WRC Competition

 I entered this competition. Not expecting anything to come of it really. If I win the prize won't mean much to me either as I'll be living in Cardiff anyway but yeah the other parts are cool and the runners up win power tools which my Dad will love!
 I submitted it last night before getting any feedback from people but had some good pointers afterwards. It's practise with Photoshop anyway and forced me to learn how to do clean cut edges and vector stuff properly so here's my entry:

 Hopefully you can see the Welsh flag theme... or not. I'll do an update if I hear anything back about this. I doubt it'll be for a while anyway.

 When I go to bed I keep telling myself that when I wake up I will spend the next day continuing my Mortal Kombat picture but I just end up playing games. I'm determined to finish it though so more soon...

 I completed Deus Ex 3 on hard on my first playthrough (although I only beat one boss because she glitched). It's a really great game and definitely worth playing, although I doubt I will go through it again, at least for a very long time. One thing I noticed was how conservative the poly count on anything aside from the main characters was. It's still a good looking game though.

 I'm beginning to learn the German national anthem from watching the Formula 1.

 Anyway bye.

P.S. I finally discovered this song and it's too catchy:

 

Car Wars

 Check this out if you like Star Wars/the environment/cool stuff/Greenpeace/clever branding and marketing.

Basically I barged into this without learning the facts but I don't care.

CLICK HERE TO SAVE THE WORLD VIA STAR WARS


Give it a go.


More drawing soon. I've been busy playing Deus Ex 3 and sorting out moving into a new house but I'm going to get on with it tonight.


BYE


P.s. Here's a picture of Darth Vader I did as one of the first things on my Wacom (Intuos3 A4) about 2 years ago:

Devlin

 Just did this quick drawing as a break from my MK picture. It looks a bit too much like Westwood in the thumbnail but I'm happy with it:

 Check out Devlin's album 'Bud, Sweat and Beers' it's pretty awesome, some really great tracks on it.
Bye.

Raiden Loses

 Last post I mentioned I was working on an original picture. It's taking quite a while but I hit a checkpoint today so I thought I'd post a snippet of what I've done. Here's two versions lit differently:

 It's Raiden from Mortal Kombat if you couldn't tell. More coming soon.
Feedback wanted as always.
Bye.

Jenson Button

 After today's return of F1 and Jenson Button's impressive race I thought it was time I actually did the picture I mentioned a few weeks ago. In the final Grand Prix before the mid-season break in Hungary, Jenson won the race. It was his 200th F1 race as well as being exactly 10 years since his first F1 win, at the same track, so it was the perfect opportunity to draw him. But I couldn't be bothered. 

 Today, in Belgium, Button rose from 13th place to 3rd and ended up on the podium so I had to draw him. Anyway here it is:  

 It's kind of a partner piece to the one I did of Lewis Hamilton a few weeks ago but I expect they look shit together. There's a few things wrong with it but it ended up pretty good, especially for the short time it took, so I'm happy.
 I've been working on another fairly big, original picture that will hopefully be finished and up sometime this week. I think it's looking pretty good so far.
 Comment and the usual. Thanks. Bye.

Batman Returns

 More Batman copying. This is Batman from the "The Batman" series. I don't really know much about the cartoon series' but this is my favourite design of the character in the cartoons. The character design is by Jeff Matsuda, the same guy who did the amazing Jackie Chan Adventures series which I used to love.

 Anyway here it is: 

Not 100% happy with it, here's the original:

Going to do a couple more of this character soon.
Also you can now Google +1 my blog posts now if you're that way inclined.
Bye.

nana nana nana nana na... BATMAN!

 More digital drawing practise. This time I decided to draw Batman. Again it's a copy of another picture. I think I'm gradually picking things up and learning from doing this so it's all good:

 Here's the original:

 Let me know what you think. More soon hopefully. Bye.

P.S.


"Del... Let's go!" hahaha

Bit of drawing practice

 I decided I really need to practise drawing again and was particularly inspired by Feng Zhu's incredible design videos.

 I thought I'd post what I've done so far over the past month or so, it's not much but there you go.

Here's one of Boba Fett in a simplified costume: 

 

  I was planning to draw Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button and after Lewis won the German grand prix I drew him. I couldn't be bothered to draw Button but, as he had a great win the week after, I might come back to it. I was going to do a more detailed drawing but thought this looked cool:

 

 Finally a quick drawing of Gaz from Modern Warfare, great character design and voice acting as ever. Unlike the other two this is a straight copy from an in-game screenshot. I'm still trying to get my photoshop brushes nailed and this was practise for that, among other things. 

 

 Thanks for looking. Let me know what you think. BYE

5000 views! LannyBoom! Skyway!

 Enormous Blogodile has reached 5000 views!

 Following on from the previous post about the pixel drawings I did for Lanny here's some extra stuff.

The night before his grad show performance he asked me to do a few images of his head with different mouth shapes so that it could be animated in real time as he spoke into the mic during his master of ceremonies slots.

Here they are:

 It was very funny when Lanny's mac crashed twice during his performance :D but otherwise it was great, as was the rest of the show. Here's some footage of it taken on my phone. It's not great quality but you should get the idea:

 And here's some proper footage of it filmed by people who can use a camera:



 Also we've finished our 12 weeks of production on Skyway for uni. We've got a demo trailer coming soon but there's a fair bit of new stuff on our indieDB page (http://www.indiedb.com/games/skyway). So check it out! bye