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| Valkyrie (BattleTech) fan art |
I haven't painted a mech before so when a chance came to try paint one here's what I came up with.
It's a Valkyrie from BattleTech. I wasn't that familiar with the game but when I did a bit of research I found out that the game is closely related to MechWarrior, which was one of the few PC games that I actually got addicted to. It took me longer to finish than I had originally anticipated due to some projects so I decided that I'd lock myself over the weekend last week just to work on this.
I'm quite happy with it but to be honest it wasn't able to capture the essence of BattleTech. I'm very thankful to a more experienced artist who pointed that out to me and shared a lot of pointers on how an illustrator should think. I'm not sure if I can mention his name here so I won't but it is enough to say that in one email he was able to teach me so much about illustration. Plus it made me think about how important it is to have a mentor who will teach you from experience. So thank God for that.
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| My make-believe Light Box |
I'm also going trad again and so far it's been fun! Well... my output isn't great but I'm loving every minute I spend drawing on this piece of hard plastic hehe!
I try to spend as at least 3 hours working on my Marvel samples everyday while listening/watching documentaries or Beast Wars. It's a reward to myself since this is something I really couldn't do when I had a day job.
Last month my cousin and my older brother were cleaning our storage area and they came across this plastic board (I don't know what it's called) and my old drafting board that I used when I was aggressively pursuing comics around 4 years ago. The plastic came from when I was working in animation around seven years ago so it was really nice to see them both and it made me think long and hard about working with pencils again, something that I haven't done in 3 years or so. Sadly all my drawing stuff is gone except these two so I'm in a mode right now where I'm buying again various drawing implements and messing around with different types of paper that I can get my hands on. It's been really fun but I have to relearn all the stuff that I used to do... heck, I don't even know what type of paper to use anymore!
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| The "printer-scanner-dvd-psp-Bible-camera-vado-hd" rack. |
And then there's the scanner... This one's old... like way old. It can't even scan colored images properly now. Kris and I were supposed to go out and buy a scanner about a week ago but decided not to because she found out where her old scanner was. So I took that home and tried to make it work but apparently Windows 7 doesn't support that model anymore so out of frustration I took out one of my old scanners and tried to make it work. It turned out that the only defect it had was that the lock jammed the "scanning light" and that by simply holding it in place the scanner would work. Dang... and to think that I bought another one because of that (that other scanner by the way got damaged by Ondoy). Now it's back albeit it can only scan in grayscale, which is fine because that's all I need at the moment.
It's been raining heavily these part few days and I haven't had the chance to go out and buy hobby paints so my Sandrock will have to sit in the box for a while. My experiment with Nail Polish as hobby paint substitute failed miserably so I really can't do much except get a new kit to work on.
This is the 1/72 Academy A10 Thunderbird 2 aka Warthog. I've lost all the decals so I'm planning on doing a custom scheme for this... probably a Zeon inspired scheme or whatever.
It sucks that Lil's in Trinoma has closed. That was the nearest place for me to get my Tamiya paints. Now I have to go to either Makati or Megamall to get my paints. Bummer.
And to cap off this entry: Grimlock, the only toy in the above 1k range that I actually paid retail for.
Night guys and God bless!
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| Me Grimlock say, you so small! |
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