Hands are the Devil's Playthings

Hands are a bugger to make believable. Presenting this weeks... erm... 'Art':


We're studying the process where you draw the basic core and bends of the shapes first and then expand to object outlines and then details. He put a bunch of crap together in the center (A chair, statue/manniquen, and various arms and limbs), but I think I got the worst possible angle. I could barely make sense of it in real life. But I did my best, and it turned out okay. I ran out of time, so some of the outlines are kinda weak in areas. And the arm on the bottom had a hand on it, but after 45mins working on it with no results, I chopped it off. Hense running short on time.

And holy crap, a SECOND arting?


I did this quickey Friday night, as I had a hankering to do something with colour. It's been stormy recently, so lightning seemed like something worth trying. The clouds look a bit too 2D and chaotic. The lighted grass looks okay. The parts I like best is the glow behind the lightning and the tree for the way it's lit and how it's being blown away. I tried to make the tree like the one I did a few drawings back. Oh well, I like it. Especially the colours.

In other news, the Honda died on me. In the left-hand lane. Of an intersection. During rush hour. While it was raining. A guy from the Minit Lube across the street helped me move it out of traffic, and let me use a phone to call me uncle. I was within spitting distance from the school, so I went ahead to the art class while he picked it up. All worked out. Sucky 20 minutes though.
-Cril

If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not;
He just wrote it like that.

The Beatles - Only a Northern Song

XPalicious

That was from last class. Hella crappy, imo. I dunno why, but I just 'gave up' at some point. That's when I added in the other student and my canvas with hand. From there it was the obvious 'oh DUH' video game connection. I was tempted to throw in a crowbar or something... But blah. I added in the crosshair and hud. Just out of frame at the top I had "sp_acad @ 1FPH". That of course, would be cl_showfps 1 in Half-Life 2 console, which would translate loosly to "single painting Alberta College of Art and Design at 1 frame per hour". Yeah, whatever. I'm quite disappointed with the overall quality, but I admit I had fun doing it and listening to some Dave Matthews Band on my 'Pod. Good times.

I got Windows XP Home. I formatted today, it seems everything has gone well. Not only that, but I moved my entire desk/setup to somewhere else in the basement. I like having my computer out of my room. As for reinstalling crap, I always dread having to get iTunes back on its feet. It basically involves copying and pasting everything from the old install and hoping it works with the same library, settings, and checked items. Ugh.

This is gunna be a long week of work. It's pretty exhausting stuff to clean out and work on the shop for 8hrs... Not so much fun.
-Cril

It's crazy I'm thinking
Just knowing that the world is round
And here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down
And is this real or am I dreaming

Dave Matthews Band - Crush

Somedays you just need the speedbumps so you can take in the scenery.

I started my cred-free course this Thursday. It was three hours long, but it went by quickly. We did a shape study using the 'enveloping' technique. It was pretty fun. It's the first time I've really worked with charcoal, which can be quite the... Instrument. It's messy. A little bit goes a loooong way. It smudges where you don't want it to. But it does look hella sexy... I had a blast. Sorry about the pic quality, it was taken on my bro's Palm.



I had to go to the campus at some point to get the paper (22x34"?! Holy crap, does that even exsist anywhere else?) during my lunch hour. I was gone for an hour and forty-five minutes. Okay, so the traffic was horrible. But driving around an unfamiliar large city wasn't the problem. The thing that sucked is that I got lost on campus. The campus where I was supposed to be, and the campus of the next door university. Ugh. Boy did I feel dumb when I went into the wrong bookstore and wondered why it was lacking art supplies... On a good note, though, I knew where to go for my class when it rolled around.

Anyhoo, things of note... I'm now Health Insured, although I still need to finish reading through the papers that came. Holly Brook's album is coming out this week, which I will most likely 'evaluate' before purchasing. FlatOut2 supposedly comes out this month, but videogame release dates tend to be one of the great mysteries in life (Seriously, the site has like three differant dates on it. Helpful...). I beat the new HL2 episode. What a killer game. It was short, yes, but DANG. The best looking graphics I have ever seen, smooth animations, and superb storytelling. Well worth the $20.

Besides that, well... There's nothing else to report. We're recording the Band of Brothers off of the History Channel, and me n' Rob plan on watching them. Also, Dave supposedly has a good connection for scoring some more Munchkin games. But he hasn't heard back from him yet. Argh. Oh well, at least I still have my Pantyhose of Giant Protection that I can ridicule Dave for not being able to have.
-Cril

Paint the town
Take a bow
Thank everybody
You're gonna do it again
Are are the few, the proud
You are the antibody
Mind soul, and zen

And the world's a stage
And the world's a faze
And the end is near

So push rewind
Just in time
Thank anybody
You're gonna do it again

Smash Mouth - Then the Morning Comes