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

2010

began with a lot of photography and sorting out old files.

I sorted out things from 2003-2009 to see its progress:

2003-2009 MEME by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

The last doodle of 2009:

I just used Photoshop to practice a technique I saw in a book earlier on that day. Of course, it didn't turn out the way I wanted but sort of got the idea of how to go about certain graphic.

and the first sunset of 2010:

1-1-2010 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Anyway, here I go with photos I took from 1/1/2010 to this weekend since I didn't update this blog.

Spec. info:
1/1/2010 photos:
Food:
Canon Kiss X3
Canon EF100mm F2.8 Macro USM
Photoshop CS3

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

Aquarium photos:
Lumix TZ7
Photoshop CS3

Otoso, sweet rice wine called mirin with herbs.

Ozoni with white miso:

Kuromame (sweetened black beans):

Kazunoko (herring eggs):

gomame (small sardines):

Nishikitamago (sweetened egg):

Kamaboko (fish cake):

Kobumaki (kelp roll) with salmon:

Forgot what this was but chicken thingmy:

Dog:

I eliminated some photos from 1/1 since it had sea cucumbers. I think many people are not used to seeing sea cucumbers as food so if interested, please look at:
http://daydreamingsky.blog94.fc2.com/blog-entry-1387.html#more
for sea cucumbers my family found on the beach to being on a dining table if interested.



Kaiyukan Aquarium shots (more photos are in my Japanese blog):

Dolphin playing with water:

Fish in a staring game w. me:

seals that are too fast to be in a photo:

but bothered to poop:

and play with a diver who is cleaning in middle of poop above:

Sunfish:

Whale shark:

Shot with a different screen mode:

School of sardines:

Jellyfish:

Jellyfish by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Wallpaper: Wish

I sort of forgot to post it earlier last week...


Ok... here I go:
1st doodle with new IllustStudio I got in last... last weekend... or two weekends ago:


My dog (took with a mobile phone camera):


and... my latest wallpaper with fantasy theme:


Wallpaper: Wish by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

It's wip is this:

process


Photoshop CS2/3
IllustStudio 1.0.10
SAI
3 weeks

p.s. I saw UP over the weekend. I think it was really good movie. The plot seemed to suck at a glance but animation part- expression of characters and etc. made me... cry several times through the movie. Ugh... shamelessly.

Doodle: Dragon and a guy with apron

Alchemy

Photoshop CS3

2 nights

Up close:

Yeah... this was a doodle I did for the past two nights. I first created the face of a dragon using Alchemy and painted over it in Photoshop. I meant to paint a coat for a guy and ended up with bistro apron guy.

Since... I like bistro apron. I think they make people hotter *cough *cough.

Nah... but... they indeed make them seem a slightly different. Longer legs? More professional looking?

But... this tends to look like a skirt than apron. Ugh.

This was an instant drink I had recently called Amazake.　A traditional Japanese drink.

I was a bit high on sugar from drinking this that I made the ad looking thing above- with bad typography and sense of taste... I took the photo with DSLR and fixed and edit in Photoshop along with typography and etc. It's a bit off season since fans are symbols of summer....

Oi vey...

Doodle with Alchemy

Ever since I found about Alchemy from Jama's comment in his page, I became obsessed with the program.

To Jama:

Congrats on receiving DD!

I was a bit amazed how gallery mod responded fast to a suggestion (a day after my suggestion, he received DD). He would have gotten it sooner or later though since he's a great concept artists with a wonderful sense and skills. Really friendly and helpful to others as well.

Anyway, my attempt of last night:

Insect like thing:

Some sort of pattern:

And a bunny... no some sort of rodent:

Alchemy

Switched to Photoshop and used PS brushes that Jama kindly gave me other day:

Ta-dah!

Okay... I will try to do better next time I use this same method for the concept art.

All of this took a few min~30 min. So... quick doodles.

Doodle: Room (Sci-fi themed)

Finished the doodle at day IV.


Room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


It's progress in nutshell:

Room- Progress by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


SAI
Photoshop CS2
commercial stock photos (marble, rust) (Sozai Jiten)

DAY 2

I added slightly more details today:

After I went out drinking with friends and came back (slightly tipsy but... decided to paint slightly more):

I added more colors to skin with water color and added more details and etc. with acrylic. I'm working mostly in that acrylic brush with this piece of work.


Anyway... sleepy now so off to sleep.

to be continued...

Doodle: ROOM - SF styled painting (DAY 1)

This is the latest doodle I'm doing in an attempt to do SF style since it didn't work the last time :p

This is the DAY 1 steps I made- from a basic sketch to simple coloring yesterday. I will do more later.

Ok... so I will use SAI this time since I'm on Windows Vista. This could be done in Photoshop or Painter but... since I need to practice SAI I got last week, I will use this.

Brushes I used in this:

Pencil

Eraser

Acrylic (for thick ones)

Water color (for light shade)

Blur (? I'm not sure what it is exactly called in English version since mine is original Japanese one)

I did a basic sketch of the scene and made rough outline with acrylic brush. During these processes, I am constantly changing the brush settings- mainly thickness of the color (opacity?), how much water there is in the brush, and sometimes, brush tips to default to 丸筆 or round brush. Every single time there's image in this entry, please think that I created a new layer.

Now... shading. I used mainly water color brush + blur
More details and shadows with acrylic brush, with thicker black color:

slightly more detail with acrylic brush, white this time:

Now, start the coloring. First, skin with water color:

Now some hair and shirt...

More colors

And... this is where I passed out last night. Off to sleep

will be continued... perhaps on Sun since I will be drinking out Fri and Sat nights with friends :p

SAI

a few hours

Got SAI

After a year of contemplating whether to just stick with Painter and/or SAI, I decided to get SAI!





Another concept art practice.

Bamboo Fun
SAI
15-20 min

concept art practice 3

Before the editing (drawn with a mouse for 20-30 min again):




Photoshop CS2/CS3
Mouse
intuos 3