian culture and the style. It suddenly made me in such a creative mood that I fetched my old laptop and started up my foreverlasting novelization of my fantasy story. I doubt I will ever finish it in this lifetime when it took be way over 2 years to even finish editing what I already wrote (Imagine this... It was around 48 pages and after rewriting basically most of it, the story is so far 89 pages and I still need like 5 pages to rewrite!). Either way, I think I want to do some more concept art for my story, because I feel like I havent done enough, as well as those ideas I get my me and my friend's big project that still has to go out of development-hell...
Either way, it's slightly too late to start doing anything drawing related, or else I wont get any sleep, but expect there to be maybe a bit more active around here from now on! I hope...
For some reason when I finished playing Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening, I decided to play an old game by the same developers, BioWare, called Jade Empire. The storyline is a bet bleugh, the controls are bleugh... but I really like how they potrayed the asian culture and the style. It suddenly made me in such a creative mood that I fetched my old laptop and started up my foreverlasting novelization of my fantasy story. I doubt I will ever finish it in this lifetime when it took be way over 2 years to even finish editing what I already wrote (Imagine this... It was around 48 pages and after rewriting basically most of it, the story is so far 89 pages and I still need like 5 pages to rewrite!). Either way, I think I want to do some more concept art for my story, because I feel like I havent done enough, as well as those ideas I get my me and my friend's big project that still has to go out of development-hell...
Either way, it's slightly too late to start doing anything drawing related, or else I wont get any sleep, but expect there to be maybe a bit more active around here from now on! I hope...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
*whack*
Okay, so creativity havent had it's place in my life as it used to. Damn school... But I managed to haul something out of my ass tonight, even when I didnt spend much time on it.
AAaaaaaaall the way back in 2001 I suddenly had a brainfart and decided to create a ginger-haired girl with a ninja-like suit. I was really happy about it and made a bunch of seriously-wtf-ish ugly characters to the story, but it has since developed to be a bit... prettier :P. Then I "upgraded" her and she now looks like at the picture above. Or well, this is how she look with my "modern" touch, she still had the same outfit, but I wanted to try make a quick drawing of how I would expect her to look like if I actually created her today.
Either way, the story is so "wonderfully" called Ninja Magic... Because it was about ninjas... with magics. (I know, it's a horrible title, but I was only 12 or 13 when I made this up...), so far I have made 2 "seasons", one where this particular character is the main character and one where there is someone else. She is called Kasumi and ends up becoming this so called ninja thingie to defeat a group of devil worshipping cult that almost kills off all of her friends, until she finds out about her true powers and forges a spear that can defeat these cultists. In the second season she barely get any screentime because she is somewhere killing off evil doers, but she is legend among other ninja thingies, so she will of course have an appearance just to kick all evil's arses.
Anyways... Enough with the old school babbeling. I tried this different style because I remember back in the old days when I was drawing at some Oekaki Board (Oekaki means scetch in Japanese i thinks... These boards used simple flash drawing program thingie where you could draw pictures and artwork where other people could comment and tell ya what they think about your work, some even could show an animation of how you've drawn your picture), I sometimes tried a style called "color-dotting" where you would use dots to do the coloring or shadings, and that is what Iwas trying to do here. It didnt take me long to do this one though, I didnt bother to work hard on the lines, but I really like how this one came out anyway... I think I will do all the other characters as well!
But first... Bedtime. *falls asleep*
AAaaaaaaall the way back in 2001 I suddenly had a brainfart and decided to create a ginger-haired girl with a ninja-like suit. I was really happy about it and made a bunch of seriously-wtf-ish ugly characters to the story, but it has since developed to be a bit... prettier :P. Then I "upgraded" her and she now looks like at the picture above. Or well, this is how she look with my "modern" touch, she still had the same outfit, but I wanted to try make a quick drawing of how I would expect her to look like if I actually created her today.
Either way, the story is so "wonderfully" called Ninja Magic... Because it was about ninjas... with magics. (I know, it's a horrible title, but I was only 12 or 13 when I made this up...), so far I have made 2 "seasons", one where this particular character is the main character and one where there is someone else. She is called Kasumi and ends up becoming this so called ninja thingie to defeat a group of devil worshipping cult that almost kills off all of her friends, until she finds out about her true powers and forges a spear that can defeat these cultists. In the second season she barely get any screentime because she is somewhere killing off evil doers, but she is legend among other ninja thingies, so she will of course have an appearance just to kick all evil's arses.
Anyways... Enough with the old school babbeling. I tried this different style because I remember back in the old days when I was drawing at some Oekaki Board (Oekaki means scetch in Japanese i thinks... These boards used simple flash drawing program thingie where you could draw pictures and artwork where other people could comment and tell ya what they think about your work, some even could show an animation of how you've drawn your picture), I sometimes tried a style called "color-dotting" where you would use dots to do the coloring or shadings, and that is what Iwas trying to do here. It didnt take me long to do this one though, I didnt bother to work hard on the lines, but I really like how this one came out anyway... I think I will do all the other characters as well!
But first... Bedtime. *falls asleep*
Friday, January 21, 2011
Oh yeah, I forgot...
... That I made this one in... I think 2008 or was it 2009? Either way, another one of the works I've done that made me rather proud, even when its just a "copy" (like, I didnt draw everything from my mind, but used a picture underneath in Illustrator :P)
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