startingfive (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} startingfive) wrote,@ 2006-05-08 20:07:00 |
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1 1/2 months complete. the half-way POOP
Even though I find myself quite bored in the evening, my only weekday outlet being the endless supply of Netflix movies after work, I have actually been doing a lot. For one, Dan, John and I succesfully completed an two-day overnight stay in the Alleghenies. It was the first long hike I've been on since Red River Gorge in the late fall, and first mountain-range since the White Mountains the summer of my senior year of high school. This being my fourth over-night, I would have expected to have accumulated enough gear to be suited for the short trip. I ended up breaking roughly $250 on food, clothing and hardware -- my favorite being a Mountain Science Research 11-ounce white-gas stove...The thing is awesome. I wish I took a picture of it while I had it lit. Anyways, long story short we actually ran into a snag when the trail lead us to a road that we were not suppose to cross. Well, rather than backtracking the 2.5 miles that we had already covered and potentially get even more lost, we decided to hit the road back to the parking lot where we started and hit another trail head further along the map. I shoulda prefaced everything by saying that it is incredibly early in the hiking season and so the trails were in terrible condition. There was one point that, though we were on the correct course, we had to stop because we lost the next trail marker -- it had been on a tree that was knocked down and facing the ground and took us several minutes to find it. The views were only so-so, the climax being at the top of the hill looking into the Allegheny reservoir but the combination of trees that scoured the view and terrible trail conditions (branches everywhere) pooped it up. The camp was sweet tho. Oh! And we went to Letchworth State Park last weekend to see some more bodies of water. Dan posted photos in my facebook profile if you care to see. It's actually more rewarding than the overnight in the mountains.
In more recent fun, penguins and applesauce, I've finally completed two more caricatures of my friends. It's taken me a while, simply because I've been busy, but here they are. I've decided to show some of my process and for the most part, my initial sketches look pretty shitty. These were all over the course of like 3 or 4 weeks during lunch breaks, personal breaks, meetings and in between breaks. The following are just a handful of stupid sketches I drew when I happened to have a pencil in my hand and a lot of unfocused attention. They're mindless and rough as they're meant to be. They however, did come together real quickly at the end and I was satisfied (save one detail that I am going to have to correct) with the drawing. I hope to finish up sketches of the gang here at Fisher Price, Robert and sorta update the sketches of Dave and Steff so that they all fit some sort of family of form. The idea is that in the end I'll have a panoramic image of everyone and possibly colored too.
Anyways, blah:
Amalia's initial pose and look. I HATE FACES. THEY'RE SO HARD TO DO. Anyways, this was just a whimsical pose I had in my head at the time. Hair is my favorite part and so Amalia's was fun to do.
Brian and some figure I drew earlier that was so huge I decided to make him Batman. Sorry Brian, not the model for you. Your body-type was modeled after a Somalian refugee and/or Nigerian marathon runner, minus the greek nose.
Bri's face. None of them really look all that good, or even like Brian for that matter. I played around with facial features and expressions, not exactly sure how Brian'd be reacting to Amalia. I kinda ripped the basic face from some comic artist who did animated versions of Harry Potter. Brian was basically taken from Ron Weasley.
Now that you've seen my process and how utterly random/terrible it is, here's the much better final version.
Tada!
PS. The guy sitting next to me is a huge comic-book fan, so he brought in 3 reams (no joke) of sketches that he had collected over the years from comic artists from DC, Warner Brothers, Marvell and even Star Wars. They included different characters from Batman, Superman, Harry Potter, The Mummy and buncha others. Anyways, I was drawing pirates and found this guy to be humorous with its japanimation eyes and crap. This guy too. He's the Bucaneer. Don't mess.
Even though I find myself quite bored in the evening, my only weekday outlet being the endless supply of Netflix movies after work, I have actually been doing a lot. For one, Dan, John and I succesfully completed an two-day overnight stay in the Alleghenies. It was the first long hike I've been on since Red River Gorge in the late fall, and first mountain-range since the White Mountains the summer of my senior year of high school. This being my fourth over-night, I would have expected to have accumulated enough gear to be suited for the short trip. I ended up breaking roughly $250 on food, clothing and hardware -- my favorite being a Mountain Science Research 11-ounce white-gas stove...The thing is awesome. I wish I took a picture of it while I had it lit. Anyways, long story short we actually ran into a snag when the trail lead us to a road that we were not suppose to cross. Well, rather than backtracking the 2.5 miles that we had already covered and potentially get even more lost, we decided to hit the road back to the parking lot where we started and hit another trail head further along the map. I shoulda prefaced everything by saying that it is incredibly early in the hiking season and so the trails were in terrible condition. There was one point that, though we were on the correct course, we had to stop because we lost the next trail marker -- it had been on a tree that was knocked down and facing the ground and took us several minutes to find it. The views were only so-so, the climax being at the top of the hill looking into the Allegheny reservoir but the combination of trees that scoured the view and terrible trail conditions (branches everywhere) pooped it up. The camp was sweet tho. Oh! And we went to Letchworth State Park last weekend to see some more bodies of water. Dan posted photos in my facebook profile if you care to see. It's actually more rewarding than the overnight in the mountains.
In more recent fun, penguins and applesauce, I've finally completed two more caricatures of my friends. It's taken me a while, simply because I've been busy, but here they are. I've decided to show some of my process and for the most part, my initial sketches look pretty shitty. These were all over the course of like 3 or 4 weeks during lunch breaks, personal breaks, meetings and in between breaks. The following are just a handful of stupid sketches I drew when I happened to have a pencil in my hand and a lot of unfocused attention. They're mindless and rough as they're meant to be. They however, did come together real quickly at the end and I was satisfied (save one detail that I am going to have to correct) with the drawing. I hope to finish up sketches of the gang here at Fisher Price, Robert and sorta update the sketches of Dave and Steff so that they all fit some sort of family of form. The idea is that in the end I'll have a panoramic image of everyone and possibly colored too.
Anyways, blah:
Amalia's initial pose and look. I HATE FACES. THEY'RE SO HARD TO DO. Anyways, this was just a whimsical pose I had in my head at the time. Hair is my favorite part and so Amalia's was fun to do.
Brian and some figure I drew earlier that was so huge I decided to make him Batman. Sorry Brian, not the model for you. Your body-type was modeled after a Somalian refugee and/or Nigerian marathon runner, minus the greek nose.
Bri's face. None of them really look all that good, or even like Brian for that matter. I played around with facial features and expressions, not exactly sure how Brian'd be reacting to Amalia. I kinda ripped the basic face from some comic artist who did animated versions of Harry Potter. Brian was basically taken from Ron Weasley.
Now that you've seen my process and how utterly random/terrible it is, here's the much better final version.
Tada!
PS. The guy sitting next to me is a huge comic-book fan, so he brought in 3 reams (no joke) of sketches that he had collected over the years from comic artists from DC, Warner Brothers, Marvell and even Star Wars. They included different characters from Batman, Superman, Harry Potter, The Mummy and buncha others. Anyways, I was drawing pirates and found this guy to be humorous with its japanimation eyes and crap. This guy too. He's the Bucaneer. Don't mess.
