Texture work can be so immersive… I find myself going around taking photos of all the neat patterns I see in town.

Played around with a character portrait today (still WIP)

Some unfinished 3D …
Faun fairy sprite guy.
I really did like working on his face, ran out of time on it and forgot about it.

Because 3D hair can look incredibly lame, I decided to do these blocky chunks of hair instead, however I do think they should be coarser and I don’t yet know how I want them meshed into the body. I generally tire easily of doing anything like this when subdivision modelling is involved.

Waan.

I worked a lot on giving the hands character, and I do like them.

Chest, head and arms are totally unfinished of course.

There was a few errors in the layout, which sadly went to print without my discovering… I’ve fixed that and the image popup scripts now, and it is viewable here.

But no matter, I’ve been invited to the test! Some of my classmates who applied got invited too… and some didn’t. But most of them seemed to take it well, especially since it was their first time trying.

Here are some of my classmates’ stuff:
http://in8b.tumblr.com/
http://johnmullerportfolio2012.blogspot.com/
http://michelletolo.daportfolio.com/
http://myartlix.blogspot.com/2012/03/portfolio.html

2: I am totally obsessed with making pixel tiles right now

Some of that is my Minecraft wool now.

3: Tax return! Always nice. I’ve ordered some motion plus so I can finally take a stab at playing Skyward Sword. It’s a Zelda game, it’s looking fun: I wanna play.

4: I still feel like working on a website. The problem, for me, is I have so much art I want to include it becomes difficult to make a sensible system for it all.

It’s kind of a lie though, I levelled up while working on it, and now I’m applying that some more.

Now working on Waan and Miku’s designs;

Waan is very easy to draw, but I remain unhappy with Miku (right). Started yet another 3D on Waan, and I’m having a blast giving stuff like eir hands a lot of character.

I’m also slaving away in minecraft – apart from the pagodas I’m building this underwater Greek-style building


(the pillars are from the “more building blocks” mod)
The trick is to delete water source blocks around the building too, and of course keep a lip at the bottom, then the water wont flow in – most of the time. After I got sick of it I figured out how to copypaste sections in mcedit, but that was after this. I’m thinking of shooting a world tour video to show all these things. This is something I did a couple of weeks ago;

If you do want more, head over to my deviantArt gallery.

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+ a page on 3D

and maybe something else. I think it’s obvious I have no idea what to add and to not add to the freestyle category.

Paired pages are opposing. Page numbers are INCORRECT, only file name # is correct. Pages that are cruddy, scribbled all over or missing titles are probably not done. I have to finish most of them, but I can afford to throw some of them out and still keep the required categories covered by having images be in 2 categories (background+perspective is a fine example). 1 week to go.

and a final word from HC

To figure out what sort of body type to give the man (now named Pasha) I tried to figure out what I had already covered. I think a lot more about those things now.
Zinnober has that long, bony/sinewy “ectomorph” thing going on.
SEB is just, young, didn’t define her specifically because I guess I don’t yet know what is realistic for her.
Ink Royal/Mr Squid (NAME PENDING), doesn’t look right here. But I figure his body would still have a lot of female shapes.
Agent is just a guy. Never defined him much either… I did think he was pretty huge earlier in life (while in the navy), but I don’t know how he is specifically now. He’s a big guy though.
Pasha, really average here. I figure he’s maybe 20-25 and still has a bit of growing to do.. does this even make sense? Anyway, at the start he’d probably be a bit skinnier, but growing stronger (and older) as we progress. He gets to work in the field or tend to the animals or something, so he does get exercise.
Ran, figure he’d have a sort of thicker torso but with tapering limbs, if that works. Overall he’s still pretty averagey, strong but without cut abs and that. He does something like yoga though.
Drow/C4, guess he’d be sort of an elf stereotype body, with a light build. And he goes assassinating in women’s underwear… maybe in a matriarchal society things are different, huh??!
That tentacle monster hunting space dude… I don’t even know what he should look like. He’s an ex soldier, so enjoy some bulky stereotyping.
oh also I coloured him quickly
(not only am I remembering body hair, but tanlines!!)
I don’t even have that many male characters, so the options to do “something new” are pretty open. Yey.

From the same session
Pretty sure that’s an outfit idea for Pasha in the middle, but then some research showed me them ancient Greek/Turks didn’t wear poofypants, I am disappoint, OK, I could give him them anyway, but part of me really hates being dishonest to stuff like that.

Did some proportion experiments

Someone said one of them had amazing character (more than anything else I had done!!!) and I was miffed ’cause it’s just random, but I drew on it anyway.

I am always eager to learn more about cartooning
also those are Mazken and Aureal ponies.
Up late at night doodles about not sleeping – so meta.
Frot scene ideas for mage&man. Also heroic proportions, I forgot how to get them right, so I tried.
stuff.

Some thoughts on the mages’ types/classes, after they ascend. Ran’s master abusing him a little, I think it’s partly to make him accept what his real body is now. The sitting scene is him watching over Pasha while he recovers from ascension (if that happens, I am undecided). Pasha would still be male (warrior class) after. Then there’s Pasha and Ran fucking (I mean, that’s what I drew them for, what’s all this silly story stuff and magic for???). I can’t help noticing my gesture/sketch people are way noodlier (skinny and without definition) than their designs say.

The next 3 are drawn on a lazy saturday while visiting my bf’s parents and celebrating his birthday. I can’t believe I drew so much in half a day!
Request: Gun Toting Punk Princess
and also a fishy octopus girl.

Orc and Bosmer ponies. Pasha. A gerudo, why can’t I draw my own characters like this? Hnf. A lady, dunno who she is! Krihan.

some nudes. Second is intended to be Ambrosius but the rest are random.

And the following (lazy) Sunday…
Pasha and Ran in loooove.

On my way home from Copenhagen that day, the trains were messed up ’cause of the flood the week before, so we ended up waiting 45 minutes for the speedy train instead, eating ice cream on the platform, and I doodled some of the people standing around, what fascinated me first was a dude with a sizeable beer gut :3 Those are the only referenced drawings here, though. And then it descended into imagination again, sailors and greekfaces. I really do like greekfaces, that total lack of distinction between nose bridge and forehead especially, but also the pudgy overdefinition of everything.

Tuesday
Was drawing a back… then drew references for the Kyisha model (see last post), and Blaine… rekindling my love for drawing boring sideviews! Tried to get more cartoon in there.

More sideviews, probably wednesday
Thoughts:
1; the mage himself, his usual 40-50 year old appearance. I am calling him Ran, by the way. I think that’ll do.
2; Sofia. Concepts like up, down, or walking, does not make sense in her dimension, so I don’t even know if she’d have feet, but she’s humanshaped ’cause she’s formed from part of Ran’s mind/soul/something.
3; demon futas.. ok, kind of don’t want to keep this as part of the concept. Unless it’s some super-evolve battle form desu, but idunno, Ran is physically stronger in his human form. But it probably reduces his “magic power” to be like that.
4; younger. I don’t really know when exactly Ran ascended to being more than human, 30? 40? He has let himself age since, because he feels older. The amount of studies and meditation he has gone through takes years, at least.
5; alternate ascended form, looks more like a eunuch or such, with no real secondary sex characteristics. Ascended mages can have sexless, male, female or hermaphroditic forms, Ran’s body is a reflection of his own effeminacy even if he does not accept it. It’s a complex matter, one of being 100% true to yourself. The mages seem to believe the soul in androgynous and the body is a superficial matter, yet without denying the differences.

Friday is when I scanned everything, and worked more on that aureal
Honestly I don’t even want her to really be an obese midget, more like.. cartoonily drawn that way. But I need to research cartooniness.

I couldn’t sleep thursday night, and wrote/doodled this down.

Vila is the headmaster or at least hold a high seat at whatever “temple” the mages are from, her lover was one of Ran’s teachers and responsible for his ritual.

Still gotta figure a lot about how to manage her clothing modules (if I do that at all and don’t just cheat), but anyway. A really fun character to model!

Imp.

Tried some differently proportioned silhouettes, and went crazy for outfits. Well, not THAT crazy, poofy pants everywhere!

Strange futa magics
I have this thing for futa demons I think.

Guy design, from the same sketch it went vastly different whether I inked and coloured, or just painted, the paint evolved and the ink stayed fixed.

Guy design II. So I don’t even know if this is what I want for his body. Figured he’d be on the short side, and become longer bodied if he ascended.
STUDY STUDY STUDY – face planes!

Mage’s face, age ca. 20 and ca. 40

It’s fun to think about what goes through his head now and then, and how he lives. The older version has clearly smiled more
progress

I originally planned to abuse this blog for sketchblog, but ironically I’ve lately posted mostly “presentable images” only. June was a great art month, and July has opened nicely.

So I got pretty far on this a week ago, only needing a few highlights … and then I completely forgot about it again, until I saw it in my July folder an hour ago.
Jeesh, I need a better WIP system so I don’t let art die!

Guess it’s time to do a tally of Ambrosius art now

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I am becoming rather fond of this style of rendering, and I really should do it more because it is super good practise. I feel I’m getting a better grasp of it too.

The old arts:
The character begins in 2005, and is the arch nemesis of Zinnober.

2006

2007 – I feel my art had a really really weird departure this year, and I’m not sure what to think about it. The strange proportions are evident up through 2008.

2008 – I also had this phase where I analysed and described everything, and previously androgynous/undefined characters, I attempted to pin a sex on. I actually think that happened earlier though. I sort of think some of these attempts at explaining everything would’ve been better off not having happened?!

2009 – this is where proportions and anatomy finally start making sense! I also had fun drawing the character as female, it can be anything. The low poly 3D looks goofy, but it became the foundations of my low poly base mesh that I have used and altered a lot since.

2010

And fanart for good measure;
– thanks
All you need to be a Vermillon Avenger is be a dick, have a mullet, wear orange and carry guns. Huzzah, a futuristic rocket powered vigilante, as Tehmeh would say.
I was so busy talking about art that I forgot the other news! Woo, got admitted to the animation workshop’s Drawing Academy semester course!

Now I just gotta cough up €5,000/$7,000 (and move to Viborg). I’m working out some commission prices and specifications, since if I can earn some of that money via art it would be sweet. I used to be wary of touching commissions, but with my consistency having improved so much I feel I can provide that service