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

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