Mindless Sketchbook

070107

2007-06-03T17:31:00.001-05:00

070107: Just a quick sketch I did in class that I liked.

052607

2007-05-26T23:06:00.000-05:00

Yeah so....I just realized....I haven't really drawn a black man before...well like a random character black man (friends excluded). So yeah. I like him. Fun fun. HOLY CRAP COLOR. >>

052107

2007-05-21T20:53:00.000-05:00

I was playing WoW (read: So I'm a loser) and decided to sketch my blood elf Pally (The Almighty Schmoogie!) cause...I just felt like it.

052007

2007-05-20T20:24:00.000-05:00

Random stuff. Yes I am drawing. I like the second one a lot, but totally stopped messing with it cause I was progressively screwing it up. :D

042707

2007-04-27T00:07:00.000-05:00

Random: Just some random doodling.

042507

2007-04-25T22:55:00.000-05:00

Architectural Sketches:
Just rethinking the design I posted here. Oh, and damn Borromini for thinking the same thing I was just hundreds of years before me. ;)

041307

2007-04-13T22:46:00.000-05:00

Schematic:
A schematic plan being used for class...possibly two classes....more than likely two. We'll see.

041107

2007-04-11T22:07:00.000-05:00

Beat_Gunner Sketching:
Wow...almost a month without a post. Almost feel like I was slacking off, which I probably was in all honesty. Not much to say about this one. I like it I just don't want to finish it, if that makes any sense. Did this while I watched Batman Begins which was pretty good. Anywho, I would like to say I was drawing daily in this hiatus but I wasn't. Probably because I have been quite tired. Well correction I have been drawing, but they where more doodles in lined paper than sudo drawings that i like to pass off here. Anywho, expect me to be posting regularly again. If not you can beat me with oranges (so the bruises don't show!).

031807

2007-03-18T12:32:00.000-05:00

Q-Vech:

This is the textured version of the Q-Vech. Put this off because it doubles render time.

031707

2007-03-17T22:01:00.000-05:00

Beat Shooter Concept 001:
Got a neat idea to use with the XNA initiative so I sketched out an old character I used to draw for it.

031607

2007-03-17T08:44:00.000-05:00

Q-Vech (untextured):

My Vehicle for my Modeling 2 assignment. Done with 3DStudio Max

031507

2007-03-14T23:02:00.000-05:00

Toute Le Monde: Pinup.

A pinup I submitted for a comic book that's getting published.

031407

2007-03-14T01:44:00.000-05:00

Been a bit deliquent due to finals.

Okay. It's 2:30am over here.

*galvo Has been asking for some pinup work for some time...like...the beginning of the year, and I did something then, but quickly realised wasn't up to snuff.

So tonight i cruised through DevArt before I headed to bed (12:30-ish), and saw Galvo spammed another journal. Turns out I had until April to get some pinup work in. I remembered my old one (the concept was funny IMO, just didn't 'work'), and though on if i was to do something what would I do...then it hit me. The character Gabo has the word's "Skills" written on his jacket as well as a old school NES controller belt buckle. Just so happens, Ichi would be horribly opposed to this statement of skills and would go out of his way to snuff Gabo unless Gabo proved the awesome-ness of said skill. Then I was thinking, "Well how the hell am I going to make something like that, keep similar to something I would draw, and make it cool?" So I sat there staring at the monitor till I reached over and grabbed the character turn arounds for Tout le monde( Galvo's comic) that i printed out what seems like ages ago. I then Waltzed over to the living room grabbing a sheet of the new comic paper I got and then this idea slapped me and I roughed it onto the character turn arounds. Took stock pic for ref, and then hammered away. S-O Two hours later, I have this, and I am actually BEYOND happy with it. Don't ask me why, I just am.

Tomorrow I have to get some video editing done cause my comp is being lame and upload some files for the launch of Zprep. While I am at the school doing that, I'm going to get this thing scanned and start abusing Illustrator. I SHOULD be doing final work but I'm a bit too stoked right now to care (and my final projects are done...^_^).

Expect something uber tomorrow or early Thursday.

-Nis

(Will move to scraps when the final is finished)

030507

2007-03-05T23:50:00.001-05:00

OMG_Chicken001

Finsihed up the first page of that idea I had.

2007-03-04T19:09:00.000-05:00

(No Multi-Pass but with PS edit)

(Multi-Passed render)

Lighting Tests

QUESTION: Is there a difference between these two photos?

If you answered "yes," then you are correct! What is that difference? FREAKING render times that is what. The second image was rendered using a multi pass effect with the camera called Depth of Field. Depth of Field, as most art types know, is an effect that pushes the depth in a 2D image through bluring (applying atmospheric effects) out things that are supper close or really far away. Now, Having a multi pass render takes a while. First image was rendered in a minute using some advanced lighting tricks to give 3D Max renders a nicer look. The Second image took 12 minutes (1min per pass). Now, I took the first image that didn't use the multi pass into photo shop and blurred the shadow and some other areas to make it identicle to the second. Overall, messing with the un-multi-passed image took far less time (5 mins) then the multipassed image.

Lesson: Don't have the computer calculate (over and over again) something you can do in a few moments.

030407

2007-03-04T16:46:00.000-05:00

This was going somewhere before I remembered I actually had things I needed to get done. Have a killer headache too. Will deffinetly revisit this to finish the mini comic Idea I had.

OMG! KILLER CHICKEN....don't ask.

BAI Progress001

2007-03-03T21:05:00.000-05:00

Yeah, so randomly as I took a shower I got all inspired to do some work...so I did. Got about a good hour and a half in of roughing out the picture for the BAI. Since it is going to be painted I didn't worry a whole bunch on how much detail or how rough it was. Technically I spent more time with the image...but most of it was spent setting up the camera.

As you can see, I am recording the progress of the image. Should be neat or REALLY lame. Not sure which yet. ;)

Oh, and here is some of the work I got done.

Super impressive right(what sarcasm?)? Yeah, I layed out the space and now I just have to fill it in with the actors. Afterward I can begin painting (I really hope I don't screw that up). Look for more tomorrow.

Testpage

2007-03-03T15:24:00.000-05:00

A test page I did earlier in the year for the comic I am working on. Not sure if I am going to stick with the fluid grayscale or adapt a more high contrast traditional comic style look.

Ichi

2007-03-03T15:21:00.000-05:00

A pinup of sorts of the lead character in a comic I am working on. Currently writing, and would attempt drawing once I have this elusive thing called time.

030307

2007-03-03T15:15:00.000-05:00

Clockwork Orange_Alex

I was watching A Clockwork Orange today and wanted to draw the main character Alex. Just a quick drawing mind you. The actor had this wicked grinning stare that I wanted to sort of capture but to offest the wierd twisted nautre of the film with a cute little drawing....what was I talking about again?

Overview Rough

2007-03-03T15:10:00.000-05:00

A rough outlook on the entirety of the BAI (Big Ass Image) I am working on...if you understand this...then ~~you might want to get a sanity check~~ er Good For You!

Section C4 BAI

2007-03-03T15:08:00.000-05:00

Rough of section C4 of the 40"x30" image I am working on.

Section C3 BAI

2007-03-03T15:01:00.000-05:00

Rough idea of a 40"x30" image I am working on. This is section C3 rough (one of twelve).

030207

2007-03-02T22:09:00.000-05:00

Just a rough idea of this cool vehicle Idea that I got on my way back home. I am actually modeling it in 3D (for an assignment) here shortly...so I'll upload the bits and pieces as I go along on here as well.

-Wallace