Aletta's Hideout

decolletage

2011-09-21T18:00:00.000-07:00

Figure drawing. This time focused on the body instead of the face like I usually do. A little bit looser than usual, which is nice since I have a tendency to go to render mode too fast sometimes...

leftover figure drawings

2011-09-09T16:52:00.000-07:00

Some figure paintings I've done in the past few weeks. The spotlight lamp we use for lighting broke in pieces last week and thankfully didn't hit the model on the way down. Fun times wrangling tape during the session...

2011-09-09T16:44:00.000-07:00

Some dailies I've been trying to stick to in between projects. I know they aren't the most exciting things to post, but it's a good reminded for me to get less lazy with stuff.

2011-08-17T10:27:00.000-07:00

The model didn't show up yesterday, so mister Henry Ho had to model for us instead. That green jacket he's wearing really messed up my color perception..

more game stuff

2011-08-05T19:04:00.000-07:00

This time from a project I worked on last year. It's an online game called Virtual Villagers 5, and I did most of the cutscene illustrations that show up during story moments. Fun to work on, but on average I was limited to only 2-3 days to work on them, and had to match it with a pre-existing style, which was pretty challenging.

One of my co workers also pointed out that the shot with the man holding a mask had a palette and feel that looks like the poster for Zac Efron's movie Charlie St. Cloud. I didn't watch it, but I did see a preview of it when I was watching the A-Team movie. Funny how a fleeting impression got sucked into my brain like that. Hah!

The theme of the day is slacker.

2011-08-02T10:06:00.000-07:00

Part of an effort between myself and Lam Nguyen to open a new art blog. Unfortunately the first theme is "slacking," which resulted in this piece being a week late.

We're such slackers we hired a bunch of koalas to do our work. Really!

alien planet

2011-07-12T09:48:00.000-07:00

Another environment I've been working on during off hours. Time to move on to the next piece!

2011-07-06T08:43:00.000-07:00

Another figure drawing day...I wonder if I foreshortened her body too much.

2011-05-25T10:35:00.000-07:00

Last night's figure drawing session. This model's known to us as the kilt man, and his poses and props were the bomb.

2011-04-13T10:52:00.000-07:00

Got sick last week and had to skip a session. This one's from an hour session which was broken into 20s. I do need to break away from this habit of focusing too much on the face, especially since the overall integrity declines for the rest of the body...

more figure painting

2011-03-30T10:34:00.000-07:00

Today is Frank's turn again!

figure painting 2

2011-03-23T16:28:00.000-07:00

Another attempt at painting with a live model from yesterday's session. This one clocks in at 40 minutes.
Hopefully I'll be able to upload some cool stuff later this month with some concepts from a game we're been on since the end of last year. That and keep the ball rolling on personal stuff. Whew!

Figure paint

2011-03-09T11:29:00.000-08:00

From a figure drawing session at my company last night. We had a great model named Frank, and his goggles are awesome.

Gallery piece

2011-03-07T16:49:00.000-08:00

Here's another side project I just finished. This piece is a part of "The Games We Play" gallery show my company held in tandem with GDC 2011, showcasing 25 game artists doing what they do outside of work.
The gallery's called Nieto Fine Arts and it's located close to Union Square, just off of Sutter and Powell. The show's going to run till March 28th, so come by to check it out! there's a lot of cool pieces by other cool artist, including my peeps Chrystal Chan and Lamnho Giang :)

2011-01-23T16:43:00.000-08:00

Here's a concept I've been working on during after hours. It's an old abandoned observatory, neglected for decades cause no one really cares to walk over that insanely narrow bridge regardless of the awesome view.

Rothmar the Invincible

2011-01-20T00:11:00.000-08:00

For many an age, tales have been sung of Rothmar, the fabled slayer of mice men.
His gloried quest against the wickedness of his foes have warmed many a chincilla on a cold, frosty night. They can sleep safely, knowing that Rothmar is their great protector.

Hahaha. And so up there's my quick illustration accompanying the tales told by a fellow artist known as Kelly Ricker. She tells better stories than I do.

2011-01-08T13:54:00.000-08:00

Here's an in-progress concept I've been trying to wrap up. There's still some problematic areas I'll have to fix, especially the water reflections..yikes!
An earlier version of this piece was used in a cutscene for a project that's released recently, which is Last Day of Work's Virtual Villagers 5.
You get to see it near the end of the game, but this one's not going to spoil the story in case anyone's playing it :p

Sam Beam

2011-01-06T01:13:00.000-08:00

This one's dedicated to Samuel Beam (or as he's more known, Iron and Wine) and his epic beard.
Absolutely dig his music, especially Boy With a Coin and Resurrection Fern.

Happy New Year!

2011-01-05T17:26:00.000-08:00

More photo based practice..just to take the rust off in between lunch breaks. Hoping this year will bring more good work, and better results!
I've been listening to a lot of Iron and Wine lately. It's such a great background music to work with, and Sam Beam is just an awesome musician, period.

Gallery Feature

2010-12-17T17:50:00.000-08:00

Next year my company is sponsoring a game artist gallery show in tandem with GDC 2011, and one of my pieces is being featured at the event's website.
This isn't going to be shown in the gallery though, it's just a promo :p

2010-12-09T21:24:00.000-08:00

This one's a released campaign banner background for the Vampire Wars game. We had a ton of characters to cram in, so the proportions and spacing are unfortunately cheated some. It ended up being covered in the final result though, but right now the vampire prince and his minions are taking a break off-screen.

Funny thing is, before I left 2K and moved to a new company one of the artists there asked if I was going to be working on teeny little matte paintings at my new job. I didn't realize it at the time, but that guy's definitely one heck of a prophet.

more game stuff

2010-12-06T23:03:00.000-08:00

For my stint at MLB2K10, these little cars were pretty fun to work on.
This is one of the textures I painted for the San Francisco AT&T stadium model, in place of the Chevron Cars mascots.
Game's been out for a while, and I still haven't bought a copy. Hahahahh....gonna have to remedy that soon.

game stuff

2010-11-18T13:17:00.000-08:00

Some concepts and assets from a game I worked on earlier this year. Funny enough, I was assigned the tidepool assets after my directors heard that I did one in 113B, hahahah....after a certain time lapse in the game, it changes from high to low, and you can get some random items if you're lucky :D

2010-10-12T00:38:00.000-07:00

Finally! back to doing it the non-digital way. Went painting with my roomate Ashley at Quarry Lake, and thankfully this time around the results weren't too bad. The top one was a rush job, since it got too windy too fast. The colors still fall short as usual, since it's been an ongoing battle..but at least the value structuring works better compared to previous efforts. Onwards to the next attempt!

2010-09-21T22:05:00.000-07:00

Some stuff I do over lunch break, again. Am thinking about putting a large sign on my desk every time I do one of these since people would randomly come up and ask if I'm working on some project they're unaware of. *sigh*
They're just your average, run of the mill studies, yo.

The Apple Bunch.

2010-07-13T00:30:00.000-07:00

Hmm these types of studies might look boring to some folks..but they're pretty fun to do, if only to whip my skills to shape. Now the first one I did looks uglier than the rest of the family, hahahah. Maybe I'll try to be adventurous tomorrow and paint an orange instead.

LOLcandy

2010-06-30T02:58:00.001-07:00

My thanks for my teacher John Clapp. Without him teaching us about the necessary patience (and pain!) of painting, I would've thrown my tablet midway.
But as always, focus on the process instead of the result.

I pilfered this gold wrapped candy from the workplace of the Giangs twins and miss Chrystal, since apparently there's an overflowing bowl of them sitting nicely on the lobby desk.

And yes, I'll be posting stuff other than studies soon...once I have the time to finish some pieces that have been woefully neglected. =__=

I say tomahtoes, you say tomathoes...

2010-06-24T03:07:00.001-07:00

Haven't had time to practice recently since I've been hecka busy at work..but hopefully I'll have more time to do more soon.

more silliness....

2010-06-23T14:12:00.000-07:00

It's lunchtime! which means there are more silly drawings to be had.
Here's one of my coworkers who graciously let me draw him as a pseudo tiny monster house pet, complete with fancy gold frame. Thanks, Marv! XD

Lunch break

2010-05-07T14:26:00.000-07:00

This is actually a real machine that I found reference for on the web. I've seen the shape used before on mech concepts, so it's interesting to see the object base.
Funny enough, I can see a bit of Neil Campbell Ross's influence once I was done with this doodle. I did an assignment in school using him as a style guide, and I guess it's true what they say about retaining your influences. Huh.

poogle

2010-04-30T14:35:00.000-07:00

A quick 15 min study..I have one of these on my desk at work. It's a poogle figure from Monster Hunter, and the sheep costumed one happens to be my favorite. Hee.

Teapot LOL

2010-04-30T01:53:00.000-07:00

Trying to get a better handle on metal objects..I think I'll try to do this one more time.

Hiking and painting....

2010-04-19T22:49:00.000-07:00

Went to Villa Montalvo's hiking trail this weekend with a few friends..who are nice enough to tolerate waiting for me while I set up camp and painting for some odd hours while they go about exploring the area.
So here's one of the two semi-ehhh paintings I managed to wrangle there. As for the other one, it's probably stuck up a tree somewhere, or floating down a creek, or maybe it ended up in some nice lady's living room. Who knows!
I do have some eyewitness account who saw me put it in my bag..where it magically disappeared later in the day. O well! first time for everything, I guess.

Cake LOL

2010-04-14T02:18:00.000-07:00

I bought this cake based on how it looked, so here's hoping that it will taste as good now that the study's done.
But anyway. I'm noticing that painting yellow hues is becoming a huge weak spot for me lately. They never turn out quite matching the real object, and either gets too muddy or too orange/red/green.
Mayhaps it's time to start making a yellow-only still life setup.
And yes, I do know that the cast shadow quality is rather..lacking, but o well! time to sleep.

2010-04-11T19:53:00.000-07:00

If life was a video game, the message I'd be getting out of these two would be "Thank you for playing. Hit restart to try again."
Nahahahha.
Joke aside, it does suck that the one time I got up to paint outside is the weekend of overcast and rain -___-

2010-04-08T14:08:00.000-07:00

Lunch break time! I'm test-driving this brush I accidentally found in my collection..it's totally nice to block stuff in with, especially for studies.

Gyula Benczur study

2010-04-05T14:29:00.000-07:00

...exactly what it says. I wish I had more time with these studies sometimes, since rushing it really won't make you learn anything..
But I'll take what I can get, hahahah.....a bit of practice every now and then is better than nothing.

Speaking of which, hope everyone had a great time at Wondercon this year! got to meet a lot of fantastic artists as usual, and looking at some of the stuff people are working on is inspiring as well. I'm trying to go to comic con for the first time, so hopefully I'll see the peeps there too.

Landscape lunch

2010-03-25T17:36:00.000-07:00

And no, I didn't finish this study in one lunch break..that would be kinda insane, I think.

LOL Face

2010-03-22T01:54:00.000-07:00

My roomate was in the mood to sketch some random stuff tonight, so I decided to join in and paint something random too. In this case, an alien-faced supermodel with subtle hue shifts in her coloring.
I think leaving some parts loose like this does retain a lot energy, which I would've lost once it gets finished..but anyway! bed time.

LOL Living Room

2010-03-21T17:21:00.000-07:00

Been getting over a bad cough recently, so I've had to drag myself out of the funk and actually get something done outside of work.
I didn't actually get this piece done before the light started changing, so some parts are obviously neglected and incorrect, hahaha.....

Mr. Steampunk toy

2010-03-10T01:35:00.000-08:00

This came out better than I expected! *dances like an idiot* although the bottom part turned out like poo since it's getting late...

His name is Mr. Shilling Copperpenny, and he's my favorite out of this whole set of vinyls called the Mechtorians.

LOL Lamp

2010-03-06T00:26:00.000-08:00

It's weekend! go out and do something fun :D

Urr...

2010-03-02T02:12:00.001-08:00

This looks so crappy but it's time to go sleep... :(

One Lucky Kitty

2010-02-26T00:08:00.000-08:00

Which belongs to my roommate, who was gracious enough to let me borrow it to paint tonight.
Unfortunately it has a pearlescent coating, which made me over compensate on the contrast and caused it to look muddy instead. Hmmmm......

LOL Still Life take two

2010-02-25T01:50:00.000-08:00

Ok I admit..I tried painting this in acrylic for a good part of an hour, realized that my paint mixing has gone whack and switched back to digital.
Painting's been kicking my butt recently, and it's taking a while to be halfway decent in natural medium again since I've been focusing so much on photoshop lately..all the more reason to try again next time.

LOL Still Life

2010-02-24T00:51:00.000-08:00

Uhh..half an hour into this practice I realize that I've bitten way more than I could chew. Like hahaha try chewing on a complicated still life setup complete with transparency and light refractions on the glass vase on top of a multi grained table.... -____- maybe I'll try practicing on a simple colored cube next time.

But on to a more interesting news, MLB2K1O is going to be released next month!
It's the first published game I've worked on, and I'll upload some examples of what I worked on once 2K releases it. In the words of my old art director Mr. Blouin..so exciting!

Check out a trailer for the game here:

http://2ksports.com/games/mlb2k10

2010-02-04T14:41:00.000-08:00

Some days, you know.

2010-02-02T18:46:00.000-08:00

Depending on when you ask, I was either bored or tired when I made this. Maybe a bit of both.

Concepty WIP

2010-01-28T22:59:00.000-08:00

This is something I've been meddling with on and off..but a steampunk themed-suit wearing grasshopper flying with some odd stove powered antique bicycle? why not!

Anyways, I do need some input on the design and such..so it'd be nice of you guys to crit and leave some comments :D

Speedpaint again

2010-01-27T00:36:00.000-08:00

Which is really just because my roomate got sleepy and decided to give me 5 minutes to wrap things up when I was halfway through. Wahhhh...

LOLface

2010-01-14T11:41:00.000-08:00

Which is mostly just something I was working on during the odd break times.
I got a second monitor at work, finally! this makes the process of looking for reference a lot less cluttered. Now if only the computer can shut down through voice command...

2010-01-02T16:50:00.000-08:00

...somehow I ended up being hecka bored this weekend :(

LOL Room

2010-01-02T04:28:00.000-08:00

A follow up to the toaster study?

Recent Endeavours

2010-01-01T01:13:00.000-08:00

Some compiled BART sketches and a random painting. Dang, I'm so rusty with traditional paint..bleh.

2009-12-15T15:18:00.001-08:00

My office table's kinda messy today.

LOL Toaster

2009-12-15T01:07:00.001-08:00

...I'm gonna go sleep now.

Lunch thingie

2009-12-02T14:19:00.000-08:00

In a way it's good that I keep doing this cause I spend less time eating..trying to cut down on going out around my workplace since I get stuck eating Philly cheesesteak, NY pizzas, etc..my stomach will hate me after a while.

This one is less weird

2009-12-02T01:18:00.000-08:00

Feeling nostalgic lately..for some reason I'm starting to remember the days when I first stepped foot in sjsu, and the people I met in the beginning.
I wish people have more time to hang out! I miss having my classmates around, and getting to see them every day :(

Yet another lunch break thingie...

2009-12-01T14:37:00.000-08:00

This one came out pretty cool.

It is weird but what can I say..

2009-12-01T00:49:00.000-08:00

Was trying to unwind today by doing whatever..and up till the blocking stage it still looked ok, and then everything kinda fell apart on the structure side. O well..try again next time and hope it's a less crappy day!

Foggy fancy forestry....and some in-door practice.

2009-11-24T21:49:00.000-08:00

Yaayy...more practice thingies.
I do want to go out and paint again, although it's so dang cold lately that I have doubts about my will to brave the outdoors...ugh.

Been kinda busy..

2009-11-16T22:59:00.001-08:00

Haven't had a chance to upload much..but here's something I've been working on over 3 lunch breaks now.
Looking forward to cranking out more of these once I start settling down.

Cafe sketch practice

2009-10-25T20:22:00.001-07:00

The ladies sitting next to me were talking about Canadians and kiwi birds while I was painting this...

Face study

2009-10-23T00:44:00.001-07:00

Another fast one. The values turned out ehh and the rim light/ over-exposure was definitely messing with my mind..but the shadow shapes kinda made him look like a raccoon too, so here ya go.

2009-10-17T04:31:00.000-07:00

Fast sketch practice.....

Lunch break.

2009-10-12T23:22:00.000-07:00

40 ish minute study during break...

More practice stuff.

2009-10-10T00:13:00.000-07:00

A less exciting post, but I put it up more as a reminder for me to practice more often.
This time it's a Rembrandt study...

Late Night painting

2009-10-03T05:02:00.000-07:00

Been doing a lot of 3d/ graphics stuff at work these days,so I ended up painting for a pretty long while. Feel like my painting's getting stiff though, that's something I'm gonna have to work on. Plus I know the structure's all wonky, hah. Less rendering poo next time.

Chinatown sketch

2009-09-28T23:40:00.000-07:00

Recently went sketching in SF with Brittnie who came and visited. I would've loved to stay and finished this but since I'm hecka slow even this much took me an hour and half. Maybe next time we'll bring chairs.

Artwork for an unreleased online game

2009-09-23T23:27:00.001-07:00

As it goes, a year ago I did some freelance work with a company trying to launch an online trading card game. Right as they were preparing to release it though, the plan fell through and I haven't seen any signs of it ever picking up again.
Seeing as it's been a while and the company itself disbanded, I think it's safe to share some of the stuff I worked on..otherwise these guys wouldn't ever see the light of day. It's pretty old but I still liked how some of the characters came out.

Hey look sketches!

2009-09-23T23:09:00.000-07:00

So as it goes everyday after work I trudge along the insane Novato heat (why yes, I have been living in the Bay Area since the first day I've been in the US..so spoiled!).
And then proceed to wait in the abandoned theater stop until the next bus comes by. Eventually I got tired of twiddling my thumbs waiting around and bought a new sketch book *gasp*
Can't tell what a relief it is for me to actually do something instead of staring off into the distance....

Waiting for my art director to come by....

2009-08-27T14:11:00.001-07:00

I don't smoke..but this grandpa does.

Bebee!

2009-08-14T02:07:00.001-07:00

Couldn't sleep and now I'm starting to paint babies at 1 o'clock at night.
Sorry for making you look at bit fatter, miss/mister random baby reference model.

Wut?

2009-08-14T00:51:00.001-07:00

Seriously need to go out and paint more. My lack of skills in painting is getting kinda embarrassing, yikes....

Fun times in an airplane hangar.....

2009-08-11T22:31:00.001-07:00

Which seriously doesn't feel like one from inside. I've been trying to paint during my lunch breaks but usually end up messing around in photoshop instead. Duhr....
This is what I get to see outside the huge window in front of my area, in which I get blinded after 5 30 pm rolls by and the sun rays start jabbing me in the eyes.

Trees and more trees

2009-07-09T01:01:00.001-07:00

Since I'm trying to keep being less sucky at painting...
And yes Miss Chrystal, these are still too green. I will try to do better next time!

2009-07-09T00:51:00.000-07:00

Hmmm...I recently visited Kelly at her house in San Luis Obispo (never been there!) and dragged her to go out painting with me at a beach near her house.

It was all fun and good until I realized that the sand got mixed up with my paints after a while. Talk about plein air painting doy...you can see the grains that are stuck in which is pretty cool, although mixing the paint got frustrating after it creates this gunky and heavy texture.

Yarrr.....

2009-06-02T17:31:00.000-07:00

Finally made myself go out and paint mindlessly..I find that painting actually help calm my nerves these days, so hopefully there will be more of these suckers popping out in the works.
Here's one from Barefoot Coffee..I'm totally down for painting anytime if anyone's up for it, so let me know, ya?

I've been....

2009-05-02T08:41:00.001-07:00

Stressed out for no good reason.
Maybe aside from graduating in a couple of weeks? ha!

Anyway...here's a fanboat design I've been working on for a vis-def class I'm taking this semester. Forgot to submit this one to the BFA gallery, but I guess it would've been funny since I already have a bunch of spreads with ship-related designs on them.
Which is funny since it totally would've made me look like such a vehicle designer, doh.

Please do come by and check out the BFA gallery opening this Tuesday, you guys. Hopefully I'll get to see some people I haven't seen in a long time.

Spring is here...

2009-04-04T23:13:00.000-07:00

And I want to run to the opposite direction. I've been getting some godawful allergic reactions and got my first fever of the year earlier this week. Ehhhh......
But duh..time to try to catch up on everything now.
Here's a redo of one of my previous projects..for some reason everyone seems to gravitate to this particular design so I just gave up and painted straight on top of it. Yea.

Wut wut wut.....

2009-03-21T01:07:00.000-07:00

Guh haven't had time to do any practice paintings..just pieces after pieces. Which is pretty cool since I get to switch gears every time my project workflow feels stale and ugh.
So here's a WIP exterior I've been working on..the interior version I had for this particular project bombed so I'm definitely putting it in my -fix it sooner or later- folder.
Meanwhile, have a cool and safe springbreak my peeps, and I'll see some of you guys when we drop by LA.

Speedpaint 2

2009-03-02T01:25:00.001-08:00

Another painting I did in between bouts of insomnia, based on a weekly photo highlight at yahoonews..my back's been hurting for a while since I spend a lot of time just sitting down and working.
Someone definitely needs exercise now, ha ha.

La!

2009-02-28T01:40:00.000-08:00

Here's another project I recently finished, which is basically adapting an artists' style to design characters for George Orwell's Animal Farm.
I lucked out and found a really fun artist to follow from, whose name is Lane Smith.
But yeah, lots more work to be done....

Speedpaint

2009-02-12T01:35:00.001-08:00

I couldn't sleep. So I did this instead. Which is awesome since I haven't practiced painting in a while but also sucks since now I'm even more awake.
Also, pooh pooh on how the colors changed from the photoshop file to the blogspot upload. I've been seeing a lot of disrepancies between monitors, and I can't even imagine how acid the colors would look on another screen. Yaah!

Turtle girl.

2009-02-04T22:28:00.000-08:00

Here's my waterfall spirit character design for this semester's vis-def class.
I know most kappas are guys, but I don't think they'd be able to multiply through binary fission, so there you go.

Woot.

2009-02-04T22:17:00.000-08:00

This winter vacation, I had a really hard time stoking myself up to finish projects and get some practice done.
Can't say I managed to do a whole lot after all, but I got at least some paintings done on the last stretch of the break. Some of them are too guh-ugly to show to anyone, but here's some that make me cringe less than others.
La!

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T23:44:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone will have even better luck this year :D
Here's the final project for BFA..I finally got around to uploading it, and I'm definitely going to work on some of the background works over this winter break.
The story for this project is based on Kobo Abe's "The Magic Chalk" story, about a starving artist named Argon who came upon a magic chalk in his pocket that lets anything he draws with it come to life.
It's set in post-WWII San Francisco, so I made Argon a self-made hippie artist..which made him a lot more fun to draw, actually.

Sorta kinda maybe more awake today...

2008-11-11T08:14:00.000-08:00

Since I fell asleep yesterday trying to crank out more drawings and passed out in front of my computer....le oops!

How is everyone doing? not that I even know if there are people reading this blog..but there's a number of people that I haven't seen for a while now and here's hoping that I'll be able to see some of you guys during vacation time.

But ya...work flow's been doing ok and my classmates are super cool this year. It's been real nice to see how people's work are in their last year especially since I knew some of them waaayyy back from the "duh...whatsa gesture?" days of 28.

They've all been working hard, and it's obviously showing in their work.

Enough talk tho. Here's a snippet from a project that I've been wrestling with for the past few weeks.

The big top has rolled into town....

2008-09-17T01:19:00.000-07:00

And I'm still flailing around trying to figure out where I'm running.

For the first BFA project we're told to follow a specific artist's style, and I chose Neil Campbell Ross as my person.

Who, by the way, is such a skilled painter that I'm actually embarassed about following his lead.

Here's hoping that I can come up with something worthy.

In the meantime, here's a messy little thumbnail I was playing around with. Maybe it'll lead to something, or maybe it won't.

Barefoot coffee roasters

2008-09-09T23:10:00.000-07:00

Has this really awesome cafee brulee, which was blow-torched right in front of me once the order was ready. Haha! I'd recommened that if anyone's going there, and get the kouign amann since those are great too.

I was originally aiming for practicing around 1-2 hours and get on with homework, but this painting turned into a 3-4 hour behemoth which I rushed at the end. Oops. Plus it ended up looking oh so flat after all.....

Again with this thing called practice.

2008-09-08T12:58:00.001-07:00

First week of school

2008-08-30T02:08:00.000-07:00

And I couldn't sleep right before the BFA class. Whee...in health news, my stomach's been doing the rumba all throughout the week in random times.
But it's nowhere near as serious as what happened during the break, so I just have to be really careful with my days.

...which still doesn't explain why I was up at 4 o'clock in the morning painting this wood owl figure my parents sent from home until it was time for me to go and line up for a locker.

Coming out of hiding...

2008-08-22T04:08:00.000-07:00

To say that I'm not dead yet! har har har har....

For anyone who's heard of it, this summer has been a really long medical epic for me. But I'll be ok for the long term, even if my stamina's probably already cut in half thanks to the whole episode.
BFA's going to be twice as interesting now, I bet.
But I've been able to do work almost everyday while I'm recuperating, so although I didn't get a lot of practice in, I got a ton of digital stuff out thanks to some freelance stuff I got.

Here's one of the things I got to work with, out of a few dozen more of his brethens. So the Hugglay says wassup.

More random.

2008-06-25T18:13:00.001-07:00

Today I painted a cake.

Fun...and random.

2008-06-24T19:04:00.001-07:00

Today I painted mushrooms. Marinated mushrooms are tasty too....

Cramming in a lot of stuff now...

2008-06-23T22:53:00.000-07:00

And finally I have some time to draw outside...

So close!

2008-05-13T21:58:00.001-07:00

Yet so far.
It's only a few weeks until summer, and of course a heat wave has to come during the finals week. Ahhhhh........
I noticed recently that when I sit cross-legged my left leg's bone junction kinda gives out a little bit and it usually freaks me out when that happens. Gotta be more careful these days...
Here's an old vis-def piece that I was playing with just to take a break between work hours.

Snippets

2008-05-10T01:22:00.001-07:00

Here's a little teaser for my Maya model. Awesome! I'm just glad that I can get this done with in a couple of weeks..and then I can show the final result. Yee!

Bloggety blog blog..

2008-05-05T22:13:00.000-07:00

Haven't had time to post stuff in a while, so here's a character design I've been working on.

Most of my time's been spent trying to crank up stuff every week and dealing with all kinds of randomness in 3d land. Apparently my file is possessed and it keeps trashing all my geos and throwing away textures..the fact that I made it this far in the classwork is beyond me. Ha haa...

Craziness!

2008-04-22T04:09:00.000-07:00

The past few weeks after spring break really had been crazy. The workflow is leveling off more this time around, but I don't think I can handle another week like that again...
As the semester goes on and on, it is getting harder to motivate myself to work, and I know I drag my heels everytime I have to turn in something. But duh..same problem as everyone else anyway.
So here's a layout that I popped out during one of my ridiculous dashes to get a piece done. It's inspired by the 101 Dalmatians style, and if it even comes near the ballpark of that range then I'll be happy and go cry in a corner now.