being busy

Well, I can make all kinds of excuses for not being able to update this blog, but there's one thing that explains it all:




early Christmas present by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



or




handshake by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Yeah... a new baby decided to drop by in the middle of Dec 2010 and was busy preparing and taking care of her lately.


Anyway, here are stuff I've created since the last update:

train by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


snow by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



moment by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART




light bulb by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


and the latest:


dog by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Update

Once again, it's been more than a month since I last updated this blog. I have been busy lately so I wasn't able to update Japanese blog as well.

The latest illustration is up only in Pixiv since it was for a contest. As a result, I can only put a link to it:
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=14061391

It's viewable for members but non-members can view a thumbnail.


What's different between last and this month is that I got Vray for Cinema 4D. As a result, I could have better render for my 3D CG. However, it's taking longer than usual to get use to it :3



Anyway, other stuff I did besides it:

I used Vray for this as well:
Illustration/3D CG:

operation room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



space by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


A test using Vray:

model room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



city at night by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


It was just a joke:

42 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART




Photography:

rasberry 1 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



rasberry 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


rasberry 3 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Wallpaper + 3D CG model

I had cold at the end of last week and finally recovered.

Here's wallpaper (for personal usage only):

music 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Cinema 4D R11 studio

Photoshop CS2 (I did it in CMYK mode)

Comic Studio Ex 4

2 days


and 3D CG model that you can use without a credit for commercial/personal use if you have a software that can support .obj 3D file:

bucket-3D CG model by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Cinema 4D R11 studio

a few min

I have some simple 3D CG models uploaded in Clip Studio website (Japanese site for IllustStudio/Comic Studio users) under the username Vole36. I will change that in a month or two to my usual one though.

This was created from my usual doodle like 3D CG activity:

BW illust/doodle

Group shot by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

The 3D CG I made and used in this illust:

(I finally figured out how to render the wireframe by doing Effect>>Cel Renderer (Outline, Edge)at Render Setting. I can't believe that it took this long to figure out such thing）

What I did differently this time was to draw more than one character in one BW drawing, and use a different rendering method for 3D CG.

I used to render in Cinema 4D and pasted it or traced it in another software. This time, I rendered using IllustStudio/Comic Studio since I finally found out that exporting Cinema 4D files in Wavefront format produced .obj format files, and that could be incorporated into those 2D CG drawing softwares.


It's been a year since I had Comic Studio Ex 4, and ugh... it took me more than a year to figure out wireframe render.


I used a camera's lens effect to change the shape of 3D CG render to have a movement in illustration.

Cinema 4D R11 studio
Comic Studio Ex 4
IllustStudio 1.1.0 (since I didn't have Comic Studio in another computer)
~ a week

Silence by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Wallpaper version is here:
http://Waterdroplet-s.deviantart.com/art/Wallpaper-pack-silence-147044281

1920X1200 pixel
1600X1200 pixel
available for download for personal usage only



Cinema 4D R11 studio
Comic Studio Ex 4
IllustStudio 1.0.10
Photoshop CS3
~1 month

Wallpaper and concept art practices

Wallpaper: Lights and Shadows by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

1920X1200 pixel
1600X1200 pixel
available for download for personal usage only in the link above.

It's wip:




Cinema 4D R11 studio
Photoshop CS3
Modeling: 30 min, Rendering: ~1 hr, Editing: 5-10 min


and concept art practice:

Concept art practice 9 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Photoshop CS3 (used brushes by Jama and concept-on-mac. Thank you.)
Photos: Osaka photo I took with a mobile phone a few weeks ago, 素材辞典(Sozaijiten) Vol. 168- probably Tokyo or something.
3 nights?

3D CG+Illustration: Modern Room

modern room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Aimed for interior design look.

Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio (Global Illumination)
SAI
~ 6 nights


I was originally planning to start drawing manga after this illustration, but the script and the background image is still not ready. So... I will do concept art on Photoshop after this since I got brushes from Jamshed Jurabaev last night. Thank you so much!!


I found out last night, but he works as a designer in Tajikistan under href="http://www.ustodesign.tj/">Ustodesign. He's very kind and helpful to other artists so I kind of became a fan recently... well.... I became a fan once I spotter his concept art a month or two ago.

His work:

The path by *jamajurabaev on deviantART


His technique I'm planning to use for the next concept art is the use of

Alchemy

It's an open share software (is that how people call free softwares?) and is usable in Linux, Windows, and Mac. I tested it out last night and both worked fine in Mac though tended to be a bit slow compared to Vista. I don't know how to use Volume thing but supposedly, it creates images with sound through microphone or something.


He used this for character concept art and painted more in Photoshop as seen here:

Characters 3 by *jamajurabaev on deviantART


My attempt with the software:

1st Round:

送信者 Waterdroplet's Blog

2nd Round:

送信者 Waterdroplet's Blog

Third:

送信者 Waterdroplet's Blog

Fourth:

送信者 Waterdroplet's Blog

Positive side:
- Usable in both Mac and PC unlike inkscape which claimed that it was usable but couldn't in Mac OSX
- light and easy to learn
- in both Japanese and English

Downside:
There's no undo option- so must erase the canvas completely in order to get rid of a mistake


I think it's a good program to have besidesApophysis.

Apophysis 2.09 attempt (mistakenly rendered with a light shade):





The following are practices I did with Cinema 4D, trying to test how to manipulate 3D CG model so it will have asymmetrical organic object kinda look+duplication method so I could create chains:

Practice using metaball (right) and atom (center)


Ball and chain thingmy:


Chain

Trying to manipulate 3D CG into asymmetric shapes by pulling, smear, smoothening, and etc. using a brush tool (originally a sphere):

and transparency test (used gradation +turbulence):

All of them took a few min. to create. I think the last one was the most interesting so I might use this technique for the next 3D CG.

Digital painting: Gensou + some photos

Wallpaper: Gensou by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

I referred to glacier in Iceland and rocks on Ireland, but it didn't really turn out the way I expected it to be.

Since it's 4:3 format, I made it into a wallpaper. Personal usage only.


Corel Painter X
Photoshop CS3
~ 1 week


Photos I took over the weekend and a few weeks before:

高台寺(Kodai-ji Temple, Kyoto) (this Sun):


Two weeks ago at 岡山 (Okayama), a few hours before I passed out from flu:



Random shots with DSLR:






My dog as a model:


I think he wants to become a pâtissier or something:



Lumix TZ7
Kiss X3+ EF-S18-55mm F3.5-5.6 IS
Photoshop CS3

and oh... random abstract 3D CG:

blob by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Cinema 4D R11
Photoshop CS3
30 min- 1 hr.

3DCG practice

These days, I'm following on-line tutorials about Photoshop skills and techniques such as Web Design Library (日本語版）and PSDTUTS

I usd two tutorials (half tone and virtual orange) from such sites for this:

Wallpaper: Ame by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


I think they have great techniques there and I used orange tutorial and half tone tutorial (but in my case, I did in alpha channel).


Anyway, practicing w/ Cinema 4D using two tutorials:

Beginning:



End:


By using two hypernurbs, I was able to smoothen out the tentacles. I used 3 lights (yellow, light cyan, and white for this)

So, I learned three stuff:

- how to smoothen out models
- how to create models with glossy appearance
- changing camera angles

Software used:
Cinema 4D R11 studio


Songs I listened today:

Promise by MiChi




Viva La Vida by Coldplay

Today's 3DCG practice

before I fell asleep for staying up until 3 am last night:





Basically, a practice with lighting and trying to make a word to look 3D.

...

You can learn a lot from cows since after all- they can jump over the moon.

3DCG Wall paper

3DCG: Wallpaper by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

3DCG animation practice

Yeah... Call it the major disaster for my first 3DCG animation attempt:
http://daydreamingsky.blog94.fc2.com/blog-entry-827.html

Site's in Japanese- but you can watch it without any lang. problem- probably. It didn't work when I posted the video directly here.

I used texture from Princess of Shadows's stock for the second animation.

Done with commissions!!

I finished all my commissions yesterday:

Commision: Woman's face 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

and

released my ID picture (though I don't look like this lol) for one site:

Doodle: one with clock by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART




I'm currently trying to practice adding texture to my graphics- esp. 3DCG. So, as I practiced 3DCG in Cinema 4D:


I changed the material setting of balls and turned out to be:



Still, I need to texture to make it more realistic, so I'm going to use this anime/manga drawing to practice texture:




Even though I don't like BL, I seem to have a tendency to draw mostly males.


...


Ok, his pupils are not focused and lines are rough.

Latest doodles...

I tried to practice anime style.

Sat:


Fri:



I still need to get the hang of coloring hair.

3DCG attempt with Cinema4D:



~ managed frizzy fur ball and cloning :p

Er... yeah....

I was trying out the demo version of Cinema 4D and Maya last night since I want to get good 3DCG software used by pros. I am the real beginner in 3DCG, but I was adviced to use softwares that pro use so I could get used to the tools of the trade. I asked several pro-level artists and these were what I landed with.


Maya (good for still images and movies)... I had no idea how to use it.


Cinema 4D(C4D) is easier to use... though it's not good for movies. Since I do still image, I think this software is better for me. However I still don't know how I got this:




This figure first had hair only on its butt so I tried to add more and...

Lol

There's no problem about this thing worrying about losing too much hair, huh?