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Soooo, I was playing team fortress 2 with my coworkers during my lunch-break, but now I'm trying to do daily studies instead. These are all about 1 hour or less. Hopefully I'll be able to keep it up, but it can be reallllly hard to get started on studies some times. Always feels good once you get going, but so hard to just...get started :P



Also, I've been doing some portrait painting once a week at my friend's place, with only a few weeks missed since we started! Really fun to do :O I'll try to remember to take some pictures of my paintings next time I am there. For now, here's a shot of his awesome 'studio' that we're working in :D My painting is on the left, his is on center [he is the one who took the photo kekek]

moo

woah, been forever since I posted on here. I'm trying to let the blog die, I've just been insanely busy the last few months. While I was on a lovely working vacation in Norway [see posts below] I got a job offer, and took it :O

soooo... I've been in Shanghai, China for the last 4 months...trying to stay on top of my freelance, and working fulltime at Redsteam Studio, working for Gameloft.

Here's some sketches from the old sketchbook, which I only recently remembered I had...
my friend/coworker Oyo and I have started going out on monday nights to do sketching after work :) feels really good to get away from the computer and doodle...






and here's the crazy view from my 27th floor apartment...


Haven't really had much time for personal work. When I'm not doing freelance and not working, I really prefer not being at the computer...

warm-up

morning warm up before getting into work, and breakfast...for that matter. hmmmmbreakfast

hahaha

been real busy, so I had to chew on my morning throw-away/warmup so I don't get too stir crazy~

plouf

started out as just a throw-away warm-up before getting into freelance, and then...mmm

the woods :O

I went into the woods with some friends, and we were attacked by ants...and we did some painting...
about 14cm [5.5inches] tall.

life painting

each sitting was about 2hrs each. they are 15-16cm tall or so. [a little over 6 inches tall]

out for a walk

been real busy trying to catch up on freelance work, but I went out for a walk yesterday and took some photos!

chicken mcnuggets. no, not really.

warmup doodles before getting into freelance work.

fishy lookin or kisses

quick doodle before getting started on freelance work.

pup vid

Here's the short-hand version of the livestream vid.

waking up

getting warmed up for today. ~1 hour.
I did this for a livestream which you can watch the playback at: http://livestream.com/devinplatts SKIP ahead 5 minutes...there were some things I had to work out...*cough*

breakfast!

nomnomnom did this while eating breakfast.
~1hr

scrup

puh. doodles in between work and work e_e

sketchpoopz

sketcheeez done for daily art blog sketchamathon! They are really keeping me on my toes!

rapid creature thumbs

did two separate challenges with some friends.

10 creatures in under 1 hr!!!

really fun to do, it's nice to just do random thumbs of critters, I think i've got some designs I'd like to explore further outta these :)

process poops

I did a livestream and talked about my two basic working processes. These are the results of that. each method took about 1 hour.

out taking photos again...

winter is gone...but spring isn't quite here yet.
i wish i had money to buy a DSLR :P

swamp monster

had some fun on this one, changed up my usual working method a bit, not sure if it's really noticeable tho...

more doodles :(

woah more unfinished doodles

sketcheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
joined a group sketchblog with some friends:

http://sketchamathon.blogspot.com/

feeling pretty good about just doing dumb sketches again, instead of being worried about making rendered/finished stuff.

doodlez