Hovel of despair.

Not sure if i'll get any artwork done tonight to post, however here are some photos of my flat (this is pretty much it) that i am going to be using to practice perspective and then possibly model in 3DSMAX.

Also  met some new guys today and had an awesome time bowling, playing pool, arcade games and air hockey.

Outline of the rough shapes of the furniture.

Added more detail.

Outline of the rough shapes of the furniture including the perspective lines.

Through the Drinking Glass

Havn't had much time again tonight, DAMN IT. I must get back in gear, c'mon uni please give me work that is actually challenging. Heres a fairly bad still life of a drinking glass - which is actually very hard.

On a brighter less depressing note - 2nd lesson of Drawing for Games tommorow! Should be good, hopefully get a new assingment as so far this weeks been quite boring and havn't really done much.

Was done very half-assedley, yes thats a word, whilst eating ceral, half asleep and watching the 'Making of Starcraft2' DVD, which is epic by the way. I think that this isn't too bad for a quick blog in, however it would need lots more rendering in order to qualify as a decent study, the colours and shading is very muddy which doesn't really convey the right texture of glass, which is usually quite smooth. Although the 'ribbed' effect of this glass didn't help at all, if anything made it harder. I think i'm going to try to find a few more interesting objcts to use as my next still life - possibly not Glass too, since its such a pain in the arse.

Figure drawing..

Woah i've really gotten out of touch with figure drawing.. finding it much harder now and not so pleased with the results. I very much prefer painting environments but i must do them both in order to become skills enough to get a job.

Also if anyone is wondering 'Why does he only draw females.... perve.!' well i do draw males too but according to a few artists tutorials and videos about figure drawing - females are much harder to draw and much harder to convey their poses and the shape of their bodies, so if you can draw females well you can easily draw males, so thats what i'm attempting to do.

Heres a page of crap from tonight, majorly tired after a long walk around plymouth so wasn't really in the mood - but so guilty about not drawing much lately =/

P.S. Must start a new still life tommorow, or soon!

New Still Life

Not sure if this is going to be finished - as i start University again tommorow and will most likely get a few assignments during the week. So i'll call this finished for now and most likely start a new one after my new assignments are finished.

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A new still life that i'm working on, i really want to try and get into the habit of completing a few of these each week in-between uni assignements in order to keep my core skills in tact and to improve my overall painting skills.

The rough planning where everything is is done, now i'll go over it with some of that good ol' virtual paint and block in the base tones.

Some rough rendering on the tablet, and REALLY rough blocks on the paper - which is fricken hard =/

More work on the paper and added some rough lighting to the desk and walls. Still need to add the desk textures however to make it look more wooden

Some more work on the lightng of the desk / wall and blocking in the monitor, still needs more refelection in the screen part (not the stand) however i'll leave that until last. I've been avoiding the can as theres so much detail printed onto it, i'll get around to thaat tommorow i think.

The Hoe

The weathers been great today so i thought i'd walk to down to The Hoe (the waterfront) which is about a 10 minute walk away. I took my drawing pad however realised i only had one page left - so i sat on the rocks right near the water and drew the what i could see, using a charcoal pencill. It was very peaceful and exteremely relaxing.

I scanned it in and did a rough paint over in photoshop. Heres the result:

Still life

Just a quick update, i think i'm gonna try see if i can focus on still lives for a while, between uni assignments so that it keeps me entertained and to increase my painting skills further.

Heres a quickie of my external harddrive, i got distracted alot so its nowhere near as good as it should be. Damn.

Quickie

Been so very bored today, i need more assignments!

Anyways, heres a quick pose practice from Hogarth, using the new bamboo i bought today to try it out, its not too bad considering the price. Will stick to my Cintiq for home use though. :)

P.S. Just watched the 2nd trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows PT1 and it looks soooo good, i cannot wait!