I did some art

Monika 1

Carole Lombard

Yellow Rose

I've been working on this for the past month or so, and I tried a bit of experimenting with Flemish layering techniques. I'm happy with how it turned out. It's got a kind of grungy look to it, which I really took a liking to as I worked more and more. Painting leaves is hard work! I had to find a fine line between going insanely detailed and losing my mind, and giving just enough of a hint of the fine details to achieve a high level of realism.

This was a lot of fun and very rewarding, so I'll probably do some more flowers in the near future.

Ingrid Bergman

Audrey Hepburn

Art mojo in full flow, everything else can get stuffed.

Except Rock band! Iron Maiden 12-track pack. Bliss.

It's Hedley!

I drew something!

OK, so... gaming hasn't quite taken a complete backseat. I've actually played a whole bunch of things in the past several months. The main thing that happened I guess is that I discovered the greatness of motion sickness wristbands which - while not 100% effective on everything I've tried - at least allowed me to comfortably play or finish several games that I've always wanted to check out.

Call of Duty 4 - The biggie. A game I've always been envious to hear about. Well, I'm very happy to report that this was completely successful. I hammered through it in about 4 days and it most certainly lived up to my expectations.

Portal - I was able to finish this, one of the previous worst offenders. Yes, it's great.

Gears of War - Another very acute sickness-inducer. Funnily enough on being able to play it comfortably I found it to be incredibly boring and repetitive. Ah well.

I was able to finish off Uncharted, check out plenty of Bioshock, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, more Half-Life 2 (until realizing I find it very dull), and complete Resident Evil 5 in co-op with a friend. More indepth stuff on some of those later.

Bullet points to round off this half-arsed effort of a post:

• I think Rock Band may well be my all-time favourite game
• Street Fighter IV is amazing, but not as fun as The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited match
• Resident Evil 5 is more fun than Resident Evil 4
• Realization of own Star Trek fandom
• There are a great many things in life that I actually don't like as much as I like to think I do
  

Back to basics

I don't do anywhere near enough drawing (in fact, I barely do any). I don't really enjoy it and always have to break through a boredom / disinterest threshold soon after I've started. However, I am making a concerted effort to start drawing stuff and keep at it - it's pretty important after all!

Magenta Worm

The colours are a little off (magenta seems to be both very hard to photograph and adjust in Photoshop).

A bit more done overnight and today. First I packed out the wire coil with Milliput and when that had dried I started applying clay. One day for the clay to dry and I can start working on details.

I have a minor allergic reaction to epoxy putty, so I have to try to get things done pretty quickly before I go all wobbly...