Art - Azhar, Homid form

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/16008527/

That was a fun challenge. I haven't done a portrait of a human face since the days of 7th Sea fan sets. = ) I'm also pleased that this only took about 4.5 hours.

What to do about L5R, and more adventures in the Mythos

It's been a while since I wrote an entry that really felt like a journal entry. The last several entries have been either mentions of my latest art or some sort of rant or comment. This one is less news and more thoughts.

( Not-very-weighty Thoughts )

About Art...

...as opposed to being a notice about new art.

My right hand hurts. It's been bothering me for a few days, now. Holding a pen seems to be less painful that using a mouse, so I'm assuming it's mouse use that's been doing the damage. That's preferable - I'd rather surf less and give up web games than give up art. Art has been a bit wacky, lately. It sucked that I couldn't really work on art while I was sick. Then, once I got better, I worked on Blood of Ice and t-shirt designs for the SFS. Both of those projects seemed to give me a lot more trouble than I expected, and it was a little demoralizing. I'm glad things went better with Azhar Chrinos and Azhar Homid - I'm quite happy with both right now. Of course, that will probably change over time. While working on Azhar Chrinos, I went to look at that werewolf I painted for that heavy metal band's CD cover last June. At the time (and for quite a while after) I was really pleased with how it came out. When I looked at it a couple of days ago I was horrified. The fur effect is cool, but the proportions and stuff are terrible! Ack! It's nice to see that I'm improving, but it was a little disappointing to have my favorable memories of the piece ruined.

Speaking of "that heavy metal band," I have to say that I love the latest Strongbad email (Best Thing). I remember so many Saturday morning cartoons just like that.

Well, hell. That sucks.

I just discovered that my brain had completely flaked on me, and Azhar is supposed to be Middle Eastern in homid form...not Asian as I was thinking for some reason. Damn. Oh, well - it was still good practice.

Weekend of Suck

I still have some hope for Sunday, but today isn't going very well...particularly if you count everything from midnight until now as part of today, so that my horrified realization that I flubbed Azhar is included. The snow has led to the cancelation of our brush painting class, and the fact that it's still coming down means that I won't be seeing my friend Laura M. today after all, or even kaiwoklaw, who was going to be taking the class with me. Pesky snow. I guess that's another round won by those damned yeti.