Not Dead

I was sick Thursday until today (Sunday), which really put a damper on my whole "don't be sick" plan for this weekend.

I'm planning on participating in the Dominance War when the details are released later on. It should be a lot of fun, and hopefully the scheduling and hard work will pay off. We'll see!! :)

Anyway, back to work.

Sketchbook officially started

That's right. I've officially started the sketchbook that I shall finish this year. It seems so far off, and the sketchbook is only 100 pages, so I might actually accomplish this goal. Trish says "It's really easy to finish a sketchbook, you pansy." I disagree, for whenever I try to fill up a sketchbook, I stop about 1/3 of the way through, for one of many reasons.

1. I buy a really pretty sketchbook and I say "I can't fill up this beautiful things with my chickenscratch."
2. I stop drawing 'cause motivation drops
3. or work starts up
4. or I hear those fateful lines "3d people don't need to draw" (LIES DAMMIT, I DO TOO NEED TO DRAW AND KNOW ANATOMICALS!)
   

But not this time, dammit. I'm going to finish it. I bought a decently sized, notexpensive, not flashy sketchbook, and I've started drawing again.

Unfortunately, I'm not showing you folks any of this sketchbook for a while. But I do ask for links to artists you find inspirational! I need to see the work of others, to figure out what I like about them and learn. So gimme what you got!

In 3d, I'm f'n around with zspheres and seeing about modeling in-zbrush. Fun :D

Vacation days are gone

I'm sad that my vacation is at an end, but look on the bright side, it means lotsa updates! Some quick notes and new year's resolutions!

• The girl mesh, I think, is irriversibly fucked. It's run aground on a zbrush bug, where it doesn't properly mirror from one side to another, instead, it leaves crazy cracks and creases on the mesh. Its one thing I've run into before, and according to forum bitchings, there's no real way to fix it... It really sucks, but I think it's alright. It was really good practice, and that just means I'll have to do it again, which I'm alright with. I might tinker with it some more, to find a very obscure and crazy way of fixing it, but right now, no dice. Its one of those problems that the only solution I can think of is more annoying than just sucking it up and resculpting. Besides, it was great practice, lord knows I could use more of that.
• Resolution time! I resolve to sculpt 12 characters/meshes this year, one for every month!
• Resolution Dos! Resolving to fill a freaking sketchbook! IT SHOULDN'T BE THIS HARD.

See, if I do it right, I'll be concepting and drawing in the sketchbook, while modeling the last month's idea in zbrush. IT'S BRILLIANT, HOW CAN IT FAIL?! Oh yeah, laziness. I've seen 3d people who can draw though, so it DOES exist, and I want to get to that level. You know, have some useful Real Life artistic skills. That'd be super.

Tonight I plan on getting to work on some awesome sculpting. Who wants to take bets I'm going to be playing Viva Pinata or Bioshock, or rockin' out with my homeslice Strobel in our f'n awesome Rock Band KILLASAURUS HORSE?