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Trying to get all my stuff done before the end of the quarter, but WOW this weekend has been busy. Friday there was the internship fair, and after that Boarfeathers was gracious enough to get me out of the house so I’d stop stressing, so we hit the zoo for most of the day, then went shooting, then went to see her parents in Boulder for dinner. Saturday, homework all day while watching Boarfeathers at Merc Wars practice, dinner with parents again, then went to see the Avengers (for the second time >.> ). Sunday, MORE homework, then the Rammstein Concert in the evening, which just kind of ruined me for homework for the rest of the night. Half of me was exhausted, the rest of me was buzzing like crazy. Sitting still was not really an option XD
AAAAnyways, my life aside, these were some of the backgrounds for my final portfolio animation that I’ve been working on, plus a style sheet. The designs are a little intense, and will probably be REALLY time consuming when i get into the actual animation, but right NOW….i dont’ care. They’re cute.
Diononychus based on a red-tailed hawk, Sauropelta based on various Horned Toad colors.
Quarters almost over, and still tons to do X__X back to the drawing board (literally)
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A mother’s love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.
- Unknown
Done for my Mum for Mother’s Day. She told me she got it in the mail today, so now I can post it here; while she doesn’t actually look at my DA, FA, or Nabyn, but she CAN see my Tumblr, this is the only place I haven’t posted it yet XD
Watercolor, pencil, and brushtip pen on Bristol
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So the wonderful CanineHybrid of Deviantart, and an artist by the name of Glasswhistle on Nabyn gave me a bit of feedback. Riley suggested I try a bit more line variation, and Glasswhistle was unsure of some of the line width (I can understand why, it was so simple earlier, it did look a bit like just a heavy handed mistake) and commented on backgrounds in an image like this.
With their combined opinions (and my ever-faithful left brain Boarfeathers checking my progress and giving me pointers) I produced what we both believe is a much better result. So, on the left top is the original. On the right is the new one, with more variation, and some depth added at points and such.
The bottom two are based on the background comment. As this is a very close-up scene, the background is extremely simple (there will be a second character further back, but most of the area will be visible). I just thought it might make it easier to get an idea of the line work with a bit of environment to go with it.
The blue pic here was a color test for the scene (with the shading applied, to see how they’d mesh together.
The other was was the eye-wrenching mistake that occurred when I set the layer’s blending settings to Hard Mix.
So I’m working up to starting Ventus. The script for part 1 is complete, I’ve got pages upon pages of thumbnails ready to go. I was testing page 1, to see how I might go about doing the linework (I’ll worry about shading after that, and coloring comes later.)
BUT before I get completely engrossed in this, I wanted to get a bit of feedback. This is a sample of some of the linework. My document size is huge right now…10.5 by 15.5 inches (the size of the drawing area on a printed comic sheet) and currently is at 600 ppi (I know that’s ridiculously large, but I find I get crisper lines that way, cause I can’t use the pen tool to save my life. This here has been sized back to 300, since that’s probably the size I’d use for web viewing.)
I guess what I’m asking (behind this wall of text) is, does it look alright? Line width, the illusion of depth or any sort of dimensionality (pretend that’s a word), or should I add more large black areas for a bit of comic style shading (shading will otherwise be cell shading, which will be applied before the comic is posted online. Color is another matter and again, comes later), are the lines too jittery or do they look alright, does it look like something you could stand to look at through a whole novel.
Anything.
If you can think of anything at all to say that could potentially be helpful, I want to hear it. Bear in mind, I may not actually need to use ALL the information, I just want a general idea of what different people think. Even if its negative, but if it is, at least attempt to be constructive about it XD
Many thanks in advance!
Note: At this point, the movement or artistic quality of this particular picture means very little to me. You can comment or critique on it if you like, but it is an unfinished panel, so that’s a lot you’re missing as of now. Just thought I’d throw that out there.
I realize this is awkward on tumblr, so if you have a DA, FA, or Nabyn account, here are the links to this pic, if you’ve got anything to say:
http://redvarg.deviantart.com/art/Ventus-Opinions-Wanted-299868951
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7907029/
http://www.nabyn.com/art/ventus-opinions-wanted-48599
Loki? Where ARE you??
As usual, Boarfeathers (my left brain) was suggesting characters and expressions, and I was drawing them for practice. This time around, she suggested I draw Dae, as if he’d just misplaced Loki. It went from just one drawing into a little strip.
Really, though…How do you misplace a twelve foot long, 2400 pound, mustard yellow pile of fur, with a giant feathery growth coming out of his right side?? Come on, boy…
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I asked Boarfeathers what I should draw tonight, and she said Ulfric Stormcloak. In my opinion, while I think it turned out pretty good, it still doesn’t look quite like Ulfric…eyes are too big, face/head too short and squat…but considering i only had a teeny phone pic for reference, it’s not bad.
What’s bad was the awkward conversation I had with my mom when I finished it:
Mom- Wow, that’s really good, Alee…….who is it?
Me- His name is Ulfric Stormcloak, he’s a video game character….some people think he’s a racist nationalist, and some people think he’s a war hero
Mom- Oh, I see………….dammit….
Me- Huh?
Mom- Oh, it’s nothing…I just thought you were going to say he’s my future husband ^^
Me- o_O…….*dies giggling*
Night People
Anybody who goes to bed the same day they got up is a quitter.
World’s most accurate fortune cookie.
It was a REALLY lazy day at work, so I spent the hours I was NOT asleep at the desk reading and drawing. Boarfeathers gave me emotions and characters, and I practiced with my people. I think it was pretty successful, these are the best I’ve done (In my opinion at least).
So we have John Scriver (much younger than he is in the actual story, before he went grump-ass bat-shit crazy with power) looking uncharacteristically happy…
Odin, being lazy, and defying the laws of physics (because I was too lazy to draw the rocks) and enjoying the fact that he’s making Tsura so mad.
Tsura being…mad…
And Rannan is…I have no idea what Rannan’s doing, but he’s wearing the best nose I’ve EVER drawn.
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So Boarfeathers and I were at the Museum today…
We passed two chicks in the Australian exhibit, who were examining creatures and comparing them to what they’d seen in movies. They had to be at LEAST in their early twenties (possibly older)…
When suddenly one looks up in the jungle scene and reads (from the signboard, of course) “flying fox”….which proceeded to change into an argument about how:
A. Oh, so its not a bat, it just looks like one, its a fox!…but it looks like a bat o.O
B. Oh no, its a fox bat mix, its just a mix breed, see, its a fox that moves and hangs around like a bat!
and C. No way, that is totally a bat, not a fox, the museum needs to fix their stupid sign!
While Boarfeathers and I are literally biting our tongues to hold back any comments and giggles, they changed their conversation back to how the whole scene was right out of Fern Gully, and the odd fox things were that character with the weird wire in his head that they’d both loved so much, but what was his name? whatever, he was their favorite character.
You’d think “Batty” was a simple name to remember when referring to a bat o.O
This is pretty much a summary of how our whole day went. I honestly thought people went to museums to learn…but what I learned is that:
1. Flying foxes are apparently bat-fox hybrids (and if they’re not, then the museum is stupid for calling them flying foxes. I mean GAWD)
2. All the animals at the museum? They’re totally not taxidermy! Don’t worry, they’re not real, they’re all fake, completely fake (seriously, dude, what are you trying to teach your kid -.-)
3. Wolves are almost completely blind (which is why their eyes are so squinty and they carry their ears rammed forward all the time). Nope. Can’t see nuthin at all. They use their noses for everything. They also look absolutely nothing like dogs. At all. How are they even related?
And probably most importantly,
4. There are no elk or mule deer in the Vail Valley area, no bighorn sheep in the Glenwood canyon area, and no mountain lions or antelope in EITHER area. (We each live in one place or the other… and we have now been thoroughly convinced that we regularly see animals that don’t exist there o^o Totally true. The museum knows all.)
I used to watch TruTV to get my daily dose of stupid people. Now I just go to the museum.
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I’m in the first Portfolio class this quarter (that’s a scary thought X_x) and the majority of the class (if not just…the whole thing…) is the pre-production stage of the animated short we include in our final portfolio. Our teacher had us write up ten ideas, then whittle them down to three favorites (after class critique). Those three favorites we will then present to the department board, who will choose the one they want us to do for the final animation.
Well, I got bored yesterday, and decided to brainstorm a bit over some of my ideas. These are very very VERY under-developed sketches (drawn on a tablet that has decided its fun to glitch like a whore when you’re working on it -.- ) and are not the final designs for any of these…I’ll worry about the fine details later…this was just a bit of a warm-up, you could say, to get some basic ideas down on…paper?
Aaanyways…I really like the Sauropelta’s profile sketch, and his run cycle. Hate the front view, though…it needs a lot of help…but again, these will do for basic ideas XD
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