Funemployment!

YEAH! Now that I've graduated, I have no clue what to do.
First up though, a holiday to the Philippines! I haven't been there for about 4 years!

But I have also been continuing my commission work and such. Been working for some hip-hop bands in America, made some of their covers all of which are exclusive until release.

So watch out for that!

Here's something that I've done recently just to keep the blog rolling.

Kida

Wow, seems like I wasn't going to do any update... It's been such a long time since I last posted. Just been so preoccupied with Uni work. Third year's a real chore. So yeah had to do my best since it's the last year. But it all went well :)

Just found this sketch in my folders thought I'd quickly paint it...

Yamashitas

Recently just finished watching the animated series; Birdy The Mighty Decode. A 26-episode series which one of my favourite animators worked one, Shingo Yamashita.

I've been looking at his different works in animation and they stylism (is that a word?) is just incredible.

Also, another Yamashita I like is Hiroyuki. Not entirely sure what their relationship is but they're both amazing animators. Here are their work compilations:

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PS Sketch

An old drawing from second year I found. Decided to mess around with it on photoshop.

Too Much To Do!

A couple of commissions I've done recently. Ah, I hate painting rocks... They take so bloody long!

Bad Dreams?

Recently I have been having reaaaaaaaaally good dreams. Ones that actually have meanings and makes sense. I really miss my friends back home and I keep dreaming that I'm in a beach back in the Philippines with them.

But last night, I had nice dream that lead on to this; being chased by cannibals! And when I woke up, I was sleeping horizontally on my bed. Weird?!

As soon as I woke up, I had to sketch this because I always forget my dreams... Also my friend burnt the toaster and the entire house was covered in smoke...

Hades

Hercules is definitely one of my favourite Disney films!

Self Portrait day

hah... this is dusgusting

Summer Commissions 2010

Some stuff I have been working on through out the summer. Sorry for the lack of update... Been really busy.
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Minato

Wow, I haven't posted anything here in ages!

Here's something new, it's only a fanart, but I've been enjoying the latest chapters so far. It's weird, I haven't been in a naruto craze for a while, even though I still follow the series, I don't draw as much of it as I used to before... :S Maybe it's just cause I'm not too inspired at the moment... Meh.

Anyway, news, I've been slacking with the blog because I have been working on commissions lately, and I kind of juggle most of them so I can get them done in stages for the client.

Apart from that, I have also been working in a museum, doing a talk for the manga exhibition, and I've been teaching kids how to draw. Pretty exciting, and it's a good experience. The first time I did it, it was like pitching my film all over again. But it all went smooth after the first time.

I really need to get working on the new film I'm working on for next year, haven't really done anything for that... Though, it is the summer term and I kind of want to relax and make it stress free. Going to Japan this September, so that will be exciting! But yeah, that's all for now, I will try and keep this blog running soon, got some stuff I could post from last term's assessments. Peace!

Quill

This was the stuff I've done for my pitch. Not enough went in to it because of the time I had left to develop the idea... But it was a good experience pitching to a big audience. So that was mainly my aim. It's a shame it didn't go through, but hey, that's how it works.

Maybe this could be done in my own time, but the effort it takes to make it look really good could be time-consuming. Dudok De Wits does it by himself, so it is a possibility haha. But to be honest, I don't really want to make it :P.

Blah, nuff said. Here's some material.

Original Storyboard:

Initial Character designs:

Water Colour Concepts:

Digital Concepts:

Working Animatic:

Lightning

Just forgot how to paint after not being able to do any since I was away in China land... Really need to get back in to it this summer!

This is a character from FF13, been playing that game none-stop, and it has consumed me... Really not fun gil-grinding. But eh... It was a good game after all. Really want to play FF13: Versus, by the looks of things, it seems like it'll have a better story and game play.

For news, well, my pitch didn't get through. But I'm not that bothered about it. I already signed up on a film I really want to work on :D Going to be another year of learning for me. And this time, it's MAYA! Woop! One of my most hated softwares! But I'm sure once it's done, then it should be a breeze.

This means I could also post up my work for the pitch. I'll do that in another entry.

Guess this is it James, your year of learning has come to an end with me. Saved your sorry ass plenty of times. Let's see what you've attained out of it. I'll be around but not for long. So think about what your doing this year.

Fall

Wow, been a long while since I've updated here... Been really busy with Uni, and trying to organise myself for the trip to China. Going in about two weeks! Quite exciting.

For news, well I haven't got anything new, been working in production, still waiting for my grades from the last assessments, done well on my advance drawing unit, so I'm pleased.

I've also volunteered for another production called 'Fall'. They were looking for a background artist, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

That's all for now!

Peace.

Dragunov

Speed painting for fun... Been playing Tekken 6 a lot recently. That game is too addictive!
Really like the new characters, specially Leo.

Been trying to play it online but its just so damn laggy, so been playing with my housemate. She says I cheat if I use combos on her, but she does spam a lot of Alisa's hard hits.

But yeah, that's all for now, just wanted to mess about with photoshop. Took about 1 hour. I did some progress shots, but I don't think there's much point posting it since they're quite big leaps in process...

peace!

Samuel

Been finalizing characters this week. Did some tweaking with my old sketch. Had to redraw it and make it clearer since the shadows are quite confusing...

Anyway, here's some thumbnails.

Hope they're useful James, since you already know the process.

Semester Starts Monday!

Not this coming Monday, but the following, the 5th of Oct.

Anyway, here's something I did today. I was doing some artist study on Raphael.
Just trying to get a good idea of how to paint using pale colors for the skin. I really like it in old paintings so I thought I'd give it a try.

This was Originally just gonna be a random person, but it ended up as Hidan from Naruto haha.. anyway, yeah, hope you like it ^^.

I like the result, need to practice more in the use of colors, there's quite a lot of tones there, even greens and mauves. But yeah. That's all for now.