So just yesterday I had an existential crisis and it put me in a real shitty mood. I just graduated in May, haven't drawn much since, and in order to get better and keep my edge I'm going to have to get down and dirty and start drawing a lot more. So I'm going to do a drawing a day, I don't have a scanner and at the time of writing I'm at work and op-- phone rang hang on....
Ok so yeah Can't really get away with too much drawing here at work and theres no scanner I can work with and i didnt bring my tablet, but i did bring a sketchbook which is all i really need. So I'm going to do a drawing a day from now on and if i miss a day i'll have to draw two the next day or 1 really kick ass one i guess. I might not upload them everyday and might end up doing a feed dump of 2-3 or more with dates corresponding to them. Anyway I'm going to start sketching now and ignoring customers.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
ART DUMP
Finally uploading some works I never got around to uploading.
Deciding Factor -Lithography
Chicago - Digital media
Addiction - Pencil + Paper (Crap lighting)
Life is Better, with a little extra~ - Digital media Unfinished
Cyborg concept - Digital media No shades/flat color
Ephemeral - Digital media
Riot Police - Unfinished Digital media (probably not going to be finished)
Navy Recruitment Parody - digital media
Alexia portrait 2010 - Graphite
Friday, April 13, 2012
Japanese Project
In an attempt to practice my Japanese as well as use what I've learned in these last couple of years I imported a Japanese game for my psp called Phantasy Star Portable 2. No one thought we'd get an American release so in attempt to satiate my need for PS gameplay, I imported it and downloaded it directly to my ps3 and copied it to my psp. I'll upload a few images along with descriptions to document my playtime with it. Although I seem to have misplaced my digital camera...
Ok so I seem to have lost my camera, which is very bad it was expensive. So i will upload from my camera phone which is lower quality, I will replace images and video when i get a new camera/find my actual camera.
Proposal: I intend to integrate what I've learned this semester (and previous semesters) into daily life, and since i don't know many native speakers I will do the next best thing by using it how I would normally in my everyday life. Specifically with video games. I have shown some use of Japanese in a very old project from Final fantasy XI where I tried to communicate with Japanese players, although I had no Japanese language interface for that game and could only use romanized japanese words. However I now have a new game, for a handheld system that is 100% Japanese. It has Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji tools. I intend to communicate as best I can in a realtime interface with what I've learned, from a basic greeting to asking advanced questions and getting responses from other players. The tools I am using include my phone's camera/camcorder, and this blog I have used for other school oriented assignments.
Edit: unfortunately the videos will not send, they are too large and I can't send from the phone. So i will just include low res still images and explanations at the bottom.
Edit 2: it seems this blog has trouble showing some of the japanese and instead shows a white block. If that happens, highlighting that text shows what was really under there.
Teaming up with online players, most american players write their names in katakana. The big purple robot is me. トウカイ ＭＫ．２ is my characters name, while エミリア is another players name. メナス、is the short one on the right hand side．Unfortunately my camera could not capture text fast enough so I will just write everything I wrote and the players responses. It was very interesting as I encountered some slang amongst the players I was not used to and had to investigate.
I apologized for not being very good at Japanese: ごめなさい、私の 日本語を じょうずじゃないです。
エミリア：いえいえ、あなたはいいですよ。
メナス: にょろん
I did not know what にょろん meant so i had to look it up, I asked what it meant in game and they just sort of laughed. It was a little bizarre, as when i looked it up I just got a lot of youtube videos to an anime title. I'm guessing it was a characters catch phrase or something.
as we progressed further together we found some treasure chests, including some new weapons and armor. In trying to use new vocabulary I asked for the new sword that dropped.
Me: あのう、エミリアさん。
エミリア：何？
Ｍｅ：そのセイバーをかえしてもらいたいまして。
I guess i said it wrong or impolitely, but they seemed to understand and let me have it, probably more because they didn't need it.
エミリア：もちろん（￣ー￣）
メナス: さう。。。
which i assume was a sigh.
after a bit more fighting of monsters, we got to a large dragon and killed it. The fight was frantic and difficult to get pictures. Although in the end, we got a lot of treasure. And I got a new shield.
Ｍｅ：たいへんですね
エミリア：おめでとう！ Emilia then started to dance and so did I as we returned to the city.
after that 1 round people had to leave and I started having connection problems. I did get to see more players talking amongst themselves, but there was quite a bit of kanji i didn't know and it went by so quick I couldn't even write them down or take pictures. Overall I think it was a great success, and even though i didn't get to say much in the fast paced battles i was able to communicate what i wanted to effectively.
Pose!
Ok so I seem to have lost my camera, which is very bad it was expensive. So i will upload from my camera phone which is lower quality, I will replace images and video when i get a new camera/find my actual camera.
Proposal: I intend to integrate what I've learned this semester (and previous semesters) into daily life, and since i don't know many native speakers I will do the next best thing by using it how I would normally in my everyday life. Specifically with video games. I have shown some use of Japanese in a very old project from Final fantasy XI where I tried to communicate with Japanese players, although I had no Japanese language interface for that game and could only use romanized japanese words. However I now have a new game, for a handheld system that is 100% Japanese. It has Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji tools. I intend to communicate as best I can in a realtime interface with what I've learned, from a basic greeting to asking advanced questions and getting responses from other players. The tools I am using include my phone's camera/camcorder, and this blog I have used for other school oriented assignments.
Edit: unfortunately the videos will not send, they are too large and I can't send from the phone. So i will just include low res still images and explanations at the bottom.
Edit 2: it seems this blog has trouble showing some of the japanese and instead shows a white block. If that happens, highlighting that text shows what was really under there.
Teaming up with online players, most american players write their names in katakana. The big purple robot is me. トウカイ ＭＫ．２ is my characters name, while エミリア is another players name. メナス、is the short one on the right hand side．Unfortunately my camera could not capture text fast enough so I will just write everything I wrote and the players responses. It was very interesting as I encountered some slang amongst the players I was not used to and had to investigate.
I apologized for not being very good at Japanese: ごめなさい、私の 日本語を じょうずじゃないです。
エミリア：いえいえ、あなたはいいですよ。
メナス: にょろん
I did not know what にょろん meant so i had to look it up, I asked what it meant in game and they just sort of laughed. It was a little bizarre, as when i looked it up I just got a lot of youtube videos to an anime title. I'm guessing it was a characters catch phrase or something.
as we progressed further together we found some treasure chests, including some new weapons and armor. In trying to use new vocabulary I asked for the new sword that dropped.
Me: あのう、エミリアさん。
エミリア：何？
Ｍｅ：そのセイバーをかえしてもらいたいまして。
I guess i said it wrong or impolitely, but they seemed to understand and let me have it, probably more because they didn't need it.
エミリア：もちろん（￣ー￣）
メナス: さう。。。
which i assume was a sigh.
after a bit more fighting of monsters, we got to a large dragon and killed it. The fight was frantic and difficult to get pictures. Although in the end, we got a lot of treasure. And I got a new shield.
Ｍｅ：たいへんですね
エミリア：おめでとう！ Emilia then started to dance and so did I as we returned to the city.
after that 1 round people had to leave and I started having connection problems. I did get to see more players talking amongst themselves, but there was quite a bit of kanji i didn't know and it went by so quick I couldn't even write them down or take pictures. Overall I think it was a great success, and even though i didn't get to say much in the fast paced battles i was able to communicate what i wanted to effectively.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Photoshop and it's Wonders/Evils
So I've been working digitally a lot lately. I'll put up a few things later, busy with some tattoo designs for my cousin and a friend from back home. I'll probably put those up in a different post. Just gettin something scrawled out before bed.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Flickr
Today's topic, and final of my 4 projects for class is going to be on Flickr, the online photo warehouse. This site is so good for finding portraits i'm not even kidding It was like an angel descending from on high to bless us puny mortals with the gift of decent portrait shots and landscapes. I know that Deviantart.com also has a decent stock art section but that's just one, rather drama-queen filled aspect of the site as an online gallery for artists. Seriously you type in portraits in deviant art 8/10 times you'll find some mascara'd up teen acting like the world is collapsing around them. Not on flickr, this site has a gigantic database spanning all ages, children, the elderly, the middle aged you name it. And their all usually really good quality images. You can choose the size of the image you'd like to download.
Here's a link to a search for portraits, http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=portaits&m=text#page=0 the 1st page has so much diversity that if you need, say, at random, a middle aged native american you can find it in a simple search. Just type, native american, http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=native+american&m=text Bam, theres children, elderly, a man in around his 30s or so. And all those images are nice and crisp. The photos you find on flickr are perfect for drawing from, there big, theres tons of detail, and lately I haven't had an issues with watermarks.
The downside to this is the copyright, most of the time you'll find information about the useage of the image beneath it when you open the image, however some do restrict the image completely, not allowing free downloads without the watermark.
The biggest trade off, censorship. Flickr is heavily, heavily censored. You can't find many images to fulfill certain criteria if too much skin is showing, male or female. It's a little ridiculous at the extremes flickr goes to to remove images and users, no longer being a free gallery but a "family friendly' one, which is not how it started out as. Other than that, using digital media for drawing comes with a few other trade offs I've stated in older posts, loss of depth, flattening of surfaces, loss of dynamic lighting etc. However with the high quality nature of the image son Flickr, its not as bad as using other sources. some images are so clear you capture more detail than you would have otherwise.
Here's a link to a search for portraits, http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=portaits&m=text#page=0 the 1st page has so much diversity that if you need, say, at random, a middle aged native american you can find it in a simple search. Just type, native american, http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=native+american&m=text Bam, theres children, elderly, a man in around his 30s or so. And all those images are nice and crisp. The photos you find on flickr are perfect for drawing from, there big, theres tons of detail, and lately I haven't had an issues with watermarks.
The downside to this is the copyright, most of the time you'll find information about the useage of the image beneath it when you open the image, however some do restrict the image completely, not allowing free downloads without the watermark.
The biggest trade off, censorship. Flickr is heavily, heavily censored. You can't find many images to fulfill certain criteria if too much skin is showing, male or female. It's a little ridiculous at the extremes flickr goes to to remove images and users, no longer being a free gallery but a "family friendly' one, which is not how it started out as. Other than that, using digital media for drawing comes with a few other trade offs I've stated in older posts, loss of depth, flattening of surfaces, loss of dynamic lighting etc. However with the high quality nature of the image son Flickr, its not as bad as using other sources. some images are so clear you capture more detail than you would have otherwise.
Google + (project 3)
So i set out to make use of google +, the new social network set up by Google. Here's a link to my google + page - https://plus.google.com/?hl=en
My intention was to see if I could use it to make healthy relationships with others and perhaps get the word out about some interesting things in my field. The google +1 (ap?) system that google has was a very interesting system to me. I could find various things I found important, and +1 them to let others in my circles know.
Also I had hoped that the Hangout system would allow me an easier time with communicating to my friends. I had a few problems with all of these.
For starters googles +1 system worked half of the time. When I was eager to share things I would go out and +1, I noticed that my links didn't pop up from anywhere from 1 hour to 1 day after I +1'd them. That was kind of dissapointing considering it severely limited what I could do with the system by just adding this huge arbitrary timer to it. I understand Google + is in beta still so perhaps its just one of the many kinks they need to work out. I had +1'd about 4 different artists website I could find with a note on my status about putting out some cool sites that everyone should check out, I don't think a single person has looked at them yet =(
Also i was able to create and link a google Buzz account, which to me, is like a ghetto twitter. In fact they give the option to link your twitter account with your Buzz in order to have a steady output of information. No one is really going to use two systems like twitter after all, its just not something people would want to do. However, I couldn't, I guess no matter what computer i use i just get an error when trying to link the two. So my Buzz is basically dead since i'm only really using twitter.
The hangout system didn't work for me either, I tried with a friend of mine on google+ and we couldn't get the video chat up and running. After awhile they just sort of gave up and we came to an agreement that google + just needs some more work done, but they did want google+ to become the next big thing when it comes tosocial networking sites, and I think google has the funds to absorb others like facebook/myspace and twitter. The option to limit feeds was however very nice, so you weren't bombarded with information about people like you are on facebook. However this also has the negative effect of making your +1s and links in buzz kind of pointless if no one else wants to see them.
My intention was to see if I could use it to make healthy relationships with others and perhaps get the word out about some interesting things in my field. The google +1 (ap?) system that google has was a very interesting system to me. I could find various things I found important, and +1 them to let others in my circles know.
Also I had hoped that the Hangout system would allow me an easier time with communicating to my friends. I had a few problems with all of these.
For starters googles +1 system worked half of the time. When I was eager to share things I would go out and +1, I noticed that my links didn't pop up from anywhere from 1 hour to 1 day after I +1'd them. That was kind of dissapointing considering it severely limited what I could do with the system by just adding this huge arbitrary timer to it. I understand Google + is in beta still so perhaps its just one of the many kinks they need to work out. I had +1'd about 4 different artists website I could find with a note on my status about putting out some cool sites that everyone should check out, I don't think a single person has looked at them yet =(
Also i was able to create and link a google Buzz account, which to me, is like a ghetto twitter. In fact they give the option to link your twitter account with your Buzz in order to have a steady output of information. No one is really going to use two systems like twitter after all, its just not something people would want to do. However, I couldn't, I guess no matter what computer i use i just get an error when trying to link the two. So my Buzz is basically dead since i'm only really using twitter.
The hangout system didn't work for me either, I tried with a friend of mine on google+ and we couldn't get the video chat up and running. After awhile they just sort of gave up and we came to an agreement that google + just needs some more work done, but they did want google+ to become the next big thing when it comes tosocial networking sites, and I think google has the funds to absorb others like facebook/myspace and twitter. The option to limit feeds was however very nice, so you weren't bombarded with information about people like you are on facebook. However this also has the negative effect of making your +1s and links in buzz kind of pointless if no one else wants to see them.
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