Shrike

I usually list everything I have to remember for work and social events, but never things like "update your blog for once". Yesterday I actually wrote it down and apparently it works. Unfortunately now I remember a few other things that I was supposed to do this evening instead of drawing, but I guess that's how it's always going to be. You are never going to draw enough if you put everything else above it.

This bird started as a small colour and value practice, since I have felt for a time now that my drawing are quite flat, but I ended up discarding the colours as I wasn't happy with them. Thus I ended up continuing with a quick b&w study instead.

I'm now practicing 3D modeling with Blender daily at my internship and I'll see if I'll have anything proper to show anytime soon.

(The refecence picture for the bird can be found here.)

Oh, and I almost forgot! We went to Miami for two weeks last month and I was supposed to upload some photos from there! The trip itself was just amazing and hopefully now that I actually wrote this down here I'll remember to pick some pictures from the around 1200 photos that I took. :'D (I think quantity went over quality here. :') )

First Update for the Year 2014 :D

| Screenhead |Textures from cgtextures.com |

Alright, so I'm back. :'D The first few months of this year have been nicely busy: I got an internship at a game project at the Oulu Game Lab (under the Oulu University of Applied Sciences / Oamk), where I work with 2D-concept design and try to get into 3D-modeling and texturing. In addition to that on my free time I'm doing another project, so unfortunately I haven't had much time to draw at home! This should change soon enough and I'll be able to post more frequently.

The picture above has nothing to do with the game we are working on, but I'll hopefully be able to tell more about it in the future. :) However, I've been doing some clothing designs there and using textures from the aforementioned site, so I tried to texture an old sketch that I had laying around in my files. I should just draw and practice a lot, lot more still. :'D

A 8000

| Face practice | 071213 |

Finally I decided to just pick up an old magazine and draw the first interesting face that I would find (starting from the back cover). Turns out that the face that I chose is that of the Finnish artist/musician Anssi Kasitonni and apparently I made him look a lot older than he actually is (when compared to the pictures I found on the web afterwards). This took about three hours to make and the original photo that I used as reference is from the interior design magazine Deko 9/2011, p.122.

Incendiary

| Ma-Ma (Lena Headey) | Dredd 2013 | 26.10.13 |

I really wasn't sure if I could draw faces, but again I took a still from a movie (Dredd, 2013) and tried it out. This took about five hours to make.

Oblivion Scenery

| Tet | 21.10.13 |

I really liked the scenery throughout the movie Oblivion, and as I lamented in the last post that I can't seem to be able to draw quick sketches, I ended up picking a scene from the movie and trying it out. To my own shock, this was done in 30 min. I thought that I had been drawing a lot longer!

Fennec Fox

Tried how I can draw fur. The picture scanned a bit funny, because apparently I press too hard when shading, so the paper gets all wavy. Could have used a softer pen, I guess. This took about three hours to make and I wish I could do more of those kind of quick sketches, because at the moment I feel like I concentrate too much on the details when drawing from a reference.

The fennec fox was found from the pages of Daily Photos of National Geographic.

Mountains

 | Vulcanic mountains | 19.10.13 |

Practicing values. Took about four evenings to make, 1-2 hours at a time.

Here is the reference picture.