DRAWING IN CIRCLES

I found this excellent design on reddit of Ira Glass' thoughts. All I have to say is FUCK YES. I wish I knew who designed this.

So I started taking some online classes over at CGMA. I'm currently in the middle of Environment Design 1 with James Paick and Dynamic Sketching 1 with Peter Han.

Here's some thumbnails from my first week of the Environment Design class. Basically we had to practice separating foreground, middle-ground, and background while also providing 1 main focal point and 2 softer focal points. My personal goal is to try and get some mood into these whenever I can.

I tend to bounce between sketchbooks repeatedly. Ones with fancy paper, one's that are massive, moleskins, and so on. I even keep a backup one in the car. I also got in the habit of trying to use notebooks again, taking notes and doodling. My favorite one I pumped full of awesome notes and doodles from art and music workshops and then proceeded to lose it for about a year. Fortunately it finally turned up again in a random backpack, and I found this doodle I always rather liked. It's always a bit of a pain getting the loose-leaf lines out of these though.

Don't mind me. Just painting up Clayface. Ended up making this into a calling card for Gotham City Impostors.

Fiverr request by mr. Dracula Fetus

 Another Fiverr request. This one involved late punk rock singer GG Allin and a Pokemon named snubbull. *shrug*

So in a random bit of curiosity, I decided to whore my art skills out on Fiverr for a little bit, offering todo small sketches for $5. I had some fun and interesting requests. Had to cut it short unfortunately since my freetime is drying up this month as I start online art classes again.

Anyways, here's one of the requests. "Please draw me a crazy DJing Penguin incorporating the letters PGT somewhere."

It's-a-me!

VERDICT (so far):
GOOD for gaming, casual browsing and coding.
BAD for painting, or at least awkward enough to make me want to paint on my tablet PC rather than the desktop.

I've noticed it also forces you to take more breaks. It's also very weird sometimes to be "exhausted" after using the computer.