Fight back the Undertow

Alright, I return with lots of work done.

First off: The Sonic Onesie. I changed all the dark blue lines to a darker blue...but I didin't really like it. The blue was too dark, and I liked it better with the old blue. So.... Instead, I just made it bigger and centered it. Here's the current version:

If that's not good enough, I'll see if I can change it to something I like. :P

Okay, Onesie #2: The one that was originally Eve. I had a few ideas for ways to create something that can invoke thoughts of the character without actually being the character. I ended up going with my simplist of ideas because.... it was pretty easy to create. Not too easy, though. Those scanlines on the eyes where tricky. So, Here's revision 2 of Onesie 2:


And finally, Onesie number 3. I figured I could just recolor this one and give it a smiley face and It'd be good enough, so.... That's what I did.


With those out of the way, I thought I'd treat myself to something I wanted to make since school got out: the Gamers Club 2 Poster. I knew what I wanted it to look like for months, and now it's finally done.


It IS a reference to a video game poster from the 90's. This one, actually:


Well.... Not exactly. To be honest, finding the poster at a decent size online is pretty much impossible. What you see up above is about all I could find...

So.... That's all I have to show for now. See you in the Alligator Sky!

Good evening shuttle bus, tell me, where 'you gonna take us?

Hello again. You might not know this, but I'm posting this at 3 AM. Thing is, when I read Ms. Ottum's messages in my E-mail as I went to bed, I began to realize what a mess I made.

Let me get this stuff out of the way first: Yesterday I made the other Onesies. In my desprate attempt to get stuff done as fast as possible, I forgot a few details. Like, the fact that a panel of judges are going to see this and dock me for using established characters.

(For the sake of cleanliness and protection, the images have been removed.)



The second one there, is WAY too obvious to use. It's gonna go.
The third one, I might be able to re-color or add details to. Otherwise, I'll have to do something new for that too.

As for the Sonic one... That I can modify. If I change the 3 spines to 7 or something, and turn him brown, he should be seen as more of a real Hedgehog and less of the fantasy one owned by SEGA. It should also help fix the whole blending problem.

Thank you both for your inputs on my work, I appreciate it. I'm just having a tough time right now, juggling my online PE course, the AP Art stuff and some life things (My best friend is leaving for collage in 2 weeks, helping my family with chores, and gathering school supplies/Shopping, among other things.)

I'll be back at this later today.

What a mess...

Okay, well.... that was no fun.

I spent a good portion of my time trying to fix the computer my Grandpa gave me... about 2 -3 weeks, actually. Turns out, looking the model number up, that it's a problem a lot of people experience after using the computer for more than 2 years. The fix was to unseat ALL THE INNER PARTS, clean them, and replace the PSU (Power Box). And that's just a few user's experiences with the computer; there's no guarantee that will fix it.

So me and my parents finally through up our arms and decided to buy a new PC.... as much as my parents wallets didn't want to. We got an HP Pavilion with a dual-core processor and 6 GB of ram for $450. Suffice to say, it's better than what I was running.

This happened last Thursday (8/18/11). Sense than it's been a mess to re-install all my software and figure out what doesn't work anymore. I've also had some personal things going on that have been hindering my time working on the PC. (One of them is a short film I co-directed with my best friend, who's leaving for collage soon, that you can watch here.)

But on Saturday I FINALLY was able to sit down and start working on my school projects. This is something I wanted to work on over the summer, and I'm only JUST NOW getting a start on it, 3 weeks before school starts. All I can muster to say is...... Ugh.

Anyways, I'm now trying to put some stuff togeather. I started on the "Art Education Poster" But to be honest, I'm not sure what it means by that. Is it supposed to educate someone on art? Does it have to be about a specific artist, or a kind of art? Or can it just be an educational poster, not necessarily one about art?

So I moved onto the Onesies. I had to look that up because I didn't really know what a onesie was, let alone how to draw one. I found some clip-art online and used that as a start. Today, I finished my first onesie. I hope to have the other 2 done by Wendsday. (Actually, it'd be great if I could get them done sooner, but...There are other things that need attending as well.)

With that said, here is the first Onesie:


The other 2 onesies won't be in the same style as this one, so if you don't like this one that much, maybe you'll like the other two more. We'll see. :)

Thanks for reading that wall of text! Now, back to work.

Oh Boy!

Alright, so my Birthday was the 31st of July, so I spent most of my time partying. Thing is though, my Grandpa gave me his old PC that he loaded Windows 7 on.... So now I actually have a fairly decent computer. Only problem is... It blue screens once every 24 hours or so. So right now I'm trying to fix whatever is causing the Blue-Screens.

In even better news, Adobe Illustrator CS5 FINALLY came in the mail today, so now I can FINALLY get started on those 4 projects.

Oh, and just to spice up this blog post, here's a silly picture for you: