I am quite pleased to share that I managed a bit more arting this past week than slacking. I can’t say that I spent endless hours in the studio working on things. I did spend some time each day or nearly such, working on some art or modeling endeavor.
I spent more time working on the Pumpkin model in ZBrush. I’m still not sure what I’m going to do with it but I think I need to decide soon and get to it. Mid-October is here and if I want it to be a Halloween piece I need to get it decided and get it finished. Though I might be close to being finished with the model of the Pumpkin. It’s come along really nice. A few more adjustments and it might be ready for color. I’m thinking I will polypaint it.
The Alien got eye-balls. Yes in no longer looks at you from gaping holes in its head. They turned out to be not too difficult to add. I think the most annoying bit was how big the sphere was when I inserted it. It was annoying primarily because it meant I had to scale it down to fit correctly. As I might have mentioned, I’m not entirely friends with the transform gizmo in ZBrush, particularly when it comes to scaling. I did however manage a truce with it and got an eye-ball scaled down to fit. Then I figured out how to duplicate the scaled down sphere. I thought there was a mirror option for that as well, and I’m sure there is but I couldn’t find it. Without the mirror option I had to place the duplicate sphere manually. Back to that transform gizmo. At least this was just to move it. I do much better with the gizmo if I’m just moving things. I’m pleased with how the Alien is coming along. Here’s a look.
And I finally got back to the rigging of Sticks. When we last left off I had just started the spine portion of the rig and then of course so many things happened and I have not spent as much time working on him as I would like. However, I carved out some time this week to open up 3DS Max and get a little farther with the help of Digital Tutors. So here’s what it looked like when I last updated you about Sticks and also a couple of shots of what it looks like now. It’s starting to become a little bit of a jumble.
I even got in some painting this week. I think I told you about the painting of the guitar head-stock that I started right after I finished the stippling ink piece of the Telecaster guitar. Well, I confess, I haven’t worked on it that much since I first started it. I have a feeling there are several reasons at play with regards to that, and it has me, yet again, re-thinking some plans for the studio. That’s a whole other post and train of thought. Back to the painting. I managed some time to work on it this past week as well. I think I worked on it a little over and hour. And yes, those are dots. That’s sort of the point of this experiment. I want to try stippling in acrylic paint with a brush or that sort of device to see how it works versus using pen and ink which can take a really long time for some pieces, or maybe that’s just me. For now here is an updated “WIP” (work in progress) of it.
As you can see the last week turned out to be more productive than not, which really pleases me. Not just because I prefer to be productive but also because it means I made the effort to do something I really enjoy doing and want to do instead of defaulting to something else. Perhaps I will be as generous with my art this week and have more to share next week. You will have to check back to find out.