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Painting #1 – RFC

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It's been a while since the last update. I have been trying to squeeze in more hours on Wren, the new Cintiq WX (my thumbdrive is Pigeon, macbook is Penguin, and pc tower is Nest). This is a painting that's been put off time and time again, mostly because it was ridiculously difficult to redo the lines digitally with the old Graphire III. It was started at a time when I was a lot more interested in painting digitally. I'm starting to regain that interest, despite the overwhelming amount of work required in this piece. It is meant to be at print quality (at around 300-pixel resolution). I'm posting for documentation, self-motivation, and hopefully one or two comments. Colors are in progress, but they are even less done than the lines.

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Sketches #5

This weekend, for the UCLA Animation Workshop's Annual Falling Lizard Competition, I had the amazing chance to draw on a Cintiq 21UX with Brandon Chau and Eric Carlson for their entry for the central theme, failure, about a mad scientist living in a trailer while harboring a craving for meat. I did a couple backgrounds in Photoshop. This experience has made me realize two things: I need a Cintiq NOW, and I will need to work with these guys again in the near future on something even bigger.

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Sketches #4

2005-2009

A new year, so out with the old. The sketchbook is still half blank, but it's about time for an update. I'm anxious the years-old ink is starting to fade and yellow the pages too much. Better digitize and correct it for the screen; it's now or never.

I've had it since age 13 or 14, but actually started using it like a sketchbook only after college, when drawing time was less plenty. These days free time is only more scarce. Most of the later sketches took an hour or less.

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Sketches #1

Process:

  1. Draw a random, curved shape. 
  2. Fill in the shape with machine components and various hull decorations, using the curves as bumps, ridges, and cables to guide the final form.

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