Sketch dump and life update!

That last one keeps getting longer and longer every time I open the file! "Oh wouldn't it be cool if there were more mob references? WHAT ABOUT MORE TENTACLES lets just move that up and voila more room for more characters" It'll be the death of me but It's going pretty well so far! I intend to animate the writing (placeholder font) so that it, and several aspects of the painting flicker/fade. 

Top two are yet more visuals for my Dragon Age pen and paper campaign, 3rd is a 20 minute warm-up for thumbnails and then of course at the bottom my old nerd guild wars feels.

Not much has changed since the last update, though I will be heading to Industry workshops next week and I am hella excited about that. I look forward to seeing all everyone from my MA course too, and to catch up with everyone while learning a lot! I will be in London for the week and I intend to be sketching a lot!

Also I started a new project, lowkey. I've been thinking about it since office days in Osaka and I'm gonna make a little oneshot Guild Wars 2 comic, about 10~ pages long, give or take a couple. I've written the script so far, and started thumbnailing out how I want the layout to go. Its pretty dang hard but I knew that going in. Thanks to this though, Im finally starting to get my head around clip studio paint! Another program to learn the quirks of! Hopefully next update I'll have something better than napkin scribbles and some cheesy lines in a .doc to show for it. (And also progress on the long painting)!

Sketchbook update as of July; Lots of people looking at me! So I drew their eyes :)

See you next time!

-Sam

System Down

Long time no type! Im continually surprised to see any activity on this blog since I haven`t had a substantial Art update to post in quite some time. Teaching is taking up about 70% of　my　time　here,　and　the　rest　is　probably a toss up between sleep and doing important adult life things- such as paying bills, laundry, video games，skyping people back at home.　You know,　the things that keep me sane. Unfortunately I don`t get much chance to draw outside of sketchbook scribble.

 

 

Can you tell that people stare at me a lot here? Comes with being 6"5 and white in somewhat suburban Japan. So, when sitting on long train journies, I open my sketchbook and draw the eyes that I catch watching me.

 

So tl;dr a lot of eyes and a lot of Sylvari (Im really enjoying GW2 Heart of Thorns ;D)

 

I got hit by a ransomware through my appartment building's network and it resulted in me loosing everything on my laptop from the last 3 years. Thankfully I had some backups but they are still 3 months out of date. RIP to many of my .psd files and unfinished paintings in photoshop.　Its a rather harsh lesson on keeping regular backups, finishing things and having a reliable anti-virus!

 

Until next time!

Stars over Orr (Litho class #3)

Lithography stone, (ie that big limestone chunk) before printing on Wednesday. Since I'd never printed a litho stone before, I had no-idea how this would print or if it would even print. 

Ink roll up area w/paper and and timpan.

It took a couple of prints before I got the pressure and amount of ink right, but it was pretty interesting. This is how it printed. I really liked how the marks in the sky (made with a big old bent paintbrush; it's bristles had all separated out) ended up, and that the lines from the dip pen printed also. 

I printed an edition of 5 and then levigated the etch on the stone so I'll be starting a new image next week. So far I've changed my idea about 3 times so I'm going to sit down an plan it out this weekend. The name of this print is "Stars over Orr" because its loosely based on the Guild Wars 2 areas with the ruins and gigantic stone arches.  

As for the series on constellations (I'll decide on a good name soon!), this is my idea for Virgo, though the clothes might change a bit before it makes it to plate.