itankuover – sketches paintings progress is the blog of Alex Draude. He has great scetching and painting skills, and there’s always something fun and crazy to stumble over.
Archive for 2006
wannabeartist.com – an incompetent fools blog is the blog of Steven Bagatzky. His skills in scetching and painting in traditional and digital media are enviable, just as well as his gigantic amount of output … a great inspiration.
Yesterday I once again tried Corel Painter IX. At first it asked too much of myself, with all the possibilities and vast number of brushes, that I had to force myself to not shut down Painter and forget about it, as I did the last time I had a look at this application. It took a couple of hours to try all the predefined brushes and find the few, that seemed to be useful.
And because I don’t use my graphire that often, most of the scribbling were that ugly, I had to delete them … it took hours of doodling, until this page turned out:
Have to do more digital scribbling to get a better feeling in using the tablet and getting better with drawing as well as painting … and yeah, I start to like the feel of Painter, I think I should delete all the predefined brushes and create some on my own …
I stumbled across this interesting article (german) on spon, while reading the blog of Alex Draude a fellow artist of the daf-community. It’s about procrastination and how it affects your entire life. Until I read it I thought that it is totaly normal to procrastinate actions to a later date, I always wondered how someone could start doing something shortly aufter they got the task to do so, that seemed kind of weird to me.
So this article truely gave me a reality check. I noticed the fact, that I am not just procrastinating the unpleasant and annoying actions, but also actions I actually like and that are important to me, like drawing, coding, sewing or some other activity I like to do. So instead of doing this stuff, I am throwing my time away by checking some forums for new posts every 5 minutes or by doing other trivial stuff, though they wont run away some hours later. It almost makes me think of being addicted …
There are also two major procrastination types listed: the arousal procrastinator assures, that for him it is only possible to do something and be creative, when he feels the pressure and the avoidance procrastinator who is afraid of not being able to do the task in perfect quality, so he starts late to be able to affirm, that the time was to short to do so.
I would tell, that I’m mainly an arousal procrastinator, but I couldn’t deny, that there is also a fraction of an avoidance procrastinator inside of me.
This is nothing to be proud of, I guess, so I want to fight it. And I started right after I was finished reading the article. I opened the task for the bioinformatics homework and started coding it, though I couldn’t find some easy to understand informations on the net … but it actually was fun to think on and code an algorithm for local sequencealignment, I plan to post some algorithms in the near future.
Hope this fighting will continue … here some informations on procrastination on wikipedia, if you are interested in …
I got to do some math homework during the last week. So I started on a blank sheet of paper, wrote down the matrix and interchanged two columns, but instead to go on, I started to scribble around and after 15 minutes passed by, the page was full with everything but math. I hate when this happens … it’s not true, I actually love when this happens, I just hate the fact, that I have to start over with math again and that the scribbling is on a crappy page of squared paper … here it is:
Long ago, that I’ve drawn as much as I did during the digitaldecoy convention last weekend:
Last weekend the digitaldecoy convention 2006 took place, sixty members of the digitaldecoy forum (meanwhile digitalartforum) took part at this event. I was one of them. It was an incredible event … to meet just some artists is a rare pleasure for me, therefore, meeteing sixty of them and all of them unbelievable nice was just marvelous.
There was that much artistic energy floating around the space, that much inspiration, that much shoulders, you could take a look beyond, that I couldn’t help but draw a good portion of the time. Haven’t drawn that much for more than half a year, have to scan and post all the pages soon.
Beside all the drawing, we also could try some WACOM products, e.g. an A3 tablet, but combined with a 17” screen was way too big for me (it would take a long time for me to manage that big size). Also got the chance to try a Cintiq 21UX this piece of hardware is just gorgeous … maybe sometime I’ll have the money to afford it.
Another really incredible tool, I could give a try, was the Omni Device. It was just amazing to feel the surface of the model, while working on (or actually drilling some holes into) it. Another toy on my wish list.
But one of the heights of the weekend was definitely drawing on a picture in collaboration with souly. It was a great experience to draw along with her, inspiring one another and watch the empty pages become a dreamy scene. It was fun. It was definitely one of this thingies from my 60 until 60 list (that I have soon to set up again).
It was a gorgeous event, I gained much of motivation and inspiration, met many nice people, I knew from earlier conventions or just from reading their posts. It was fun, but way too short and I just cannot await and am looking forward to see everyone of them again … maybe at the ArtJam at the end of the year, but definitely at the first “daf convention”.
So this was the last digitaldecoy convention, this time for sure.
By the way, Shu, sorry for ripping your post title …
Here you can find the shirt design, and because on the shirt the ‘C’ inside the speech bubble is missing, it’s giving a cool name for the title.
Here it is, my first attempt to color some Lines:
When I saw this incredible lines by Rose Besch alias bara-chan, I just could not resist to try coloring them, so here we are.
Maya Amano is a main character of the game Persona 2, I actually haven’t heard of it before, but it sounds as if I would have to play it when I’ll got time to do so.
I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, though there are still plenty of things I’m not that happy with (e.g. it’s way oversaturated) … have to learn a lot more about colors …
