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Hi everyone! 2010’s been pretty good so far.. still practicing painting with my DS.. 2 of my favourites out of the last two months. I spent more time on these than the earlier ones, still keeping them in the sketch realm tho. The lighting of the fur was pretty tricky, I guess I made it harder on myself by deviating from the reference. Still, I like how it turned out in the end.

On the 3d side of things, I’ve been doing quite a bit of low poly stuff at work lately. Finding it pretty fun, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to try so many different styles. Would like to do some cute low poly stuff in my spare time, well we’ll see.. anyways, 2009 was a pretty good start to life in the industry. 2010’s gonna be the year everything gets set in motion.

Just gotta keep working hard, and have fun doing it..

Random DS sketches.. moving back to pencil for a bit now.. want to do some

nice detailed rendering that’ll help me greatly when it comes

to zbrush..

1st 2 done in the morning on the way to work, the rest was done on the homeward stretch. Still very sketchy, working on injecting more life and gesture into these first. Detail will follow naturally. I’ll also be trying to simplify things where I can and have more contrast. Well, it’s only Monday, that’s not a bad start at all..

Painted over 2 bus journeys home. What was initially two gigantic weapons mounted on this guy’s back evolved into just part of a giant mech stomping through the forest. Will try and use colour more boldly next time, this one’s still pretty muted. My perception of travel time has shifted thanks to daily painting, waiting for the bus is a good thing now cause it means more time to paint, haha.

Got my first corrupted save while painting this, so now I’ll be more careful when it comes to saving stuff. I made the mistake of closing the DS halfway during a save as I was getting on a bus, and when I opened it up again the save was stuck at 50%. Thankfully I lost only about 10

minutes of work. Ah well, moving on..