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Oct
03
Drawings & Illustrations , Illustrations, Speed Paintings, Youtube | No Comments
Here’s the timelapse video for the previously posted assignment. The quality’s a bit shoddy, I’ll try and see if I can’t render a better video.
This is for an assignment for my creative processes class. We originally came up with our own ideas in relation to a certain location, wrote them down on beer coasters and then passed those around. So in the end, we ended up with someone else’s idea and we had to work with that. The idea I from a classmate was “Nature is everywhere, even where humans have destroyed.” A sobering idea that I thought fit into my style quite nicely, however I may have gone for too literal an execution, now that I think about it.
We also had a discussion in class about authorship and what happens to it when somebody else’s idea lands in your lap. Does authorship now belong to you or is it still the property of the original owner? I think that all depends on a number of things, but I mostly see it as a collaborative process no matter the degree of involvement from either party.
I have a timelapse video of this. It’ll be up soon.
Mostly done for practice! I sketched her out last month but beat around the bushed a couple of times before finally getting around to painting her today. Took about an hour to paint in the colours.
Jun
05
Drawings & Illustrations , Akemi Hotaru, Illustrations, Work Process | 2 Comments
Alrighty, this here is my usual work process, from start to end, on how I usually illustrate a character. Today’s model will be the lovely Akemi, who had recently just come out from more than half a year of hiding.
(And no, I do not have a Cintiq, that’s just me wishing that I did.)
Really, I haven’t drawn my own character since October last year! Goodness, that’s more than half a year, I’ve been neglecting her.
May
26
Drawings & Illustrations , Illustrations, Speed Paintings, Star Wars, Youtube | No Comments
Alrighty, managed to put up the speed painting vids of Han Solo and Luke Skywalker! Do enjoy.
May
26
Drawings & Illustrations , Illustrations, Speed Paintings, Star Wars | 1 Comment
Who’s scruffy looking?!
Practice…I need it.
Apr
08
Drawings & Illustrations , Illustrations, Military | No Comments
‘Tis a quick grunge illustration of the Belgium-made General Purpose Machine Gun I drew up for a friend of mine. It takes 7.62 rounds, nasty things that have quite the penetrating force. Weighs roughly 10kg, the barrel itself being 3kg. Here’s a fun fact, all the MG gunners, myself included, had to dismount and lug this beast for about 8km during a warm up exercise in Rockhampton, Australia. Fun times.
Mar
30
Drawings & Illustrations , Fanart, Final Fantasy, Illustrations | No Comments
Update:
Did some plastic surgery to her manly jaw as kindly pointed out by my good friend.
Ugh I just couldn’t resist the urge to draw something for myself! Lately it’s just been a crap load of work done for the army, freelance and designs for Gaming Union. I finally caved today and this is the result of all my pent up urges to just draw for fun.
This is Beatrix from the classic hit, Final Fantasy IX. I can’t recall the exact quote but I do believe it ran along the lines of “what is your duty?” A rather interesting scene where Beatrix, who had been loyal and obeyed every single order that Queen Brahne spat out, finally realized what her real purpose was as a knight – that is, to protect the Princess with her life. And in doing so, she turned against the Queen and joined Zidane, Steiner, Garnet and their merry band of misfits to save the world from certain destruction.
Good ol’ times, they don’t make Final Fantasies like that anymore.
