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  • September30th

    The Jarhead Update

    Posted in: Art

    The past two weeks I’ve been busy at work with shifts lasting 10 or more hours. So, it’s been hard for me to continue on with my art and music projects because coming home to be only in front of a computer more is just too much. But now with things have been easing down, I’m slowly getting back on track, first and foremost with the Meet the PANDAs series.

    The PANDA painting I’m working on right now is PANDA | Jarhead as the Heavy. I’ll be updating this daily to show my progress, and at the moment I’m guessing that this will take me until next week. But, by detailing it this way you can all see how I go along at different stages of these drawings, and “documenting” can help me see where I can make improvements later.

    Progress Shots

    Preliminary Arm Shading. 10/15/08

    I started shading the arm a bit so I could get an idea of how the light hits it.How I’d like the lighting to come from is to from behind the left of Jarhead’s face and from above. It is by all means not the final product, but it’s to get me started.

    I have a lo-ve-ly bunch of .. uh .. bu-bu-lets. 10/15/08

    Well, they’re not quite as “lovely” as I hoped, but this will suffice for now. These bullets will have to go through a bit more cleaning and detailing done later.

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  • September16th

    A Study On The Female Form

    Posted in: Art

    When I look up online on tips of for artists, the one thing that I constantly run upon is having a good foundation on drawing human anatomy. And, I guess, this makes a lot of sense since most drawings contain the human figure in some way shape or form.

    Legendary Disney animator, Milt Kahl, was quoted:

    “The ability to draw and be able to turn things and the ability, the knowledge that enables you to caricature and exaggerate in the right direction and emphasise the difference between things is what you’re doing all the time. Any time you’re doing a strong drawing of anything well, your drawing is strong because you’re depicting why this is different from something else. You need that figure-drawing background in order to sharpen. Every animator should have this background and unfortunately, they don’t.”

    That being said, one thing that I’m going to start doing is trying to do draftsmanship and drawing the human figure. Hopefully over time, doing this as a practice could help strengthen my artwork in the long run.

    First off, the female form.

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  • September12th

    Site Redesign

    Posted in: Website

    Over the past few days you may have noticed that the website has been slowly going over soem redesign. Once I got the image header done, I started to take on the CSS, but very slowly. (It’s hard to be in front of a computer when I come home after being in front of one all day for 9 hours at work.) One of the things that’s troubling me a little bit is the Portfolio section of the website, because I’m not sure how to categorize the sections in art and music. (For example, categorizing in terms of the type of media versus the purpose in which it was used.) I’d like to come up with a more efficient category system before I upload the remaining works that I’ve gathered. That way I can control the “clutter” first instead of adding it.

  • September10th

    Header Image: Done!

    Posted in: Art

    Well, it took me about 2-3 weeks of trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my header image on my website. I knew that I wanted to draw a self-portrait of myself in there, but I had no idea on how to incorporate it in, nor did I figure out what style I wanted to use.

    I drew myself several times, though me being pretty critical about how I draw myself, I scrapped almost all of them. I then decided to deviate into more of a Disney-type look. Of all the characters I referenced myself as Mulan/Pocahontas, mostly because of me being Asian/Pacific Islander-ish. I also got the chance to incorporate my new haircut, too.

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  • September4th

    Meet The PANDA's series: who's next?

    Posted in: Projects

    Within the next few days/week I will be making the next piece of work in the Meet The PANDA’s series. At the moment I’m thinking about creating one as PANDA | Jarhead as the Heavy for the reason that the Heavy update is the most recent update to come out.

    I’m also leaning towards Akabane as a Sniper based on how much he’s played that class, and for the other PANDA’s I’m going to have to wait for them to get back to me. At the same time, it’d be a great thing for me too since each piece of work will be a learning experience by setting the bar higher after each piece of work.

    It should be a pretty exciting set once they’re all out.

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