souzou

analog stuff from the past

levin3d — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:46:00 +0000

i found some really old stuff rummaging through an old hard drive.
a classmate of mine back in highschool. from a photo another friend took which i found in his drawer, i thought the light and shadows were interesting , and also because she’s really cute .matahari concept. i found this along with the unfinished game model.

Retainer Girl

levin3d — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:39:00 +0000

something old. back when i didn’t have a pen tablet just scanned and moused it lol. i think she still has a lot of charm. i have to 3d her and make her dance “oops i did it again” one of these days. lol

みちしげさゆみ

levin3d — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:14:00 +0000

lol i actually learned to put hiragana! read it tho… i’ll be like a 5 year old kid trying to read.

there are concepts i’m working on for days now that are taking me forever to finish. the hard part is the design . it’s hard making something out of nothing. i always seem run out of gas when i’m doing the same thing for days — revise revise revise puke… im sure it’s beacause i was foolishly trying to draw without reference and aiming for a level of detail way past my short attention span. i’m gonna start drawing simple things that wouldn’t take more than 4 hours to make as therapy — maybe i’ll get somewhere. here’s sayumi michishige of morning musume from a pic you can find on google( kawaii ne). yes i listen to them, they’re cute. don’t laugh! lol, i listen to the whole spectrum of music genres; from the cheesiest to the hardcore i give them all a shot because i get bored with the usual stuff easily. sayumi is the worst singer ever… but is the cutest by face factor alone. she’s not my favorite musume tho.

actually took me 5 hours… lol broke the rule right away- and doesnt even look like her!… but i finished something at least. got lazy with the hair BUT learned a lot from this study, especially nuance in skin tone i don’t know jack about.

Aiel

levin3d — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:48:00 +0000

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan has been occupying most of my time lately. I’m still at book 3 (The Dragon Reborn) as of now (late comer, i know), and I’m an instant junkie.

Anyways I’ll try to illustrate some of the characters and events as they come…

Here’s an Aiel Warrior concept…I don’t know much about the warrior clans yet (i dont want to spoil my reading so i dont read ahead) … but i just recently read that they wear tight fitting clothes… i’ll do another later

Dominance War 2

levin3d — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:11:00 +0000

Concept Art for my Dominance War 2 Entry … wish me luck

head#2 Salome

levin3d — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:45:00 +0000

i don’t think i succeeded in this one… a lot of things don’t look right. i’m kinda disappointed. well i have to move on. the original is Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist by Carlo Dolci

digital drawing tablet: first timer noob

levin3d — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:37:00 +0000

I just bought a digital drawing tablet. After years of painful yearning i finally saved enough cash to buy one. Well i didn’t actually save, that is a skill i have yet to begin learning, but i finally mustered guts to set aside other financial priorities so i can buy it. I guess i can spend the next month eating instant soba for dinner (but i see less and less yakisoba in the convenience store nowadays; so choosing a flavor is not an option anymore) . Somehow this new toy has refueled my desire to draw; and has extinguished my World of Warcraft addiction, which is a good thing, but i do not want to lose my interest in the game entirely, but it’s good so I can stop playing it like there’s no tomorrow, disregarding every other aspect of your life… (this rambling is too early in the blog entry) i’ll talk about that sometime in the next episode. I’m still fumbling with it, took me a while to be comfortable and control it to a manageable level. The main difference with a mouse is that it has pressure control and that the coordinate system is absolute, as opposed to a mouse’s which is relative, meaning if you put the pen to the upper right most pixel, the cursor will be at the upper right most pixel of your screen, unlike the mouse which you can reposition anywhere, and would just move if you glide it along a surface. And yes, it does make drawing on a computer easier tenfold (compared to a mouse). No serious digital artist should be without one.

I joined the Anatomy Lesson Series: Body Part 1 – The Head at CGtalk. The goal is to make mastercopies of 50 heads from a selection of classical masterpieces in a span of 1 month. It makes sense to learn from the best… by copying the masters you will get an idea on how they do their kungfu and gain their mojo and be a badass, or something like that.

This is my first beheading (it would sound much more unpleasant if i wrote “….my first head”) . Not so bad, I must say so myself! I didn’t believe i could actually do it, i thought that it would be hard to grasp the technique, but i believe i actually did well for a first try. I enjoyed blocking the mass then slowly detailing it, as opposed to a detailed linework that I’m more used to. But my strokes are obviously clumsy and need to be more refined. Took me like 2 hours to do this too, maybe too long for the level of detail it lacked. Well 49 more heads to practice on…. i actually think i’m not going to be able do all but what the heck… a head a day might not be too bad. By the way this is the original sculpture http://www.wga.hu/art/d/david_a/1/11davida.jpg. I don’t even know the artist but i guess to those educated in fine art it should be familiar.

Hello world!

levin3d — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:37:13 +0000

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