Welcome to Friday!

The pictures above are photos of some of Conner's art. This is all done with pen (pencil sketches tho) including greyscale pens and markers. I love his style, and I have been messing about with grey markers lately too, trying to make some more 3-D-looking pen drawings. I really need to get some stuff scanned, hopefully I'll get that chance on Thursday. Then there will be a steady flow of art! hahahaha...

My first vlog should be online, btw. I have been taking the video camera with me, but so far I have failed to record a comprehensive day. :( I'll keep trying though, once I get it all worked out that channel will have it's first video.

Samuel out!

~Samuel8R

New Vlog and Star News

Okay, so I'm going to paste in some writing which you can probably already see under here. I'm going to write posts like this occasionally, with a little bit of personal stuff at the beginning and some writing underneath. Sometimes I will post snippets of other projects, but these fake 'news reports' that fit in with my universe will be made exclusively for the blog. Before we get to that, I have to say that I have recorded my first vlog! I need to do some editing and other stuff before it goes up, but when it does I will post a link for you lot.
Anyway, here is my first 'News Report' post:

STAR NEWS QUICK-REPORT SD-2294.12422

ALIEN RELATIONS

   The second ‘ultra-virus’ to hit the Medusa network (the semi-psychic wireless network that links all the Medusa robots, or 'units' together) in the last two hundred years has just been deactivated, and the source is being traced as we speak. The Medusas themselves have stated that they are working on a way to counter it’s effects, but they will not state what those effects are. However, the Old One (leader of all Medusas) has warned the public to stay away from areas where Medusas have been sighted or are known to reside. Some areas are already being guarded by units marked by the distinctive red markings of Medusa military. There have been no disturbances or human casualties reported, but Medusa reports say that about two hundred units have been affected, about 25% of which are blue, (royal guard) 5% are red, (military) and the rest are green-ranked, making this virus the highest-ranked attack on the Medusa mind-network yet.

COMMERCE

   There were few exciting changes in the Great Interstellar Market this week, but by no means was it quiet. A Squidlah mining expedition arrived with a very large shipment of gold, but luckily it proved not to be stolen this time. Concentric Engines Inc. recently lost money over a new engine design which proved to be faulty. They are currently attempting to sue the rival company Axiom Machines on allegations of espionage, but it seems unlikely they will win. Two Moons Weaponry’s profits have evened out over the last few weeks as the brief war between the Euopi empire and a raider group known as the ‘Khazka’ ended with the pirates’ defeat.

SCIENCE

   A new material simply known as ‘Blue’ was created in the lab of celebrated biological engineer and astrophysicist Tirqu a few days ago. He claims that the liquid is capable of locomotion and complex learning patterns. Meanwhile, the labs of Axiom Machines are hard at work to create short-range personal teleporters, much like those found in the Great Market, but small enough to fit on a belt. Finally, researchers on the human colony Avis III have spotted a planet about two lightyears into Rousala-controlled space that could be capable of sustaining life. They are currently negotiating a rendezvous with a Rousalan carrier so that they can ‘catch a ride’ to this promising planet.

OTHER

   The notorious wanderer known as Hyatt Cycles has been claimed to have been sighted near a Medusa-controlled facility on Hepburn-12, but there is no solid evidence. An eyewitness reported “I only saw him for a second or two, but I saw his face, and I’m convinced it was him. When he saw me he ran down an alley, that strange little thing of his following him at a run. I followed them, but they were gone.”   

   Rumours are still circulating that Mr. Cycles has been meeting with high officials and dignitaries of several races, but if so his purpose is unclear.

Star News: Bringing you the best news since 2063.

~Samuel

New accounts everywhere...

So I've been doing a lot of online managing lately. I have a new Youtube channel, which I will post my vlogs to as soon as I get the chance to record something. I also have a new deviantart account, (closed the old one) where I will be posting my art but also impersonating one of my characters at the same time. I will also make another youtube account for a little video project I'm working on, which involves taking small snippet videos of my life and putting them together by day. I won't be recording the normal working days, obviously. Because "here's me doing a math problem" is real exciting isn't it! Anyway, I still need to make an account for that, but I will be recording some of my day at EvCC tomorrow. I'm also knocking this blog down to a post a week, just to make things easier. My vlog will be very random and probably not very often at all, at least every 2 weeks. But once things clear up I will try to regulate it. I kinda have no new art for a while... hopefully Justin will have an open night next week and I can have a scan-fest.
Until then...
~Samuel

my dA account: http://tirqu.deviantart.com/

my youtube vlog account: http://www.youtube.com/user/VloggusBritannicus?feature=mhee

Quick update!

Okay, no art for today.
I'm just letting you guys know that I will try moving my post days to Wednesday evening and Sundays, as they seem to be the times I get a bit of free time to post. I was maybe going to post some writing today, but I kinda forgot, so this Sunday should be the next post. A while ago I thought of maybe vlogging, but for now that would be a bit too much work. Maybe when my college courses are over, I'll try to start one. (a lot less regularly than this blog though.)
See ya!
~Samuel

Hurried Friday!

Here are the two main characters (at least the main characters where I am in the story right now, I might add more in later) of my novel, Chibified! Hamlet the robot, endowed with a brain of alien technology, and his creator, tinkerer and seller of machines, Maximillien Andarre. This was a short project done in Corel Painter 11, copied from a scanned pen drawing in my sketchbook. Not much to say about this one really... I need to get some more drawings scanned, I'm running out of stuff to upload! (but plenty of stuff in the sketchbook!) Oh well, next time will be a writing piece, I think you'll like what I have planned for then!

~Samuel

Thought of the day: "It's all a mystery. Let it come and it be." - Blackmill, 'Let it be'

I'm Back...

Whew, sorry I have been neglecting you guys so much. For some reason Blogger would only load the Dashboard, giving me a black whenever I tried to write a post. I fiddled around a bit though and finally got it working again. I'm going to have to try extra hard to get these posts out regularly again, I will be attending the Everett Community College on mondays and wednesdays for the next 10 weeks.

But enough of that, I have some new digital art! This here is 3-D Toast, (in case you didn't know) He was invented for a Mother's day card (I think) and this is a digital work using the scanned drawing as a transparent layer over the top while I worked on it. Not my best work, obviously, but I meant it as a quick project. (and I don't have good images of my new drawings!) I think the "...Toast" idea could be used as a series a bit like the pugs.
And on that note, I'm thinking of starting a new series of paintings based on songs! If I have the mp3 of a song, I'll add that to the post as well as the image. (or youtube link) They won't be directly based on the song, but rather on the mood and subsequent imagery it evokes for me. (I've already done one, I just need to photograph it) I'm also thinking of posting some more writing on here, more on that next time.

Early morning post today! I have to go out soon. I'll post again on Friday, and then I'll try to get back to the routine.

~Samuel

I'm Back! (but not from the dead)

Hello once again my friends! Finally, my three-week Summer Program at Cornish College of the Arts is over, and I have enough time to blog again! The next few posts will probably be a bit random, but they will soon be back to the old schedule. I'm already missing Cornish - the 30-min car trip followed by a 45-min bus ride wasn't exactly exhilarating, but it was really fun to just get breakfast with some friends every day, go to class, and then eat lunch with some more friends - everyone was really nice and I just had a great time. The classes I did were Art Foundations, Comics Studio, and Watercolor Illustration. (It sounds like the students who were staying in the dorms, mostly out-of-state ones, didn't get much sleep though.) Anyway, there should be a steady stream of posts now, I'm returning with much more than I went in with!

Here are a few photos I took while I was there:

This is an exercise we did in Foundations - we draped a string/rope/length of tape over this display and drew the line - ONLY the line, interrupting it whenever it went behind an object. We then took turns to put another line on, and then we drew it. The second time we did this exercise only the teacher put the lines on but we moved one easel to our right every time he did, so we all worked on everybody else's drawing. The room looked like a spiderweb or some diabolical trap by the time we'd done!

Here is a charcoal (The first time I ever worked with charcoal was in this class - but not this drawing) we did in Foundations. We had a male nude model and three hours (approx, with breaks) to draw him. This was my result.

...And here is me with Conner, a friend I made there. He's 17 (he had his birthday on the last day, the gallery show - so technically this is him on his birthday) and he does amazing pen drawings, I'll probably post some sometime. On the wall behind us is the Comics Studio wall of the show (he was in that class with me)

Well, I hope you enjoyed this post, I will get back to you Friday morning! (I am going out Friday afternoon for teen mini-golf, then a sleepover at a friend's house, then an art lesson at the Redmond library the next day)

~Samuel8R