I FEEL DRY

Due tomorrow at 9 PM. Or, rather, today at 9 PM. My mom woke up to pee at 3 am and nagged me about listening to music without headphones even though there's two doors between us and she didn't seem too fussed for the former half of the night. She's gonna be pissed, and I don't look forward to it.

Getting a move on with Self-Medication even though I'm still not done with The Falconer's Guilt. It's getting there. A few more sessions, I hope: the left wing, the rubies, the stripes.

Also, a new painting in mind, based off a flip book I made while at Innerspark of some guy vomiting up a large bird that ate him in turn. There were a lot of ghoulish birds hanging around in the Innerspark sketchbook, and anyway, I had an idea earlier about a chain reaction of vomiting. This idea needs some work, but it's a start.

My attention span barely holds up to more than 4 hours for any task. Yesterday I completed depleted my "digital paint like crazy" interest stores, though they should be back tomorrow. I need to read a book or something; I'm craving something interesting and stimulating. If I went to art school, I'd've gone nuts.

Also, I'm exhausted from wrestling with Flash and Actionscript 3. Planning on making a Flash version of my website (think jkrowling.com) alongside HTML, but Flash CS5 is a bit glitchy in that it botches up the code which works PERFECTLY in the CS4 file. Mehrk mehkr mehkr anyway.

So over at ConceptArt they have a creature of the week challenge, and I managed to catch this one right when it started. The prompt is an "Eyeless Iridescent Phasewalker": it must have no eyes (duh), be at least 50% iridescent, and be able to become "ethereal and intangible" and "have the ability to blink from from one spot to another".

So, I came up with a large parallel universe-prowling eyeless-iridescent-partially-visible-except-from-one-angle moray eel-like... thing with a bill like a cassowary casque, just sharper and capable of...severing...the universe...



The Mayans mistook it and/or made it their god (Q'uq'umatz, the parallel of Queztalcoatl for the Aztecs) because some ancestors caught side of it one day and revered it. If you're running around in a panic, I suppose a semi-visible-and-shimmering casque looks like a feathery crest. And one day while worshiping, the EIP (what I've been calling the monster for lack of anything else creative) decides to pay another visit for dinner and eats a good majority of the Mayan population. So, uh, that's where the Mayans really went...




Anyway, originally the neck part of it would be emerging from some slit-like something-or-another above that temple, but I think I'm gonna make the EIP about 75% emerged and winding around and coiling around the temple, since there's so much empty space there. Gonna need to work on the design to make it similar to a moray-cassowary combination and less like one. And it got that big because there's a lot of room in space. Time. Ugh, physics

I have too much time on my hands. Due finished on July 20th!

EDIT: working on the thumb. It's, uh, interesting, mostly because I stupidly painted it all greyscale when it's supposed to be in color. Ah well.

Speedpaint #3 (aliens? no idea) and some thumbs for a fun challenge over at ArtOrder. Gonna goof around with the last excerpt from This Crooked Way. It's all right, I guess, but it did paint a good mental picture and was pretty creative for what it was. Entertainingly dry, too.

 

Redoing this from two years ago for practice. Um, sorta working, sort of not. Realized that I've never exactly painted a smiling face; I'm always glowering for self-portraits. So now it looks like filthy-colored PIxar and that needs to be fixed. Later. Might as well be drunk and painting, except for the better spelling. And it wasn't exactly a speed either... Spent about an hour just fucking around with the face because a) I didn't block out the values first and b) I don't know what the hell I'm doing. The skin is supposed to be a healthy tan but instead I'm projecting my unhealthy sallowness onto him. Fix later.

 

Logos. I'm trying to do what I can to keep within her proposed idea, but I'm not too proud of it...The kerning between "T" and "H" in the first one needs to be fixed.

A refined speedpaint of a friend's character in his WIP book, Kelnin Catseye, who's a mercenary were-tiger sort of deal. His neck is too small.
 

Still working on the plague doctor painting's composition (Self-Medication, Self-Diagnosis, or Embers & Ashes). Not a good photo, but enough to keep me going/in check.

Need to do more full-body studies and environmental studies. It's difficult when home-ridden, though, but that's not an excuse. There's everything to draw.


Oh, and a paint sketch. Should probably finish it, but the other paintings have priority...

Tattoo design for my friend Erin. She gave me the basic idea (Italian-esque lady and the dead and live wolf) and I transcribed it for her. Pretty simple, really. Took some liberties, like the organs replaced as flowers, adding skulls and whatnot. But it was fun as well. Kind of like logo design, but a little less strenuous.

Speaking of logos, I promised to do some for a friend's club at USC (my school). The club Remedy Through Music (RHTM) does something with classical music and ailing people. My friend gave me the initial idea sketch, but it just seems too busy to me... I'm trying to cater the idea I best can because she seems set on the idea, though for fun I tried a bit of other ones. (Then got bored.)




Finally, a newsletter layout for the Big Draw LA for work (I'm a TA for the Ryman Arts program). The image is a link to the coded version I've uploaded in Dropbox. It got funky when they added the text, but when I tried it out it turned out fine, save for the variations in different e-mail clients. Not sure what they did to it... I hope it works out because it was pretty hideous with the text running everywhere. First time using Dreamweaver, though.

Right-o, time to shake off the rust. Gonna try a drawing of some sort again every day. My everything skills have gone to shit.