Did I not promise a hand-drawn, scanned, high quality image? I did and I deliver. I drew this waiting for my plane at Sea-Tac. There's a bit of text that goes with this, but I'm going to spare you some angst. You don't need to hear it. What you do need to hear is that it's a good lesson. What lesson can we learn? Cheap Pen and yellow paper plus sleeping person with crazy hair equals good interesting picture. No breasts... Well, I was thinking that you can't really see breasts on girls unless they wear clothes that boast it. This girl does not want to wear these clothes. She's new age hippy type with short hair, but she's done fighting for the day. The eyes are very nice, right? Not perfectly aligned, but the feeling of them makes me think: peace.
This picture has a real-life model. His name is Pete and the quote is not to misplace any credit on his wonderful music, but rather to simply explain a point. Everyone copies everyone else. If you strive to be original, you're still copying. You copy yourself, you copy your memory, you copy your environment, and you copy your penstrokes. So, what am I saying with this picture? Artistically, I mean. Well, first off, look at the jaw. It's quite stocky, just like the jaw of the model. The eyes however are less masculine. However, they convey a really important point about the model: he's a soft-hearted guy. Even though he's a Marine, he's a good guy and he's my brother. He's a great musical artist and I ask for your support of him. Money would be nice, but fandom is better. Send money to 5050 7th Ave NE #7, Seattle, WA 98105 or send fandom to MCRD San Diego, CA.
This picture isn't very special. He's going to be a side character of JF. He won't get a line of speech, or will he? Find out in Scene 5. One lesson I'd like to teach tonight is the back of the head. Although many of my pictures lack the back of the hair, they should have it. Me being an amateur am just learning how to do it right. This picture is the link between awful and decent.
Ah, semi-ecci. I love it. Actually, it's not just a simple sick pre-teen (I just exited my teens last summer) idea, it's a lesson in disguise. This lesson is that things we often take for granted can be wonderful resources. Take television. I am the first to say, "Kill your TV" but I'm liking what I see during certain times of TV viewing. For instance, a lame show made for young teens and old perverts, "Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World" was the source of this image. I didn't trace because my screen made it impossible. However, I tried to make it right. But I found that it wouldn't work out. Why won't copying from the TV work? Well, pause your TV (if you don't have TiVo, pause the VCR or DVD) and check the picture. It's likely one or two of two things: blurred image and ugly, irreproducible character position. The latter is an odd issue. It stems from data and physics theory. The human body is made of a trillion cells and each cell is made of millions of atoms. There alone lies a problem of data storage. If you want to store every atom in a human, good luck. A few Terabyte hard drives wouldn't do it. Don't even ask me about rendering it. If you want to do it at a cellular level, ask me in twenty years. If you want to do it at the body part/texture level, you're going to lose a lot of data. Anime deals with that allowing the artist to condense into what the artist wants the audience to see. For example, one of my favorite ideas is to reduce data to a point where the models are beautifully simple. I haven't gotten it very well, but the Female Rave Kiddie is a pretty decent simple model. It is my belief that the female rave kiddie model is beautiful and simple. 3d tries to do that and artists often try to copy actual view. But the truth is that cameras lie. They take averages over time. The thing that allows us to use cameras to a seriously good result is that the human eyes are much like cameras. The eyes take averages over small amounts of time. So a 32 fps video looks smooth and a person can be recognized from a small amount of square pixels.
