Paint-in-your-underwear-all-day Chalet

If you work on a problem long enough, the solution will present itself.

We are choosing to enjoy two or three experiences at a time. As I am writing this, I am also eating a salad. Plus I may remember to text somebody or to vacuum the floor, and as we all know it takes five minutes to get back to any task after being interrupted. The more things you choose to do at once, the more shallow your experiences will be, let alone how tasking it is on your mind. It might seem like you get more done, but personally I've noticed that the stupid mistakes I make because of multitasking eat up all the time I might have saved. I prefer to live a fulfilling life, in which you use your full attention to experience the now, however I can't bring myself to live that way. Efficiency is too deeply ingrained in my brain.

You can also gather unrelated reference for shape language ideas.

Exaggeration in drawing is just another trick for seeing form. Once you amass enough of those tricks, you can keep your brain away from relaxing into "regular" seeing mode for long enough to complete the image.

These are from the past two days. The reason my updates have been slacking...will be unveiled soon.

For your benefit, the previous Hogarth (9 days ago):

And now, colour keys from your favorite motion picture. I blame all errors on poor DVD quality and screen glare.

Sht Show

Website/new blog coming soon. Here, have my card.

Also, man do I need to calibrate my monitor.

Breaking 80

I've developed a perfect program for concept artists. Behold:

1. Scott Robertson to learn rendering from imagination and inner workings of light. Also trains your brain to see values.

2. Burne Hogarth's butt men to practice rendering complex forms from imagination.

Step one. Cut a hole in the box:

Step two. Put your junk in that box:

(it's like he's got two different lights on him. and neither of them works like a real light.)

3. Copying Charles Bargue's drawing course to practice rendering, and train your eye for classical design.

(really messed this one up. the foot is way too tall. It should really take more than 40 mins)

4. Life drawing. Duh.

If your aim is characters, then this course is for you. If you want a more wholesome experience, throw in some still life, plein air and master studies interchanged with the bargues and life drawing respectively.

Too lazy to post.

Now I have half an hour and now you get all the studies I've done since the last post. Roughly chronological. Roughly 1 hr each. Roughly every day. Tonight I'm going to life drawing and doing a portfolio piece afterwards. Since I can't finish my film by the end of the summer, I'm just going to dedicate one day a week for a character or environment, which will benefit from all the daily studies and animation I will be doing. Life is good.

Introducing: The Red Knives!

Every day from now till the end of the summer, I rock the studies. And since the Crimson Daggers aren't really going, I'm gonna start my own cheap knock-off stream - the Red Knives. Please watch and participate, every day at noon EST.

These are from the last two days. I'm still trying to render accurately and failing a little.

Watching Movies, Do Not Disturb

I woke up at 8 am today, which is an hour earlier than I was supposed to. So here's an arm. I may post some designs for my movie if I ever get to them, but until June 14th all I'll be doing is watching my free netflix. And life drawing.

Cs5 does make you better.

This is my first round of hogarths with cs5 on my new laptop. It's so much more pleasant to draw on this thing, I can't even describe it. But actually I just started using the same method I do for life drawing in my studies, which is, starting with brushes and not lines.

These dudes are positioned roughly in the same poses as the guys from the book, and I occasionally glance at it for reference, however they are lit from imagination. They are in chronological order, done today and yesterday. By the end I started to experiment with different brushes and I think I kinda like it. Got inspired by LINRAN's post on ca.org. I have a lot more stuff on the backlog, but sometimes I just forget to update. Most of the time, actually. Still life tonight. Finally.

Starting the Machine

First comes the hogarth dump. I started to put twice as much time into these, hoping to render them realistically. However, this is not all that useful without still life practice, which I'm going to do tonight or tomorrow.

So.. I graduated. Everyone's been congraduating me but I don't really feel that accomplished. All I did was not quit school, which, admittedly, would have been a more rational choice if I chose to pursue live action. Anyway I have a lot of paintings on the backlog. I'm starting work on my film tomorrow and returning to daily studies. Finally schoolwork is out of the way. I'm pumped.

Exams Almost Done

I've got time for a breather until the final plunge. If you know what I mean -

Here's a few hogerths. I really need to catch up before I'm forced to return this book to the library.

I'm really putting time into these guys now. I need to learn how form works, maybe even more so than where the muscles are. But I would imagine this will only do me good later on.

Something's Going Wrong

I really need to do more still life and longer studies. These guys kinda fail. All based on Hogarth poses. Figuring out values. Mostly practicing toplight, but I dont think it always comes out that way. Oh well. Life drawing tomorrow. Will be good.