Quick Post

Okay, once again I failed to get my latest digital piece done in time for today. I just don't have any time in the evenings right now with my grandparents out. Here instead is a cool image I found on teh internetz. (not owned by me obviously) I wish I'd thought of this, it's so cute! I'm definitely going to make a 'steampug' addition to the pug shirts sometime (without ripping this amazing artwork off obviously) Anyway, sorry for the delays (again.) I PROMISE I will have something good for you on Tuesday, for SURE.

Until then,

~Samuel8R

HMS Indefatigable

Sorry once again, I almost got that digital piece finished off for today, but with my grandparents out here, not as much art is getting done as usual. So today I'll just post an image I made in Pixen. It's a steampunk airship christened the HMS Indefatigable. One of the larger warships in the skies, it sports two side engines, assisted by a larger engine inside the hull. The balloon is set slightly backwards to compensate for a weightier stern. It was designed mostly as a weapons/VIP carrier/blockade runner and so has roomy accommodation (as demonstrated by the row of portholes) and is lightly armed with only two heavy cannons (many of the largest warships have 10-12) Crew: 35-45. I hope you don't mind this over some of my other 'real' art. (I'm not very good with pixel art yet)

~Samuel8R

Fleks & Svek (and an apology)

Well, here we are on this fine Saturday night... I completely forgot about yesterday's post until this morning! (facepalm) We were out a lot of Friday doing things. Anyway, here is another of my multimedia adventures. (pencil + pen + watercolor) apart from Svek (on the right) whose color scheme was pretty flat anyway. Fleks is also more detailed. These are chibi versions of the main characters from a story of mine that I started and hope to finish sometime. Not a full-length novel but maybe a novella or long story. I posted the introduction for it a while back I think, if you can find it.. I have in fact written several pages, but all on my antique typewriter to give it a wonderful distressed feel. As such, I cannot post those until I scan them. Talking about scanning - I'm going to need to continue the search for a scanner - I'm running out of drawings and I don't have many digital projects going at the moment (though I promise to post one next time!) Well I think that's all for now, I have to go to bed soon! (can hear parents coming up stairs, must type faster!)
~Until next time~
~Samuel8R

Paper Boats

Whoo, I almost forgot to post again! :D My grandparents are arriving late tonight so we got kinda busy, Anyway, I'm back with another drawing. I'm actually starting to run out of scanned drawings (haven't had access to a scanner in a while) so I need to get cracking on some more digital pieces! I nearly did one but I have been busy painting so I haven't got round to doing the finishing touches. I should get that one done by next post or post after. But today we have this drawing of a couple of paper boats I found on Teh InterWebz! I copied the water tension and reflections as best I could but it turned out looking a bit strange translating from photo to paper. Oh well, at least you should be able to tell what they are! I put less definition on the far one to put it a little out of focus. Took around 5 hours (I'm going to start putting estimations of the time taken on here for fun) Also, I was looking at some cool videos of the mysterious 'Herobrine' from Minecraft (any fans of minecraft should know what I mean, people who don't care much for the game need read no further) and it got me thinking about a backstory, of which the game itself has none. So I wrote one! I am also working on an adventure map of my own, so it will tie in with that. Maybe next time I will see if I can post a PDF link in case anyone wants to read it.

I think that's everything!
~Samuel8R

Tirqu

Hello once again! Our internet was broken all day yesterday, and we only just got it back. It's funny how you never realize how much you use something until it's gone. I kept thinking "Oh, I'll just look that up - crud." Anyway, today's drawing is of a little alien I call Tirqu. I haven't thought about him or his kind much, but I have a good feeling about him and I want to develop him more. As a character, he is a scientist, as we can see here. He always wears a single-piece cloth suit with a big zipper, making it like a comfortable jumpsuit. You never see his feet, and his arms are slightly out of proportion. No, I don't know what that thing is either, its some kind of socket that he drags around like hair. I really like this guy, but I'm less than proud of the result. The watercolors are messy, there's not much shading that you can see, and I goofed on the perspective of his lifted arm. However, this was when I was still experimenting with this new style, so I'm not about to beat myself up over it. I will make it a future project to re-do this.

~Samuel8R

P.S. I've been considering graphic novels as a path to go with my art, so I have been reading some books on the subject. My first comic is in the works now! (still planning and sketching)

Test Subject Blue 2.0

Greetings once again from this week's Tuesday's post! Here is another watercolor Nitrome character, from the game of the same title, who uses a laser gun and his wits to get through each miniature test chamber. He (a sentient, learning, goo) is injected into his suit at the start of each level by a scientist and goes about his tasks. The original suit is here:

As you can see, I have made the suit a lot more complex, and my idea is that it is a more advanced second edition of the suit. However, it still retains the glass dome to hold the goo, and a similar color scheme. I'm thinking I might send this to Nitrome as fan art.

Nitrome Games: http://www.nitrome.com/

Test Subject Blue: http://www.nitrome.com/games/testsubjectblue/index.html

Enjoy!

~Samuel8R

Balana Thranta

Hooray for Star Wars! (whatever is said about the prequels, they were great. GET OVER IT NERDS) Here we have a (now extinct) creature from the planet of Alderaan. Used to carry people like a bus. The Thrantas came in many sizes, these are some of the smaller breeds. This image was copied from a book entitled 'The Wildlife of Star Wars' as a practice with my teacher. I used pencil and pens, as always. Anyway, got my sister's horse show tomorrow, followed by a visit from a friend on Sunday (we're going to play Minecraft! yeahhhh) See you next week!
~Samuel8R