Nom Nom, Illustration

I apologise for the lack of decent updating, blog-watchers. I've actually been pretty scarce on the internet as of recent - University is busy and I'm just getting on with things.

I had a mini-break two weekends back to celebrate Valentine's Day with Smaz, which involved travelling down to Falmouth - I got a chance to get some nice drawings done down there, as well as having a breather from uni work and spending time with someone I love.

The projects ... I can't show you what I'm working on right now as it's a Moving Image thing, but it makes me very glad I now have a Mac with iMovie and Frame by Frame - both programs are coming in handy!! I still need to get my head around most of iMovie, but Frame by Frame's a simple and effective program to use.

It involves drawing a lot of hands. A lot of hands.

Experimenting with gouache paints and ink.

I've got to get back to some work, so I'll leave it here. I hope everyone's having a good month!

October is a special month

... not only because Halloween is stuck on the end of it (and last year was spent with my duvet and the Most Haunted special on Living TV), but a few significant things have happened since then. On the sixteenth, I'll have been on Crash Mania for a year. Still a relative newbie compared to you old fogies, I know, but it still seems like a long time to me - especially as this year's been going so quickly!

I've also been running this blog for approximately a year. I know, the first proper published entry is in November, but I originally joined in October:


See?

Also, October is the month when I generally notice winter's settling in. The weather wasn't bad today, but there was a chill to the air, and the evenings are getting rather darker. Speaking of settling in, October is also the month where - if I'm in a new place - I start to relax a little. New school years, new sixth-forms, new college. I do like this time of year.


I've finished with the Fine Art taster for the course now, and have started on Design. I much prefer Design, I feel, it was quite hard for me to originally get into Fine Art (especially as we were given the topic of Architecture ... buildings sure aren't my strong point). Anyhow, here's some of the Fine Art stuff I've been working on for the past couple of weeks:






I feel the collograph (first photo) worked the best. I also really liked the photographs as well, they turned out pretty awesome just for reference shots.


Now - other work I've been doing. I scrapped most of the old Tita Gasman lineart I did for Korusan as I realised it wasn't working out that well, and started a new piece. That, hopefully, should be done soon - I'm really happy with how this new piece is turning out. I'm recording myself CGing it, so a video'll go up the same time as the finished piece (therefore, no, you're not seeing a preview - ahahah~)


Remember when I mentioned I was doing work for CMTV? This is what I did for Episode One, and don't worry - there's more where these came from:



It's a lot of fun to work on these member portraits (or as I nicknamed them, 'cornersprites', as I imagined they'd appear alongside a name-bar when introducing a character). I also have a few more pieces for CMTV to do, but they'll remain a surprise until Episode 2 is released. *ssssh*


That's pretty much all that's significant. I did do a small lolita-ish themed drawing, but hopefully I'll be writing an article to go along with that (it's not often I discuss fashion so this should be interesting) when I get the time to.

See you guys a little later!