Give me coffee, anatomy and Rihanna

Hey guyssss ^_^

Hope everyone is doing well out there in gamer world. I'm doing great if any of you were wondering.

So whats been going on? I've been being an anatomy buff these past 3 weeks. I'm enroled on Scott Eaton's online anatomy course. I must say that I can't recommend it enough. I think the guy is an anatomy god and a great teacher. Though not for someone with a vague-meh-ish interest since it's quite intense and you will spend a lot of time watching and rewatching videos, then of course your assignments. But I'm seriously enjoying it, even more than I thought I would.

Speaking of assignments, that is what I'm working on this evening and I thought I would treat myself to a nice coffee for while I work (I'm a herbal tea drinker 99% of the time ya see). So works and I'm gonna have a nice evening drawing écorché of backs ^_^



I've also been trying my hand at low poly character modeling this week... I'm not good at it, but I'm trying!! (Can you guess who I used as inspiration for the face?? ... No??! .... I don't blame you, but it's Angelina Jolie)



Then what's with Rihanna you ask? Well, I'm generally not a big fan of R'n'B, but I do think Rihanna is a very talented lady and just oozes cool. Well I just watched her new video Only Girl. Really dancey and feel good, which is awesome. Plus she looks amazing with this marilyn monroe style hairdo, but in stunning red!! Now that is very awesome. It reminded me of a trailer I watch for a anime called Summer Wars. Looks amazing and I must watch it... when I have time >_<

Well, until next time, I'm getting back to work

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Life Drawing

This weekend saw my first full weekend course of life drawing. This is a photo of my last drawing on the Sunday. It was three hours and I really enjoyed it! I'll be doing a more indepth blog post next week, since at the moment I am completely rushed off my feet. It seems everything is happening at once right now!

bored..

.....so spam with sketches ^_^

Water well = FINISHED!!!

MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

It's finished (well perhaps some small tweaks but I'm ready to show it to the world at least)

The ever mysterious water well with all hand painted textures has arrived at the other end of the creation tunnel, mostly unscathed by it's ordeal.



It took many hours or working and reworking but it's finally something I'm actually proud of ... and anyone who knows me will tell you I'm NEVER proud of my work, but I feel I worked hard and it shows for the first time. It's by no means perfect but it's still my creation ^_^

random find

While looking for some inspiration for my Bestival outfit (tho I'm sure you've seen it already) I found this nice wireframe comparison =)

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ooooo totally awesome!!!

If your anything like me, at least in a 3D artist sense, you'll know the feeling of always being on the look out for something that would just ooze awesomeness if you built (or in this case wish you could build). And here is my highlight of the week!!



This beautiful piece of sculpture I came across quite by accident during the usual googling for good metal reference images. It is the work of a man called Cory Fuhr and I must say I'm completely in awe! I mean, learning anatomy and rendering it with accuracy is hard enough. But then to craft the human form out of cogs, rods and sheet metal definitely deserves some props.



This is my personal favourite .... but I think it's because I'm fascinated by the human hand =P

You should go check him out: http://www.coryfuhr.com/

I have been working ... honest!

Been having a hard time trying to fit in working on my portfolio around my social life. I know that my portfolio should be taking pride of place at the top of my priorities right now, and it is, but it's hard when I lose at least 3 days when I go up to London to see my friends and boyfriend every weekend.

When I used to live in London that was all so easy but now I have to get a train and I can't just pop back and forth like I used to. Not that I got much work done when I did live there since I was always busy cleaning, cooking etc.

However I have been making progress, sort of. I basically got stuck with my VW van, I keep getting strange smooth shading errors from where I have triangles on the wheel arches and no matter how i can't seem to get rid of them.

So I decided to go back to an old project I was working on and go back to it at a later date with fresh eyes.

So this old project? Well, it's a sword. Here's the original concept art, not by me but this guy: http://wen-m.deviantart.com/

Anyway, modelling and such was fine, nothing too head-scratching about it. But then it got to doing the textures ... Lets just say I sat staring at the image for an hour or so just thinking "ok so how the hell do I make it look like that?!"

Done some very basic stuff to rough out what I should put in diffuse and what in spec. But at the moment my task has been hand painting a height map to use to make my normal map. Now any sane and normal person would have gone into ZBrush, but no, I thought that hand painting all the details in photoshop would be more accurate (probably true actually) and easier (not really true at all).



But I'm hoping that the hard work will pay off and I will have a sexy sword to put in my portfolio and *hopefully* get me on the way to junior environment artist!

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