tadaaaa! three concept drawings of Captain Albert C. Herron! Pushed myself a bit by chosing different colours!

Really proud of this, after doing some mannequin studies im a lot more confident with pose and figures. I deffo need to figure out the colour scheme here though...

Just gonna share some concept art for the college project I'm working on!

9/02/2024

Sorry again about yesterday! Had a bit of a caffeine meltdown (and staying up at 2am playing P3R).

Haven't got much to talk about, just gonn share some dogs.

Oh yeah! I'm gonna from now on be trying out 5 minute sketches every morning. Perfectionism has been plaguing me like rats, so Ill have to beat the shit out of it.

Gee I hate rats. They make me crazy.

Heh, crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room. A rubber room with rats.

I hate rats, they make me crazy.

Crazy?

07/02/2024

For the sake of my sanity, I moved my saturday to Wednesdays. Why? Well I've heard that it's a bit better to take a break in the middle of the week so I'm gonna try it out.

Think about it! Mondays are the worst after a nice break, then you manage to get into gear by the second day. But past that you start to feel tired and yearn for those two sweet days of rest. You get me so far? To which Ouroboros vores himself and the cycle repeats again. It gets tiring when you continue that for many weeks! Even if you have a holiday, it's only a few days...

But as opposed to resting on Wednesdays, you get to have a quick stop. That's all. A time to pause everything and take a breather, 'cause after all you need to stop for a while after running from the police...

After which you're mind is set on what you need to do and continue to plough on as always! This basic rhythm will help maintain a constant flow of work, with almost dips in quality.

Or so that's what the idea is. It's been my first day, so I'll have to see after a few weeks or so.

Finally, I managed to post something on the art portal after a long time. On Monday, I was doodling the little rascal Susie Derkins for some ideas for my main protagonist, Lucy, for Bones in the Ocean. I had a sense of character from Susie, which is one of my inspirations.

To be fair, I didn't know what was meant to be in an "art study", I just drew. Now I know what it take to do it

I got a bit sidetracked since I played Persona 3 Reload the day before.

So... I thought it would be a good idea to expand that, and did a full colouring of that!

Well... it took longer than usual trying to replicate Bill Watterson's artstyle. It was a bit silly, from trying to get the lines correct to figuring out how he did the backgrounds (I was a bit foolish of that). What I learned from this is not to fret about getting everything perfect. If I did, having everything indistinguishable from his work, that would essentially look like I traced it.

It's important that the little imperfections add up to what it is, it's what makes an artwork more humane. And anyway, that was the whole part of the process. Thinking mostly slows you down!

This is evident here. Earlier today I went to my art tutor to use her resources to paint an acrylic seascape, another thing for the world of Bones in the Ocean. I wanted to capture some otherworldly...ness...thing, which I won't get into much since it covers some spoilers.

But in the end... it just became an ocean (beautiful one at that too). It didn't matter though, I was trying out different ways to achieve this. From mixing colours to rolling the brush over the paint, I wanted to try strange new methods of making a weird world. This came out brilliant though, from those shades of green to the sprinkled grey clouds in the skylines.

It's funny how the Susie Takeba sketch took many days while this took about 2 hours. It just goes to show that maybe you don't need to think...

and also digital drawing sometimes sucks...

Not gonna spend too long here, but I'm gonna try out a new thing for sketching. From now on, I will time myself 5 minutes drawing a piece of work. No matter the details, I will attain this shape.

Woof (sorry meow), that was the longest I wrote. See you tomorrow!

Side note: here's some proper art studies.

Well... kinda, I'm still new to this. It was just figuring out if a Scottish Terrier is perfect for Albert...

May have to go for a Newfoundland, though I'll have to study them first.

Just recently saw my school doing a musical producation, and maaa-a-a-an do they not miss!

They literally put on a broadway show, with lots of sets, effects, orchestra and all! The changes they made to the show was a bit iffy at first (setting it in modern day), but really it just goes to show that nothing changes...

But the cast was bloody amazing, everyone was! Not gonna go into detail since I don't wanna ruin my relationship with some of them... but they rock!

06/02/2024

Quick one here, just seeing a play at the moment! It's a production of Sweeny Todd, but they're apparently taking a different direction...

I'll post later, don't wanna waste my data on this!

05/02/2024

So, writing a daily blog in the morning isn't gonna work out for me, especially on days where I'm busy. Ususally, I don't really find the time to do it anyway, by the time I get around writing it it's usually last minute at 1am. Therefore this daily blog will now release at 6pm! It's hard to write something when you haven't done anything and I think it's neat to talk about my day!

My day?

It was fine. I got some stuff done, learnt what we're supposed to do for the reserach and experimenting PowerPoint till it's dead! I made a major breakthrough by making scene transitions working, text boxes and all!

It's still a bit finecky right now, since there's no programming console as far as I know.

Gym was closed for exam earlier today, which meant I couldn't really concentrate by the end - I did do some work though!

I might post a survey for you guys, just a bit of audience research to get that sweet sweet D*..

But my god do I feel like a God. Last year I was struggling a bit to finish my last project, namely that I didn't have a plan. I first fixed that at the start, if I want to get that D*, I'll have to be tight on my schedule for this one.

And I did, I worked my way back on what I needed to do for each section, made a timetable (yes really) for each day of the week - asides from Wednesdays and Sundays of course, and deleting YouTube off my phone.

The result? On top of my shit.

Well.. kinda. But it's much better than last year and I know what I'm doing for once! It's like... everything is falling into place... for once!

I highly reccomed you do this by the way. Just make a goal in mind, look back on the steps you need to take, and then make a goddamn timetable all the way towards your deadline. Here's an example of mine:

If you can make sense of my handwriting, great! If not, sorry about that. Holding a pen with your two paws is difficult.

Anyway, see you tomorrow!

*D as in Distinction. Yes, that type of grading system. First a Pass and then a Merit, and then a- y'know what I mean.

04/02/2024

Hiya everyone! Haven't been posting in a while, been terribly busy lately...

So far I'm trying out RenPy for my game, actually cool! It's got a really easy coding language similar to python, though I deffo need to take a while with this. I would say the tutorial is a bit... strange. Having some waifu talk about everything feels a bit offputting for me.

Don't really know if the engine can do some point-and-click schmickery, but that's where the experimenting begins!

hehehe!

I'll continue to use PowerPoint for this, though I deffo need to be on top of my game here

01/02/2024

So I went to sleep at around 3am from feeling bad about an argument.

It was nothing much, just something about the Silent Hill 2 Remake coming out. As a result I woke up depressed at 11am.

(godfuckingfuckblooberteamandtheabsolutecuntsatkonami)

Anyway, I had an easy stroll in the morning, and felt much more better because of it. Absolutely lovely day for once, the sun was shining like a golden retriever! So that was good. Did some work for my project, though I really was snorting YouTube most of the time.

Aaaaand that was my day! I did also come up with a timetable for each week, that'll mean I'll be on top of stuff no matter what!

Here's a sketch of my cat while I'm at it: