I’m really really wondering why I do stuff at the moment…
These are the more “mainstream” of my personal style… which whilst it has personality is quite old school…
I feel like I’m on the edge of doing something cool as a private project, but the need to get commercial contracts creates a constant tension and pulls me in a different direction in pursuit of portfolio pieces… (These don’t go in the folio, they’re quick and “throwaway”)
sadly you can’t serve both masters… unless you can align them… ( I haven’t so far and feel most of the work for my folio is quite soulless as a result…
I have a big contract starting in a few weeks, so can “relax” about pursuing work… but i still need to flesh out my folio… or throw it in the bin (for now) and just pursue stuff for the hell of it (like the above dips its toe into…)
You have an amazing grasp of form and your use of shading is really neat. I have viewed your other works, and while you feel that your work is disjoint, I would love to have a collection like that. From these works, and your previous your style is obvious.
Yup, you speak my mind there.
This is the constant issue of the creative person (it’s the same for music, design, acting, etc etc). It is an old old problem.
I’ve tried to do both for years and ended up not doing either to a satisfactory level, and feeling burnt out. (As a result my Durian application is sparse to say the least)
But as far as your work goes, these are really good sketches, IMO.
They all have really clear characters with thoughts and attitudes.
One point I would make is there isn’t much diversity amongst those three images. I mean in terms of attitude. Have you tried doing a completely different attitude/character, like one that’s not so brooding and suspicious, but for example stupidly happy, or confused and bewildered?
Also, and sorry for the imbicillic question, but why are they all looking to the right?
I do draw other stuff with different emotions… However, these were all done when i’m in the same “state of mind” and under similar circumstances with little thought…
ha ha , I was wondering the same thing when I posted them… (EDIT: Ohhh look at my avatar! spooky!)
An animator friend (when we were both working on Eyetoy) commented that what we see as our “neutral or average” face (as typified by the “default” pose in 3d models of characters) is not remotely like what is seen by others… (the face in motion)…
This was highlighted because using the eyetoy development versions (it was a couple of years ago when I was working on that stuff) , when you go to the menus it takes a “candid” snapshot whilst the camera stops updating… Normally mid conversation…
each of these shots looked like we were in some kind of “gurning” competition…
maybe sub consciously …All these are just goofing around and straight from my head though… I usually sketch whilst watching tv so sometimes what’s on influences me too.
Just doodling around in “mypaint”… (0.7)… I figured out that in the ui scripts you can uncomment some code to make the brush and colour windows “utility” windows that float above the paint window! Great!
There’s some new brushes in this new version… here’s a quick 15 minutes of playing with three new brushes:
damn good as usual plus am pleased to see an absense of the little brush thing that drove me a little nuts with your landscapes concepts. Would be cool to see some of these in colour.
p.s. its cool that you are using my paint for this I have been looking for a FOSS natural brush painting tool I visted there website last time around and their windows builds seemed so far behind their linux ones. but you thread made me remeber this app version 0.7 looks amazing enough but again an outdated windows build. Its time I learnt to compile code.
The “little brush thing” still goes on when I do the landscapes… I have a few I’ve been working on so must update that thread soon…
I wouldn’t know about the windows one, but compiling mypaint on linux was faster and more easy than anything I’ve tried! so I guess that once you have a build system in place it’ll be similar on windows…
it’s a lot of python in there, and you might need gtk…
