Saturday, March 24, 2012

Nintendo Tribute: R.O.B.--(Don't do any art)


It's been a while folks, and the reason for that is that I needed to take a break. Not for anything serious, but more because I was not happy with what was coming out. I would try and rush different pieces, over and over, and in the end it would look like crap. So I would spend a lot of time  pouring over a piece only to throw it in the trash (lame).

A friend of mine said to me, "Why are you trying to hard? Why don't you take a break?" The only one that is really going to see this is you any maybe a few people that happen across this blog. So...last weekend I decided to not pick up a pen, not a stylus (well I might have worked on something for a little bit) but that was for about 20 mins. I literally did nothing art related. I saw some friends, played a lot of video games, I went to a party, watched a lot of Netflix....but no art. You know what? It really worked.

Sometimes when you are stuck the best thing to do is to not do anything. If you push too hard, then you might just push the creativity away and that's not the desired end result. So....when you're not sure what to do, sometimes the best thing to do is "nothing".

So, I took a break, did more lessons and study during the week and then came up wtih the portrait of R.O.B. (Your Robotic Operating Buddy from the old school Nintendo days).
I wasn't even planning on doing this one, but it came out pretty well.
In the middle of working on this one, I also figured out some process things to make the end result look a little better.Woo! This one is going in the book!

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Nintendo Tribute: Trojan



Ok, this week's posts is Trojan. Now I already did this one, but as I have been learning and working, I like to go back and improve where I can. I did Trojan a while back but went back and did a rework, fixed the colors and some of the brush strokes, and so this version is way way way better.
Now that I fixed this, it's going in the book. I think that this is the last one. Now I am going to move on to the book cover. Woot!

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Fashion Sketching!--Art Book News!



Happy Sunday all! Today it's pretty chilly outside and so today is a good day to sit inside and get some more work done. (I am always doing working, working on something, etc. etc.) 

1) Fashion Sketching:
I was recently asked to participate and donate several fashion sketches to the event (where they will be sold) so I have started to do several sketches on paper where they will be sold at the event.
The number of sketches that I put together and the cost per sketch is still TBD, but you can see a sample of them above.

2) Art Book Progress:
In other news, the art book is pretty much done. I basically have finished pieces for the following games:
-Bubble Bobble
-Clu Clu Land
-Elevator Action
-Mega Man2
-Mighty Bomb Jack
-Ring King
-DuckTales
-Kung Fu
-The Legend of Kage 
I still have some more work to do for one more piece, and then from there it's on to doing the cover, designing the interior, etc. etc. and some more materials (including the postcards). 
What's fun about this process is that I have been learning as I have been going along, so from when I started working on the first piece until now, I felt that I have gotten a lot better and learned a lot.

So I basically need to be done with everything by the end of this month and then get ready for the show...(it's the shipping time that I have to account for).
At any rate, that's what's new. I will post the cover once it's ready, and eventually I will reveal the name of the book too! 

See ya soon!

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