チャイナアドバイス

Magic and enchantments.

Candlekeep

^Working on my tiefling character. I can't get him to look how I want him to.
Does his outfit looks a bit familiar? I stole the shape from Thane Krios.

The comic book store dt stocked a Thane action figure. I want to buy it, but the one they got in stock is kind of faulty. Hnngflhfhf.

Locked Inside

Happy New Year!

I absolutely have to post here this year. Last year was a piss poor effort.
This feels like deja vu, but I promise myself to post a minimum of 200 DDs this year.
For 2013 I am going to be working on Venus, Three Wheels projects, BHAD Games stuff (if they get back to me orz), anatomy anatomy ANATOMY, traditionals and of course, DAILY DOODLES.

Since finishing my diploma I've been considering going back to an arts course instead of following through to advanced diploma. I'm not sure what I want to do, but for the moment, in my undecided state, I will be doing the safe thing and sticking to advanced diploma of multimedia. Although this year I really want to see if I can attend some life drawing sessions downtown - once I get a job this is definitely something I hope to do.

Kicking off the new year with some pictures, wow.

Touching up something old: [Loyal to the original] [Fixing dat face]
[3W work]
[Albert 1] [Albert 2] [Albert 3]

Here's to a year full of arts progress (hopefullyhnngggggT__T)

A Journey to Freedom

Listening to this album makes me want to make a platform-jumping game with a rabbit-girl character.
Mediocre gameplay but tries to tie in storyline to the gameplay.

Yeeeah. If I could code my own games and get permission to use De De Mouse's music, I'd work on it in a heartbeat.

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Not a lot of drawings done lately. :(
Should have taken my sketchbook to Japan. Every time I go there I'm just so... recharged!
It was strange to hold my tablet pen again.

M4 (Part II)

So long since I last posted. :(
I'm ashamed at how I can even keep promises I make to myself.

Welp! My interview process went well.
I freaked out and quit towards the end, because I was anxious about my drawings sucking, and the usual pattern of freaking out. I didn't get all my drawings done, but they were happy with what parts of the task I had completed.

Over the past month I've found a bit of clarity in what path I want to pursue in the gaming industry:

Character Design

I've always loved character design. Studying them, and picking apart the designs with my eyes.
I would love to be able to pursue this professionally. I feel kinda shit saying that, because I have such a long way to go. I'm not even being modest in saying that. I love everything about video game character design.
I've been looking into courses and I can't seem to find one that suits what I'm looking for. I want to get on the illustration side of it, but all the courses I can find are aimed towards 3D characters. I'll have to think about what path I want to take, or look at online courses... I know I'll get lazy if I'm not in a class room learning enviroment though. Hmm.

Character design articles I ate up recently:
AC3 Connor
ME2 Thane Krios

Over the past month I've become really obsessed with Mass Effect. It's just... so good. I didn't think I liked galactic sci-fi much, as I'm not a hugh Star Wars or Trek fan, but this series... is fantastic. My adoration for this series might be coming from my love for Bioware games in general, but...
idk.

I really need ME3. ;;;

Also, from today I think I'll try watermarking or signing pics from now on.
The Jaqen H'ghar semi-realism portrait I did a few months ago was posted to his fanpage on facebook.
When I saw it I was of course really flattered, but kind of concerned how they found it.
The poster at least credited me as "chimyra", which is actually a bit alarming because I didn't post that picture to the chimyra dA account.

It wasn't art theft and I was happy that they did mention me as the artist in the post, but still, it was a bit of a freaky moment. Seeing someone post my thing made me feel like it wasn't mine anymore.

The Long Way of Drums

Colouration somewhat inspired from pie bald pythons.

Ah! Amazingful day.
I met up with a couple of local indie game developers over coffee today who are looking for an artist to help with their games. I was anxious and freaking out over the weekend when I made my portfolio to show them. I've never made one before, and it's made me realise how much work I haven't done. For a long while now I've been meaning to explore drawing environments, but nope, no work to show in that department.
So.
That must be rectified.

Despite crappy portfolio, I feel like the talk I had with the developers went well. :D
They gave me a task to do for them to test my abilities and see if what I do is what they're looking for.
I'm excited about what they've asked. They want 3 creature designs for a fighting game (pokemans styleru) presented in a minimum of 3 styles with two environment designs.

I am.
Sho exciteddddd. When I got to tafe afterwards I just scribbled out my ideas. tbh, they suck. But I got down what profile of creatures I want to create. I came up with four, so either I can aim high and try doing one extra than necessary (and potentially seem like a try-hard?), ooorrr if the work load is too much I will drop one. The monsters I want to make:

Lizard, flying type, fierce appearance,ranged attacker - has tiny limbs that aren't that effective in melee.
Fur mammal, fights with long claws or fangs, cute but tough look , quick melee - high evasion?
Aquatic, silly, frivolous natured, tank - either has a shell-like armour or just general high defense
Horned, elegant, fights with psychic/telekinetic abilities

Only have sketches for the lizard type so far. It's a winged Chinese dragon-ish thing. I'm thinking making it have centipede legs. Or just maybe, like, six? Will have to sketch it out and see if it's ugly.

Sighhhhh. I want this lizard one done by tomorrow. But I'm also behind in a lot of my tafe shit. Brahgud.
oh well. brehg.

Updates are all on neptune blues.
Yep. I'm not going to link them. Back to laziness it is.

Power

Experimenting with an old style I developed when I had sketchbook pro - I don't even remember the proper name of the program. I can't find it :( it was free though, and pretty gewd.

I want to try harder with my 3D shit. I've got another animation assignment coming up and it's got me worried.
I finally gave Sculptris a go. I made an Arishok head.
Arishok Bust | But it doesn't look like him 

:(

I really like this program but my laptop can't run it smoothly. I was talking to a techy friend about my laptop and what I could do to speed it up (I barely understand how a computer works) and we discovered I have one of the lowest ranked drivers available on the market. It's incredibly shit, but it's efficient enough and is used in laptops to lower the price... fair enough. I did buy this on special. hnng.

So, even though I can't run it very well, I want to use Sculpris! Very much. I've been watching "tutorial" vids on yt, and mang, some people have really done exceptional things with this program. For me the most impressive thing about this program is that it's open source. Fuck yes!

Anyway.
Heh.

Not much else besides the 3D thing lately.
Some of that style revival again | revamping Lancelot | King of Beasts


This damn song. I've been meaning to put a doodle to it for a while.
I also want to draw something to Iron by Woodkid, but I think I've over exposed my ears to the song now. It doesn't make me jive like it did when I first heard it.