Week 8 - intro to anatomy and Blade of the Immortal

My eye was having a spasm about a week ago and it went on for about 3-4 days. I just noticed it finally stopped. It was so weird because it felt like I could feel my heart beating from there and also the lower lid felt like it was moving so whenever I relaxed my eyes… it was like I can see the bottom part kind of moving - made it annoying to see and read things. I’m… getting sucked into my computer again. It’s really very annoying since I’m on it and all my resources are enclosed as data because I don’t have the expenses to get something physical.

During spring break I just did a lot of perspective hw, they’re too big using my regular canoscan, so it’s annoying to scan a 11×14 picture. I’m actually looking into getting a scanner that fits, but I want to get one for home office use because what am I going to do with a big fat scanner and printer? There’s no space around here to begin with. So those all-in-ones are great except the standard size is too small. I wish I could find one like that… at a reasonable price for home office. Compact is key nowadays, isn’t it? What with all those blackberries, palm pilots, and ipods, etc.

Lately, I’ve been reading Blade of the Immortal thanks to a friend’s recommendation. I was thinking about it, but I knew I was going to get sucked in. And it was going pretty slow for about a month into it. I’d ready about 4 volumes, and then suddenly after like… the 10th one, I just couldn’t stop, and there’s not even as much as Berserk. I like Hiroaki Samura’s artwork for BotI; it striked me as odd! Because he didn’t use traditional toning and inking, he used graphite as I read on Wikipedia, and it’s cool since he went to an art school so that’s a plus. I thought he went with mixed media on some like graphite and watercolor. It’s really nice though and innovative, which inspires me. I think I should try something like that. I’m seeing a lot of artists for games and books going backwards and using acrylics and other paints. And personally, I like fine art and one of the best mediums ever. There’s cg artists popping up everywhere, they got some nice shit - yeah, really good stuff you can find at conceptart.org. And there was one artist who graduated 2 years ago at AAU and I saw a work from in the foundations building at Townsend, I had no idea that his stuff was put up at conceptart too, so I’m like, “Heyyy! I know that dude! –well, I saw one of his works anyway.”

Everybody has a preferred medium, I’m starting to really like using pencil and pen, but I have the best control using a pencil, I find that I get crosshatching to work well for me. I like that style too and I’ve always use it. I’ve been trying to paint today and do a portrait. It looks all right, I’m still very amateur with acrylics even though I’ve been using it for 3 years. But I don’t use it on a daily basis, more like every 6 months or something.. haha… I’d be excited to take the still life art class at school next semester so I can learn how to paint better. You can see from Ayami Kojima that she might actually use paint, but I just looked it over and he probably used a textured paint just to make her backgrounds interesting for the new Castlevania pictures. I love her

things even though they kind of look twisted. I’m not sure who this is because I’ve only played Aria of Sorrow.

This week’s hw is about the Tensor Fascia Latae, Gluteus Medius, and Gluteus Maximus

Well… I don’t think I’ll really need commentary on these other than the first one I did with charcoal, and the second because I was lazy and I didn’t want to waste more big sketchpad paper I used graphite. And that’s it.

Cheers!

*Edit* I’m keeping most of my original comments on Kojima, but I changed “he/his” to “she/her.”

And then some…

I never thought I’d say this, but I’m getting tired of reading all these ebooks I’ve downloaded. I think I overloaded the past week, so it’s lost interest, which means I should try out The Count of Monte Cristo, and the rest of my new books.

I am me and You are You,

Let’s just be the person

whom we are meant to be.

Anywho. Yesterday, I’d gone to a group meeting at Dave’s and his son, Andrew, got the Super Smash Bros. Brawl… heheh… I actually didn’t play until after dinner at 9pm, but then it kind of snowballed after because I played till 10:30 with a brother, damn! It was fun and nostalgic, it made me miss playing games a lot. I’m still going to try out Okami later on during the summer or something, hoping like hell the price will go down even further. But someone was telling me if I invested time playing Starcraft, I might actually get some bucks. Who cares, was what I was thinking, because what a dreary way to spend the rest of your life playing a stupid game that isn’t even real. Life is real, and this X Y Z generation is forgetting that. I feel so sorry for us. I’ll never date a gamer, maybe a mild one, but yeah.. I just don’t see anything and I hate wimps. And clingy people. Yes…. those kinds of people… drag the essence out of you.

Right. So I’m going to be back in SoCal over the week, which I think is sucky! but I cannot complain. I kind of wonder why I’m so heartless to my family, I feel bad about being the black sheep sometimes, but I read about the numerology in my name makes me detached from family, something about not having that many 9’s I think… Though, God, I hope my children don’t treat me this way. So I’m trying, it’s just so hard.

Before I leave, I want to add some sketches I’ve done, they’re pretty recent since the last month, just been lazy to upload them, but hey, at least they are here…. I like to draw girls, btw. That’s why there is a lot of females…

I’m finding goatees very attractive.. haha .. yeah..

It’s still very sketchy, but I’m hoping to fix the hand and the left arm on her throat.. it’s just hard w/o reference.

I think I drew this when Heith Ledger died… It wasn’t a tribute, but I just wanted to try out a joker thing since he plays it in the upcoming Batman.

I did this way before I even learned about the bones and back muscles, so there’s going to be a lot of re-editting on this one, as well as the retarded arm… I blacked it with a sharpee… so it’s messy.

Yup.. that’s it.

Cheers.

Another Update - Intro to Anatomy week 7

Ah, lately, it’s been hard to motivate myself, I really am useless sometimes. And what happened to week 6? I don’t feel like uploading anything for that. Maybe later. Anyway… Starting monday is my spring break! Whoo…. maybe it’s a good time to be working on my website. And read all my books too. I’m stuck on The Tale of Genji because it’s really hard for me to interpret all the poems, which I suck at doing. I’m still high strung my whole summer tuition thing, I want to take more classes, but I just didn’t take into account the funds. I think he said something about $670/class, and it goes up. RAWR. I talked with my adviser guy and he said it’s possible for a winter intercession, 3 weeks of class everyday. Damn! haha… Sigh… if I ate less, it might help. Lately, I’ve been eating a lot of muffins from walmart, they’re only $1, and candy…. lots of candy. :\ Ridiculous amounts, and gosh, I think I’m addicted to sugar again.

Right now, this week is about the abdominal region, the external obliques, and the serratus anterior. I happen to like this sanguine color so I went ahead and drew the whole thing in the conte crayon. This picture is also the most censored anyway… haha… I don’t think I’ll ever get used to looking at a male’s private parts. Well, I’m starting to, but I can’t get myself to draw the groin area without shading it in to void it out.

This one the lines got dark because of my scanner, it has a lot more contrast than it should, but yeah.. I guess I could have fixed it up, but whatever, same for the other to bring out the color more. Copied from a master drawing, I think from Michaelangelo, ne? Studied up on Polykleitan Fold, and Polykleitos was the one who did the famous “Canon” statue. The PF is the “love handles” as everyone is so used to calling it, the muscle that covers you hip bone and is more prominent in males than in females. The reason a female’s PF is underdeveloped is to allow the belly to stretch during pregnancy. Cool beans. I’ve always noticed that bulge on the males hips that the woman models never had, or it was very small. Yeah.

So this is my update. I don’t feel like thinking too much, but that’s all right.

Cheers!

Okay, so I lied in my last post, I’ve been lazy and also screwing around with stuff. Not really. Man, I really feel… not up to it recently. Which is driving me nuts because I just don’t feel like being artistic at the moment. After next week is spring break for a week. I don’t think I want to go home really, I don’t want to face the rents alone. That’s horrible… gosh… although I’m running out of green tea, I wanted to get some more from them. I’ve said to my brother one day that I could go on green tea alone and fast that way, ‘cept of course, I’d be going to the bathroom all the time. But lately, I’ve also been binging on candy. Damn that Dollar Tree store. But I feel as if the money lifting from my pockets and floating away into the wind. Maybe we should just keep our bathroom door closed for good measure. Yesterday, I’d gone to visit the Otaku’s Anonymous Club on campus, and fuck, you know, I was just like, this is exactly like LQ’s anime club, true? No offense really, but being with them puts yourself in a horrible crack in the earth. I mean, it’s not like I don’t do that shit at home all ready, but this is like…wasting time to the max except doing with other people, and they probably will not display ecchi stuff.. hahaha… j/k, j/k! I’m not too much of a pervert. But I met someone who I’d befriended on NK forums so long ago, and the first thought was, “Damn, he’s short for a white guy.” But I kind of wish that I talked to him. I knew he didn’t recognize me, I remember our conversations, so I knew it was him when he mentioned his home Massachusetts, but even when he greeted me as a newcomer, I nodded in response, why didn’t I say more? I guess I was afraid, I wasn’t sure how to respond to begin with. Do I go up an say, “Hey, buddy, remember me? We knew each other from an forum for a year.” Well, I suppose it could have happened like that, but it didn’t, did it? Anyway. I felt sick being there. Because I knew how much in common I had with the rest of them. The meaning of my existence is questioned. I wish more from life. I realize that I’d be down with not having my computer for awhile, but there’s just so much information, that I just latch on to it, because the internet is vast and free. I want friends but I don’t want friends. It’s complicated, mainly, I do not want to be disappointed again. I know… don’t be afraid. It’s too hard, and I don’t know what to do. There’s no artwork until I feel like it again. See ya.

Listfulness

Mind drifts and wavers

On the verge of destruction;

Then pulled back again.

A while ago I found out I did a pretty shitty job in my english class, it was also the day I realized I’m in financial shit because I will not get any financial aid for my summer tuition. I hate having to deal with money, and why it has to rule our lives. Sometimes I want to just give up and live the life of a bum but I realize I really hate being smelly and cold. Maybe I should live the life of a vagabond, I do love traveling and that’s what I want to do, travel everywhere and forget about what makes me worry so much. I’d just need one travel partner to share the experience. I also know the type of house I want. I want a house with big windows that let in light, a big room studio where there’d be an area for painting and another for a drafting table, and another area for my computer. And the backyard is close to nature, and wide so that if I feel like it, I can practice archery, and plant some apple, orange, and grapefruit trees. Maybe a mini vegetative garden too so I don’t need to rely on the supermarket.

Anyway, I’m only uploading one picture for this week, I feel a tad lazy now. My need to draw is slowly going away, but I’ve got other ventures. Homework for intro to anatomy for this week, we’re working on muscles of the back, which is the reason why this picture is so bold. It was actually a copy of a picture from Michaelangelo I think.

Anyway… I’ve got some projects I’m actually working on but not finishing.

Been busy lately, so that’s why I don’t update that much. And writing a story is just so hard! Anyway, that is all. I’ll post again tomorrow maybe.