character model update people..!!

this is my high poly head for my character, please comment.
i think this is going well need to do the body now and boom.one step closer

random shit

plane....again

i should have this finshed by the end of the day, taking an age to do

and the winner is...

loads of planes

found out my comp in max can go to 673.378 tris and still be going its mad...... managed to get the alphas to work on my plane.

The eyes they are all ways watching me..!!!

magic unfold 3D

this is unfold3D I've been using this program for awhile now and once u learn how to use it properly its better than Max's unfolding functions, i know it crashes...but this took me like 30 min to unwrap and that after it crashed, just after i finished and i had to do it again but it works and is not hard to use. bla bla jibber jibber jibber

update

here's and update in my brisfit at 7500 tris at the mo need to chop one or 2 things down but its getting very hard now loads of detail on this thing still have to make the gun rack, target, cockpit and wheels oww and the cable system.......................... need more tris.

any comments would be very helpful.......so tell me what u think.

brisfit

hay i haven't posted in awhile and I'm prob not going to put any pics the real plane on my blog because there massive,
I might put one or two on, been working on the Bristol fighter f. 2b when down to the imperial war hangers down in Duxford, took ages and cost quite abit but it was a good day out and very cold.
took over 180 pics of the brisfit or the biff as it is some times known it is a great place do check it out, oww and i got to walk any where i wanted because i arranged the visit with a very nice chap,
here's the progress on the brisfit, any comments would help.....cheers

ashenmoor gouger

ahhh this guy is very cool and i have been making a 3d model of him which i'll post about a bit later, taking some time over it though. I want to get the feel of it right ..... you know.

blot

theres another on the go i do like this way of working but only for quick little scetches

crazy

I did theses to awhile ago but i like them and i find working on a brown background and adding high light first on anew layer and then shading on the back work quite well, i like it i can get things out quick like this, and i just find it productive...

sky picy

decided to do a sky picture in oils with a ufo in it .......i don't know !!!!!!!!!

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trying to make a working gif

daily thing...!

hello...I'm back and a little better, I have been doing a lot of 3d work in the last 2 weeks working on a robot i designed a while ago. trying to make a decent normal map in zbrush 3.1........and through doing this or..trying to do this i have found that i need to know a lot more about max and other programs to find out what I'm doing wrong. so I'm going to have to go back to the start, .....I know a long way back but its needed I will start on max trying to understand things that i have missed, i will also be doing this with photoshop, zbrush and Coral........yes

i have also been designing a comic that i hope will give me something to draw about and also i will get to draw everything i have tryed to do in the past but if i keep this up it will improve my skill... it all started when Tom Li told me about the comic called gon about a dinosaur getting in to all kind of trouble, and this guy made the comic to make his drawing style better....

this is what i will do.... with stress bot

hello again....my old friend

I got a bit of feed back on a blog post I put up about 2 weeks ago, people questioning weather I was ok or all right, there is no simple awnser to this....... I feel that the blog I made turned me in to some sort of a outcast to the rest of my course so I retracted it.

but ....... thats what I think and feel and I like that about my blog (thats why its my blog), I don't see it as a dairy of what I have accomplished that day, because the work that i have done is the accomplishment. I use my blog as a means to try and understand my self in this world, and I have given up listening to the veiws of others and taking them to heart, so I will go back to what I was doing with my blog, which is noteing my mental state because my mind is not great so its easyer to note about my self and try and understand it in the long run.

....and no I don't care if u have a problem with me or the way I work please keep it to yourself because I will continue with my pattern of thinking and I don't care if people call me dumb or if i'm a joke because I am my own man and I have choosen this route in life.

like I did say a couple of weeks ago I have not been feeling to great since we finshed and no i don't know why I have been trying to figure it out...... all I see is nothing to me, its like a meaningless strugle to climb a rope that keeps getting longer just out of veiw.

I see no point in this strugle but thats what I live for...... so what next do I continue climbing or do I let go and fall the thousand miles I have climbed, I just don't know any more I need a reason to keep going and I have nothing.

I have tryed to see myself and all I see is a black void eating every thing in sight and leaving only destuction in it's wake.......I need inspiration and I need to find it myself I don't need the voices of the masses telling me how I should think and feel, because in the end what will I have to show for it ......nothing, I need to form my own views, I need a reason to exsist and thats why I'm here but I have realised that I have been looking at this world in a differnt light , a tainted light............................so I need to find myself in this endless void, because I don't like who I am now and I don't want to stick on that, so these next couple of years will be very hard and I don't know if I will make it....we will see....eeh.

If this blog doesn't make sense to you...... thats a good thing
1. this is not a great state of mind
2. I wrote it for me not for you..so don't worry

and if any of it made you think I was harsh...I don't mean it like that and I'm sorry...please for give me in my time of woe.

personal art work

I am trying to do a range of personal drawings this is a hard thing to do and I am trying to do some thing that has an effect by the end of this little project, it will take some time and i don't know how its going to turn out.

I will have to dive deep in to my mind and try and bring something back that is unusal and with each picture i will try and go for a bigger part of my self. i will try and do some as self portraits. because i thing it will help me to understand certain things about my self.

slump!

I thought I would write a blog about creative work flow since the course ended.
my thought it has slipped out of mind and out of site, I know not where it has gone and why it even came in the first place, I can not paint or draw these last couple of days and I don't know why because the 2 weeks before the course ended I couldn't stop drawing and painting it was like I had reached a new level of the understanding of art and the rate in which to do art and productively, most will say its he pressure of dead lines, but I think that so, because the was no worry when I was doing these final pieces, I felt no haste and no rush in the work flow, don't get me wrong most if not all are not finished and thats ok because I was working to a time span on each picture. and I'm happyish with some of the pictures i have done........but now nothing and I can't place why....

this is what I got right there 3 thing that could have been influencing me in the last two weeks of the course.... I had just gone have for 3 weeks and was feeling quite refreshed in doing work and my level of creativity was way up but I also could hardly sleep the when i was at home it freaks me out but I'm not going in to why, and 2 days after I come back i feel depressed with city life and that is factor number 2 I don't know if the depression pushed me to create I know most will rule that out straight away but you never know how an trainee artist brain works,
and number 3 is the dead line factor but i don't want it to be that so I hope its not, but its sort of ok if it is.......

hello

i have decided to do a blog on self criticism because I am using some new drawing styles and have also been trying merge them with my own, recently i have been looking at Keith Thompson and H.R. Giger and some old school anatomy book, and I think that this has helped me to develop my style to the next level.....but still loads to go.

I have been looking at Keith Thompson to get a better grasp of digital art and I think it is helping, and I have been looking at constructive anatomy( the anatomy book) to get a better understanding of the workings of the human body and muscle layout, and to improve my drawing I think this is helping but I need to do more work on muscles and hands, I have also been looking at Giger because he was one of my big influences and i thought that this would be a good way to merge every thing in to my art style,i think that this worked quite well and have decided to do another Giger picture in the near future.

I have also decided to make my latest picture of art work in to a back ground so that get me to do anouther one just to change it. this has been working quite well because i hate to look at my own work.

art work

criticism the ins and outs

in these series of blog i hope to put across how important criticism is to the artist and to you as a person I know what i have gone over so far but the understanding of criticism is very wide spread and if u cant grasp what is being said to you then you will not get very far in the direction you want to go, I know I'm a stubborn guy but but i only every get angry when stupidity is layed out before me weather its mine or some one else's it a problem I must over come but there is a thin line between being blind and being stubborn thats the problem you see, most people will not understand much of what I say as well but thats fine they'll understand one day and if they listen then it will benefit them,

I' m sorry I know I go of on a rant some of the time but I just don't think like a robot and thats the one thing I see more and more, people don't put enough emotion in to their work and it is needed more these days than ever, because creativity and inspiration are drying up like a glass of water left out in the sun.......sorry rant again.

criticism is on of the refining factors of life and its not a bad one, but it does have its problems it can make a person sour to their core and leave them dead in side, so u have to know when to stop with criticism some people just can't take it.

Criticism

this blog is about criticism and how it apples to the industry and to the growth of a person. in my opinion I love a good bit of constructive criticism and some times destructive criticism to help me move along to the next step of my work, all types of criticism help me at different times and places in my life, so I try and take the good with the bad in all thing I do, that is one thing I believe that if you don't allow your self to take in the criticism you can never learn from it weather it be at art or your self as a person you will never be better.... and even if some of you people think I don't do that.... all I can say is you don't know me... and what I've been through to get this far and what I've see to make me what I am today, and loads of it will come down to criticism and how I decide to precive that criticism, in any case I have received alot of help from people who know me through out the years..... sorry thats a bit of a rant but its all good.

I believe that criticism is a huge part of being a artist and if you can't get your head round what criticism is good and bad in the world of art then you have alot to learn, there is a whole world out there and there not enough time to check every detail out for your self so you have to believe others, but not all the time because you can be sent down the wrong path and then your in trouble... the thing is its hard to trust people because you don't know of there true intentions, so pick carefully and don't let anyone over power what you know to be truth, because a bit of destructive criticism suger coated and said in the right way can seem like positive criticism and can really throw you off the sent.

I am sorry about this blog but I have changed my thought pattern and I know it doesn't seem to make sense but thats how I view it. my apologizes to the people who read my blog....thanks for readin....peace

bite you

i'd like to know what you guys think
of the tooth.

creativity 9...is coming !!

hello...here we are again another blog another line of thour, in this little edition I would like to talk about my path and what I would like to do, and also the creativity that I know and understand.

Lets get this ball rolling.... ok basically I would like a job as a concept artist, and now I have seen the amount of people on the internet that are concept artists, its worrying and the fact that there all so good it makes me think that I don't know if my art skill is good enough to get me a job and because I don't like the 3D that much I don't really want to be a 3D artist, I like the 3D art don't get me wrong...its just I like art more so thats what I want to do if I can...... I don't like giving up on some thing I've spent my life doing and I want to get to a good enough level of art I just need some thing to push me.....I mean I will get there but I need more practice and not only that I need more smarts on how thing work, I need that so I know how to convey that in to my art and understand how to draw certain things....I don't know.

Right... the way i think about creativity is that there are so many different factors that drive the need to create, there is also the factor of intelligence it is a bit mad that there are no good stupid artists, I also think that the amount of imagery plays a good part in the hole thing, I don't know how to compile all the factor in to making a creative genius I will try and figure it out though so I can learn what needs to be seen to become a great artist....one day I'll do it, there is still loads I need to find out about creativity like the fact that there are more game artist than I imagined and its only going to get worse and we need to keep on top of the programs that pop up and get better at art, loads to do so little time.

creativity 8........it hits the fan

I am no closer to understanding the root of creativity and have not been able to decipher my own creative pattern, and I think there is now a lot more than meets the eye in creativity if you know what I mean, but its not all bad I have found out things about myself that will help down the road and I have found the limit in to which I can push my self in doing work, I know there are thing with creativity that I know and can now understand but it has raised loads of questions about my self and my spark of creativity, I just don't know any more..........arrrghh ....it matters not I have figured out some thing that most have not and I intend to use this insight to gathering as much skill as I can get my mind round, that is one thing I have learn't time and time again that you have no chance of being able to draw what you see if you don't understand it, I mean that if you see someones work and you think"owwww that head looks good I'll draw that"and you can because you don't understand what the artist was thinking when he drew it and how the mechanism works round the back, you just cant do it.....any way!!!

I have tried to understand the root of all creativity and it just chewed me up and spit me out, there are parts I get like inspiration is the cornerstone of the creative insight but there are factors that come in to it that probably should not come in to it, you know human things like being tired and hungry, but spending the day drawing does use alot of energy in you body, I mean take that for instance pushing a pencil across paper doesn't take up much energy its the creative mind waxes energy while you work. after doing these blogs I do think the mind is like a muscle the way it takes things in and if you don't use it, it suffers and gets slack again.

I still am undecided at the amount of my creative knowledge, and I don't know how far it will take me but I still want to improve my creative mind and see what I can do in a year, It used to be that I improved every other week and could look back on my work from a week ago and see an improvement and I also used to get a great boost of trying to beat my brother in art but he has let his drawing fall down and I have probably surpassed him and thats not good because he was probably my main driving factor and now it is no more.!!!

creativity 7........the start of the end !

in this blog I will try to understand the reason to why I like detail so much and the reason to why I try to cram to much detail in to things where it is not needed. I like detail because of the amount time and effort it takes to create some thing that is a fully focused image, its like what I was talking about in one of the other blogs there are 3 steps to creativity the compiling of imagery, the the thought process to get the image in you head on to paper, and the amount of skill you have as a artist( your drawing ability). so its simple why I like loads of detail in work I see for two reasons I want only the most thought out bits of work for my creative process and I also respect the artist who has done the work of detail because they have probably spent days getting every thing right and that is one of the hardest things getting the image in your head out on the paper in full detail, so yes I respect good artists because of the skill over there own creative minds .....bravo.

owww......and the other thing why I try to cram as much detail in to artwork to the point where there is no point because you'll never see it , I don't know why I do this but..... I guess that its because I like to know how things work and I like to think that some one will see my artwork someday and think the same thing I think about detailed artists work, I don't know but I want to create some thing that no one has created before...I know every things been done, but has it because if you think like that then all your going to do all your life is rip off others artwork and not create it your self.......I don't mind what others do, it matters not to me I still need to achieve something......sorry I kind of got lost there. more tomoz

creativity 6 ..... deep down the rabit hole

hay.... creativity again... today I shall look at art work that inspires me, everyone like there own type of art work and I think that the art work that I like has to be detailed, I like the odd simple thing but I love detail in a painting or drawing, I don't like most the classical artists because they are keepers of there own technique and no one else can do it better than them, I like art work that you can unravel with your eye, pick it apart and absorb the skills of another.

I like a lot of digital art but I see it as a easy art style to put detail in to, but I don't mind that any more because I did not like digital art when I first saw it because it seemed to have a lot of cheating factors like being able to undo mistakes, and mixing media that you can not do in the real world, tracing work... I don't like that and adding pictures of some thing and painting over it to get the texture u want, I can't and wont do most of these thing when I using the graphics tablet because undoing is not an option in reality and adding a picture in to it and painting over it, I think this is a foolish way to do art because you will never learn how to paint the thing you used as a picture unless you learn how to paint it properly.

any way I love detail in art work and every time I see some proper art work it inspires me to create some thing as detailed, all tho I can not paint as good as the art I have seen I still pushes me to move falward to get the skills I need, but its not the same with digital art because I don't think its the same thing it still inspires me but not as much as real art.
the picture on the left is done with acrylics and the one on the below is digital I'll let you decided which is better........bye.!!

creativity 5....unfolding

In the last blog I talked about how I was going to find out the source of my creativity, In fact i got in to a convo with my dad over Christmas about graffiti, because he sees it as chavs tagging where as there are 2 types of graffiti there is tags to mark terrortory and there are actual pieces of art, the conversation went on for ages he believes that all graffiti if crime because it is doing some thing to others property and is illegal where as I think that graffiti is a lack of inspiration in young people
because of buildings in this country..... i know it doesn't make sense give me a sec to exsplane .......right you only see graffiti on ugly buildings that don't inspire, I mean you don't see it on churches or a nice building or a new building (I'm not talking about tags here, tags are done by the stupid people I'm talking about the art side of things) I think that the only reason we have graffiti is because of the depressing sceene that we live in, i belive graffiti is a byproduct of building every thing cheap and boring in the 70's and i don't think it will get better. the thing is that the people that are resopsible for the problem will not understand it they dismiss it as vandalism, which it is...don't get me wrong, its vandalism with a purpose !!


ok sorry where was I right the map of creativity........ right what makes me creative, I suppose that there are 2 driving factors there is a desire to beat my rivals and and my brothers and sisters, I know wanting to beat you own family ... not many people can understand it......I wont go in to it. and the other is to perfect the skill that i have learnt over the past 7 years I suppose that everyone has these desires maybe not the same as mine but similar to mine, to understand the what inspires me I have to understand the things that drives me.

I guess that the driving points are like a pillar in which all my inspiration sits and with out this pillar there would be no inspiration on top.......no thats stupid and it doesn't work like that.
ok so if I need to find out why i am inspired by some thing, I will need to understand the reason for the for inspiration in general and I have a basic grasp on this topic I believe that the mid of a creative person strives to create some thing that has not been created before and all tho there are many things that inspire me to create I believe that I have certain thing that help me more than others like some bits of music( if I'm drawing some thing like a robot or some thing i lissen to crazy robot music to try and get the feel for what I'm drawing, but some times my hand will be taken by the music and it will practically draw by it self) i believe that there is a part of our brain that we can switch off in and divert all are energy in to creating and I think i would be a good idea if i find out how this works because I've done it about 6 times and it all ways gives good work.

thats where I'm going to stop for the day because i have many things to do..bye thanks for reading.