pencil

Moto Girl

Sketchbook

I drew this a while ago. Been tweaking it and waiting for some time to just color it. Today I just said eff it and I’ll use pen. Pen is a pretty nice tool for shading. I’ll have to do some more stuff in pen.

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.

Organization of things

Photography

I spent a whole weekend organizing and tossing stuff out. I have this inclination to collect things because I could possibly, maybe, one day use them later in some creative idea. However, when it becomes years before you remember such a thing existed and ample opportunities have already passed by, it’s time to throw it out.

I’ve got a nice set of pens and pencils, that at least now organized, I can be more ready to use them. The other was organizing some hardware. That Minolta is great, but it always seems to catch the film and won’t ravel it back into the film case. I’ve still got some film stuck in there that I need to get developed. That will be another post for later…

munny munny

Crafts

I bought these from KidRobot a long while ago. FINALLY I am going to start something with them. So the kitty came with an axe and the original munny style came with a triton. I considered making alternative props but at this point, I’ve come to like the props they came with.