Early July practice paints.

More practice rebuilding my digital painting mojo. Been focusing mostly on sketchbook stuff that I will post later.

Wallhax.

Strict brush limitations.

Composition/Layering.

Been watching a lot of Feng Zhu's videos on Youtube, particularly focusing on mindset matters. I certainly think it's a truism that here in Malaysia we generally have poor professional sense when it comes to design as a craft. Lately I've been attempting to spend more time consciously thinking as a designer outside work.

I will be giving a talk on July 17th at the Malaysian IGDA chapter apparently. Will try not to embarrass myself too much.

Got wood?

Ok I just had to pimp this work by a friend of a friend in the UK who is making these baddassed chairs.

This IS the seat you are looking for.

You gonna take it sitting down?

If you live in the UK and interested in getting your own you can hit up aforementioned friend-of-artist Paul on Facebook.

There are worse things-

-than waking up in the morning to find you made the Game App Of The Day on Kotaku ^v^

Delicious Wootcakes!

More trad!

Some perspective and composition practice and also some randomness. Ye olde markers need some getting used to again.

Sinix Design Lab Thumbs

The laptop I use at home isn't very fast at all so I don't like to paint on it much these days, to be honest I think it could run faster and the problem isn't so much that it's a crap laptop as the fact that Windows Vista is perhaps the worst operating system ever of all time.

Still, you know what they say about the metaphorical workman and his tools.

The theme for this lab was "Dragons", not a subject matter I have a lot of visual familiarity with. To get the ball rolling I decided to go with real animals as my inspiration and just jam with it. Results weren't too bad.

Community stuff is a good outlet for practice.

Even at this low res the response time of Photoshop was painful. Took me an hour to get these 3 down and I reckoned it was a good idea to cut my losses there.

Really need me a copy of Windows 7 heh.

For Jason

Even though most of his interactions these days is hating on my posts on Facebook he's still a bro :p

Phat.

Everyday is a practice day

Whether it's getting a page of thumbnails done or scrimping in a painting or two, the importance of practice cannot be understated. I stopped practicing this way 4 years ago and it annoys me a bit to think about how much better at this I would be if I didn't. Ah well.

Lazy, poorly thought out lighting is lazy and poorly thought out. Loads of mistakes here but the practice is helping get my mind warmed up to start recognizing my mistakes faster.

Look familiar? It's a quick paintover of a sketch I lifted from my previous post.

One thing I keep reminding myself this time round is to focus more on fundamentals and work a bit harder at getting them right. A page of mistakes is good only if you learn from them.

The other thing is volume. Being able to work fast makes practice minutes much more productive. Right now my painting and drawing is much slower than it used to be and as result I'm not as productive, however I am starting to feel the muscle memory quickly coming back. Design as well tends to be largely a reflexive act. I can see I need to do more varied subject matters to increase that vocabulary.