Halo Wars

Really simple drawing but I was in a hurry. I think the eyes and nose could use a little more work. On a random note Halo Wars looked pretty good.

New Method

I tried a different method with this one. I layed down a rough sketch then used paint bucket and gradients to fill in areas of the piece with solid tones. I then built up photo textures and used a multiply layer to add color. I tried several color variations with more blue until I came to this one. After that I used Soft Light and Hard Light layers to define the shapes a little more. Finally I used a normal layer to fill in light and continue defining the shapes. Next I Stamped visible layers (alt + shift + ctrl + e) and used an Unsharp Mask to finish defining and strengthening details. Finally I used color correction and curves layers to change lighting and color a little. I like some aspects of this. I need to work on visors.

Snowy

Really bad posing on this one but it sort of makes me laugh. I coming to realize simply how far I am from being the artist I want to be which to be honest isn't saying that much since I will always want to be better. I'm not sure the work I do in my art class brings me any closer to that goal of being a better artist. Hopefully the composition and unity work will help me. I really hope I can take criticism and suggestions, I believe I can but when I see people in our class who don't seem to want suggestions I wonder if I am that way too. Our school is hosting some live model drawing sessions which I'm planning on going to. The representative from Art Center had suggested I take a class on figure drawing but there is no such class offered here so this is the next best thing. I need to start practicing a hour of 3D max a day so I can report to my dad that I'm learning some sort of "programing" and he should too.

Hurray

I'm finally caught up on my drawings although I'm not too happy with this. I started with a completely black canvas which was new. I have three classes on MWF. Two in the morning and one in the afternoon. Today I was in my room drawing, my brother called me to see if I wanted to go climbing. I said I couldn't because I had a class in fifteen minutes, it was 3:43 or so. He asked when I had my class and I said 3-4, just then it dawned on me. I had missed the class. No no no. It was a good class too, there was going to be a deaf person signing to an interepreter who would give a brefief talk and answer our questions. After moaning about it for a little while I agreed to go climbing. On our way to the gym a friend of daniel and I called to tell us that the gym was closed for a class. My brother decided to go to the sub instead. At the entrance to the sub someone called my name, it was my teacher. I explained what had happened and it seemed fine. It looked really bad though cause I had my climbing shoes in my hand as if I had just come from the gym. I need to get on top of this.

RoadsWork

I haven't done a road drawing for a while. I guess this is still inspired by Fahmi's concepts for Forza MotorSport 3. I'm not nearly as good as he is but hope to reach his level of perfection some day.

Tongue

Ok weird.

Wind Power

I really liked this but the composition is lacking. The line of rocks in the sun on the right side create an unwanted distraction I think.

I got mostly caught up on my Asian art reading (YES).