Archive for April, 2010

Project Duff Offer Getter 12

Can attack

Just a little expansion on yesterday’s exercise. Added some more anatomy (still didn’t finish building the legs), some speculars, and that can, which is kind of proof-of-concept for an observation I’ve made about color*. God, I wish I’d been able to take more color theory in college. There are dudes way younger than me that don’t have to go through all this guesswork.

Incidentally, if anyone knows a good (no really, a GOOD) book on color theory, specifically where the effect of light on color is concerned, let me know. I’ve checked out a bunch, and hardly any of them talk about real-world applications — it’s all the stuff I already know about complements, triads, and analogous color schemes. I don’t need more color-association theory, I need to know what happens to [color name here] when [color name here] light hits it.

Anyway, no big version tonight. Think I’ll hold off until it’s “done”. I plan on doing the rest of the line art tomorrow — might even put some clothes on the poor gal.

^{*It seems like the saturation spikes just before it recedes into shadow.}

Project Duff Offer Getter 11

Ribs are a little high, or her armpit is a little low.

Ended up working mostly with color tonight. Was flipping through my Hyung Tae Kim book (Oxide 2x) and didn’t want to do any monochrome today. Probably wrap up the anatomy tomorrow, so you may see this one again in a PDOG entry. Brace your souls.

About 1.5 hours. No reference. Yes, her right knee is way too small — that’s not because I drew it small, it’s because I didn’t draw it at all. You can see where the contour line stops on the top edge. This just happened to be as far as I laid down any color.

Project Duff Offer Getter 10

Note: not an album cover for the fictional band "Red Thing"

Nights like these remind me that the point of the exercise is just to draw, not to be good at it. Good comes later, with large amounts of nights like this in the middle.

Project Duff Offer Getter 9

"I come from a terrifying alternate dimension known only as 1974. I -- Why are you laughing?"

Feeling better about hands with every passing day. Think I might have to institute a “hands in every entry” rule to keep the progress going. I want to knock them out with the same proficiency as drawing a cube. That might be too optimistic, but I’ll shoot for it nonetheless.

Something very Go Nagai* about this drawing. Maybe it’s the hair and serious eyebrows. My wife disagreed with my analysis. She said, “Oh, it’s you!”

Bear in mind, my wife is oblivious to how fat and bald I am due to a rare disorder that causes her to love me.

^{*That guy can DRAW. I can only dream of being that prolific.}

I searched for crap and found you

And no hint of sarcasm. Ahhh.

Dear Wacom,

I am still a fan of your products, and the latest driver release for my much-maligned Intuos4 seems to have taken the edge off of my anger (though I haven’t ruled out that this could be A) the placebo effect, or B) the vodka martinis). At any rate, I am the least of your troubles. Someone reached my site yesterday with the following search string:

“wacom intuos4 buttons crap”

Just an FYI.

Oh, and please release a frictionless version of the replacement surface . I have a smooth pit in the middle now, and rough edges where the nib travels less. It is a joy to draw on. Like drawing on bristol with newsprint edges.

Thanks for your time.