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:
I combined the wire frame and render I made with global illumination in Photoshop.
This is the first time I created stuff from polygons and painted directly on 3D CG using the Body Paint function in Cinema 4D. Hopefully, I improved a bit in my 3D CG skills.
Cinema 4D R11 studio Photoshop CS3 ~3nights（1 hour of rendering(Global Illumination)）
A practice similar to this I did a few nights ago:
For this one, I didn't make from polygons but just changed the shape of a rectangular cube.
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.
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.
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....
has been featured in the main page of loftwork website, a Japanese website that has more than 13000 creators of different genre. It will be posted there for ~ a week- so it will end probably this Fri or Sat.
Thank you very much for the feature!
This is the first time I had my photograph featured in a Japanese website. I had manga and illustrations featured before in other Japanese/international sites, and photograph/illustrations occasionally in individual deviantART news. So I'm happy :D
And... one more great news is that my collab partner got back to me over last weekend- so it will finish within a few weeks probably. We were working on it between our free time between our busy schedules, so it took long- since May. However, the illustration theme is set for winter so I think it's perfect timing... perhaps a bit early.
Following are photos I took over last weekend in Kobe and Kinosaki. I took all of them with a mobile phone, mostly with a new function I discovered over the weekend, so they are weird in some areas:
This is Herb Garden on top of a mountain near 三宮 Sannomiya, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Since it's a bit off season, there were mostly leaves... not much flowers other than two-three types. So, enjoyed the view while munching on a lavendar soft-serve (ソフトクリーム）.
Front: Back:
Somewhere mid-way:
Tried to take a shot diagonally:
Ate the soft-serve and went back home:
On the next day- Sunday- I went with a friend to Kinosaki 城崎 for a ride after a bit of important meeting (nothing related to art) :D
Kinosaki is in Hyogo Prefecture but on Sea of Japan side- so I guess my weekend was spent moving around places for over 300 km. Probably with train rides and all- covered 400 km.
Since I had to swing myself around 180 degrees to take previous photos, I decided to take the easy way- by taking a photo while my friend was driving.
Result:
Gaaaaaaah!!
And... a town next to Kinosaki (forgot its name):
nice sunset in a town close to Sea of Japan.
Anyway... I'm currently working on series of wallpapers. Manga needs slight fixing since I'm trying to condense the story into a fewer pages as possible. In meanwhile, wallpaper I'm working on is based on a little survey I put out a week ago, asking people in deviantART about what genre they prefer in wallpapers. I will try to improve the composition on the way.
This is the result:
Thank you very much for answering my survey! :D
Ok... so my purpose of doing this is that I could determine which genre I should start on for series of wallpapers I'm planning to create so I could practice in an organized matter. Since I randomly pick topics often, I wanted to create something that's according to a set schedule. I am currently making wallpapers with genres that had greatest number of answers to least.
Therefore, the current topic I'm working on is fantasy, and I must say I faced a bit of an art block for a week. I would create an illustration and botch it in two days of working on it. So... the first one that I botched was this:
How it looked like in Photoshop:
I used two vanishing points for this one (although I drew a third here but didn't use) then... I began to not see the difference between fantasy and Sci-Fi genre in this sort of drawing. In addition, it looked like something a pre-schooler could draw. So... I botched it.
I had two other drawings I started and then botched. The second one was a bit of Japanese themed fantasy- then botched it since it looked flat. Then, the third one was space drawing. I might use that later but not for these wallpapers probably.
Did a bit of 3D CG practice to get my mind off:
Created this in Photoshop: and used alpha in the material setting to get this effect:
There are many ways of cutting models- Boolean and by clicking one surface one by one- but I think this was the best method to get windows for the building.
I think I will incorporate this skill in the future.
Then, yesterday... I finally got what I wanted for the wallpaper.
I finally settled on something from Aesop's fable, The Honest Woodcutter.
Following are wips:
DAY 1 First, I doodled in SAI, thinking that it would be a 1920X1200 pixel wallpaper:
I meant it to be a guy looking out from a space between buildings or walls- to a bunch of jellyfish or something floating in the space.
SAI had too small brush so I switched to Photoshop and colored in "walls":
Yeah... then I thought it was a crappy idea since it was similar to lines of:
So... I decided to use a different approach by making the bottom right side as water related place:
I've done stuff on shores looking out to water but not this angle so I thought it was suited for this time. Then, it was sort of boring just having a guy and water so I added a nymph, goddess or something from Aesop's fable:
Honest Woodcutter- was it?
Then, started coloring:
I'm planning to not do this in a oil painting style but in lines of semi-realism like:
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?
1st one: took of couple of days to produce 2nd one: Took 15 min to produce
and guess what-
The one that I created in 15 min is more popular.... X0X
I better focus more on graphic design from now.
There's one illust I'm planning to create- I think I will start working on it tomorrow after baking Christmas cake since tonight's party time~
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I think I will redraw my next manga page since making it color didn't help the situation. I didn' want to - for a couple of months since I really liked it. But, looking at it now, it didn't seem that good. So,I will try to work on it slightly more from now.
