Meanwhile... (Part 2)

Let's jump into the past for a moment and take a look at some of the stuff that I managed to get done after I began to neglect my web presence.

The sketch exchange over on Polykarbonbbs continued, though with some delays that were pretty much all my fault. The other participants were Professor Az and jeco, and we were concentrating on portraits from reference.
Here are my efforts for the rest of that unfortunately short-lived exchange (without the reference images because I can't be bothered to find them).

The third image was of a toddler and was chosen by jeco.

The fourth image was of Eva Mendes and was chosen by Professor Az.

The fifth image was of Jeff Bridges and was chosen by myself.

The sixth image was of Kelsey Grammer as X-Men's Beast and was chosen by jeco.

I managed to put in some major delays between posting these images. From getting the Eva Mendes reference image up until posting my finished piece, 9 months passed. Jeff Bridges only took me 3 hours, which surprised me. And then they had to wait 8 month before they got my effort at Beast.
Professor Az posted the next reference after I finally posted Beast, but I think I can take full responsibility for the entire thread dying at that point before anyone even attempted the latest reference.

v2.0

It was a while back when I initially decided to revisit my robot character and he underwent a transformation back then. You'll notice that I made him seem a bit more flexible and somewhat more dynamic in his gestures and poses. I also made his head rounder to enhance a 'cuteness' in his character. To give him access to facial expressions to convey emotion I decided that his bulkier parts are encased in a flexile alloy, in my head I had decided that this would be as strong as most other metals and pliable only to the inner workings of the then still named #5.

The inner workings are also of a strange material and technology that I'm not going to go into.

I should change the appearance of 5 in relation to #5 again but I doubt the change will be significant beyond maybe some stylisation. Mostly because I quite like how he looks at v2.0.

Meanwhile...

As well as this self appointed comic project I've also got a few other things I'm currently involved in. Ranking highly in my to do list are some sketch exchanges I've been neglecting. Some for such a long time that my partners must think I've given up completely.

Here are two images from a sketch exchange over on Polykarbonbbs with Professor Az and jeco. I should let them know I'm not dead since that's an active sketch exchange at the moment.

This particular exchange focuses on working from reference and we've mostly been sticking to portraiture for now.

The first image is Cindy Crawford as chosen by Professor Az.

reference

The second image is Sarah Chalke as chosen by myself.

reference

The next image is of a toddler and was chosen by jeco to mix things up so we don't just end up painting pretty ladies.

My other exchanges that I plan on working on over the next few days include a sketch of a girl on a bench for an exchange with erq which I will probably call a day after finally responding almost a year late, and some Pokémon fan art that I've been planning on doing for a while now that I'll use for my exchange with rayvon87 for him to respond to.

Wish me luck.

Origins and Beginnings...

The origins of my idea go back a few years to a Fight Club on Polykarbonbbs that I was involved in.

My pages alone somehow manage to remain almost coherent without the inclusion of the other participants pages. If you look hard enough you may find the original thread on PKbbs but I highly doubt that the images are intact.

Anyway for now I'll post my pages that birthed the original incarnation of the character that I'll be using as a central point in my story.

These pages were completely put together in Adobe Photoshop using a mouse with no real planning. I purposely used setting that would force some pixelation and colour loss during the saving process because I liked the effect it gave. Enjoy.

And that's that I guess, the origin of 5 as a character. The fight never concluded due to the other participants dropping out and even though I volunteered to wrap it up, lethargy got the better of me without any pressure on me. Once everyone else had dropped out I felt like I wouldn't be letting anyone down if I didn't finish.

This project MUST be different! I MUST SEE IT THROUGH!

If I don't then I really doubt I ever will see out a personal project from start to finish.

Art Dump

This is supposed to be an art blog so to kick things off I'll dump a few random images here. future posts will be more structured and have better descriptions and maybe some news about what's going on in my life.

Northern Cardinal Speed Paint - Painter X

Large Headed Robot Sketch Exchange Response - Photoshop CS3
Ogre Shaman Sketch Exchange Response - Photoshop CS3
Random Guy Speed Paint - Photoshop CS3
Diver Speed Paint - Photoshop CS3
Spider-Man Bad Guy Rhino Sketchbook Page - Pencil/Marker

I'll upload some of the summer project work I did soon. Stay tuned.