Shiny New Things

I remember the first time I sat down in front of a 3D Modelling program when I was a sophomore in high school. It was an amazing time, especially given the program was ZBrush, but as time went on I never modeled for fun or anything other then technical renders for the longest time. Now, I am actually iterating things out all the time. 

I have many more things modeled out than just these two, but they are for another time. The top image is the extremely rough version of a fuselage, while the bottom is an almost finished engine, at least to the extend of modelling. I need to do the mapping for the engine, but I feel like it's coming along nicely. 

Grinding Away

It's been a little chunk of time since I last posted, and all for good reason. I've been engrossed in working on 3D models of a small Japanese pocket knife. I really do love 3D modelling and I hope I get the chance to really work on something amazing some day. Below is a quick render of my model without it being really cleaned up.

The final product will hopefully be better, until then, I'll try to keep up with posting some of the drawings I do every day.

ROCKET BOY/GIRL

A slightly andro character sketch. They have a rocket hammer. Yes. Good.

Short 5 min landscape from my head. Poor lonely tree.

Adventures in Junk-a-tude

Just playing around with creating textures with pen in my sketchbook.

Big Belly Bot

 I had a ton of fun drawing this guy, I spent some time referencing construction equipment. I think this is the first robot character I honestly enjoy. I am definitely going to push this guy farther and draw out some other concepts for him.

Figure Drawings from Feb 11th

A few drawings from figure drawing the other night. I am certainly getting better, but it's going to be a long time until these are really nice. 

More Ships.

Some more ship sketches from the past week or so.

I have actually been thinking about how many of these I do on a weekly basis, and why I do. I've noticed how every artist I know personally has one type of thing that they draw when they are tired, exhausted, frustrated, etc. Some people draw cakes or cats, or cats in cakes; others draw computers. I design spaceships.

Crosshatched Eye Studies

The other half of the crosshatching study I had to do.

Overall I am really proud of what I was able to crank out here. Especially given I had never seriously tried to crosshatch before. I am honestly surprised how far I've come in the past few months, and even more so over the past couple of years. Amazing what consistent hard work can do, isn't it?

Crosshatching Study of Lips and Nose

Some expression studies of the lips and nose for one of my classes.

I'm really excited about the work I've been doing so far this semester. Once I have some more finished and scanned it'll be up here, along with some of the sketches and illustrations I did over break.