Montlhy Scraps - July 2016

Since July the 1st I've filled up 21 pages in my sketchbook. 

Slightly less than last month, but still more than I was filling up before all that blog thingy' happened.

Any ways - it's time for monthly scraps so lets get to it.

1. I was changing his hand 5 or 6 times, but I got stuck with this... whatever this is. 

2. Drawing poses from imagination. I started with stick figure in every case.

I was changing them bit by bit, but in the and I just got stuck at muscle guy on the right. 

Oh.. and I forgot to save his stick figure... so you'll get incomplete process, and YUP - that gets worse and worse

3. Sketch taken from sketchbook. 

        

That thing made me super angry. I have finally figured out what exactly is wrong with my tablet, but I learned it hard way.

That image presents the difference between eraser tip of my stylus and its drawing tip 'tho the drawing tip is not the top one...

My eraser has still 1024 levels of pressure, but the other one has only 2.

4. If you've seen Monthly Scraps from May (click if you haven't) you may recognize this. 

I pushed it just a bit and I definitely know I have to get rid of that anime-ish proportions.

My resolution for this month is to learn how to draw hair like a total noob. 

Angry Panda for the long post

So long

Skulls and stuff

Long time no see...

I wasn't drawing much lately.
I have filled up 12 pages in my sketchbook since 1st July, made few attempts on digital drawing (results of which you'll probably see at the end of the month), but it isn't something I would call drawing.

BUT

Finally got something more decent than the Ace II camera. Don't expect anything that's even close to professional level 'tho.

That's an overly-instagramish caricature of photo. I mean it. I think I put on that photo every filter that I've ever seen on Instagram.

It's a skull. Drawn from imagination, but I think I could have seen that somewhere... Not sure though.

I may be posting more sketches from my sketchbook in future.


So long

Monthly scraps - Apr 2016 /update

That post can end up being long. Don't know exactly how long yet tho'.

First of all - that's monthly scraps post so I got for you this:

I wanted to check how my brain thinks the average French man looks like. Well... I've never seen so manly-looking French in my life, so I've no idea why he came out this way.

1. Terrible choice of background colour. I don't know what I was thinking...
Rough indication of facial features. I wanted him to have very sharp, heavy, though look.
I had no pre-existing sketch whatsoever, nor the references, so I was just squinting my eyes, and putting dark tones where I was thinking it's good place to put them.

2. Shape refinement, darker tones, lighter tones.

3. Guy with pointy nose, cheeks and chin needs pointy ear. That's a rule no.1 of painting (not really) - period.

4. I really wanted to take him to presentable stage, so I put some lines, to know where to put the lighter tones and hard edges. These lines were meant to be overpainted. Now I can see the perspective is a bit wacky.

5. Overpainted some of lines.

6. Added some lights.

At this moment I've lost ma patience and that's where the UPDATE part begins.

Long story short - my tablet doesn't work as it used to. I just don't have that 20% of the initial pressure levels. Can't draw light lines any more.
It's not the driver problem. It seems to not be the Win 10 default Pen and Touch service problem either. I have tested out few drawing programs and problem appears in every one of them.
CTH-460 served me well for 3 last years (end even then it was 2 years old model), so I think its time has come. I'll switch back to Win 8.1 just to be sure it's not the system issue.

I'll be still drawing stuff but it's fucking irritating. Maybe I'll figure out some camera and I'll be just putting the photos of what I drew in sketchbook... Maybe won't.

GL&HF
So long

Paragon and banana

Ave Caesar whatsoever!

So why am I not posting anything? Well - I was playing Paragon Closed Beta. I'm under a confidentiality agreement, so I can not post much more than this: the game is freaking cool.

For these who don't know what the paragon is - tan da da DAN! PARAGON SITE

For these who are too lazy to click the link... It's MOBA with TPS view from Epic Games (these guys from Unreal Engine). I was playing LoL (League of Legends) before it was cool. I mean from open beta, for 2 seasons, and then community happened (I mean I grew up and reading what's-not 'bout my mother and my playstyle bored me), then e-sport happened (not good e-sport, but that I-am-12-years-old-master-of-lol-and-know-fucking-everything "e-sport").
I have never had that much fun in LoL, I've got here. The gameplay itself is rather for B+/A-, but their card system that lets you create your own equipment, for every single character, and about which I sadly can't talk, is great.
When it comes to graphics, game's gorgeous. If you see the trailer, graphics in-game looks same.
Early access beta starts on March 18th. Open beta somewhen in summer. Totally worth a try.

Oh, and as long as I won't paint anything new... Get my attempt to "sill life".

For your own eyes sake - DO NOT zoom in

That *ekhem* masterpiece *ekhem* is dated on January 2014.
I didn't set up the scene, nor even had any references... Again twisted mind of mine gives me vague picture of my painting objects.

That's not good thing if you want to learn anything. I should have paint that from reference first and then try repainting it with the knowledge I acquired.

Feel entertained. Or not. It's up to you.

So long.

Hardware upgrade and some Unreal Engine 4

Long time no see.
Unpleasantly seriously long.

What was I doing all that time?

1. I changed my hardware. It is not the most powerful PC on the Earth but gtx960 is far better than 9600gt.
One '0' less - a lot of power more. Beside that, I changed CPU, motherboard, and RAM too but the difference's not that big.

2. Installing Windows...
It wasn't suppose to last 3 days but it did. Installation failed on every possible step. Process was painful, long, painful, boring, frustrating and fucking painful.
Oh! and at the time I needed to update the shit out of Win8 to finally get my Win10,
my internet provider had some kind of issues with providing the internet.

3. Lollygagging.

4. Doing that:

 

It is not something I'm proud of. Not yet.

-materials have no textures nor the normal maps;
-Stones, rocks, and grass models are made in less than 10 minutes each;
-everything is a placeholder;

BUT

-landscape material automatically paints cliffs with grey, plains with green, and everything in between with brown;
-Green, Grey and Brown are material functions so I can change behavior of one layer without messing with others. Also, that means I can add to them textures separately;
-grass is generated procedurally - which basically means everywhere where landscape is green the grass appears, with density based on how green the surface is;
-rocks and stones are added as grass, but less dense;
-if I want to change something that the "algorithm" fucked up (or, more likely, I simply want to change it) I can paint it manually;
-grass WAVES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :D

Considering the fact all I did I did in one day, still being newbie to Unreal Engine 4, it's not that bad.
I'll be working on that.

So long  - hopefully not too long.