Accidently Deleted My Commets

I accidently deleted all my comments. I thought if I cleared them they would only delete in my dashboard :(
I was wrong. I only had a few comments of course lol, but they were precious to me. Goodbye Kind Words.... I am sorry.

Superheroes and Austin

This is a character concept piece I did for a competition over at http://www.talenthouse.com/ I've never really tried to create a superhero, but one thing for sure is that it's super hard to come up with something original. There are hundreds of superhero heroes out there, which means most of your ideas that you think are great... have already been done. Its really frustrating but I finally ended up with this. I am satisfied with the concept but at the same time he does resemble other characters. I had a hard time coming up with a name as well. I first named him Conquest only to find out there are two other comic characters named that so I came up with another and called him Sun Strike but then realized the name had nothing to do with his powers. Finally I named him Vesalius, which if you dont know is an anatomy artist from the 15th century ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Vesalius ) for some reason I think the name fits... I haven't made up a story from him but i think he'll be from another planet, and Vesalius sounds a little alien to me, so it stuck. If I can think of a decent story, I wouldnt mind coming back to him and making other characters but for now its just a concept.


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Austin is a great place to live, but sometimes I forget. I live on the North Side and dont make it south as much as  I should. Theres a totally different vibe going on. People are out there enjoying life... enjoying the small things, enjoying the things we forget about because were so caught up in our phones and other technologies. I've been in Austin going on five years and its time I start living here, instead of being cooped up inside. Since I didn't make a resolution this year, I guess this will be it... To learn how to enjoy the simple things again. This weekend I went down with a few friends. My roommate was taking some fashion photos and a few of us tagged along. While they took pictures we walked along the lake and just enjoyed the day. For the big finale, we went to Homeslice Pizza! Its a great pizza joint, and it was my first visit but surely not my last! So heres a picture of town lake and the other is the inside of Homeslice.

Drifting.

STUFF.....

Anatomy

Lately I've been trying to better my anatomy drawings. I have a few anatomy books my two favorites are Andrew Loomis and Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy. This is a study I did from Hogarth's book.

 I havent been to impressed with how i draw faces, for some reason they seem lifeless. If I want to be someone successful, knowing and studying anatomy is something I must always do. I remember having a drawing book as a kid, it was the kind that starts off with circles/cylinders and eventually you have a complete character. As a kid I thought it was ridiculous to start off with a circle, knowing that the shape consists of so many other curves. I never wanted any other book like that, I thought it was a waste of my time. Then I went to college, and I learned in my anatomy/life drawing class how to go about drawing the figure. And on that first day we were given a demonstration on how to go about setting up the over all form. He drew a circle, then a cylinder and so on, and I instantly felt like a dumbass after the demonstration was done. Sometimes you have to see something done physically in front of your eyes to truely understand the process. After years of denying the circle/cylinder process I had to start learning how to see objects as basic shapes. Its not always easy but its definitely the best lesson that got handed to me. I know my drawings are still very weak, and im just trying to develop my skills as much as I can, and I know with more and more practice there will be no disappointment.

Sketch of the Day

unfinished sketch... the green water color was done in photoshop. The rest is pencil pen and prisma. i still need alot of work on faces, it still looks lifeless to me. I'll get it one day...

the sketch was done from a photograph by Jaime Ibarra. Check his site out, he lives in Austin, maybe one day i'll meet him. http://jaimeibarra.deviantart.com/

The Process

Heres a short video of me starting a digital painting.

Lifes Path

Just something that came to me today... i'll elaborate later.

maybe we all have unique and individual finger prints because the only way God can recognize us is by holding our hands.