King Kittan

Those keeping up with Gurren Lagaan would agree that this tribute piece was in order.

The end of summer. . .

Here's a work in progress. Done as a quick study. Probably four hours of work from a photo. Hardly any likeness. Way hardly any likeness. Drawing problems abound. I know I know. . . get off my case. But I was just doing a colour study. Or course I tweaked and exaggerated. With these poorly designed blue stripes. No but where's there's one. . . there's more, right?



The other from the summer figure drawing. It's nice, but I'm losing my taste from nupastel. Too sticky.

sketchbook blunders for late July

Super busy recently. I actually should be doing working on the Cougar's engine right now but I've decided to update this blog. Lucky you! Starting with Church drawings. Top right is probably the nicest drawing I've ever done in my opinion. Though my opinion is easily swayed. As I have fallen in with the ruinous powers (nudge nudge)
So it appears that the forces of Chaos will become a permanent fixture here. Done on Friday the thirteenth. That web address on there I might visit some time. It was supposed to be a good cure all or something.
Part of an expirement. Ahh~
Church. Testimony meeting gets to draw fast. Unless they get wordy. Which the better drawings were probably the wordier people. And a nice braid.
So I was looking through my OLD drawings. Like the 1998 Japanimationesque drawings. I sure tried really hard. Anyway, I had all this scrap paper in there with like. . . one tiny drawing on it. So I took all that paper out and put in into my "draw on this paper" pile. So I was basically taking those tiny lame head and making them 'current'. It's cool because I knew what I was trying to do.

This head is darling! I don't think I meant to draw kids but I think that they look like them. And ruinous powers again.
Choas Gwen-chan. It is very unfortunate that GWEN comes out the day school starts. I'm so doomed this semester. I guess it's sisters of battleesque more than. . . bleh`

HH stuff. Flying headbutts. Bison. Ruinous powers.
Bear uzis and homer simpson(?).

I still love my Niji brush. Occasionally when geeking out I'll draw this kinda stuff. We got terminators this time.

More niji.
Even more Niji. . .and an AK!
Orks and orcs.
And an ork. Everday a bigger dork than yesterday.

Dorlly

ultramarines

As much as I'd love piles of dead Tyranids, I'm quite tired of this painting. It's taken me way to long. I've really got to do these simpler and faster. Besides, these marines (likeness is property of Games Workshop) look so pristine. This was done pixel-painterly. Someday soon I'll break out the oils again. I've been very low on supplies since the pleinair trips.

sketchbook stalemate: A month of Sundays

Haven't been drawing like I did in the past. Like minor temperature difference or something cause it to hard to draw. My ideas have been stagnant for a while. However; I'm pulling out of it. Something big definitely coming. Thank you for being patient.


I am however consistent on Sunday. Ward members.


Hands. All but one from memory. Can you guess which one?
more ward members
I thought I was a geek before. But it's apparent that I'm only getting geekier. When painting little dolls become more important than hanging out. . . that only means trouble. Space marines and a little chaos. You're probably going to see more 40k stuff.

anything except necrons

In words of Dn'D Greg, "Hey, quit biting my style!". You'd know if you knew. And if you knew there was two things to know. . .well, holy crap! Experimenting with analytic lighting(?) today. Strangely enough, this was a request. No. . . not the dune buggy. That was left my own devices. I could've picked anything. Except Necrons. I really wanted to put Necrons, but I decided that I'd stick to the facts.

old school approach: crystal fluxes

I keep looking at the above and saying. . .heck yeah~! and then below. . .
Watch out for the paradigm shift! Painted lineart is old school!

not my original character. Anyway, we were drawing like the turn of the century. And I decided to try an older approach. Except painting knowledge enhanced it. Fun, but not fantastic. It's strangely disappointing.

s-partan girl

another study from photo. block pencil technique. Though once it got huge it stop looking like that. Wery nice. Time? Should have finished this a couple days ago. Amazing how nothing keeps one busy, yes?

Aaanyway, if I don't get some eskimos, ninjas, or mecha on here soon the reality of this place will collapse. Man, I'm missing it. Not that I don't love doing studies, it's just the sketchbook is suffering in undernourishment. Mount up! We've got a lot of painting and or drawing to do!

in the woodsen

315x590 original sized - - pixel pushing
photoshop, hard pencil, no colour sampling
ref photo used
6-8 hours (?)

Dart! This surprised me. It was like Ray Charles shot eye beams at me.

It's a great tradition to paint people skipping around in the woods. The theme of this piece was to use the hard pencil. Which I'm liking more than gradated tools. Me thinks it stems from oekaki days. I have a horrible feeling that's going to make a violent come back. The other theme was warm or cool or die. Mostly dying. . . this took me more than a days study. Which is too long for taste. . . add salt for taste.

In other news:
Wasatch Winds Concert triumphs with searing brass
400m breaststoke taps an island and a plains and gains 6am first strike

Stickittothemanasaurus Rex

Another study. Done in photoshop only using the hard pencil tool. Which I've decided rules over the paintbrush on a gold encrusted throne. Ref provided from DA


Hail to Acrassicauda ! The triumphant Iraqi heavy metal band!

Saturday is a special day

"Saturday is pleinair day! Get your paint on!"


A huge track-hoe in the decimated land where the Geneva Steel plant once was. It was behind a chain link fence is surprisingly easy to paint through. The colours aren't as accurate as I want them to be, but I still think this piece is very successful.

An old truck out in Vineyard, Utah. Painted on site. Much closer than going out to Spring City or Wellsville. We're on a never ending hunt for old and also maybe abandoned things to paint. With good light, colour, and shadows of course.

Never thought I'd be caught painting flowers, particularly Irises. But, I had fun doing it and I might in the future do it again. Maybe. It was challenging to describe planes as the light changed. But as long as I stuck to the warm and cool colour combos, I'd make it through. The end.

Oh yeah, we're on a rampage!

by a curtain

photoshop
Appox. 7 hours

This took me way too long. Wasn't thinking simply so. . . once you stop squinting , you stop seeing. . . or you get the idea. I had to get it done so I can go onto the next. Till next time. . .

Time Travel pt. 10

I did a study. I took me five measely hours. I used photashop and photashop alone. I used a ref. Now that I look at it. . . the light was very bad. But I liked the ha-nands and the colours in the face.

In other news, I've traveled back in time to 1980 in a dream. It was quite profound.

Entire Youth Choir

Stake conference! So I had the great idea to draw the ENTIRE CHOIR! After you've been drawing models for 3+ hours and painting landscapes for 5+ hours, you realize that two hours to draw something isn't enough time. So, it's speed. Holy moly speed. Speaking of speed, I didn't realize how fast those meetings go. It was liking they were singing at me or I was singing or they were preaching and people would stand in the way so. . . don't underestimate how lively and crazy these meetings are. Kids rolling around and you couldn't stop it.

alligator in the pool

Pleinairasaurus Day

I've been away on a pleinair tour of duty. The extent of my campaign went from the Siege of Wellsville, the Stalemate of Spring City, and the bloody Battle for Kolob Canyon. Despite high painting causality rate, we were mightily victorious! Hail to my wingmen and to our mighty benefactors!

The bad-A church. More than hundred years old (Europeans snickering. You know it.)


A transcendental truck in the dimensional rift in opened in Spring City. I can't even describe what it was like. Post apocalyptic spirit world. I came second away from discovering my spirit animal. Does the truck look white? ~ I dunno.


I pretty much made this a cartoon of something so magnificent that you really can't. . . never mind. You'll have just have to see it for yourself.

EDIT: I fixed the photos. Now they are better than they were.

Brikabrakiasaurus day

Finals are over. I have a week grace period to do nothing but awesome. Did I do I do that? Do I ever not do that? Or at least try? On with the non-sense.

Thomas the Deep Frying Robot is making a return. I don't know when or how but this is the fatal beginnings of it. Watch as Autmn, Heather, and Thomas roll the mark of the beast and are scared to wits end by Alfred the Lucky Spider. I'm sure we'll get more frybread and definitely more ninjas. More to come.
Drawing in church. I'm getting good at sitting where I can see people. At least the front of them. Only small likenesses this time around. It was awkward. Some of them I just plain jacked up. Speaking of jacked up. I got to replace the clutch on my brother's car last Saturday!

We got this cool transmission jack (that red thing with wheels) to ease our woes. We didn't bother taking that exhaust pipe off. We didn't want to dealt with drilling out rusty bolts. So we beat around it until we got the transmission out. I had fun reaching into tight places and turning bolts I couldn't see. No bolt can hide from my long skinny arms.

A long exposure of my brother taking the bolts out of the flywheel. We took care in making sure we'd get the timing right when putting everything back.
The starter. Not sure why I took a picture of this. But I had to take it out of there. Nice catch!
The old one and the new one. I have a morbid fascination at how worn out the parts will get on machines. I would have loved to show you the rotors and brakes on my truck a while back but I didn't think to take a pictures then. Holy moly.
Whoa, ridges. Anyway, I felt I needed to share that experience. I'm pretty much sore everywhere. I even got a good nap under the car on the garage floor. We've got most of it put back together. We've got a few hours before it's drivable.