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Oh! Yes, I forgot about this!
I’m obviously fascinated with big anime eyes, and I wanted to try the glistening effect in animation.
I reused this illustration because it’s one of the few I have, fully finished, in which the eyes were worthy of the brilli-brilli.
I still used procreate to make it, it barely has 5 frames, but I think it works were well as a GIF.
I want to make this on another illustration, this one was alright as it was.
Cleaned!
A hand fell off, tho. I fixed with a bit of miracle epoxy clay. I also remade with epoxy the index fingers that were printed really strange.
I'm thinking about the next steps:
Should I file it/sand it?
Someone mentioned acetone to smoth the surface and reduce the typical 3D printed texture.
I have some scraps from the discarded pillars and I'm going to do some tests with them.
I thought that maybe a thick coat of my fancy polymer varnish could potentially smooth the surface to prepare it for painting.
That would be quite easy.
There's also the option of coating it with epoxy clay slip.
There will also be sanding in the process, but I'm a 100% sure that the epoxy will be easyer to sand than the brittle plastic, and it will also harden the structure a bit more.
Second post because tumblr doesn’t allow for two videos in the same poster.
And bonus boyfriend reaction.
The phrase of the day is:
You know? You can get a 3D printer for about 400£!
Gosh... I’m very pumped about this, but I still don’t know how 3D printing fits in my practice to make an investment like that! Also, where would I put a 3D printing machine in my cramped house?
Got the beeeeeeest news today, one day to the deadline XD
It’s here! It’s physical!!!!
It’s so different to see the volumes irl!
I contacted Kostas and Tim last week to see if If I could use the 3D printing machines, and well, they said yes when I sent them a picture of my 3D modelled character.
Unfortunately I MISPLACED the original file I LOST IT!!!! This happened basically because I wasn’t familiarised with how to storage this huge 3D files, and my tablet is currently about to burst. It doesn’t have much more memory and It’s due for a good memory housekeeping.
I made some changes on the go to the distorted one and we were able to use it to print. Kostas insisted on getting a straighter figure next time. There’s a problem when much of the model is hanging on the air, since the machine needs to create ‘pillars’ to support it. The more pillars it does, the more imperfections and cleaning after the printing.
A traitorous picture of me painting this for scale and for fun.
I am painting this for the Bloomin Blast Revolution zine.
It is basically my personal rendition of the sailor moon transformation.
I wanted to do something that wasn't digital, but it actually feels like I've lost a lot of practice.
I also wanted to test out how my painting style would work with a more illustrative thing, but I'm really feeling the lack of reference to draw colour from. Something is not working for me.
Also I keep being very ahorrative with paint and I use it almost as watercolour, don't ask me why I do that, when I actually got a bunch of acrylics with the Haworth scholarship....
Although I do like how the textures are looking now that it has several thin layers that have build up. I guess I'll just have to keep working on it until I'm satisfied.
Sketchbook tour
Here's a link to a:
New photo · Album by Lula S. R.
I've been working a lot with my sketchbook.
I've actually filled a sketchbook and a half this year. Giving all my money to moleskine 🤣.
It's not as fancy, graphic and experimental as the one last year, but more a way to keep hold of my ideas and loosely practice for future illustrations.
(It's also full of notes and to do lists)
In fact, I've pulled out a few interesting illustration from them, by just taking a picture and digitalizing them afterwards.
This new relationship I've established with my sketchbook feels a lot more natural for me. I take it everywhere with me, and just scribble.
It acts as a returning point when I'm out of inspiration and It helps me organize my ideas, which can be challenging for me....
ART TOYS
Is it a toy? Is it art? What does it represent? Who determines its price? Luasio López answers your questions For many, the charm of an a
How it all began
It was September 1999 when Michael Lau, a Hong Kong artist, exhibited his collection, Gardeners, inspired by the character G. I. Joe adapted to an urban aesthetic: tattoos, piercings and skateboards. For many people, this was the trigger for what would become the gigantic cultural and marketing wave that art toys represent today.
What is an Art Toy?
Soon, companies like Medicom and Kidrobot began to make their own customizable figures, attracting the interest of collectors who found in these objects–initially made of vinyl–an outlet for their passion for various pop culture characters. This, in turn, aroused the interest of museums and galleries around the world to exhibit this new form of conceptualization, and art toys were positioned as a new form of artistic expression.
Toys or art?
Opinions are still divided. However, a good starting point is to recognize the design and abstraction work behind each of them. Because they are not just replicas, but specific representations that, in many cases, are the personal manifestations of the hands behind them, and that is precisely the origin of the value they may have as collectible objects.
And yes, their designs are usually based on or inspired by toys or characters whose initial target audience is children. However, the resulting pieces have a diverse market, which does not seek them precisely to play with them, but to expose them as a personal statement about their tastes, passions and hobbies.
In the end, it does not matter what the final use of these figures is: their design is appreciated by different people, especially the creative ones.
More and more, artists are being drawn to a field that is growing in popularity.
I actually made this Domestika course on art toys.
It teached you how to make an art toy from scratch with fimo (I don't like fimo anymore) and guides you through the finishing touches like sanding, painting and varnishing.
I think that now that I've started to do sculpture and 3D stuff I can tell that I'm actually closer to this 'fancy artsy pop sculptures' than anything else.
Also I'm really interested in the comercialization possibilities.
Ice skaters and dancers make the most insane poses.
I was trying to give my character more dynamic poses with what I called: 'extreme perspectives' (but it's actually just... badly done perspective) and movement arcs. And I'm not so good at anatomy...
Posing myself was out of the question, because I'm neither flexible nor photogenic, and making someone else pose for me is a similar torture (I know by experience)
So whilst doing a random pinterest search... ICE SKATERS! they look like floating!
So I've been saving so many that pinterest thinks now that I'm a sports person.
Although I still prefer to draw from imagination and alter the body proportions to make them look more cartoony, this was an excellent practice and inspiration.
https://www.yoshitakaamano.com/work#/candy-girl
Work — YOSHITAKA AMANO
Candy girl series:
Devaloka:
This guy does everything; fashion, animation, concept art, paintings.... and everithing is beautiful.
Although I’m particularly fascinated with this two series of works: candy girls and Devaloka.
What does innocence truly mean?
En Iwamura — Maake Magazine
Lomex, New York, USA
Julien Ceccaldi -
as still trying to look artist statements and bios that work with narrative and I found Julian Ceccaldi.
He’s an exhibiting artist as well as a comic book writer.
His manga inspired paintings are full of narratives of love and rejection and failed aspirations.
Welcome to the 21 century <3
Part 1
Ok, so you can do this....
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My relationship with research is very tricky... I’m constantly looking at different artist an stuff, but the things I like the most, I just stumble on them on my journey through the internet (just makes it hard to record it). I trust the algorithms, Zuckerberg knows me well.
I stumbled on this artist on instagram, he doesn’t have a website, and I cant find more information on him, but I think he works developing videogames.
However this sparkled my imagination! This is very illustrative! And I, giving my first baby steps on the 3D medium thought: what if I could make a fully realised illustration on 3d?
This is definitely a goal ( I need to update my laptop tho) but I want to start practicing on blender and all this fancy 3D programs, and put in practice all the YouTube tutorials that I’m watching for pure entertainment.
More nostalgia:
I was including this sort of vintage “superhero girl” on my illustrations anyway, so I thought It was worthy of some more visual research.
I particularly like the Japanese version of this, but anything that screams golden comic book era is valid for me.
Yokai
Meet my new obsession:
Old-fashioned, handmade evil guy costumes, from old-fashioned superhero shows.
Power rangers, ultraman, sailor moon... are the only ones I can recognise... It’s kinda hard to do research on this, most of the stuff I found is in Japanese...
I am fascinated with this. There’s something very kitschy that I love. Awkward, bizarre and over the top but still with a pinch of naivety that makes it worthy. I think there’s something very special on this old practical effects that’s incomparable with any digital special effects nowadays.
This is of course, me channeling my nostalgia.
There’s also the fact that this crazy costumes used to scare me a lot when I was a kid, seeing it now with perspective really tickles my humorous bone.
I still don’t know where I’m going with this, but I would like to include this on my practice somehow.
Dorothy Circus Gallery is a new independent Pop Surrealism gallery in London, Notting Hill
Her paintings are full of narratives of Asian femininity.
Narrative, again.
Lucky cat!
I’ve always had one of this at home. And a while ago i sketched one of this on a cardboard I was using to protect my table from paint. I kinda wanted to do an illustration with it, have a character riding it and coins raining. 3D is a very cool way to make illustrations. I know the learning curve is quite pronounced, but I really want to keep trying.
Sometimes I have volumes in my head and I’m not able to give the adequate shape with a pencil or paint, the lighting is always an issue, this certainly makes everything a bit easier.
And the textures :))))))))))) this software only has metallic, shiny plastic and matte, and they are already amazing, however I wonder what other effects can b achieved in less casual programs like blender or zbrush. I’m overdue for a laptop update, I better start saving.