Week - Something....

It would seem in leu of my work, I've forgotten how to count. I have no idea what week it is, but thats alright, I'll just keep trundling on, like always. Just a warning, this is a two week update,as I know I forgot to post last week - a few personal bombshells were dropped.



In all, I've gotten a fair bit done - finished off a couple of pieces of art work, and really knuckled down on my mural back board. My sketch of Luc is officially finished, and shock horror, I like it. Kind of...heh.

I tried mixing up my water colours - a bit late for a trial, I know, but I felt the need - and used markers as an underlayer on a couple of pictures in my sketch book. Let's put it this way, I doubt I'll use it for a final piece. While the over all look isn't bad, persay, it's not great either. I much prefer using pastels with the water colours.



Oh, and talking of, I got another water colour piece finished.

I've also finished my model of Luc in ceramics. I adore it! As my second human piece, I love the features, and I managed to pack loads of detail into this one by using blunt and sharp pin tools to model. I even went so far as to make his belts from flattened pieces of clay (yes, that includes buckles, fastenings and holes - I'm a masochist...). He's been put to be fired over whitsun. And of course, I started another one to go along with - Tiffany from the nightmare relm. It's going good, but I keep having to chisel out her features because she's so sharp, it's a little repetative, but I'm liking the over all effect.

I have a horrid feeling though - those belts? Visions of them breaking...

FMP - Week 7

Whee Art! Acrylics are the anti-Christ.



I hate, detest, nay loathe acrylic paints after this week. I've been trying to work on idea's for my mural - and of course it's on a wooden board, so I thought acrylics or oils would be a good choice. Oil's would take too long to dry. Acrylics just hate me.

DRIPS! Everywhere I paint, I get drips from them, because I water the acrylic down, not even that much though... urgh.

So, as it stands, I'm going to stretch some very large paper over the boards, and hope for the best. I'm going to try to make it look like a page from my sketch book. Copious amounts of Tea and Coffee shall be used, along with bits of water colour here and there.

I'm beginning to get worried, honestly - I don't feel I have enough pieces... I certainly don't have as many as I would have liked - I've gotten slower at working, with my discovery of new techniques, rather than faster. I'm really going to have to crack down the next couple of weeks, and troll out some great art.



I put my monster Marquette in to be fired, after I got the surface of his skin pebble smooth usine a rubber kidney. I think it looks good and can't wait to see it actually fired.

Also, I finally finished the painting on a picture of Tiffany from Somnium. Now all I need to do is put in a background and it'll be ready for printing.

FMP - Week 6

Alright, so Week six was mainly spent on water colour pieces - did an awsome picture of the insect catacombs in Erebos (one of the worlds I'm designing) that I'm debating putting in the exhibition.


I also started a monster Marquette this week, and pretty much finished it in one sitting. But I suppose that was because there was nothing too fussy on it - it was just a siple case of layering the clay to look like wrinkles. It just needs a bit of smoothing out before I put it to fire. Using Porcelain Paperclay is not fun, its so delicate when you're modelling it, that it's a pain. One little knock and you have to spend ages remodelling.



Also, after seeing Roxanne after she was fired, I'm not sure I should make human figures out of clay - I'm not pleased with it at all. Her face looks funny, the modelling is way too rough and her hair line is sqew-iff. Yes I'm fussy, so sue me.

On the up side, my photoshop work is, I feel, getting better. But my mural is still giving me trouble, gonna work on it some more next week.

FMP - Week 5..?

Okay, so I'm late posting for last week - I utterly let time run away with me...And I can't even remember what week it is right now - I'll have to check my calender later.

Okay so this week, I finally decided on the design for my exhibition space, and I've totally committed suicide by deciding to do a mural on it. Full board one. This week has been spent mostly making thumb nails. I decided to use the last scene of the game, a street scene in Paris, but I've been toying with composition until I decided on Friday to do this. I have to say, I'm hopeful, fingers crossed it works okay.

And YAY! I finally finished my first ceramic Marquette, of Roxanne, the main playable character. She looks great - I did the hair in individual strips, scored with the side of a metal kidney. I also added some clothes in separate layers. She's just waiting to be fired now, and I have to admit I'm nervous about the hair because it's so thin, but...

I started my second Marquette on Thursday. Luc, Lucian, my favorite sardonic hero. Can I just say right now - Guys are hard to sculpt! It doesn't help that I'm a perfectionist who likes to put down all the muscle structure too. I need to keep working on him of course, but he's looking good.