Learning ALL The Things!

 So...I randomly decided to learn Trimble/Google SketchUp because why not...and this was my first attempt at an interior. Saori's Tea Room. It took me a couple afternoons, mostly because I fussed over that table which I already want to change for so long. The only things in there I didn't build from scratch were the tea set and the chairs because at that point I was ready to try different things. And the "paint" job was just the default swatches since I was just experimenting. I wanted to take it into DAZ to light it before truly painting it in Photoshop, but then found out that I needed the non-free version to have that feature...or find the plugin elsewhere. I have the plugin now, so maybe so I'll get around to finishing this...but WAIT I've already started a new model!!

So here it is in Top view with the perspective turned off. (One may or may not catch that this is more directly related to the project I'm working on now) I found saving out a quick flat allowed me to map it in Photoshop super easy. No graph paper involved! And I guess, as is, it is a rather boring layout to look at, very symmetrical and lots of straight lines. But that works for the inhabitants. They are very unimaginative, paranoid, unwavering people...sans the eldest son. Anyways, pulling this one into 3 dimensions has taken a couple days at least because of scale and detail. I started in the kitchens on that fireplace and went on from there, still periodically working on it since it's helpful in staging scenes more accurately, but am now back to what I really need to be getting done.

PS. SketchUp - You have taken much frustration and wasted resources/time out of my environments. Considering that I've only had you for about a week now...well, I just wanted to say Thank You. I'm sure our future together will be happy and productive. You're awesome. Cheers!

More Sketches!!

Some Life Drawing practice for my D&D character, Fyedka. Good fun. POSE REFERENCE BY THE LOVELY SENSHISTOCK.

 

 Some photos of the model I built for the Naru Residence. Made of Bristol Paper, Illustration board and foam core base....and lots of tape. As I was building this I was kindly informed that I could just build it in SketchUp, taking only minutes as opposed to an evening. But I had fun using my HANDS and HOLDING it - just more substantial, more of an achievement in my eyes. Of course now I have to figure out how to store it...or finish it...hmmm.

More speed paintings!! My cell phone, my flash drive, my shiny new Olfa knife and the keyboard in front of me. Not really crazy objects, but surprisingly challenging none the less.

Fall 2011 > AS:Proposals

These are from AS: Proposals - you might remember Makoto from an earlier post. The layout is his parent's house and the red "highlighted" room is shown below that. This is his mother's tea room where Rieda is introduced to her mother-in-law before the Dinner Party. The Character Sheets for Saori Naru and Takeshi Yoshimoto can be found on my Digication page in the Personal Projects tab.

Summer 2011 > AS:P

This is an oil portrait (Acrylic under painting) I did in that last couple weeks (Probably 3 hours total though since I let it sit around half finished for a long time) of my character Makoto Naru from my personal project, Project A-Sutenki: Proposals.