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Well, I didn't win again but Steve Yeowell did mention my artwork, so that's a win of sorts
The new competition theme is up already. I admit I groaned a little when I saw it. So much to choose from, I said to myself. How the hell do I pick a subject??? Well, this time I am very likely going to do multiple entries. I have four ideas - two of which I know which character to use. The other two are more about style and composition. I almost thought about doing a comic strip for it and then I thought of all the other things I need to be getting on with and ditched that idea.
In other news, I finally hit the 5000 pageview mark over the night. I haven't marked any deviantart related milestones before so I was prepared for this one with a big THANK YOU image, to thank everyone for their support.
I have been trying out something different. Whilst I was making The Hackman I was recording my progress. I spent a considerable amount of time the last couple of days trying to edit and squish four and half hours of work into a video under 10 minutes long. Firstly I had find a decent video editor free and native to Linux. Secondly I had to figure out how to use said video editors and decide which was the best for my video editing needs (I went for kdenlive in the end). Thirdly I had to do the YouTube channel thing to upload the bugger onto the internet. The video isn't perfect and it is blocked to people living in Germany because of the music I used for it, but it is up and available to view. I find it quite hypnotic to watch myself. I have video progress for my Thank You image as well, but that has yet to be edited and uploaded.
Lastly, I have been unsure whether to include this to my social network list thing, but if you like music and care to know what other people are listening to (other people like me) then you can head over to last.fm.
Pictsy
The new competition theme is up already. I admit I groaned a little when I saw it. So much to choose from, I said to myself. How the hell do I pick a subject??? Well, this time I am very likely going to do multiple entries. I have four ideas - two of which I know which character to use. The other two are more about style and composition. I almost thought about doing a comic strip for it and then I thought of all the other things I need to be getting on with and ditched that idea.
In other news, I finally hit the 5000 pageview mark over the night. I haven't marked any deviantart related milestones before so I was prepared for this one with a big THANK YOU image, to thank everyone for their support.
I have been trying out something different. Whilst I was making The Hackman I was recording my progress. I spent a considerable amount of time the last couple of days trying to edit and squish four and half hours of work into a video under 10 minutes long. Firstly I had find a decent video editor free and native to Linux. Secondly I had to figure out how to use said video editors and decide which was the best for my video editing needs (I went for kdenlive in the end). Thirdly I had to do the YouTube channel thing to upload the bugger onto the internet. The video isn't perfect and it is blocked to people living in Germany because of the music I used for it, but it is up and available to view. I find it quite hypnotic to watch myself. I have video progress for my Thank You image as well, but that has yet to be edited and uploaded.
Lastly, I have been unsure whether to include this to my social network list thing, but if you like music and care to know what other people are listening to (other people like me) then you can head over to last.fm.
Pictsy
Project MBoM
Project MBoM has been an exercise in improving and discovering skills in drafting, inking and colouring. I used some exercises from the first volume of the Monster Book of Manga as a base for my exploration.
I decided not to do every picture from the book as some didn't seem relevant and I also did not like the poses for others. I didn't want to just copy each step of the book so I tried to do something different with varying degrees of success. The project started a little rough with not many aspects coming into focus until around the eighth picture. I started by doing the inking for the first 16 and then moved on to the colouring stage
Round and About
Dear Diary,
It's 2018. I have more Face Studies to post this year and I also hope to get started on with some new stuff as well. I have a diary to help organise myself better. It's not a New Years resolution because I actually want to stick to it.
I have been thinking whether I should do some pixel art stuff as well as everything else I have planned. I might stretch myself thin, so I guess I'll have to wait and see how this new year goes first. It would be nice to do some random pixel animations and the like as it was pretty fun.
Hopefully there will be a variety of art projects on the go this year and I may have to consider what else
Missing Person
Hey! I'm back!
Sort of.
For the last year I have been working through some things as plans for the future fell through, relationships ended and sickness. Aside from that I have been working on improving my art and being more confident in its creation. I have been collating various references for improvements on basics, like anatomy and techniques. I am now working on implementing what I've learned and finding further resources to go beyond that. I have recently started experimenting with Gradient Maps for colouring a digital piece. I was never one to use the greyscale tones and colour afterwards as the method alluded me, but Gradient
Backwards and Around
Things have changed.
Starting from scratch.
New stuff in the New Year, perhaps.
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To be honest I can't believe you didn't place in the top three...