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Witchy

Posted on March 24, 2014 Leave a Comment

witchsona

Decided to have a go at colouring this while on the bus, it took a few bus trips and it’s a little on the gaudy side but it was nice to do something a bit different.

Posted in: Digital | Tagged: witchsona

Helix Fossil

Posted on March 2, 2014 1 Comment

With the frenzy that has been Twitch Plays Pokemon taking the internet by storm over the last couple of weeks, I felt that I ought to do something to join in on the festivities.

I started by modeling a helix fossil pendant.

Helix

(Want one for yourself? Get it on Shapeways!)

I then thought that I’d like to have something a bit bigger… and since I’m no stranger to papercraft, that seemed like a good way to go!

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The model required a fair bit of simplification to make it a practical papercraft project, but I think it came out ok. I’m also not so used to working on smaller papercraft projects, since I normally work on life-sized Pokemon so some of the joins are pretty messy.

Want to make your own? The PDF file is here. I printed the pattern out on light cardstock and then assembled the pieces with the printed lines on the inside of the model. You can start from the top left of the first page and build piece by piece. If you have any questions let me know and I’ll do my best to help you out.

 

Posted in: Crafts | Tagged: helix fossil, omanyte, papercraft, pokemon, twitch plays pokemon

Watercolours – Eeveelutions, Liepard, Mega Venusaur

Posted on February 21, 2014 Leave a Comment

New watercolour paintings! The Eevees started on a whim but I got them done in a weekend, which was pretty cool. They’re my largest watercolour painting to date.

Liepard was painted for NerdbotMk2‘s Twitterdex project.

Mega Venusaur may be the start of me drawing all the mega evolutions. Iunno.

Eevees Liepard Mega Venusaur

 

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: eevee, espeon, fan art, flareon, glaceon, jolteon, leafeon, liepard, mega evolution, mega venusaur, pokemon, sylveon, twitterdex, umbreon, vaporeon, venusaur, watercolour

Life-size Pokemon Papercraft WIP – Lapras and Lucario

Posted on February 21, 2014 9 Comments

Just thought I’d post some updates on my Papercrafting since I’ve been silent for a while.

If you’ve been following my comments on some of my previous papercraft posts (Bulbasaur and Charmander, Squirtle, Tepig) you know that I’ve had Lapras in progress and that I’ve been planning to make a Mewtwo.

I got Lapras done enough to display at our local Anime and Videogames convention, AVCon. It had everything except the flippers – a pretty good effort for a couple of weeks solid work, I think! Since AVCon I actually haven’t picked up the Lapras parts again, so I haven’t been able to finish it off. I guess my interest has waned since I solved the major engineering problems involved in getting the head to stand.

Lapras and Me

Here’s Lapras with me for scale. This was taken the night before AVCon. At the time I honestly didn’t know if it was going to work – getting the head to stand was a huge triumph.

 

Lapras at AVCon

When I wasn’t supervising the models, some kid crawled inside Lapras! You can see his legs through the side of the model.

As for Mewtwo… in December last year, pokemonpapercraft.net released a Lucario model, which I decided might make a better subject for my first attempt at a bipedal Pokémon. For a start, the finished model would stand at about half of Mewtwo’s size (1.2m vs 2m). Its smaller size also meant that each piece that I cut out would quite nicely fit on my cereal box cardboard, which is much nicer to work with than the cardboard that I used for Lapras. And in general, Lucario’s limbs are much less intricate than Mewtwo’s.

Over the Australia Day long weekend (exactly two years since I made Bulbasaur!) I got most of Lucario assembled. He used about 24 cereal boxes worth of cardboard… after saving up my housemate’s cereal boxes for a year I’m now almost completely out of boxes!

Here’s an in-progress shot of Lucario. I’ve been working on making this one in modular parts that can be slid in and out of the model. I learned from Lapras that if something is going to be big, or if you’re not sure about how the pieces are going to fit, it’s easier to deal with things if they’re in their own pieces. If you need to remake something, then you can just remake a single piece instead of having to take apart the whole model and potentially start from scratch.

Lucario, Squirtle, Charmander, Bulbasaur and Tepig

I hope to finish Lucario off soon – since these photos I’ve already completed his arms, tail and legs – just the hair bits to go!

Posted in: Crafts | Tagged: papercraft, pokemon

Watercolour Wednesday: A Redtail’s Dream

Posted on September 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

An extra watercolour painting this week because one of my favourite webcomics is holding a fanart contest. How I wanted to paint something for this comic during August, but none of the characters fit the arbitrary naming rules I’d set for the month.

For an evening’s worth of work I’m pretty pleased with this. Ville’s face looks pretty silly though.

 

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Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: a redtail's dream, fanart, watercolour, webcomics

Watercolour Wednesday: Ushala at World’s End

Posted on September 5, 2013 2 Comments

The last painting for Blaugust! (which is spilling into September because my original schedule had the lineart for this teed up for last Friday).

Ushala at World’s End is a fairly new comic which I’ve had the pleasure of reading since not long after its debut. I’ve actually scribbled Ushala a couple of times before, if not drawn inspiration from her design.

This painting dates from around April (and is what you would have gotten as my cop-out post if I was feeling too lazy to do a new painting)

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Whilst this marker sketch is a little more recent. It’s not really Ushala, but I’m pretty sure I had her in mind when I was drawing the skull and huge hair.

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My favourite part of Ushala’s design is her nose! It’s closely followed by her crown.

 

Ushala

 

Posted in: Comics, Watercolours | Tagged: fanart, ushala, watercolour, webcomics

Watercolour Wednesday: The End

Posted on August 28, 2013 Leave a Comment

We’re getting closer to the end of Blaugust and my enthusiasm has visibly waned. Truth is I have content for at least a couple of the missing updates, but I can’t quite get things together to my satisfaction. Anyway, let’s have a look at this week’s fanart, which was also almost a no-show. Fortunately my attempts to procrastinate ended up spurring me into this piece – I was doing some watercolour scribbles and decided to turn it into the painting for the week.

Last week we had an alien – Zurida, and this week it’s another alien – Ethma from The End.

Ethma

Because this started out as an unrelated sketch, I had to do some work to coax the composition and colours into the final image. I had a bit of fun with the vivid colours in the shadows, but I think my attempts to introduce darker tones didn’t work across bird-Ethma’s face.

Posted in: Comics, Watercolours | Tagged: fanart, the end, watercolour, webcomics

Watercolour Wednesday: The Superfogeys

Posted on August 21, 2013 7 Comments

We’re going from green hair to green skin this week, and over the week I’ve learned that I should have drawn Trigona with three fingers. I make up for it today.

Today’s piece features Zurida, alien villain from The Superfogeys, a comic about superheros somewhat past their prime. She’s accompanied by her son, Percy, as they walk past [spoilers spoilers in fact the rest of this post is probably going to be spoilers].

Zurida

This art depicts a scene that I imagined occurring not long ago in the story (although after showing John my pencils, he questioned whether or not this might actually have happened, I simply retorted that I wanted to draw it so there)

I had a good time thinking about what might be running through Zurida’s head here. Is she proud of her handiwork? Is she just getting on with the task at hand with no time to be sentimental? Perhaps she feels a twinge of regret – not because she’s done wrong, but because she’s granted Michelle eternal youth, while she herself has grown old.

Speaking of old, I did put in a token effort to portray Zurida’s age, but it was all quite secondary to getting the perspective and foreshortening right.

Finally, I liked the juxtaposition provided by Percy’s presence. He has an innocence and dumbness about him, in this picture he definitely wants to linger a bit longer and let the cogs in his head move as he makes the connection between Michelle and his mother.

 

[edit] Argument settled. The whole time I thought Zurida had been running things out of the Society of Heroes, but no, duh, it was her palace.

Posted in: Comics, Watercolours | Tagged: brush pen, comics, fan art, watercolour

Musical Monday: Storm in a Teacup

Posted on August 20, 2013 Leave a Comment

This will probably be the best recording I put up this month, and that’s taking into account the fact that I’ve edited the ending slightly to take out a flubbed chord.
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I forgot to notate some of the fingering and counterbass notes in yesterday’s sheet music update, but I think it’s fairly self explanatory. There are some respectable jumps in this one, but even with the distances involved they feel quite manageable.

Anyway, enjoy!

Posted in: Music | Tagged: accordion, video games, zelda

Sheet Music Sunday: Song of Storms

Posted on August 19, 2013 2 Comments

Running behind… running behind. I’ll get the recording up tomorrow.

This transcription presented me with a few dilemmas as I kept swapping between time signatures (3/4? 6/8?) and tempos. Anyway, here’s the score. A very straightforward one – but feel free to repeat ad infininatum instead of ending after two loops as I’ve done here.

SongOfStorms

Posted in: Music | Tagged: accordion, video games, zelda
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