Quick sketch I did today. Who’s it of, I wonder? Okay, fine, it’s Lightning from the upcoming Square-Enix game, Final Fantasy XIII. After seeing that trailer from the CLOUD DVD, which you can download at FXN, I was left ridiculously excited. My favourite scene was when she was surrounded by squads of opposing soldiers and she just stares at them for a few seconds before shooting off a cocky smile. It was brilliant, can’t wait for this game. Er, I’ll paint this eventually.
I think I’m getting better at drawing noses, hooray for drawing from observation!
Just picked up an Epson all-in-one printer today. I don’t know why my brother and I didn’t buy one in the first place. Guess we kind of forgot when we saw that Canon scanner…
Anyway, enjoy the sketch of what will eventually be Toph Bei Fong from Avatar: The Last Airbender! This Epson scans a lot faster than the Canon and it makes a lot less noise too.
Okay, so today’s probably been the most productive day I’ve had in a while, well, along with yesterday. So, what have I been doing? Well, I’ll start off with work. I can’t say much but I think I should be able to say this without suffering any…repercussions, haha. Anyway, I’ve been working with Okashi for a while now as a background artist. Things were going at a pretty good pace, but we’re finally down to the last background artwork! HUZZAH! The game’s looking pretty good, Colleen put together a preview video and it looks pretty darn tight. Hopefully I can get this last piece done by the end of the week.
Moving along, I actually finished this sometime during the first week of January. It’s a logo I did for my friend back in Canada. At first I wasn’t really satisfied with it, I mean seriously, look at it…Haha, but since I’ve been looking at it for a while, I think I’ve grown used to it. He wanted something nerdy. I had other ideas but this one stood out the most.
And since we’re still on the topic of logos, here’s another. Well, it’s actually just part of another logo. I took out the rest of it because this is supposed to be just a sneak peak at a secret project that I’m working on with Kyle and his friend, Katie.
And for the last piece of art for the day (I have more, but I can’t show them. Well, at least not yet), I present the lineart to my submission for Imaginary Friends Studio’s art book, The Pepper Project. Pepper’s hawt, that’s all I have to say…and so is her friend, Wanda. Hahaha.
And to finish off this post, here’s me…attempting to play Final Fantasy IX’s Aloha de Chocobo. I can only play the intro for now, heheh.
Fufu, after several thumbnails, I’ve finally decided on the final sketch! I drew a complete blank for the background though, but since the subject has to do with basketball, I figured I might as well base it off a somewhat familiar location: Gordon Greenwood Elementary School’s basketball court.
The Drawings and Illustrations section of my portfolio is currently down thanks to the internet connection being a bitch. I was fooling around in Photoshop and TextEdit yesterday, tweaking and changing bits of the site, specifcally the colour scheme. That green for the links was butt ugly, I just had to change it. Anyway, I had no problem uploading all that crap up last night.
This morning, I decided to clear out all my image files because I had them resaved and optimized to a smaller file size for a quicker load. However, now I can’t even upload a single file without the bloody connection dropping or timing out on me. It’s pissing me off.
Ugh, anyway, visitors please bear with this for now. I’m trying another FTP client for the time being.
For Imaginary Friends Studio’s book called The Pepper Project, which I think I mentioned in an earlier post. Anyway, I’ve been an admirer of Artgerm’s and, pretty much, all of IFS’s artworks. Anyway, fans are welcome to submit their own rendition of Artgerm’s Pepper, so I thought I would give it a go. I’ve never done a fanart of her before but I’ve always wanted to, hahaha. I also did some other random sketches and gestures.
Hmm…I’ve been feeling rather dissatisfied for some reason lately. No idea why though. Maybe I’m not being as productive as I would like to be. I haven’t been drawing in my sketchbook for sometime either, but I did manage to do so for the past 2 days, hopefully I’ll keep at it.
Maybe I should go out more often? Guess I’ll start playing basketball first thing monday morning.
Anyway, even with that feeling of dissatisfaction, there have been some interesting and really cool events that took place during the week. Work is going well, I need to pick up the pace though. I’ll also be working on a collaboration project sometime soon. And I’m also a mod at the FXN forums now!
Well, here’s a simple sketch for now.
I guess this kind of reflects my current situation, except in a more lighthearted way. I keep thinking about so much stuff lately I can’t even sleep that well anymore. Should I start doing commissions on dA? Will people even commission me? Aren’t I already busy enough as it is? But I need some form of income, don’t I? Is it a good idea to redesign the site? Shouldn’t I start exercising even?
