second character

so out of the 4 characters, 2 were okayed by the designer. hereby I present to you the robot character.
first I used a filtpen (0.5mm) to draw my initial ideas on paper. since a filtpen doesn't allow me to alter my strength in strokes, it is very handy to use it for designing (don't like the design? start over again).
The modeling will be done soon.

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derezzed

had to work @ my parents shop today, so didn't have much time to work on the pirate character. I derezzed him a bit and gave him a weapon, see the sketch for how he'll use the weapon :). Also included a close-up of his face.

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game project

So I've been working on a game project together with some classmates, it's unrelated to school, just a side-project.
I'm responsible for the artwork in the game.
Here're some wipshots from a character for the game. I'ts not the best stuff yet!

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sketch-batch

I felt like scanning a batch of sketches I did recently...

I started watercoloring, it's tedious and I need more practice. When I feel like it, I'll post some work :)

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Faces

I bought a magazine of Voetbal International a while ago as reference for drawing, finally started to use it. Here are some random soccer players I chose to draw, I don't know their names though...

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X#ing

Sometimes things go well, and sometimes not. Today is one of those sometimes, and I'm committed to do better at crosshatch-shading :). I went to drawing class today (voluntarily), and had 120 minutes of lifedrawing. My linedrawings went smoothly, but shading is pretty damn hard. I need more time for this... back to pictures, it was nice to have a live-model once in a while :)

done in A4.

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unproductivity

I can feel the "unproductive"-feeling slowly building up, meaning I'm getting demotivated again to do anything work-related (if you know why then tell me!). Hopefully by typing this blog (and doing other unproductive-related things) I'll get productive again.

So I've been catching up with shows lately while drawing, just finished season 4 of The Office (goodbye Toby, won't miss ya!) and also saw the new episode of HIMYM, it's pretty good. I hope that, if I just watch these shows I follow in one go, I don't have anything else fun to do so that I can kick myself to go back to work.
Funny thing is; I woke up early to work on my weapon but I dooooooon't feeeeeeeel like workiiiiiiing....

Anyways, I've posted stuff from this blog onto my newly created Polycount thread on
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1284860#post1284860
where I'll post batches of sketches in one go from time to time. But mainly it's for starting up my rep there so that I can get feedback from awesome people in the industry :) I got some feedback on drawings, it's starting to grow I can feel it :P. I've been told to work on some portraiture, so you'll prolly see more sketches of people's faces soon!

Had an idea yesterday; hop onto a train with someone and go to some faraway place in the Netherlands (doesn't matter where, as long as it takes couple hours it's fine :P). Once in the train; draw people sitting in front of me, next to me etc. and build up skill this way! Why with someone? because I'm too chicken to do it alone :( I did that a while ago, but people starting to look at me and whispering out loud: "pssssst!!! That guy is drawing you omg omg omg!" So yeah... Maybe I just need headphones?

But I guess for now I'll just have to do it with pictures... I'll post some soon.

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