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

Illustration: Concept Art Practice 10

concept art practice 10 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Concept art practice.


What I did different this time was to not use default round brush but customized it to square shaped brush for eraser and brush.


Result was... it was not much different from a round brush.


I also tried to use more layers this time than before so I could play with layer effects. I used blur for motion or movement(don't know the exact translation for this) to add some movement to the illustration. However, doing too much seemed a bit distracting.

Anyway... I saw some improvement from my last painting I did for fun:


after I got this from my relative (shitake) :p




I started off with white base color, and that made the illustration a bit blurry. As a result, I used black from the start for my recent illustration, and it showed some improvement. Hopefully, I could improve more on the way.



IllustStudio
Photoshop CS3
2-3days (actually worked on this for a few hours over those days)

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

Update

Oi... it's been close to two months since I last updated this blog.

However, these two months had been pretty hectic that there was not much development in art.


Anyway, here I go:

Illustration


Sorcerer by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4
IllustStudio
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Textures: Sozai Jiten Vol 19 & 24, Lace Sozai (Japanese commercial photo/texture stocks)
~a few days



water by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4
Photoshop CS2&3
Illust Studio
3 days

Photography

strawberry by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


orange by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Canon Kiss X3 (S18-55 F3.5-5.6 IS)

Hmmm...

forgot to update this blog in a while- three months to be exact since

1. I didn't have internet for a month since I moved to a new place
2. I was away on my wedding ceremony/honeymoon
3. away on another trip
4. sleeping and eating
5. Preparing for a big wedding party
6. busy with another big event of my life at the end of this year (secret since I don't know if it will work out). :D


Yeah... so my life has been a bit of hectic lately since it changed so much since Feb.


Anyway, since I can't put all stuff up since Feb, I will just put illust and photos that represent what I did since Feb.


Here I go from oldest to newest:

Illustration

Revolution by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


dive by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


botched illustration


3D CG

bug by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

3D CG models
LAMP and others

Photography


flower 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



flower 3 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART




sky 10 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


More are present in my deviantART gallery and folders.

inspection by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



I am usually inspired by photos, and this time it was silver mask by lost-sin. Thank you very much. :)

As a word of thanks, I give permission only to her to do whatever she wants with the graphic.


IllustStudio
Comic Studio Ex 4
Photoshop CS3
8-9 days (but I actually worked on it within last few nights)

and changed my deviantART ID:



Cinema 4D R11 studio
photos I put up earlier
a few min



and also... thank you very much everyone for 20,000 page views for my deviantART page!


Since I was a bit of late realizing this, I didn't prepare anything... will try to do it next time... perhaps...

Abstract Wallpaper:

Wallpaper pack: Egg by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Cinema 4D R11 studio
Photoshop CS3
30min-1hour

botched 3D CG for background for SciFi themed wallpaper:


and... my attempt to try out blurry illustration:

Botanist by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Corel Painter X
Photoshop CS3
Illust Studio
a few days

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

Wallpaper: foggy morning

Wallpaper: foggy morning by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Wallpaper topic: nature

Concept Art Practice 10 :DDDD


It's available for download (personal usage only).

The size is 1600X1200pixel.

IllustStudio 1.1.0 (only!)
3 nights



Oh... I got too lazy to post photos from USJ (Universal Studio Japan) on last Sun. It's available for viewing in my Japanese blog:
http://daydreamingsky.blog94.fc2.com/blog-entry-1378.html

I will be taking a 1.5 week vacation from tonight :D

Mostly... pigging out, etc... staying at home mostly... but... will try to be a proper COUCH POTATO of the century.

So... I might not update anything unless it's photo for my art activity. :p


The next wallpaper theme would be SciFi since I failed last time.


I also became a tester for Clip service of Celsys's site. Celsys is a Japanese company that made Comic Studio (original version of Manga Studio),　IllustStudio, and Retas Studio. It's open to general public sometime next year, but I will be using its beta service for some graphics.

The following are CG I displayed on-line already. You would have to press the bottom left button in order to view it with an on-line viewer when a widow pops up.

	3D CG　イラスト(大） Vole36

	デジタルペインティング Vole36

Collab: New Beginning by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAAYAYAY!!!!


The collab work I had with Emidy (Manhwa artist from Korea) from this May is done at last!!!!!


Actually, most of the work was done in August/September, but due to our busy schedule, we finally finished it!!


The title in our own languages are as follows:
새로운 시작 (saeloun sijag)
新しい始まり

Emidy: Character, green plant, and idea

Waterdroplet: Background and special effects.

Thank you so much!! 大変有難うございました！！감사합니다 ！！

(in three languages :D)

The character is Aura, who belongs to .hack game and anime staff. As a result, this is a fan art.


Softwares used:
Waterdroplet: Photoshop CS2/3, Painter X, SAI (I switched softwares every time they froze on me)
Emidy： Photoshop +SAI?? (Sorry if I'm wrong)

>> The photos I took over the weekend during a hike from Ashiya to Arima is not ready for English Blog. So... for a meanwhile, please view my Japanese blog entry if anybody is interested in seeing photos from then. I blurred out people' faces on purpose.

Day 2, 3 forgot what...

I lost track of when I did these but how the wallpaper is starting to look like:

Day 2 (oi... made her bald as a monk)

Day 3 (started working more on background)


I must say... not much progress since this last image since I was away most of the time during this last three day weekend, and I worked on the next wallpaper last night.


Anyway, photos I took over Sat:
This wasn't Sat but a practice with water drops. I used one of those water sprays for ironing... yeah... didn't turn out well:


Sat, my dog's stuffed animal in a miserable condition:


Sky:



and... me:

Canon Kiss X3+S18-55 F3.5-5.6 IS
Photoshop CS3


now... editing photos I took over the weekend while I hiked with a friend.



Please wait until I finish choosing and editing since I took so many....

Lumix TZ7
Photoshop CS3

Wallpaper: Crossing

Wallpaper: Crossing by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Result of thinking that having crossing signs for railroad is a brilliant idea.


Yeah... it was fine in my head. Then, I drew it and .... orz

I think it looks crappy or dorky... or both.

The crossing sign is in a weird angle since the right angle will chop his head off or it growing from his head like Frankenstein.


Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Comic Studio Ex 4
several weeks (drew it <1 wk on and off, modeling: 1-2 wks, rendering: 20 sec~1 hr.)

3D CG+Illust & a bunch of photos

Again, I failed to update this blog regularly as I should since photos keep on piling up.


Anyway, here's the latest illustration using 3D CG:

Wallpaper: Night flower by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


1920x1200 pixel available for download (personal usage only).


I did it just for fun since satsuki-lo requested it two weeks ago.

This was a bit of hard 3D CG due to moire produced with dark lighting in Cinema 4D. No matter how much I tried- it still sucked. This was a third try- so if you count all of my renders- this took me ~7 hours of rendering.

Oi.


Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio (2 days of modeling on and off, 2 hours and 47 minutes of rendering)

Anyway, here are bunch of photos I took over the weekend:



Lumix TZ-7 (Sat):






















I don't think I'm good at taking photos in aquarium.

Temple and a game in city taken with cellphone two weekends ago :



It's a coin game to catch a stuffed toy of Sentokun- a mascot for Nara Prefecture. I was amused by this since Sentokun is modeled after deer and Buddha. Weird combination, I must say.


KissX3+Canon EF100mm F2.8 Macro USM (Sun):




Salad in a restaurant:

Car:




Yeah... I liked to play with overexposed images.

I fixed this little with Photoshop (only this one) to give slightly aged look:

Sky Building in Osaka:

Playing with Bokeh in the car (while stopping for a streetlight):




The clip of a next illust I'm working on:


Somehow, almost all characters have similar hair styles, but I drew line art since I haven't in a while. Compared to the one on top of this entry, it will be a bright and cheerful illustration with a dash of modern theme. I made most of the 3D CG models for the past week. Now, I will have to arrange it so it fits with this line art and start coloring while rendering. Hopefully, it goes well.

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.

Illustration

imagination by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4.0
SAI
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Lumix TZ7
~ 6 nights (actually worked in 4 nights)

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.