Introduction

Well, I may as let any early followers know, or new people in the future know for reference, in the upcoming months and years I am going to be improving my artistic skills and will post all my progress here, and this shall be an archive for all my work. My original drawings may seem pretty bad but they are a step towards becoming a brilliant artist. I will be starting with some anthro or “furry” art as I have recently gained interest in that. After December I will start using my computer to produce electronic art in photoshop, and will us a graphics tablet. Hopefully I will keep this up for years to come and will become an inspiration for others. Some of my work I’ll show all the stages in the art to help other learners.

First bit in quite a while

I have been absent due to excess work, but I decided to have a quick crack at an idea I had today.  This is trying to make a realistic ‘furry’ wolf. I am taking ‘the average human face’ which is a mans face made out of 30 other faces with average features, then adding on wolven features in photoshop.

The average human face, made from 30 faces.

First source image for a wolf

Here is my first image, This is me in the middle of shaping the face and after first attempt at the eyes

Here it is, chicken scratches and all

I plan to go further with this, a body etc but I will complete the face first.  Above you can see I am trying to get proportions correct, it seems a wolf head is flatter than a humans. On the eyes they seem to have extra black on the outside, but thats to allow run over when I’m doing the fur, how I’m going to do that photorealisticly I’m not sure.

Where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to… + Windows 7 Review

Well it has been a busy time for me, I have done a proper exam, Worked ALOT and Installed windows 7.

I downloaded windows 7 and it works great, I hated vista so kept with XP but I have loved the windows 7 beta so far, so easy to use! hasn’t annoyed me once yet. I had a bit of a problem with the soundcard driver, but the sound works so its ok I guess. I also learnt how to partition which was a horrible task, but I’ll be better prepared next time. I have everything working on it now except for Delphi 7 which is a pity, looks like I’m lucky I decided to dual boot with XP to be safe. I have not been doing much in the way of art as of late, except for some coursework, But my next exam is soon then there should be none until June / July. Windows 7 looks really nice, all the effects are great don’t slow the system at all and of course a hell of a lot faster than vista, seems like XP performance wise. Current tid-bit on my partitions. 1 is 100% fragmented the other 0% fragmented, Random. My steam games work too, all of them even the beast of Gmod has worked without any problems. Expect more art in about a couple of weeks when this exam is over, my CW wont take too long I’m sure I can fit in drawing too.

Some free programs for people to use

I thought I would post some of the free applications I use or like, since I haven’t had time to do any new art.

For photo editing I use Photoshop, but a free program very similar is Paint.net (funnily enough that’s the site too). GIMP is another well known one, but is not as user friendly, yet has more advanced features.

For screencapture, I spent weeks trying to find a good one, most where horrible or had a stupid watermark, I found a nice free open source one called camstudio. No watermark and if you install the seperate download of codec’s you get a very good quality of screen capture.
Free office programs, none other than open office. It’s mostly the same as microsoft office, only with the great price tag of FREE.
I’m yet to find some good free video editing software.

For my friend, guardianwolf, you had a problem with a wirelessly networked scanner? I have a wireless all-in-one printer and if it messes up I just unplug the router, plug it in again and so long as your computer is the only one on the network it should be fine.

On a side not I have cam-studio working perfectly now 🙂 just needed to configure correctly, but I cant get the codecs to work, they install but don’t appear.

Very busy – not with art :(

Have alot of work on my plate right now, but It should reduce in a week and then I should have a picture up every couple of day’s some of the work requires me to draw, which is good.

The blogs current view stats.

My current view's stats 😦

Well, there they are, a bit of a fail, but it will get better *cough* zero 2 days running, never had zero before

New Year.

Happy New Year everyone 🙂 looks like the next couple of years will be tough for me but I’ll keep trucking. Not many fireworks here, but the london eye ones on tv were good, maybe a bit repetitive and smokey later, but what all can you do with a load of fireworks from the london eye?

Unfinished Attempt at Clothing

Unfinished try at clothes, Pretty good

Now, I think this is brilliant progress, look at this work here compared to my previous work. The improvement is astonishing. My previous photoshop skills must be getting implemented now, all I did was some titles before for signatures on forums and that, didn’t think my pictures would turn out this great yet ^^.

Same as above, just with lineart on top

I liked this too, dunno why was trying to keep away from lines / cartoon style.

Material Experimenting begins

I’m going to try doing clothes now. I looked for a clothing material and found this on deviant art.

http://crysa.deviantart.com/art/Drawing-Clothes-And-Folds-21994317

It looks like the material has too many folds in it in my opinion

Heres a photo of a man in a rather ugly hoodie,

No were near as many folds as some of the pictures in the tutorial I saw, I’ll experiment in the next section of my picture. I’ll have another go with the screen capture, it didn’t work last time, some stupid error >.<

Found an intresting site for blogs

http://alphainventions.com/ Is one of the places I get alot of traffic from, which is a site which constantly updates to show you other peoples blogs straight after they post so that you are likely to get a reply since the blog author is there 😛 really intresting site seems he put years of work into it.

Stayed up way too late doing this ^^  Will finish it tomorrow.

First Coloured picture, going really well