2nd attempt to make 7 arts for 7 days: tuesday & wednesday

Internet connection going bad yesterday. I use cheap dial-up connection so I'm not expecting much from it. Today my $5 a month dial-up internet goes preety stable so I can update my works and make up for yesterday. Here's my tuesday:

And it was ugly as always. I use my canon s3is to capture, and i use GIMP to adjust the brightness, and I use my laziness to not cleaning the file first :D. I want to draw my girlfriend, but it ended up not as I hope. Here's my Wednesday art:

This is Canti from FLCL series which I admire the design so much. This would be better be categorize as fanart. I use GIMP as always. At the first hour of painting I still have energy to refine the detail. As the time goes by, my stamina didn't catch up with my desire, this is when I start draw the wing, the feather, the cloud, and etc that looks ugly. I just realize that painting require patience and stamina which I am lack of.

It took me about 4 hour to finish this one. God, it's a pain in my back. Originally I paint it in 3megapixel size. When it finish, I scale down to 1megapixel to upload it here. After I scale it down, not knowing that I haven't save it to jpg, I do editing again, and accidentally overwrite my master file. I try to undo it, but it's to late. My 3megapixel painting gone forever..

2nd attempt to make 7 arts for 7 days

Recently i've been busy playing assassin's creed 2 on my pc and am very absorbed to that game. It has a great gameplay, great graphic, great character, great story so I have zero reason not to play this game. It's superb!

By the way, my skill is a bit rusty, so I decide to make 7 arts for 7 days again. I post it here so that I have motivation to do this. And, here's the beginning art:

I like cute and relaxing 3d wallpaper, so I decide to try make one. I use blender to make this. It was a lame attempt with ugly rendering. Still, process is as important as final product. And that is a cute penguin, try to eat radioactive ball. In truth, they already eat some.

Like this! Like no other!

This one, just happen. Without any planning, just flowing like the air. I don't even know why I draw something like this, but I like it. It's a deformed illustration of me and my girlfriend. Here:

The original title is Gag & Ta, a creepy couple. But because i first upload it to facebook, and there is a "like this" trend, so i put a second title, which is Like this! Like no other!

I've been with my girlfriend for about 5 years, and I'm pretty happy with her. Sometimes she made me sad, sometimes she made me happy :). But most of the time, she's nagging me for lot of things. That's why I think she's gonna be a great mother :D

Trying to improve drawing skills

I've been drawing many doodles lately. I feel like I'm entering another world when I'm drawing. It feel so good to draw. Here's one my sketch:

The result is somehow weird. Look at the crooked smile. Looks creepy to me. Oh well..

7 arts for 7 days: friday, saturday, sunday

I haven't had a single free time to makes art lately. The project became half abandoned. It's a sad day T.T. A lot things happen, and unexpected.

I began to think, maybe because I kinda think of it as an obligation rather than something that I want to do for fun and happiness. 

For me, to make art is something hard to start, and hard to finish. I'm a moody person, with lack of initiative, and lack of desire for finish thing. It's always like that since I graduate from high school.

Now that I remember, I began to use my brain for thinking about good and bad, or do or not to do, when I started college life. I don't know whether I'm happy or sad, but at least I feel I'm alive now.

But after I know that I'm alive, I started to think of what is life, why is life. What is life, and why do I live?

7 arts for 7 days: thursday

Drawing pen is one of my favorite tools for drawing. Here's my thursday art:

Here's the coloured version:

You do the best, and let the software do the rest :)

24 March, 2010 7 arts for 7 days: wednesday

Up there is unfinished illidan fanart I made last night. It's still far from finish due to personal activity. I first draw a sketch on paper, then i shot it with my digicam, and I trace it with gimp. I use mouse (again) because I dont have a wacom.

Well, I have 2 graphic tablet, and both is useless for digital painting. The 1st is my old UC-Logic super pen tablet, which I got from my brother. It was a good graphic tablet until the pen broke. The second is the ultimate ugly lack of sensitivity Genius G-Pen 340. God, that was a good for signing only.

I hope I could finish it at the end of the week. Btw, I still havent make art for thursday. So little time so much to do..

7 arts for 7 days: tuesday

Accidentally, I opened the GIMP on my computer, and start drawing with my mouse. Yes, it was without concept. Yes, it was without graphic tablet. Yes, it was at night. And no, i'm not drunk. Gimp is a great tools, I just realized.. Especially the smudge tool, its similar to smudge in MyPaint. Anyway, heres the big picture:

I mention before that the smudge tool in Gimp is superb. Photoshop's smudge tool is nowhere near the Gimp. You know, i began digital painting since high school. It's fun, but I only do digital painting a couple of time. Weird.. I don't really know why I manage to graduate from college. My early works were horrible. I would bury my head to mother earth if I see it. Anyway, I use the paintbrush and eraser as my main tool for sketching and colouring, and i use smudge tool for making the depth of the picture. Hey, I just realize that I only use 3 tools for this work ^^, oh, and zoom in and zoom out tools, and colour tools, etc etc -.-".. oh well :)

7 arts for 7 days

I'm trying to improve my skills on graphic design, so I decide to produce 1  illustration a day for 7 day starting 2 days ago. Here's my works on monday:

It's the 1st time I draw realistic style with colour pencils, even though I'm a graphic design graduated -.-". Based on Aya Ueto's face, i began drawing at night, using faber-castell water colour pencils on my sketch book. I feel i slightly grasp this technique. Practice makes perfect no?