Boooorrrrrredddd at worrrrrkkkk

Incredibly bored at work and a little frustrated that I wasted like 4 days painting an environment from a retarded point of view. Above is the 10 minute lighting study that resulted from my boredom, and the retarded P.O.V environment that caused my irritation. I'm sure you'll figure out which is which. And I'm sure someone will post a comment asking if the lighting study was the environment and vice versa, just to be a smart ass.

f*ck colds

Man, I'm tired of being sick. It starts off with 3 days of regular cold symptoms, then after the cold I'm up for almost 48 hours because post-cold-coughing keeps me awake. Then I buy new pillows to keep my torso a little more elevated at night so that I can hope to get some sleep. I buy new sheets for these pillows. They give my knees and my face an itchy f*cking rash. Why my knees? I dont know, it was weird as shit. More speedpaintings above.

more speeds

These are some of the speedpaintings done for my class. Most of them are within one hour, there might be one or two that are an hour and a half. At some point I gotta stop doing referenced stuff from photos and work from life more often.

speeeeeeed -

- painting. Took about an hour and a half and it was done from photo reference. I did it while I was at work and kept getting distracted by meetings and tutoring sessions and such.

Pages and People

The comic pages were for a student show type of thing where like 12 of us collaborated to create a comic book story. Each person got 2 pages to tell their story, which had to make sense with the pages previous and the pages following. It was pretty fun, but I kinda wish I had put more time into it. But then I always wish that...and when I DO put more time into it, I overwork it...so..whatever...

The characters are for a fictional fighting game that Enrique and I created last quarter as part of a school project. Enjoy

Trying to keep updating

This is just a rough sketch of an old man done from photo reference. Took about an hour and a half to do, and was really frustrating towards the beginning stages. I rarely ever do these and I probably should start doing them daily because it definitely helps. The funny thing about it was, I didn't really learn anything until about 2 days after I had finished it. I'm not really sure why, but all the little realizations and epiphanies that come from doing work from life and reference didn't hit me until way later.
I definitely realized that one of the biggest things you've gotta do when making these studies is be very conscious and aware of what you're doing and why. Just blindly copying the image for the sake of duplication is almost pointless, you really need to copy and even slightly exaggerate or change things about the image as you're doing it, just so you're making lots of little mental notes. That's probably my biggest problem with the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain," is the fact that it encourages you to zone out and become a human copy machine. If you're trying to get good at working from your imagination, you need to be paying attention ALL the time. I got lots to learn.

Post Numero Uno

Time for that obligatory "I hopped on the bandwagon" post. I decided to kickstart this blog with something I haven't done in kind of a while...traditional art! I forgot how much I enjoy doing marker/pen sketches, so I'll probably be doing a bunch of these for the next few days/weeks/months.

Looking at that ogre, it made me realize that while my friend Enrique(his link is on the side) draws very angry roaring monsters, I tend to draw mildly annoyed monsters. Monsters who had a bad day and just want to go home, relax and have a beer to get over their shitty day. That's how I feel most of time, so I guess it makes sense. Enrique must always be pissed.