Kingly Turn of Post

Last time on Temple of the Bald Messiah! Our hero was given the task to create a bouncing ball using only a piece of paper, two pencils and a camera! After completing this most epic of quests, he has found himself with instruction to turn the head of a famous Disney character! This tale of adventure, heartache, wonder, and woe has been preserved for your viewing pleasure in the video above.

Stayed tuned next time as we see our take on the twin dragons of Character Design and Realistic Action!

(btw, do yourselves a favor and click the full screen button on the bottom right of the above video)

THE THIRD DIMENSION!

So I've been taking a class in 3D Modelling, and we were given a theme to fit into with all of our props. Our first week we were required to make one prop of any kind. Most of my classmates created a glass vial or a bottle or what have you, I created this:

And then I created this on top of it:

The second week we were required to make two props of any kind, and I forged these two from the fires of Maya

The third week we made a complete object in class since everyone was getting the hang of the program a little better, and that was this object:

And then the class was over and we were assigned two additional props to be turned in this tuesday:

I also have already created a desk for the book to rest on and a control panel for the power generator to be used. I'm going to add a larger part to the generator to make it seem like it's really puttin out some juice.

We haven't learned any form of texturing or shading, so the only thing I know enough to do there is to drag and drop a Phong or Blinn onto these, and that really wouldn't do any good so I'm leaving them grey until I'm instructed on proper texturing. I look forward to all of these being part of a cohesive scene with walls and lighting and the like.

Vikings 2: Asgard Strikes Back

My character design teacher made us revisit our viking designs from the previous week and in doing so I finally nailed using the shapes he's been trying to get us to focus on while maintaining my particular graphic style. The result? The first designs I'm truly proud of, and the first said teacher has ACTUALLY complimented. He said he's worked on some shows that looked like this. :D

Viking Invasion

Viking character concepts done for a character design class. Got compared to Mike Mignola by Rick Maki. I am totally ok with this comparison.

Holy Balls!

MY FIRST PENCIL TEST!!

Spirited Concept

So I was drawing in my sketchbook and an idea developed. A cartoon series about a girl witch who summons the spirit of a warrior, but in doing so gets wrapped up in a chaotic, political mess of a situation going on in the spirit world beyond the mortal pale.

This reminded me strongly of a story concept that my best friend has been working on occasionally for years now, and since it's her birthday tomorrow, I figured I'd go ahead and adopt her characters and make it a little fanart sort of thing for her birthday. Instead, I'm likely t wake incredibly mixed feelings and possible ire as she screams at me for raping the good nature of her characters, BUT OH WELL I'M A TERRIBLE PERSON AND I DID IT ANYWAY!!

anyway, here's the concept artwork:

Brush Stroke of Genius

So yesterday I contacted someone via DeviantArt and asked them what brush they used to get the textures found on their work. I've done this a few times and usually it ends up being a stamp brush or something else that I find either useless or annoying to work with. Well yesterday I struck gold. I found a textured brush that works EXACTLY how I want it to and yields a style that I've been wanting to work with for the longest time. So here's some random doodles in order of when I drew them last night. An hour and change was spent on each of these, a speed that makes me as happy as the look and feel of the brushes.