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...

My pledge

Today I made a pledge to stop drawing things like this:

 Going to start drawing people with expressions on their faces, and maybe even bodies (gasp).

Some models

I've been hard at work creating a Virtual Joust exhibit for the Higgins Armory (basically the coolest place ever). I'm really fascinated by the history of jousting, how it's evolved, and well.. everything about it. This is such an awesome job.  Here's some WIP shots of the jousting arena: 

Happy Halloween

I have been busy beyond belief. Did a quick sketch tonight to relax, based off a funny picture of a friend of a friend, who looked both appalled/in awe. I didn't do a great job capturing the expression or her likeness, but it was nice to paint for a bit. It's good to look at something like this, because a year ago, I wouldn't have even imagined I could be at this level. Of course, I still have a *long* ways to go, but... it's always nice to see progress.

Forever

It's been forever since I updated!! I still don't really have anything to show. I've barely even had time to sketch in my book, let alone do any finished pieces. I have a sinking feeling that the entire year will be like this, but I'm going to try to reorganize things and set time aside for drawing every day.

We'll see how that goes..

Been A While

Been busy moving into a new house, being really sick, and visiting with my boyfriend for a week before school starts. Haven't been drawing much so I decided to sketch one of my friends today. I'm trying hard to start working with color.

Life Update

I usually don't go into my life in this blog, but I felt that this was important enough to address. I haven't updated in so long because I was in the worst art-slump I've ever experienced. It was about a month long, and I'm still easing out of it. I'm going to go as far to say that I hit "the Dip" - Point A (chart courtesy  of Sam(mich)).

I've felt discouraged, uninspired, and basically hopeless. I didn't seriously consider giving up as an option, but I felt like it. Tonight I found CGHub and got over myself after looking at hundreds of beautiful pieces of art. 

Instead of picking up my sketchbook and worrying about the overwhelming worries I have about my art, I decided to ease myself back into it by doing some master copies. I found some amazing pieces by CGHub user Daniela Uhlig. I decided to try and learn something by painting a few of them... and I did!

I also butchered a couple sketches. I love doing studies of other people's work..