College work, uni applications and all that junk.

Been ages since I've updated this blog... Been busy with college projects and building my portfolio, so I can guarantee that I haven't stopped drawing at all, which is always a plus right?

It's been pretty hectic these past few months, worrying about which university to apply to... What work needs to be done for what date and the whole "try to improve your art skills" thing. Then again thats a constant goal for an artsist isn't it?

But to be fair, I have also been busy...Ehh...Playing video games. Yes. That means busy. It gave me inspiration to draw so no complaints from me! It's fun AND inspiring, and because it's drawing it's double the fun! Even better. :D

I have been meaning to post some life drawing over here for a looooong time now, and I actually do have some stuff to throw up here for those who still check back here! Prepare to be blinded by my horrible attempts at anatomy!
I will try and post the rest at a later date, once my portfolios have been sent around to the Universities I have applied to.

Hope you've all been keeping well! I gotta get back to working on these deadline hehe.

Toodles!

Phew! Semester 1 is over!

Semester 1 of my HNC is finally over. It felt like it took such long time, especially after the last week or so. I've had so many technical difficulties that I've started to hate the college computers with a passion... Also the printers. They always want to break when I need to use them, or so it seems. I lost most of my work within the last few days we had left to work on it, but managed to pull out something to show.

Tomorrow I get to find out if I've passed and if I have made the cut for the 2nd semester. I really hope I have, because I really tried my best this time. I don't want to sound like I'm making excuses but... It's been a really tough year. Losing my gran made me think a lot about what I've been doing, how I am as a person and what I need to change about me. It took me such a long time to think it through and to be honest, I think I still am. I know I sure as Hell cry about it still. Thats for another time I suppose, though.

I haven't been drawing much on the computer, but I have a few old doodles I can throw at you all. Hope you're keeping well!
Time to find out if I'm in the clear. Tomorrow will be the make or break of it! Good night guys.

Happy birthday!

So my brother's birthday has gone and past. I drew him a picture of a character from Lucky Star because he was watching it at the time.

But today is my 18th birthday! Yay me! I haven't really done much to celebrate it today apart from bake cakes and stuff. That in itself was great.

Not been drawing much or posting here for various reasons that I am not ready to speak about so I'll just leave you with this little offering.

Hope you're all well!

How time does fly!

It really does! I never get the chance to update here much anymore, which is a shame because I do like to record my thoughts... Ah well, I do have that sketch diary in the works, have had it since I started college way back hehe. Maybe I'll scan a couple of pages in one day when I get a hold of a scanner that's of decent quality! but until then you'll have to wait I guess.

Got a lot of college work to do this semester, and I'm finding it hard to keep on top of it but I'm coping. I want to get my design work done quickly this time around, so I have plenty of time for the animation and don't have to let the sound quality let it down. I've got the character designs down, and some possible background area ideas, so I guess that's helpful enough. Got an essay due on Tuesday, not so hot about that one though... Wasn't sure how to start it off, let alone give it a middle and an end! But I guess time will tell if that was a good attempt or not.

Been working on drawing realism. Perhaps I'll throw up some of my sketches, criticisms would be welcomed and much appreciated. Hope all is good on your end guys. Have a good one!

Hubbub.

Not much really going on right now apart from college work and the coy playing of games every now and then. I do admit I haven't really been able to post much up in the way of art up here and I do apologise for this. However, this doesn't mean I haven't been drawing! Quite the opposite I assure you. Most of my drawings recently have been done on paper in various sketch books. Mostly for college work but definitely beneficial to me, that's for sure. We recently did movement studies in my art class, though it was with a partner and consisted of five minute sketches, a slight movement and then drawing over the image with the movement on top. It's hard to explain, but it's like drawing frames in flash with the onion layer on, except you're going from light colours to darker ones. I decided to do a few practice runs with a more cartoony twist to it as you can see below.

Also managed to throw together a coloured work for you all, rare for me but it's becoming more common... Thankfully!

The lovable Foster's cast. Not all unfortunately, I ran out of space to add in anymore.

Don't like this drawing at all. Guh. Need to work on drawing fire.

Was listening to the Art Grounds radio while doodling these up. The user Percy was playing a bunch of songs and I tried to draw along to each one. It's really hard to keep up, especially on short songs but it really is a fun thing to do hehe!

Dunno about this one really. I did it a lot earlier in the week and I don't recall what was going through my cranium at that moment. Let's just say I was practicing a walking forward pose?

That's all for now guys, have a good day!