Babe Lab Update - porn study

I told myself I was going to keep Babe Lab in softcore territory, but then I thought...nah. Hardcore and fetish photography is the new "pinup" as far as I'm concerned, so ignoring that vast swath of material just because it's not socially acceptable is bullshit.

Fortune / Words of Wisdom from Toph

Fortune : Thanks, China!


Toph said something wise today pertaining to Starcraft, but I think it's applicable to just about everything. "When you think you're ready...you're not ready. When you think you're not ready...that's when you're ready!"

Just let that sink in a bit.

I swear I'll do something with more substance soon...

...but in the meantime...

post-work study / page fill

lifedrawing log - 07.27.10

Proportions are still giving me sass!

Some aimless doodling...

...from late last week. To quote my friend Andrew Trabbold, "Sometimes it just feels good to make lines."

lifedrawing log - 07.19.10

2 hour pose, and I had to leave early. After missing the last couple weeks it felt good to return, even if it took me 3 false starts to get something even remotely resembling what was going on here. And now, looking at it, I see I should have taken a more dramatic viewpoint. So frontal, especially that left arm, bleugh! Earlier versions were slightly better rendered, but I realized the drawings underneath weren't even deserving of such treatment.



The young lady next to me was doing a much better job of sinking the model's head into that pillow, and even took the liberty of turning the face down into it slightly to avoid the frontal-ness. Smart thinking!

I should have tried wonking it, more like this...


Some sweaty mouthbreather in the front row took a cell phone call and chit-chatted like there wasn't a naked girl in front of him, or a whole room of busy artists behind him. So tacky. So impolite. I'm sorry, but if you get a call at a function like this, take it outside.

While configuring my Belkin keypad...

...I painted this.

sketchpage - value

I struggle with anything that's not a plain ol' line drawing. Thankfully Alexei Samokhin gave me a few private pointers. Lookin' forward to more of his tuts.

Arisen fan art

Last Wednesday at sketch night I did some drawings based on this Arisen race in Allods Online. They're sort of like The Necron in Warhammer 40K, but Egypt-ified.



The ones in-game look waaaay cooler, and are beautifully painted. Some versions, which I found out about later, have this chunky shoulder armor that I wish I'd included on my ref sheet. Plus I forgot to give the female a tail, even after a friend sitting next to me who plays the game told me, "Dude, you know they've got tails, right?"

Still, a pretty fun little exercise.

Random Wolf architecture callouts

Puttering around hard drives, deleting stuff. Here's some old drawings from that Wolfenstein game I worked on briefly.  Not especially proud of it or anything, just...puttin' it out there with the rest!

'Nother Babe Lab post!

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