The guy who has dreams!

Computer genius, health fanatic, dreamer, science and technology lover and lots of other things.

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Girls

I feel it is harder to create women faces than men faces, don´t know why, here is an example.

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I have gotten better at sketching

Here are a few of the latest sketches, I got better at drawing cartoon faces but still long road ahead.

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Latest sketches

I have been developing my skills to create a cartoon character for my game. Here are few. One is the nerd but he is not as good as my latest one., which is the high school dude, the lazy one.

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Effort

How much effort does one need to create a game. It seems endless

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Break

Yesterday I did some sketches, but had a break and went early to bed to read a book, it was nice, no worries or anything, just me and the book.

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Vector drawing

I am trying to learn vector drawing from the sketches I have done, it is harder than you think. Arg... Time consuming..

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Who does not remember trackers

I just got a thought in my head about an application that I played with long time ago. The application was named scream tracker which I used to use to create music. Do you remember Future Crew that created the song unreal and something else don´t remember. It was awesome. I also flirted with Fast Tracker for a while, then I just stopped using trackers to create music. Now I don´t use any applications to create music, and I don´t use any instruments, I just don´t create music any more, but I would like to. Awesome time back then.

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Sketching

Did some sketching last night, it was awesome. Did few characters and some bad dudes.

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Just finished drawing concept character

Wanted the character to be a high school dude. This character does not have any motivation in life. He is lazy and hangs with his friends who are nerds. I don´t have a name for this guy yet. All characters shall have slim faces as this one but look different.

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The weekend

As always there is something to do on the weekends. Last night I was doing some partying. Woke up this morning at 7:00 and I wanted to sleep longer, I got bored and got to my computer at 9:00. Drove my brother to his car, ate some launch and got back home. I felt that I should just relax on this Sunday, just to fill up the batteries for the next week so I took a nap and it was very energizing. This evening I´m going to do some draw training, draw some concepts of characters for the game I´m thinking of. I´ll post to my blog the characters and hopefully if someone is reading my blog posts I can get some feedback on how the characters are.

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Indie game

I just played A New Beginning - Final Cut which is al right game. It starts very futuristic and then goes to the story to the end, but the story actually is not that great. What I like about this game is the graphics, drawings and such. There are lot of bugs in the game, but not that it affects how the gameplay is.

Did a drawing yesterday also, just to see how colors mix, here is a pic.

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I just bought ..

I just bought a Wacom sketching pad with a pen today. Tried it for the first time and it did not feel very good, but then I learned how to handle the pen and draw and it was great. Now I can use the applications. The only problem is that the package includes software on a DVD but I don´t have a CD/DVD drive in my computer so I don´t know how I am going to install the software. Just need to find an old computer that has a DVD drive and see how it goes. here are two pictures I drew 

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Today

My daughter has the flu so I will be staying home today keeping an eye out for her. At least I can do some learning.

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Frusterating

It seems that I am in the ZONE to do something, such as trying to learn something I really like to learn I get this feeling that I don´t know when to start. For example I just get the zone feeling and when I am ready set go to do something, I have to do something else first, like go to the bathroom, get my self something to drink, calling someone, checking my email and lots of other things. When time comes to do some actual learning, then I am not in the ZONE any more or the time is to late to start learning anything. Can be a little bit frustrating.

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I want to create a game.. What to do?

From as long I can remember I wanted to create games. I am a quite good story teller, at least that what my daughter say. Now I have been looking into things on how I can create games. I have tried unity, game maker and construct 2. First of all I just want to create a simple platform game, but the story for the game that I want to start with is stuck in my head and I feel that the story requires me to do lot of artwork. So where do I begin... 

1. Select the ultimate game engine.. done = going to use construct 2.

2. Create a prototype of the game.. not done. Even if the game engine is easy to use, I still need to learn how things work in the engine.

3. Create a sketches on how the game will look like... kinda done.. in my head. But I started a online artwork class so I can visualize and draw what I want. This will take some time.. I don´t think I can say I´am good at drawing. Well hopefully within 3 months time I could sketch some figures and environments.

4. Create music for the game.... Uhhh, yeah.. Let see how that one goes.

5. Sounds for the game.. Yeah same as number 4.

I don´t expect to get any money from the game, but hopefully if the story, artwork, music, sounds is good, maybe just maybe I can sell few copies on steam or somewhere else. This will require a lot of work and the only time I have is the free time on the evenings when I am not in the other work.

When do I begin ? Well, first of all I need to finish the artwork classes and see how that goes. When I finish that I can get to the next point which is learning the game engine.

I really do like critics on my work so maybe I can drop some sketches here and there on vivaldi.net, tumblr.com and see if someone could tell me how the characters, environments, sounds etc. feels to them.