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Yesterday's Doodle

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:08:34 GMT

When I went to post this LJ wasn't working for me, but here it is.

It looks... I dunno. Odd. Whatev. No reference, just from my head.

Maybe I'll get one done today, we'll see.

Egyptian Doodle

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:09:21 GMT

Here's a very, very quick doodle because I want to get back to the books that inspired it. (Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody mysteries, and no, I'm not a 40 year-old woman, thank you very much.)

20 minutes or less, with reference photo

The character of the same name in the books was someone I always compared myself to.

Doodle of the Day - Zombie!

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:15:13 GMT

Alrighty, time to post my doodle again. This one is very, very rough at the moment, still a work in progress. The final version will, if all goes well, use none of this lineart. It's just there to help me position things.

The reference image for this is here:

The style I'm hoping to do the image in is based on Three Panel Soul's comic style, which in final version is also essentially without lineart. Here's a gif that demonstrates it pretty well:

So, last, and definitely least, is the rough I drew that I want to turn into something like the above. It looks really pretty bad, I know, but if I can figure out the TPS coloring method I think it could be pretty awesome. It's hideous, but bear in mind it's not what it's supposed to end up looking like, it's just a template for where the color blocks will go.

Okay, snack time.

Doodle

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:54:28 GMT

Today's doodle is inspired by nothing in particular except the weather. Trying a couple new coloring and texture techniques. Feeling much more comfortable with my tools.

It could use some more work, but I think it's not too bad.

For some reason it reminds me of Peanuts.

Christmas at the Howse

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:09:20 GMT

For those of you planning to join us... (Myself, Allie, Lindsay, Jess D., Cat?, J-parm?)

Plans for tonight and tomorrow are as follows at the moment:

Tonight -

If there's enough time before dinner I'm planning to make buckeyes (peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate), so come early if you want to get your hands sticky, or just hang out.

Christmas eve dinner tonight, here, around 7:00. We can't get out very easily to the grocery store, so at the moment I'm thinking the menu will be something like:

Mashed sweet potatoes
Cranberry sauce
Meatless stroganoff - for the potatoes, or on pasta
Gravy

A more substantial entree and more potatoes would be good if we can get out to the store.

Maybe some rolls or something, we'll see.

Christmas eve is when my family usually did presents, so we may sit around the tree and open some gifts this evening.

Tomorrow -

Leisurely sleep in, maybe open more presents if we didn't do them on christmas eve.

Some kind of breakfast, pancakes and eggs or something maybe.

A fun day of hanging out.

That's about it. If you have feedback about these plans let me know.

If you still don't have somewhere to be, I hope you'll join us, just let me know that you're coming.

More doodle

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:07:08 GMT

Today's doodle is largely inspired by yoshitaka amano. I wish it were much further along, but I started it a couple hours ago, got to about this point, and then had the world crash on me. After restarting it all again I've only just remade it to this point.

It is a better pose than before.

No reference images or anything, just from the head. I'm getting better at it.

Okey doke.

Snowy Doodle

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:20:53 GMT

Alrighty, another doodle up today. I didn't get to this one until fairly late because I was busy cleaning my studio and installing software, blahdy blahdy blah.

But it's done. No lineart for this, just playing around with brushes and color and transparency and layers and such. About an hour's work, not really successful, but c'est la merde.

Tomorrow I'm considering coloring line-art that I'd done some time ago in a notebook. If I can get it to scan. Tragically, I did it in non-photo blue pencil with the intention of inking it by hand. I don't think I want that to be the plan anymore.

...

Christmas

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:23:30 GMT

For all those folks who are stranded out here, if you can't get out by Christmas the Howse has been planning to have Christmas here all along, and you're welcome to join us.

Unfortunately Allie is stuck in CA trying to get back here, but Lindsay, Jess. D, and I at least will be here, also possibly Anna S. Hopefully Allie will make it.

So feel free to join us, we'll try to make the best of it.

Doodle-of-the-day

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:57:06 GMT

It looks like horror's going to be a theme for a little while. It's a fun way to play around with anatomy and posing (and I don't have to make them look good. phew)

I think I'm going to actually spend more than one day working on this one. Spent about an hour or so, so far, doing the pencil on my tablet. I was going for an extreme back-arch and I didn't quite get as grotesque as I would like, but it's not too bad. Once I finish the pencil I'll ink the lines and maybe try two or three different coloring methods.

Inspirations: the coraline picture from yesterday, Princess Langwidere, some more of Jace Wallace's work

Now I have to decide whether or not to do one tomorrow (I don't have work tomorrow).

Doodle of the day

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:11:12 GMT

Alrighty, some procrastination means that today's doodle is seriously quick and even more dirty. Not using the tablet today. Just a crappy number 2 pencil with no eraser and some decent paper.

Given the tools, the choice of a horror subject was appropriate I think.

Inspired by coraline. Half-an-hour, no erasing, no cleanup. (no good).

It's crappy, but it's got character, and the character it has, I like. I think I may do a series of these. Maybe the next ones won't suck so hard.

Right on.

Today's Doodle

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:11:23 GMT

Here's the next one, inspired by my favorite breed of dog and one of my favorite Anime series, Cowboy Bebop.

It's a fairly straightforward little doodle. Mostly working on coloring and shading.

Feeling much more comfortable working with my tablet these days. Every day a little better.

Edit to add a missed " to my tags. Sigh.

A doodle

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:12:52 GMT

Here's a work in progress, just started today. It's the first thing I've done now that I've set regular office hours for my creative stuff. 2pm to 5pm mon-thurs (feel free to IM me and tell me to stop goofing off, I'd love the encouragement)

I pretty much abhor the idea of public scrutiny, so I think it'll be worthwhile to just go ahead and get used to it.

I'm trying to improve my technique by copying some of my favorite artists. This one comes from Jace Wallace. It's a study of hair, and since it's not done yet, I'll just show you that part.

Edited to add the lj-cut.

Portland PinBall in the Snow

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:09:53 GMT

Hello fellow snow-struck folk. Here's a friendly reminder to be very careful driving. Look what happened a couple years ago:

Santa Meme

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:23:00 GMT

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

In October I pushed kitcloudkicker in the mud (-17 points). Last Thursday I set djibril24's puppy on fire (-66 points). In March I punched special_boots in the arm (-10 points). Last month I gave kestrelct a life-saving blood transfusion (50 points). In February I invaded Iraq, broke it, and couldn't glue it back together before Mom got home (-1012 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-1055 points). For Christmas I deserve a moldy sandwich!

Sincerely,
countofangels

New Writing Tools - Picking a name

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:02:52 GMT

What a Lovely Name is a pretty awesome service where you can find lists of names based on a combination of personal attributes. Useful if you're the type to use a baby name site to find names for your characters.

A capella covers of John Williams' themes.

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:04:57 GMT

Just about the most awesome thing I've seen.

Tonight at 8 - Obama's 1/2 hour Ad

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:10:22 GMT

Just wanted to let you know that we'll be having a little bit of a viewing party for Obama's half-hour ad this evening at 8. If you'd like to watch it with us, feel free to drop by!

Tragically it appears our TV just died.. I'm not quite sure what we did to deserve this. We've got a backup TV in place but the experience... she will not be the same.

Sorry guys. Hope you show up anyway.

Truth-o-meter!

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:48:19 GMT

http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/rulings/pants-fire/

Five Second Meme

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:38:04 GMT

Reposted from katealaurel

take a picture of yourself right now.
don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture.
post that picture with NO editing.
post these instructions with your picture.

One of the cleverer comments on McCain's selection process:

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:46:39 GMT

A Meme? Crazy?!

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:26:15 GMT

Alright guys, I don't usually do the meme thing but I've got a new phone and I can do that whole custom ringtone thing so...

New meme-like thing.

Post a comment with a song that you thing really represents you. In other words, your theme song. If you can, link to it somewhere.

And then in the same comment post one suggestion of what you think would be an appropriate theme song for me.

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:39:17 GMT

Hi everyone. Now that we've been back a couple of days sanity is slowly returning. A few of you folks still need to pick up your souvenirs! Namely, Joe, Ashley, and Anna.

Hope to see you soon!

Florence!

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:06:29 GMT

Hi everyone,

This won't be a very long post, but I wanted to say hello and give a big ol' "wish you were here" on behalf of me and Allie. Florence has been beautiful, and the weather clear and not quite uncomfortably hot. Unfortunately just this morning we got caught in an enormous thunderstorm so we're recuperating at the hotel.

I've been taking loads of pictures so the link below will take you to a gallery of 121 pictures or so, and I have more on my camera waiting to upload. They're not tagged or captioned at this point, I'm afraid, but so it goes.

Click here to view LOTS of pictures of Florence

I hope you enjoy them.

We've also been on the lookout for gifts for the lot of you that responded to my last post and we're starting to accrue a collection.

We miss you all. We're having a great time.

Tomorrow! Rome!
or rather... the train ride that may or may not ever get to Rome.

Much love,
Tim (& Allie! <3)

P.S: Shutterfly seems to have basically randomized the order of the pictures so make no attempts to make sense of it...

Gifts from Europe

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:00:49 GMT

Hi Everyone,

As you know, Allie and I are about to be in Italy, Turkey, and Greece. We'll probably have the opportunity to buy some very cool stuff. If you'd like us to get you something special and have the money to pay us back, post a comment with the amount you'd be willing to spend.

We may get a few trinkets here and there as well.

w00t!

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:47:32 GMT

So uh... anyone have the movie Independence Day?