Huuuuge update

I've been incredibly busy; I'm graduating after 15 more weeks of school! Anyway, here's just a general update...

Virtual Joust.. I completely re-modeled the arena to be more historically accurate, UV mapped it, and I've just started going in with textures. I also updated the horse, and I'm currently working on some armor/trappings for him.

Arena Texture Pass 1 (ignore the temp. ground)

Base Horse, will be refined after armor is built.

I've also been building a whole level in Unity for another class which I'll post next week. I'm not too happy with how it's turning out, but I'm learning a lot. 

Now for a deluge of figure/gesture drawing...

Everything in Moderation (Especially Moderation)

Been feeling a little discouraged about art lately. I attribute that to the fact that I've been doing environments (which I stink at) almost exclusively. Today I opened up my traditional sketchbook for the first time in months and started sketching some figures from reference. I enjoyed it for 2 reasons:
1. I improved significantly. (how, I'm not sure, but... I'll take it!)
2. It was extremely relaxing.
Definitely going to be sketching with pencil a lot more.  I'd like to get some mid-tone paper and start sketching with conte/charcoal as well.

Figure 3/25

My first time attempting drapery

Figure 3/23

Figure and Bargue, February/March

Kinda washed out, my scanner seems to get worse by the day.

More inspiration!

I'm getting my portfolio ready for Thursday, so I decided to give this painting another shot. I'm still improving!! (thank goodness).  Pic by itself on top, pic in comparison to the last 2 below it.

Figure 2/9

Figure Drawing 1/29, 2/2

Arm Bargue Drawing

My second Bargue drawing. It lacks finesse, but I'm definitely improving :)

Sitting

20 minute pose. Sorry for the bad quality, my scanner is too small. I like how this came out. Probably my favorite figure drawing to date..

[edit] while doing gesture poses I saw her true nature for a moment. I don't think anyone else has caught on yet.

Hello world

Well, welcome to my blog! I'm not really expecting people to actually visit it but I plan on using it to motivate myself to do at least one art-related thing every day. My sketchbook at conceptart.org just gets lost in the masses of posts.

A little about me: I'm currently attending college, although I am contemplating dropping out and attending an atelier or an art school that I could study intensively at (LAAFA, Watts, CalArts, etc.)  I want to work in the video game industry, concepting and/or modeling. I love creating characters although I'm not very good at it yet. I have had little to no art background but I seem to be doing okay, and I pick up on things very quickly.

I love video games. You can find me on the PSN at RadioYeti, on Steam as jimpact, and on Xbox 360 as JiMPACT:

On to the art!
Here's some stuff that I've done in the past few weeks just to give you an idea of what I'm about:

This is my first 3D model, which I created/rendered in Zbrush (and Photoshop).  She's a succubus. My greatest achievement here was creating a human but not needing to do hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, or irises. Go me.  I was working on her body but I decided to put it on hold (for now).  The model's okay but the big thing is that I learned a lot and really enjoyed it. ZBrush is amazing.

I go to figure drawing every Thursday, and I love it... but I'm not very good. Here are 2 20 minute poses from last week. In case you're wondering about the difference in quality, my professor worked on the standing one's face for a minute or two

I'm also taking my first painting class this term, and it's digital (we had to make a color wheel traditionally and I got paint all over myself, it was a disaster). This was our first assignment, a B&W photo study. It looks pretty bad but I'm not upset because it's my first ever painting! (it's also unfinished)

So, with that I am going to head off to class and start working on something for tomorrow