fan - andrew

somebody wrote me and said they loved my characters and wanted to use one as an avatar.

i don't have many fans and it was really flattering. i was in a good mood today, plus i'm out of ideas at the moment.

i told her that i would rather she had her own to use as an avatar so i made her one... it's based off a screenshot of her warcraft character she sent me.

"katheryn"

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lame is your name - andrew

i didn't finish any digital work tonight (YET!) but i'm going to, but just to satiate my fix for posting so often i'll post some traditional i worked on this evening.

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i could eat a horse - andrew

i'm starving right now and so i'm off to go find a horse to eat. in the meanwhile, here's an update on the piece, albeit super small... i've got to find a way to host an image wider than 1024.

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boring day - andrew

painted more on the pic, ate a bunch of junk hawiian plate lunch, slept, played video games.

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enough for today - andrew

i was about to turn off my computer when i decided that i really should sketch the next portion so i can start thinking about palette and where i want to take this.
i'm going to log off now for a day. and i leave you with the next portion. maybe if i get this part done fast i can get 33% more done by the 9th. doubt i'll be that motivated though. i really need to work on the hero or heroine. something tells me that i'm going to go with the typical girl in metal bikini with a big sword or maybe a group with a wizard a thief and warrior. you know the typical fantasy stuff... booooooooooring.

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more and more pixels - andrew

update on the image that's due on the 9th on July. i originally thought it was due earlier, which is cool, because now i have time to do 50% more!!!!!! waaaaaaahooooooooo!!

Still need to add the character to the far left... criticism and comments are welcome, but now i get to move on to the next phase.

oops, since blogger won't let me post that thing bigger than 1024 wide - here's a version where it's stacked on top of itself, but it's supposed to wrap... that was you can see it better.

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spose to - andrew

i'm supposed to stay home and work on my painting, but instead i think i'm going to go over to vanessa's apt.

but that's not going to stop me from making new and weird slash stupid designs to post.

this is "strange-oh" and i suppose you can say that he was inspired by william kidwell for some weird ass move he pulled after work.

you see, just as my roomie and i were pulling out of the pakring spot he reached into his bag and....

phone's ringing.

see yall later.

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andrew

the sketch for the other half...

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thwack - andrew

a flying ninja monkey with a bow....

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¿minions of doom? - andrew

i'm calling them darklets for now.

they're going to populate the next section of that painting in the range of about forty to fifty of them... i think. i haven't worked it out completely but you'll know just minutes after i do. i haven't dedicated myself to painting so many of these yet.

this is the concept for them and then i'll try to publish the sketch of the next portion of the painting tonight.

edit: my evening was hi-jacked by vanessa so i'll have to post a sketch when i get home from work, but i would gladly trade three quarters of my art productivity to hang out with her.

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i couldn't resist - andrew

a couple good songs came on i-tunes and so i motored through the other tiny bit. ¿besides, who wants to wait a whole day to see something crappy like a few painted rocks? not me. F that. and by F, i mean fuck and that, i mean waiting.

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pixel by pixel by pixel by pixel - andrew

updating the image.... got a bit more to go on the right then to the second half of it. such a pain in tha ass. seriously. i should stick to the little character pieces.

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rought colours - andrew

started working on this painting since it's due in less than two weeks!!! and this is only the left half! OMG.

¿will i make it?

¿what will happen next?

ulp.

an hour a day and it'll be done in no time. right?


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she's making a list and checking it twice - andrew

i think it's safe to say that everybody knows who this is - the center of my universe.

this was part of a thank you note to her.

and it also happens to be the seventh and last fuscia painting. Too bad David didn't make good on his word to create seven of them also. It would have been very fun to see. But as i have learned, you can't really ask an art director to do anything at all - you can only make suggestions and hope that he was already planning on doing part of them.

if i ever get to the lose the "assistant" part of my role - remind me never to leave false hope in my wake and to always make good on my word.

by the way, david and i have been considering adding a new member to the blog - his name is ted bradshaw and he works with us. he's getting back into digital 2d art and a blog is a perfect place for him to practice.

details later.

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first wind - andrew

i have been sick for days.

the kind of sick that begs you not to stand up or look to the left too far or look to the right too far or walk faster than just too slow or lift your arms above your head.

my refusal to go to a doctor prompted my girl to come by and throw me in a cold shower after measuring my 102.2 degree temperature several times.

bless her soul. i deserve nowhere near the level of attention she gives me.

two days later, here i am - coloring on one of these stupid post-it-pets for just over an hour. try coloring loops of string for an extended period of time. if i wasn't sick then, i am truly sick now.

i will try to make up for my absense, but i'm not making any promises. it still feels like i have been kicked in the throat.

"not"

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david hong

david hong

david hong

warning: battery low - andrew

i'm back.

think i'm getting sick.

i'm so sleepy right now.

"gears are not enough"

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off to the big maple leaf - andrew

i've got to bail for about five days, so i won't be posting, but david will keep it going... so that's pretty cool.

see you all later.

"the four foot monster"

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david hong

dull johnny - andrew

more fuscia like substance. i think the good doctor hong and i agreed to creat fuscia characters for a week. which means four more of these foul creatures are lurking about somewhere in my head and hopefully a handful more of david's. i really liked his second one.

i have a feeling that he's going to get to pick out the next topic and then i'll get the one after that.

"pillaroon"

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david hong

andrew

no time to talk. the fuscia frenzy continues.

"alltok"

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procrastination gets you nowhere - andrew

i've been putting off doing a painting that i need to finish by next month.

i decided to start just now even though i'm not into it at all.

i have the idea and i know exactly what i want out of this, but i'm just being lazy.

so here's the sketch of the first portion of the piece. i'll post it as i work on it if anybody is interested.

no rhyme and reason - andrew

david hong and i agreed that our next few posts would involve fuscia. this is because he just learned what that word means, and it's fun to find weird reasons to impliment into art.

we'll see if ol' honger can make good on it.

i guess it's also worth noting that i'm going to be doing around 20 more of these "post-it pets" before i stop for an extended period. hong says i should try painting some realistic figures. i couldn't be more bored by that idea. anybody else have any ideas? if i end up taking him up on that offer, anyone who comes to this blog will most like run from it in horror at the bad art that will ensue.

"starjack"

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david hong

break sober in case of emergency - andrew

here's "wailin out".

i think i'm going to mod the colours a little bit cause this one is pretty boring, but i really like his tiny eye. ¿should it be more tiny? to make him even bigger looking?

hmmm.

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