Month: March 2013

Tomb Raider contest

illustration

There is this contest on DeviantArt that ended last night. It was for the new Tomb Raider game that came out. I’ve never entered in a art contest before, let alone try to draw someone else’s characters like so.

It was fun coming up with ideas, but I just didn’t get a chance to put as much time into it. I would’ve liked to have done coloring digitally, but at the moment my desktop is dead. I considered using marker but I didn’t feel like I had enough color range.

Digging up old sketchbooks

Sketchbook

I was beginning a bit of spring cleaning the other day and came across an old sketchbook. I used this book from high school into college but never really got to mark up all the pages. Here are a few highlights of what I was able to crank out at the time.

I always liked the way this book came out. It kind of represents a more hopeful time for me; I felt more imaginative and yet not challenged then. (Compared to these days, it’s a challenge to just begin with the first stroke sometimes. That’s just RL getting in the way.)

Looking back on old work does help me realize that I have gotten better and it’s somewhat re-inspiring. At the least, I can establish that technique has evolved and I can believe my imagination can work again.