Foxes and Grapes

Having fun with lighting.

But thought I’d take a break while my scene’s rendering to post. We just finished our caricatures for next semester’s LipSync. This is me, soon to be a 3D model.

So junior year plows on. We’ve reached the semester halfway point; I can’t even believe it! September was hell, but now things are becoming slightly more manageable. We’re already preparing for next semester, Lip Sync and… thesis preproduction. Only three months away.

On my way to bed, but here’s a few odds and ends from the first half of the semester.

Holy crap it’s already August.

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.

Yeah, yeah, it’s been a while. Here’s two thingies.

I’m surrounded by cats. All the time.

I am so insecure about painting. I was shooting for just four classes this semester, but I think I’m going to take Beginning Painting after all. Ah well.

P.S. Go see Hellboy II.

I’m obviously a sick, sick person, because I’m getting a kick out of this webpage. It’s the Chamber of Horrors of Travel Medicine, and while not specifically about villains, I think it ties in well. I stumbled onto it because of the horrific image of a half-eaten human carcass ravaged by a mountain lion - which I’ve been researching for a project. The rest of the images on the page were equally grotesque and I ended up reading through. It addresses a lot of conventions we see in our favorite film and literature, such as quicksand, death by piranha, disease, and cannibalism.

As it turns out, some of these non-human villainous threats aren’t all that implausible.

Warning: Some of the subject matter is quite graphic and not for the faint of heart.

Myths and facts from The Chamber of Horrors of Travel Medicine

I forgot to mention that I’m in New Mexico for two weeks visiting my sister.

I figured, oh feh, I’ll have Internet, I can continue conceptizing and post from there.

Obviously Internet access has not been as bountiful as I anticipated.

But I’ll be back to posting as soon and blog-hopping as I’m home. 

SO much art I want to get up. But for now I’ll just post the results of the day.

To get my niece out of my hair I told her to write a story. Development on that has been good, but I made the mistake of doing some character sketches for her and now she expects me to illustrate the whole thing. Aye dios mio~.

We went to downtown Annapolis to draw………….. yes, yes, I know it’s not a sailboat! So shoot me.

Also got started on this week’s character challenge. Behold the incompleteness! Heh now that I look at it I ponder going the cyberpunk route….

A blog acquaintance named Eliza announced an activity she’d be doing an activity called Villain Month and I thought, what the hey, maybe I’ll join in. Along with drawing and animating over the summer, I’ve been wanting to work on my writing as well. This is a little different from my usual posts - there won’t be as much art for one thing - so if you’ve got the attention span to read my crazed ideas I’d appreciate any crits, questions, and suggestions you can throw my way!

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Every week a phrase will be posted, and everyone will have a week to do a design based on that idea. The goal is to push your concepts as far as they will go - be creative, be inventive, be absolutely outrageous if you have to be as long as it’s unique. The prompt will give you a descriptive adjective, a noun, and a situation for your subject - so you’re free to include prop and environment designs and anything else you want, but we’ll probably all be pretty busy this summer, so just a character design is fine.

Be sure to post the results up in your blog and leave a link here so we can see!

This week’s prompt is:

An armed art student enters an illegal fighting tournament.

Next prompt will be posted June 8.

A note on this one… a coupla friends and I were discussing the idea of “art school meets Battle Royale.” We obviously read too much manga. :p Essentially, imagine an art student if the school curriculum culminated in a fight to the death.

Poor things never saw it coming… yeah the image is way too big, so I made a thumbnail for it. Clicky clicky!

Sadly I did draw the first character challenge, but I utterly FAIL at painting so I haven’t finished it. Meh I should just post it anyway.Okay 3rd character coming up - and to those participating, if you have any ideas for chara prompts, please feel free to e-mail them to me at nilaffle @ gmail . com. Betsy was gracious enough to contribute the last one, but unless you wanna deal with my crappy prompts for the summer I suggest you get to brainstorming!

Also got a lot of art to post, coming soon….