Numero Sesenta: New Year, New Challenges.
What's good, true believers? (I'm feeling my inner Stan Lee at the moment. Heh)
Happy 2010! To begin, this year promises to be one of the best ever. OK, scratch that... truthfully I haven't a clue what the year holds, and frankly I'm glad. All the better to make matters as I see fit, I say (or get blindsided by inevitable outcomes). Either way, I'm ready to do all sorts of lovely damage all over the interwebs and all over your face. I promise it won't hurt... much.
Although school is about to set off once again and I'll be casting myself into the flames of academic mania, I'm applying some rigid maintenance techniques now. This will hopefully allow me to remain insanely devoted to my studies as usual, while simultaneously poking holes in my schedule for the creation of light & magic (but not quite the industrial kind). Over the holiday break I've taken time in between consuming one or two too many cocktails to lay pen/pencil/stylus to paper/tablet and get projects moving forward.
For one, I have been able to take some steps forward in the long-halted, long-stifled production of Gun, which has been better than sex with a circus clown (not that I would know). I am also devoting time to practicing some more rudimentary stuff, namely anatomy and body dynamics. I noticed over the past year that I have an annoying tendency to produce very static illustrations and I'd like to remedy that, especially in the context of Gun, which is after all an action-oriented series.
With that in mind, I've taken some of the stuff I've been reading about dynamic poses in illustration and begun utilizing it to make more robust pieces, the first of which is naturally dedicated to Gun character, Kai. A linework version of the first Gun piece this year is below. It's still a work in progress, so I've signed it as such (FYI - I plan to share works-in-progress more often now, if for no other reason than to have a larger body of work available to the public).
Unfortunately I can't remember at the moment which artist's action posing materials I referenced for this piece, but when I find out, I'll add a note of thanks here. He or she (and many others around the net) have great things out there for fellow visual artists and animators to learn from, so if you're an artist of some sort too, have a look around. There's lots to build your style and technique upon, if you just comb around for it.
Be seeing you soon, hopefully with a substantial, massive, mouth-watering, panty-wetting Gun update.
Arrivederci.
- Fred
click the thumbnail below to see the full-size version.
Happy 2010! To begin, this year promises to be one of the best ever. OK, scratch that... truthfully I haven't a clue what the year holds, and frankly I'm glad. All the better to make matters as I see fit, I say (or get blindsided by inevitable outcomes). Either way, I'm ready to do all sorts of lovely damage all over the interwebs and all over your face. I promise it won't hurt... much.
Although school is about to set off once again and I'll be casting myself into the flames of academic mania, I'm applying some rigid maintenance techniques now. This will hopefully allow me to remain insanely devoted to my studies as usual, while simultaneously poking holes in my schedule for the creation of light & magic (but not quite the industrial kind). Over the holiday break I've taken time in between consuming one or two too many cocktails to lay pen/pencil/stylus to paper/tablet and get projects moving forward.
For one, I have been able to take some steps forward in the long-halted, long-stifled production of Gun, which has been better than sex with a circus clown (not that I would know). I am also devoting time to practicing some more rudimentary stuff, namely anatomy and body dynamics. I noticed over the past year that I have an annoying tendency to produce very static illustrations and I'd like to remedy that, especially in the context of Gun, which is after all an action-oriented series.
With that in mind, I've taken some of the stuff I've been reading about dynamic poses in illustration and begun utilizing it to make more robust pieces, the first of which is naturally dedicated to Gun character, Kai. A linework version of the first Gun piece this year is below. It's still a work in progress, so I've signed it as such (FYI - I plan to share works-in-progress more often now, if for no other reason than to have a larger body of work available to the public).
Unfortunately I can't remember at the moment which artist's action posing materials I referenced for this piece, but when I find out, I'll add a note of thanks here. He or she (and many others around the net) have great things out there for fellow visual artists and animators to learn from, so if you're an artist of some sort too, have a look around. There's lots to build your style and technique upon, if you just comb around for it.
Be seeing you soon, hopefully with a substantial, massive, mouth-watering, panty-wetting Gun update.
Arrivederci.
- Fred
click the thumbnail below to see the full-size version.
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