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"Keep My Composure", Chemical Brothers

I haven't been idle. :P

SO!
I'm busy working on a new class assignment, I properly chose my awesome character Catastrophe.
2D Animation blended with 3D Animation. It should be good.

....Yes those are notes.

...And yes I have need for all these action poses :)

Essentially, it's like watercolor you can drink.

The name of the game at Art & Coffee was...coffee.

For the longest, I wanted to do something like this, but never could figure out how to get the lead/ink to stay while I painted.

The solution was to use blue or red lead as the sketch, paint, let dry, then draw in graphite over the sketch lines.

After I'm done, unless you want it then, I usually spray fixative over it. You can't smell the coffee anymore, but it keeps the graphite from smearing.

I tried using ink after painting too, but it ends up making too much contrast for the image.

Also, I haven't experimented with different blends of coffee. But what makes the mix darker is more coffee ground rather than water. Saxby's coffee was much darker and gave a lot more contrast than Starbuck's brew. But Saxby's had coffee grounds with water instead of just ordered coffee. Go figure.


By the way, I do coffee sketch cards (2'' x 3 1/2'') for $10.
Without it's $5 bucks.

An 8'' x 11 1/2'' with coffee is $20
Same size is $10 without.

Laterz

So, Art & Coffee Was a Success!

Yeah.
ArtLoveMagic rocked
Ended the night with a good chunk of change to take home. But, what was even better was all the people who showed up to it!

My family came out and stayed for a bit.
Tessa and her sis came out to see me, which was real cool.
A ton of my friends.
And my friends from my old work place at Hobby Lobby! About 3/4ths of them came out which was real cool.

So the night was a success.

My Batman picture sold a bunch, which I'll post up in a bit.
And, true to the name, I painted with coffee.

My scanner's been dead for about a week or two now. So I'll scan what I have left over when I have the chance. Lol.

Update! Art showing at ArtLoveMagic!!!

Kinda busy working on art right now, but I wanted to let everyone know that I and my friend Marty (probably) will be at ArtLoveMagic drawing!!! WHOO

ArtLoveMagic is an art community that's dedicated to live art in Dallas. Live music, poetry, painting, sculpting, drawing, whatever.

So yeah!

Working now, but Friday, September 4th @ 7ish.
Saxbys Coffee Shop
13605 Midway Rd
Farmers Branch TX 75244


http://artlovemagic.com

I'm up at the school scanning things!

The school has a large Epson this-that-and-another-with-4-digit-number-you-can't-buy-me....scanner....perfect for 11 x 17 pages. I think it goes to 12x 17 1/2 or something. Anyways...

Thought I might show the first design sheet for Ivan Greystone; a mercenary, rogue, and professional asshole who can heal from any wound. He's the main character of the story who prefers to keep his past a secret, even from his closest friends. When your secret involves the near destruction of an entire nation and threatened the entire continent (all volunterally), you'd wanna keep it a secret too.

I'll post more when the school's not closing for the day.

This thing took up my time today

And what a thing it is.

Orthographic front view of the creature called the Seethe. Front view, complete with notes to Gene who'll be modeling it in 3D

Side view is next.