Late september sketches

So much for posting anything from my imagination! It will happen.

By the way, I'm liking this new image uploading system in blogger. Much faster and easier to use for me!

sketchgroup drawings, early september

I keep meaning to post "original" sketches, but I don't really draw from my head often. I used to all the time, but now find it much easier to draw what's in front of me. But I want to try and show some ideas I have because they are more interesting to look at, so I'll get some drawn and post them soon.

Cats, people, and heropon Riki

Lynsey and cats - here she is with my cat indie, who will be leaving us soon as my parents move abroad. I will miss her and my other cat, FT (both named after newspapers) very much. We've had them since kittens.. about 8-9 years I think. At least we won't have to see them falling apart in old age, or sneezing their brains out like our previous tomcat.

They're moving to the borders (between Scotland and England) so they have nice countryside to roll about in.





More lynsey! and secret of kells



minstrel:




minstrel, I tried to draw the way his face looks, I think the bottom might be closest.

Observational drawing:







Ganetalk; Xenoblade chronicles




(I didn't art this!)

Such a good game! It's honestly the best JRPG i've played since FFX. It breaks down the expectations of JRPGs and totally rips a hole in it's modern counter parts! There are influences of western MMO's such as WoW (I hope you're keeping up with these abbreviations) and it totally works for the benefit of the game mechanics.

It has large (note: HUGE), beautiful environments with a distinct lack of invisible walls, the ability to jump, and save anywhere, fast travel systems, changing characters on the fly, visible armor alterations - all things usually absent from the traditional, now outdated JRPG model.

The only problems is that the Wii seems to be having a fit trying to run it! It makes more clicking and whirring noises than a clockwork dog in an oily graveyard.

The little guy above is Heropon Riki, easily the best character and resident mascot i.q. final fantasy's moogles or dragon quest's slimes. Other characters features the Balthier/Auron hybrid Dunban and the Yoko Littner-esque Sharla. (she has big boobs and big guns.)

TL;DR - Buy Xenoblade chronicles if you have ever enjoyed JRPGs (and you own a Wii.)

Some sketches

A few sketches from April/May. Just finished 3rd year, and got a decent grade that I predicted and feel I deserved. Really looking forward to the hard grind and stress related illness that will come in 4th year, because I get to animate lots of cartoony characters with a team made up of skilled and excellent friends.

These are a mixture of location drawing and misc (bottom image). Some from sketchgroup

This summer will give me a chance to do cool stuff. I plan on doing some fan art animations, and perhaps trying to learn some C coding language. Last summer I sat around and did nothing all day, absolutely nothing; so it won't take much to beat.

I also plan on playing some games. Mainly this one. Only this one. Nothing else.

Sketchgrouped

Sketch Group and Others

Sketchgroup and observational drawings from the past couple of weeks, all thrown at your face simultaneously!