DRAWING IN CIRCLES

Loading up and testing tweaks to art over and over at work can sometimes become long and tedious, so to cope I doodle on post-its a lot. I'm fairly convinced mechanical HB .5 pencil on post-it paper is the best drawing combo I've experienced so far.

My poor Toshiba Tecra M4 is on it's last legs once again. That lifesaving surgery I had performed on it worked for a little time, but ultimately only produced new cancerous ruin. So now I'm giving a Lenovo Thinkpad X201 a run. Even though it's smaller than my Tecra, the size actually makes it a lot friendly for sketching since it doesn't weight much and is about the size of a medium-large book.

The thing that might drive me away is Lenovo's neglect of the actual tablet part of the laptop- y'know, just the whole point of this model. Their Wacom drivers don't support pressure, and Wacom's TabletPC drivers on this machine don't either, strangely enough. So I have to use Bamboo Pen & Touch drivers instead. Plus many other small annoying glitches when trying to engage portrait made that made drawing frustrating until I managed to pinpoint what was going on and smash it.


That said, once I got shit running right it was pretty enjoyable and I realize how much I missed just fucking around on a tablet PC at a coffee shop or something. Above is a character I doodled for Scott McKie's branching-storyline RPG thingamajig he's trying to make.

Finally took the plunge and upgraded to a Intuos 4 after happily spending my life up to this point with a giant Intuos 1. This has gotta be the best way to upgrade anything IMO, because the difference is very enjoyable and satisfying. A product design side note is that their packing design is surprisingly slick.

I got tagged for another character tag team at the Unit-16 forums. Here's Aeronik's warrior bear mcDude.

ME: fucking MATH
ME: it's pissing in my eyesocket!
Scott: the burning sensation is how you know it's working.
ME: But it's eating the inside of my braaaaiin!
Scott: it has to. it's making room to lay its math eggs.
ME: D:

On one hand, delicious liquid! On the other hand, further dehydration from exploding anus.

In other news my website is lost in the annoying void of DNS propagation after a server upgrade. So do not fret if damn near all my images are broken for another day or so.

1. When inspiration strikes, go for it then and there. If you're in a situation where you can drop everything and tap it, then by all means do it. Whatever you make with that moment of inspiration will be stronger than anything you'll make without it.

Another character tag team. This one was Aeronik's idea. And now I realize how grannies and tommy guns are like chocolate and peanut butter.

How often have I heard students say, "If I could just watch that man work, I'm sure I could get ahead!" Getting ahead does not happen that way. The only mystery, if such it may be called, is the personal interpretation of the individual artist. He himself probably does not known his own "secret." Fundamentals you must master, but you can never do so by watching another man paint. You have to reason them out for yourself. -Andrew Loomis

Forgot to post this one. Summore water color messerings.

The problem with drawing on loose leaf lined paper is that cleanup is always a pain in the ass.