3D modeling solo practice

We had some really good practice in our tuesday asset design workshop, so I was inspired to try making some of my characters on my own. again.


here's some more screenshots!
http://imgur.com/a/aT98D
http://imgur.com/a/5aCUD
http://imgur.com/a/CNqYe
http://imgur.com/QeOXPUU
the last one here as an img too.


and here's some old work. http://supposedblog.blogspot.com.ee/search?q=3d

i feel like. what am i even supposed to do with this. maybe i feel too much idk

"Yom"

man,

i shouldn't even be online at all, let alone posting anything but,

here we are anyway

Been trying vectoring again. There's probably a more proper way to call working in inkscape or other vector software but who cares. Experimenting is still fun.
just some screenshots for now.

summer update(just text)

i was at a birthday party for a collective yesterday and got reaaallly cool drunk drawings out of it(i'm still amazed i got any drawings out of that, because lets be honest, drunk drawings have a very varied quality hahaha) but forgot to clean up and take the drawings, so that's it about that i guess :')

so yeah
for anyone still reading or passing by this blog? just a little mention and update that hey, i still visit this blog occasionally~

yoooo

Just thought i'd post some doodles from a class quickly before i go to sleep. I'll be trying to make a post with some turtles later maybe.

 

i better color this soonish, gotta show my swill

Less wordy

sorry about the last post being so long? word-heavy? anyway, here's some more.

<< stuff i wanna color

and yo i have like a million versions of this now, why : (

 !!!

Recent scraps

Decided i should post something here too, before another year starts!

I found a blog called "This could have been Frozen" on tumblr and took it upon myself to try drawing some concepts for the characters as well! The blog showcases different artist interpretations of the Snowqueen story, one which itself already has many different versions from/ in many different countries and cultures. Here's a link to the blog.

I kept thinking about making the snow queen and the girl albino and got a bit obsessed with this thought, because so far, there hasn't been much representation of that? especially in animated media. I also wanted the story to take place somewhere near home again(i'm more familiar with russian and northern retellings of the story), but in a more un-appointed, little-specific time, to distinguish the timespace and history from the characters a little bit, and focus on the characters and the setting.(if that makes sense....)

Here in these sketches we have; The Queen, the Friend and the Sister
So i imagined two different kind of Snowqueen stories:
One where the Snowqueen is the older sister of a young Anna, an orphan living in northern finland, taking care of her sick friend, a sami boy, in a small hidden village. The girl's sister decides to take the boy away from the village and the girl goes to rescue him,despite her bad eyesight.
The second one where the kids are older and the queen is an ancient hag who wants nothing but youth and rejuvenation, taking it from young weary travelers. The young man falls victim to her snowy charms and it's up to the young blind lady to gather people up and revolt against the queen who steals people away.

So there's a lot of ways for the story to go, if we just take it to a kind of a bare minimum, i guess. I could switch some of these thoughts that surfaced and mix them up and i think it would still make for something interesting, for a different version

I'm still not sure about which way i'd be finalizing towards, but i've started caring for some of characters on their own, design-wise, so i really don't know what i'm gonna do with any of this >_> A lot of the other designs are really good and amiable and likable too, and i'm a bit intimidated, but seeing my own drawings come to life is kind of encouraging.

So this if what i needed, a lengthy personally-approached blog post!

Holy shit, blogger is still pretty crappy about having images in a blog post, welp, gotta html this:

Some silly test doodles and brush tryouts, to weigh out the differences in Firealpaca, a relatively new painting/drawing software and openCanvas1 which i've been using on and off for various tasks and drawings from even before i had a tablet.
What I like about Firealpaca is it's bare minimum: it has all the basic tools of a painting or drawing artware, like layers that have an opacity lock or marquee tools or gradients and some customizable brushes and for it's price(freeware or something akin to opencource? it has ads at the startup but that's it, it's free) it does pretty great against other free software i've been using so far. For any beginners at using tablet-specific art software: don't be scared! and don't get too impatient either. Often beginners will have a hard time getting used to using the software; i know, because it's taken me about 4 years of photoshop experience and an additional mixed-3 years of other software. Honestly, it's not even that specific, it's just 7 years of experience of various different kinds of  software - they are tools. You're the artist. You get to choose.
Plus a lot of times, when you start a piece, it's really more about what you've set out to achieve with the art work. If  you know it's something where you've gotta let emotions take the wheel, you'd probably do so, and if the piece at any moment needs a pinpoint of focus, that'll happen too.
So what happened with those above sketches thar, is that i was supposed to be working on something else, but, relegated to our old dumpy computer with a skewed screen, i had opted for some doodling anyway, to work on something i had obligated myself to work on. That didn't happen of course, and in a fit of trying out different brushes, i started doodling out thoughts on my story, a comic, or maybe a novel? Shrug, who knows, it's fun thinking about it either way.
Another thing to remember for any moments of waning creativity: Thoughts are important too! yeah, 'course they are, but those tend to get forgotten, when just starting a picture. I've noticed recently that, whenever i have an instant thought(and i feel like i'm spilling out some kind of secret, speaking of this, but) and NEED to quickly have it on the paper already, i tend to completely forego the pondering part, or the part where i prepare for a session of drawing and sit down and fiddle and try to find a place to solidly draw on, but no, there's these moments where i completely skip all that and the drawings just appear on paper, from the thoughts, almost directly, if they are concentrated enough(think of juice? the kind that grandmas make).
This reminds me that i had this idea for a comic about a month or less ago, where i specifically wanted to focus on ...how thoughts appear outside of the mind. I had a very specific thought-way for it and specific paneling choices i had already imagined, but never got to putting it on paper right away, because i was scared of losing the original feel and thought process behind it. Now, usually i would kind of berate myself for not marking the ideas down right then and there in the bus(i did afterwards in a calmer environment, tho yeah, those didn't really work out). But not right now, because i just don't care! I have a new thought with this comic, but i still want to make it as simple as possible, as concentrated (juicy, but not sweet-syrupy) and as meaningdul as what the thoughts which i'm trying to communicate. But see, like all of this writing so far, i get a little too wordy maybe. I don't feel like this is entirely a bad thing, but just that it might get to be a bit too much in a comic-making situation. This is like prep-work for future comics and drawings and stories instead

Anyway,




looks like i'm at my character-limit? yo this post might continue if i don't go to sleep after this

i don't know how to use blogger anymore but here's some stuff i drew
in non-cronological order:

Something akin to a new year update

Hey there. Thought I should emerge from my feeble life-troubles and actually post something new on my blogger blogs.

1.I have an art tumblr as of last year or so.>>>.It's still pretty small and boring, but eventually, I'll post more there.
2. School has eaten my money and work has eaten up my time. This my life now. These are my choices. I will look at them and weep with remorse I guess, except remorse isn't even going to cross my mind when I'm done with school and work and more weeping.
3.Scanner is sorta broken. Scans thing in a little skewed.Still haven't found any time to try and fix it. For now, I am probably going to post any sketches or works in progress in PHOTO FORMAT, meaning there are gonna be some crappy photos of sketches everywhere and anywhere in places where i post stuff like that anyway.
4.I still haven't animated anything proper.
5. Still no proper comics either.
6.Augh. Legend of Korra is still apparently a year away..............................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
.................. I think I need to lie down.
7.Atleast these are coherently numbered, unlike my actual main tumblr blog(it's horrible, i can assure everyone this)
8. I'm gonna have to make some extra moments for drawing times. I have no idea how i'm gonna do that.
9. Strangely enough, when I'm in school or at work, ideas and thoughts keep flowing and flowing like a free stream of rivers, gushing through the ground like nobody's beezwax(business). However, during free time, like last year, when I was both school-less and (mostly)jobless, it's as if the perpetual(nay, metaphorical) well had dried up, and refused it's magyks to me, entirely out of it's own free will, as if school and work totes had something to do with ideas that could be good and continuous and thoughts that didn't lack the mind. What I'm trying to say here - will this ever stop? Am I going to have to go to school forever, to keep up with my artistic pursuits? Certainly not. But this seems like a probable thing if I keep my own bad habits still at hand. And this has been a recurring thing I've thought about ever since about mid-middle school or so, eventually developing into a fear, which sort of manifests itself now, as I keep being more and more confused about my life. A fear that I might not be able to keep going , even if I keep my spirits strong and head high on good ideas and cold anger(perpetual logic or such). One thing is sure, and that sure thing I must keep going at, at all times. But it's kinda difficult to keep up with other more pressing matters. Like family things and things that don't matter much at all. I've been considering moving out from either of my parents' homes, but that is not what a solution makes. I want to keep doing what I do, but I don't want to drift away from my family, or not help them  But at the same time, how many people could see things the way I see them? No one.
10. Augh, it's not like other people don't go through with things too, but I needed to get it off my chest.
11. Somewhere there is an alternate-universe me, who decided to keep drawing instead of making a blog post, but I felt pretty compelled to do one anyway, so why the hey not.
12. Oh yeah my computer is kinda broke too. I am writing on it right now, but each time I do something more memory-consuming, like saving images, writing bigger files, browsing the net or animating, it gets this warning message. I've been anticipating the comp's death for a while now, but it hasn't quite happened yet. Before it does however, I'll  be sure to bring it somwhere, where someone can fix it. For now, step-by- step, one small thing at a time. Like writing blog-posts.
13. Above this text-wall, I've added some images, because I am too lazy to cut and paste them over here, under the text.
14.Essays. What is it about essays, that I can't write them in my own language? Perhaps this is because through my education, I've developed this sort of pedantic approach to writing - especially in estonian. I can't write a wall of text like I usually do, such as within this blog post here, because I start nit-picking. and I do this with english texts too, but when writing in estonian, it's almost like I pick the out variety, or, the chance of somthing interesting happening with the text and it's meaning. I nit-pick on the grammar, the syntax and over. all, I just get no writing done at all! This is with any kind of writing I do, but just moreso, in my native tongue. I got an essay done for a class in my university. I got a B for that, and a little feedback. So, the problem must not be in my writing, so much as how I've grown accustomed to different types of writing. Moreso, I am just more comfortable with writing in english, because I use it in written word, more than, estonian. This might seem problematic, but really, at least I'm writing at all. Still, I should find some cause and purpose here. ( This is the moment in a text, I usually think, 'augh, I CAN'T WRITE THIS ANYMORE,' because I've just run out of good threads to tun through my sentence-checking mindset.)
!%. - Even when I try to make a simple blog post in estonian, it usually falls flat down into 'whining about life, etc.' territory, or I'm just making half-angry poems about school and things I'm angry about. There is no calm or cold logic to it during the writing process. Even simple phrases escape my grasp, and de-volve into something overly complex, as if I am trying to mimic the way I write in english. This falls almost under the 'you have google translate syndrome'-thing, that I sometimes use as a description for when someone translates sentences as if they are using GT to translate, not one word at a time, (combining meanings from the first language separately into one coherent sentence in the other language,) but as one sentence altogether, resulting in a really, really bad translation, that neither party can discern as their own original meaning really. See, what I'm trying to say is - wow, I can't write in a simple way at all. This awkwardness with language translates into my estonian writing as well,in the worst ways possible. See, I even try to write in this aloof way, but it still comes across as awkward. Augh I dunno.
!&. I thing I've always thought would remedy this, was to make some estonian-language comics of my own. This could possibly remedy the gap I feel when I try to express the same thought I just wrote in english, in estonian too. And not just make my own comics,( though that is still one ultimate goal I have in mind,) but to translate comics I liked into estonian as well! I did this with Team Pärvelö's comics in august 2011. But then our cat died and I gave up doing anything willfully forever. 
-I'm still trying to finish some translation's as of now, but I feel pretty un-motivated most times and don't have the energy or computer-power or time to actually work on anyhitng at a steady pace.
16. There is actually one thing I fear with any english to estonian comics adaptations, but especially with comics I might make on my own. That I'll make them too "western" or not original and honest enough, and the translation's/ language will be stiff, unreadable. But again, I think about these things a lot too, and this is a thing I think I can resolve if I just lead myself down the path of experimantation and interest.
Maybe I should be afraid that the comics themselves will get too foreign and boring and unoriginal.
17.That's okay, as long as I can keep a text straightforward, and the message still comes through clearly, with minimal amounts of useless garbage talk, it's okay if the estonian or translated texts are a little wonky and/or square. Wait, is it okay though? Augh. A thought connects to a thought and a sentence makes sense after another sentence, in connection with the meanings in all the other sentences. I should write post like this in eatonian like, every day, but again, the whole direct - translation issue, which isn't really an issue, since, if I don't practice writing how am I supposed to make anything criticism worthy at all?(waaaaiiit.... this wan't about criticism, I just want all of my blogs to have coherent writing and text and thoughts in them. Hhhrrngjhldskjdsf i need to draw more...........)
18. Geeze-louise, this is a lot of writing.This is what highschool did to me, I'm not sure whether this is bad or good, I just want to keep drawing, but apparently that doesn't bring home the bacon! .... but good writing can? Can I at least describe myself without sounding a little self-deprecating???
19.Derp, this is longer than 19 points probably, but might not be.


Okay, I think that's it! That's all I can write for tonight/this night/morning anyway. Continued to more writing on more blogs. .... maybe? Prooobably.

Wow what is this

I started making some animation yesterday on DoInk.It's basically this site where you can animate in an online applet and then post those animations!I thought at first it was only for animating, but it has some decent vector program features as well actually!

Anyway,did this.And it's not like i get to animate ALL THE TIME so yeah, I'm pretty okay with this.

Moar of the dumps but these ones are sorta new

Dump 13 - these might be sort a of timely relevant later on

Some old krepp i found and then re-drew on the same notebook.