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My brain is kinda fried from a very busy Christmas week, and it sounds like it'll be at least two weeks before my next animation assignment, so I'm looking for things to keep me occupied. Modeling Violet is one possibility.

Christmas Keyhole

Seems Lily thinks Daisy should follow the "if you got it, flaunt it" philosophy... I was hoping to get the properly colored in time for Christmas, but this may be as close as I'll have time for.

I've been looking for an excuse to draw Daisy in a "boob window" sweater... I liked this idea the most, because it was also a chance to draw her mom.

Too quiet...

Work is keeping me busy, pre-holiday anxiety is kicking in, weather's messing with my head again, yada yada... Here's a couple of ideas I'm hoping to flesh out when I have time. One is Daisy, Rose, Violet and their aunt Mercy, all asleep on a couch. I'll probably end up doing a whole page or two more or thumbnails, just to get the poses right... The other idea is future Daisy, out with her kids.

Vanessa

One third of the S.I.S's special ops team 777, Vanessa is a stealthy markswoman, and (in her opinion only) a master of disguise. Her biggest weaknesses are overconfidence, terrible disguises, and blind devotion to the crown.

Mistress of the Dark

better late than never, right?

Daisy & Teddi

Sketch commission for Christopher Brown - Daisy and his gnome Teddi, doing pushups.

Still More Vanessa

Still trying to find the right look for her hair... the first one looks more like somethingthat might work more for a member of Daisy's family

more Vanessa

Sooner or later I'll find a hairstyle that works... Also tossed in a concept for one of her teammates, to fill the white space.

Vanessa concepts

Holy crap it's taking me forever to settle on this character's design - the top sketches are 2-3 years old, while the lower ones are at least 5! The general idea is that she's an SIS agent, and a near-fanatical patriot. She and her two teammates end up stranded in Daisy's town thanks to a clerical error.

Daisy & Monique (censored)

Now formally introducing Monique - All the curves of Daisy, only with none of the inhibitions... let the games begin! Maybe now Daisy can rest easy, knowing someone else is out there doing the things that she won't. :P

Candice Kane

I've kept this girl on the backburner for too long, I think it's time to set her loose. Basically she's the town's resident spoiled rich girl, and all-around bitchy-bitch.

So yeah, this year's Halloween pic is definitely going to be late. Diving back into animation after so many months off... it's not unlike going several months without exercise - you know you need to get back into shape, but nearly every fiber of your being fights you because lying on the couch feels so much nicer than working up a sweat. The character I'm animating is a quadruped, which are always a challenge. Worse, though, is the fact that the rig is designed for bipeds...

I might have mentioned this one a few months back, but now I have permission to show it off. This was a paid art test for a slot-machine game, which unfortunately didn't lead to more work. On one hand, this image was extremely stressful, because it's a lot busier than what I normally draw, and I only had about 3-4 days to plan and draw it, AND I was heading up to Michigan the day it was to be completed. On the other hand, I easily earned twice as much from this, compared to if it had been an ...

Harold Official trailer HD 1080p

I'm trying to contain my excitement - Harold has a new trailer, promising its impending release as a PC download! This is by far the best looking game I've ever worked on, so the fact that Its release has taken this long has been just a tad maddening.

Late Again 5 layout

With any luck, the next comic page won't take nearly as long to finish - the layout and dialogue are more or less done, so I just need to draw it once commissions are done.

Time to make fun of myself!

Late Again, page 4

another page (finally) down, two more to go! Let's hope it's downhill from here...

Comic Week - day 5

Even though the page layout is finalized, I'm still toying with the artwork. Motion lines are something I would like to use more often, but usually avoid since there's no French curve tool in Sketchbook Pro mobile. There are some nifty curve tools in the desktop version, though... Another plus to desktop SBP, is these tools maintain their size & position relative to the canvas when you pan or move around... something the mobile version can't do at all.

Comic Week - days 3-4

It's getting there! Page 4 is assembled and lettered, so now it just needs inks and some shading!

Comic Week - day 2

Someone doesn't look happy with progress... :P I've got 3 of page 4's 4 panels drawn, but the 4th one is the hard one since it has a background... that'll be tomorrow's mission, along with planning page 5.

Nothing to see here

This is a "slightly" modified version of one of last month's reward pinups

Daisy fan art!

I never get tired of fan art - MaRoid15 has posted a pair of Daisy images on DA :)

One down, one to go!

Pledges are processing much faster, compared to last month... Still, it shouldn't take me too long to get the second of these two reward pinups finished!

3D Week - Day 5

Not as much progress today - I meant to get started on a lower-poly model, but ended up laying out her UVs instead. I also half-closed her eyes to make them easier to skin, but also because they needed some extra detail to be able to close properly. Unless I do more over the weekend, that's it for 3D week! No I need to decide what next week is going to be devoted to... Maybe the next comic page, since it's running late enough.

3D Week - Day 3

Bit of a slow day, today - while I've made smaller adjustments all over the body, the most visible change is the neck. I got about half-way through cleaning up the leg as well, but by that point I felt spent. The main challenge with the leg is taking it from 26 points around the thigh, down to 20 points around the ankle. The problem is I'd also like to make the edgeloops follow the musculature, which is a headache on top of an already massive headache...

3D Week - Day 1

Over the weekend I'd decided I needed some structure, if I expect to complete certain tasks. Going forward, I'm going to try to devote each week to specific tasks, and nothing else. With that in mind, this week is 3D week! Today's task was relatively simply, though tedious - matching Rose's squashed body mesh to my Zbrush sculpt of Daisy. The next step will be to clean it up, and start adding (or removing) details.

Daisy as Psylocke

Inked commission for Andrew Flores

A bit too quiet...

Sunday can't get here fast enough... I thought it would be fairly easy to get some work done while I'm in Michigan, seeing as my nieces are back in school. Unfortunately there's still only a small window - maybe a couple hours - where everything is quiet enough for me to concentrate. The one thing that is exactly the same as when I'm home, is that occasionally I need to drop whatever it is I'm working on to either run errands for everyone else, or act as their IT guy... One of these days I'm ...

The week ahead

Pledges are almost done processing, so I'll be sending out the rewards and tallying up credits in the next day or two! I may also re-open the commission list sometime in the next week, so if you've got points you want to spend, think about what kind of image you want. This time, though, there's no Daisy embargo! Although since I'm in Michigan this week, it might be better to wait until I'm comfortably back in Florida before taking on more commissions. I could instead use this week to push my...