Prequel

So I discovered this webcomic called MS Paint Adventures.  It's basically a comic that people comment on and send in ideas for where they want the story to go or what they want the characters to do.  Then the artist chooses the responses he likes and adjusts the comic accordingly.  All done in MS Paint, obviously.

Anyway, because of this I also encountered a similar comic named Prequel, that I just fell in love with.  The art is simple and adorable, the humor is great, and its freakin' Elder Scrolls!

Adorable Katia

Makes me want to try to do my own.  Just to keep me doing art.

Newest cat piece

Meagan and I made a giant 6 ft tall cat tower and covered it in carpet.  The cat loves it.  This is a photoshop piece I did based off a photo I took of her hiding in her little cat house at the base of the tower.

Been thinking alot lately about design and my art and how I need to just really start cranking out some good stuff for a portfolio that I could potentially use for job interviews.

Might even make my own website to replace this blog, or redo this one in a design more unique to me.

Sofia doodle

Forgot about adding this to the blog.

Did a doodle of Sofia in photoshop while recording the desktop with fraps, then pieced together the video in Adobe Premiere and uploaded it to youtube!

Dark Souls shield design contest

So theres this game coming out in october called Dark Souls, and their facebook page has announced a shield design contest for the fans.

Basically they supply you with three different shield templates (kite, tower, round) and then you do your lil design for it, upload it to their facebook page and supposedly people would be able to vote on which ones they liked best.  The top three shields get added into the game, the artist's names are entered into the credits and you get a copy of the game signed by the director.  Good stuff!

Unfortunately it seems that instead of allowing everybody to vote on whichever shields they find the most artistically pleasing, only your friends are able to vote on the ones you submitted and vise versa.  So it turns the contest into a 'who can get the highest number of their friends to vote for them' instead of a actual design competition.  Lame.


EDIT:  This isn't the case anymore, apparently their flash code was just wrong.

Eitherway, I did a design for the round shield before I discovered this fact.

2 or 3 hours of photoshop.

I had fun doing this, so I still might do a design for the other two, even though it seems highly doubtful I'll make the top ten anymore.

Would've been pretty cool to be one of the winners....

Blood Lilly

Meagan has blood lilies in the front yard that my mom gave to her sometime last fall.  She thought they had died over the winter but a couple weeks ago they sprouted up and bloomed shortly thereafter.  She wanted me to do something in photoshop about it.  Kind've a difficult flower to do art of.

Ambush cat!

Picture of Amisi that Meagan wants to frame and put up in the bedroom.

Bonsai good brush!

Had to completely redo the bonsai tree I was making for Meagan due to my HDD getting reformatted after replacing the motherboard of my PC.

But its ok!  Ben showed me a really cool set of brushes that I played around today for a few hours.

This is the result.

We're going to have it framed.

amusing 40k

Tryin' to do some amusing 40k internet memes.  Lemmie know if anybody thinks of any.

Kotaku Photoshop Contest 3/13

This week's photoshop contest for Kotaku was to take concept art for Milo and just.... do something with it.

I made it look like the creepy 2d platformer Limbo!

Bonsai!

Trying to do art every day this week.

This is what I'm currently working on for Meagan.  She's wanted me to finish this for months.  Maybe I'll finish it tomorrow!

More old art

This time its Final Fantasy XI Online.  I use to play this game for 5+ hours a day.  Everyday.

pld/war

Boozeshroom Bandit!

the ol' Linkshell

Good blog post on a comic I read about drawing.
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/657

Couple Photoshop manipulations

Did this for one of Kotaku's photoshop contests.  Had to take a image that had to do with protesting and make it related to videogames.  

This image was perfect because it's something you'd hear/see in the game Red Faction, which is about miners on Mars.

  This was shortly after the VGAs, when Neil Patrick Harris hosted.  So the contest was to add him to a game cover.  

Lot of people did the game Legendary (obviously), but I tried seeing if I could get him on the GTA4 cover and make him look like he was drawn there like the rest of the characters.

Not bad.  Not great.

Old work

  
  

Old work is old.

Need daily remainder though of how much I use to love to do art every day.

Spray bottle

Animal's are hard to draw. Need more practice.