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Trying to get back into form figure drawing a bit, using a mix of Posemaniacs and the Draw This Friday evening figure drawing streams. Rusty but starting to feel a little better about where I’m back at.

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From tonight’s stream, 3 studies of Staubbach Waterfall in Switzerland and the cool little town around it. The feeling on them was perfect for what I’m looking to capture with my Tiny Witches project. Thanks @icysketchbook for popping in and chatting with me so I wasn’t just an old man yelling at the clouds.

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Happy birthday to my good friend Med~

Super quick sketch before bed cause work leaves me the 0 free time right now.

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Sketchy af Deedlit I rocked out the other night when I wanted to see if I could get anything cracked out in the like 15m I gave myself before having to go to bed. Then ended up spending like another 15m cause it was fun.

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Some sketching from D&D night, sketching a shot out of BDO character creator that had been kicking around in my head informing my original vision for my bard Courtney’s design, and trying to note down a design I saw at Renfaire over the weekend that might be helpful to a friend’s awesome halloween costume. 

Fully intend to take bard back to a young heavier dark skinned woman from the kind of “default” pretty white girl idea. Love the cool art my friends in the game made me before getting to flesh out her design more myself.

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Sketching a random photo of someone wandering around in god knows where in presumably costume. Looks like a candid shot of someone born 200 years too early to be in Cowboy Bebop and I’ve wanted to draw the guy for ages. 

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Finally got my Cintiq 24hd in working order. I’ve wanted a Cintiq for like 14 years now??? So amazingly pumped to finally have one. I’ve been doing a lot of actual people work lately. Over the summer I was a lead instructor at a summer camp in the San Jose area teaching video game design and a bit of graphic design for web stuff. More recently I’ve been working doing merchandising for ye olde big box electronics retailer. My lovely wife Caity has long since been back at work teaching high school which has the unfortunate ramification that I only get to see her on weekends pretty much now as she’s not staying at our apartment and is instead primarily at the house we own. But we make it work.

So the top image is studying some of the way that my old friend from Art Center Bryan Lee paints and draws portraiture. We have a ton of shared interest artistically and I love the results he’s been getting from years of daily timed portrait paintings and the way he designs his shapes and blending of some classic illustrators approaches to get really concise images. Definitely look at his shit and see all the stuff I’m trying to pick apart and see how he’s thinking about stuff so I can find out if those questions will be relevent to my own art process. 

Next up sketching a neat coat thing off google images. Not much going into it, wanted to find some costuming stuff and study it before bed. I’m working on a more in depth illustration with a bunch of friends as Harry Potter characters for a birthday gift to them/all of us and commemoration of us all going down to Wizarding World for the 30th birthday extravaganza of one of those friends. More to come on that as it develops

Playing some D&D5e with friends online and finally sketched my bard a bit in our Catfolk disguises to start off our recent main story quest stuff. The game is comprised of all artists and our campaign often deteriorates into us shitposting on discord and drawing goofy shit. But it’s lovely.

I know I’ve not gotten into the stuff from GDC decompression and I might have a decent chunk of art I haven’t gotten up here yet, not sure this last few months have been really busy and I’ve not had as much time to do things as I’d have liked, definitely haven’t been on the daily drawing train for a while and hoping to get that cleaned back up a lot. Also it’s been more than a year since my much delayed honeymoon in Cancun now and that’s tripping me out. 

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Heading off to GDC 2016 in San Francisco for the next week here’s what I’ll be showing for my portfolio. If any of you are going track me down and say hi! I’ll be working with the IGDA booth for part of the conference, at various parties in the evenings, and generally floating around the rest of the time. Message me through Tumblr or on Twitter: @Gygaxis