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Last class fer tonight, then some break time! Finished up some 3D modeling stuff, where we had to create a room, fill it, texture it and light it. Maya, the 3D software used to create this stuff, is very difficult to wrap my nibbly little head around, but I do actually like what I came up with. Most likely it still suffers from many mistakes and incorrect applications, but this is what I gots-
I want a room like that in real life!
But working in the 3D digital world is a big challenge for me. It frustrates me into Hulk like rages, but I'm slowly gettin' there.
To relaxe, I tackled another final assignment, where we had to do a "travel poster" in gouache and pastels. Tho not as realistic or "video-gamey" as all that damn digital stuff everyone seems to prefer over actual artistic expression, I'm much more inclined to get my hands nice and messy, grab a real art tool and let it all out on paper made out of the dead corpses of trees. Hence this-
I love the pastels! I got lost in the colors and the mess and the rubbing of it into the paper. And it doesn't look like the soulless digital pixelation that is required in the field today. Granted, all the Pixars and Disneys and such do some good stuff with it all, I still rather see imperfections and the grains of real paper and the smudges done by actual fingertips than Waicom tablets and applied mistakes instead of real ones. But, I soldier on, trying to make that transition to digital. That's what the real world requires. I've just always had a struggle living in the real world.
The break allows me some time to breathe again and to tackle the pastels some more, mayhaps get more done for my dream horror comic and to do some commissions. Til then, screw reality for awhile! Tags: 3d modeling, japan, ragzart.maya
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Belco "Krazy Katholic Konfessions"
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More here n' there sketchies done to relax at the end of the day-   The next one was inspired by a scene from the movie "Delirium-Photos of Gioia" ,a 1970's spaghetti horror flick by Lamberto Bava. I like the weird character from the flick and adapted it to my own style-  Here's the pic that inspired me-  She looks like she could be the sister of one of my creations,the sexy Plazmo-  Other than that it's been a rough week,which I won't go into here, but the frustration of being an artist without a gig is gettin' to me, so pass along my work and suggest me to family,friends and people in the biz who may need artwork with a twisted twist! Spankin'! Tags: defenders, marvel comics, nighthawk, plazmo, ragzart, thor
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For some reason I woke up with an image in my mind, For some reason I needed to draw it out. Then for some reason I felt the need to play with it around in Painter and Photoshop. For some reason I spent way too much time in my day on it. And for some reason I felt the need to post it. Here be it-  It's not particularly a good piece. I don't know why I felt the need to comment on the sad state of the Black Friday chaos that has taken over the country on a day after the fact. I have no idea why in the center of the piece is some albino naked alien thingy. Everyone has glowing dollar signs in front of their eyes, which doesn't make sense since their all spending money instead of receiving it. And all of their bags are empty. Maybe some psychiatrist can figure it all out. But I felt the need to create it and to share it with ya'all, when I really should be working on other, more important projects. Hmmm. Other artwork over the past week includes these -  This is a comic panel we had to create for one of my classes. Featuring my creation Father Fear defeating some demon thingy. Here's another Father Fear quicky thing I sketched together for the heck of it late one night with marker.  This is an animated gif I thru together working on sequential drawings, trying to practice on keeping proportions correctly without using a lightbox or tracing paper-  And here is some concept idea for a character I call Space Woofer.  And a few nights ago I got to meet Steve Niles, writer of the sooper excellent "Thirty Days of Night" vampire graphic novels and other coolio horror related comics. This picture was stolen from Alternate Reality Comics site, which the owner Ralph posted. He's also a sooper excellent guy. When in Vegas, check out his store. It's the best pace in Vegas to be. Also check out his site at http://alternaterealitycomics.net/ I'm yhe guy with the cap on backwards and with the handful of funny books. Ok, that's it. Time to get back to work. Hope ya'all had a safe Black Friday! I stayed safely away from all the madness. I should've dug out this-  and watched it. Maybe next year! Tags: black friday, father fear, ragzart, steve niles, thirty days of night
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Thin Lizzy
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A whole lotta scribbles n' paint splots for ya! Here, being the final result of the painting I did using myself as a refernce all doodlied up as Edward Scissorhands, which I posted a few blogginz back.-  It turned out ok, never really did much with gouache before. Actually, this was the second attempt. The first didn't turn out all that well and was smaller than required, so I redid it and it turned out much better. Still have a long way to go before I get to the Alex Ross level. Here is another piece done over a few days relaxing over the tube, done in ink pen and grey markers-  And here are a few more scribbles, done to wind down and just for the heck of it-  That be Barnabas Collins from the ol' Dark Shadows tv show.  A re-creation of my fave scene from "The Innocents", one of the greatest ghost story movies ever.  and three nurdz referenced from a magazine I had laying around. It cracks me up! and there ya go! Tags: dark shadows, edward scissorhands, ragzart, the innocents
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Tom Waits
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One of my projects at school is to create a painting in the style, or at least, the technique of famed comic book illustrator Alex Ross. One of the things that Ross does that sets his work apart from others is that he uses models dressed up in superhero outfits as reference. So we had to take photos of our subject in costume for reference for our painting.The problem for us poor art students is that we don't have the money to hire models and rent out costumes for them to wear, which just may be the crux of the problem solving we are to learn as artists. We must use our own reference in the long run, to create our own masterpieces and to survive in this business. Well, with such a short time period to get all this done and with the lack of people willing to dress up for me for free, I dug around the Ragzpad and dug out my old Edward Scissorhands hands and slapped on some whiteface, ratted up the hair and had the wifey take some photos of me for reference. Here's what I got. Not the best likeness cuz let's face it, I'm no Johnny Depp, but here is me, as his older, grumpier Edward S.     I look like a tired worn out Edward with a bad early 80's Adrienne Barbeau hardo. Anyways, I also took some of the pics into photoshop to tweek 'em and get more of the coloring I want to do for the painting, and they turned out kinda neat.   I'll try to post the actual painting when finished. I need to find me some people who'll model for cheap so I don't haveta do it for myself,cuz what if I need a model for a Vampirella piece? Yikes, just think of the horror of that! Many other projects are in the works, such as some artwork I want to do featuring some of my fave Marvel Comics characters. I've been reading some old Defenders comics from the 70's and I just love the second and third string characters such as Dr.Strange, Nighthawk, Yondu, Killraven and Warlock.
This is a quick character study of the Japanese superhero Sunfire, to get a nack at drawing his all so cool mask-  and here's a full figure of him, which I want to place a nifty Tokyo skyline behind him and do some stuff with it in Illustrator.  Another piece which will be posted when finished. And now I leave ya with a Ragzter with a goatee sketch I whipped up for no reason whatsoever.  Tags: adam warlock, alex ross, defenders, edward scissorhands, ragzart, sunfire
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Aerosmith "Toys In The Attic"
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It seems like anytime i have time off to recoup,regroup and reload, that week is taken down by something, and last week again I was wracked with the remaining remnants of kidney stones ripping thru my urinary tract. If you've never experienced the joy of giving birth to a porcupine with devil horns and that shoots lasers non stop out of it's eyes at your pee pee factory, then you have no idea of the grueling torture that having kidney stones brings. It's the worst. Yeah Yeah, I'm getting predictable and replaying events that i wish not to. I knew it was coming from my last bout with the stoneys last month, as the doc said that I had a cluster of the buggers crammed up and jelly tight in my right kidney, so I knew this was coming. But this time the labor pains weren't slow and building. Nope, it sprang out upon me in a flurry of sweats,nausea and throbbing relentless stabbing knife soaked in battery acid pain! I managed to stay out of the hospital this time,but boy am I sore now. Sheesh, I just can't seem to get rid of them, I've cut way down on the soda, it's mostly water and iced tea these days instead of the Mountain Dews, which may be why I've been passing them more frequently these days without the sugary sodas gunking up the works. But I'm tired of whining about them, so there ya go. We did manage to get a new car, just in time to get back and forth to another fulltime session of schoolin'. I didn't get near as much artwork done over the break because of the stones and a flu bug from earlier in the week, but here be some leftovers from some life drawing sessions and notebook scribbles I dig. Enjoy!  I name this guy- CharKole!  This is some Emo Vampire guy  My RockitQeen Atari Stacey and Noona!  A Nazi Zombie from the movie ShockWave  an outerspace sketchy  Some guys head floating in a tube with spider legs.  and I call this "She Watches Herself,From Behind" The painpills I've got from my last visit to the hospital don't really seem to help, except the pain in me pinky toe which I stubbed earlier in the day on Saturday. So now I'm a limping kidney stoned mess. New cd's by KISS,Danko Jones & Ace Frehley have helped to ease the pain also, but the most inspirational thing(other than the new car)that has given me some oomph thru it all was the viweing of "Anvil: The Story of Anvil" I watched Saturday night right before the stones started barreling their way thru my lowers.  What a great movie! If yer ever in need of some "hope", this is the flick to see. It'll make ya believe in something, whether it's the undying loyalty of pursuing a dream,the power of heavy metal, or just never giving up,or that ignorance is truly bliss. It's a must see! I needed this, and I need the blinding vision of "Lips". That guy refuses to give up. A true rock n' roll hero. All the pussies like Kurt Cobain and Metallica could learn alot from that guy. Good Stuff! Gonna go listen to an Anvil album now and pulverize any remaining stones with their rockin' heavy metal power! Tags: anvil, notebook doodles, ragzart, rockitqeen
CURRENTLY RINGING IN MY POINTY EARZ IZ:: Anvil
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Finally, for creative writing class we had to write an excuse letter from a character from a movie,book or tv show. This is my entry. Sorry Twilight Fans.  Dear Fans, I’m sorry I am not able to make it to the Vampire Convention this evening. I feel it’s in your best interest that I do not attend because I would most surely put a damper on the festivities. Although your convention sounds very desirable to me. A real vampire such as myself would most likely upset most of you for ,you see, we are not the beautiful and charming creatures that your authors and movie makers have romanticized about in your favorite vampire novels and films. We are decrepit creatures. We are not in any way attractive. We stink of death, our minds are weak and we are bad dressers. We drink human blood, not artificial blood. We kill for that blood. We need it to survive. There are no substitutes. And, since we are dead things, we don’t even digest that blood. After a few hours of drinking it, it leaks out of our orifices’ and makes quite a sticky mess. We do not sparkle. Unless you catch the moonlight glistening off of unhealed wounds dripping with puss and rotting scabs. We don’t have sex because, again, we are dead. Our sex organs don’t work anymore, our seed is dead and we have no urge to procreate with you. We just want to drink your blood from your dying body. The only difference between us and zombie is that our minds are still intact. We are sentient beings that are forever trapped in a rotting shell of a carcass that forever thirsts for blood that can never be satisfied. So, it’s best that I not appear at your event. In fact, it might be better for you to pass on it too and get yourself a life. Maybe try to go out and find other humans to associate with. Hell, if you still desire to play around with supernatural things then try an incubus or a succubus, at least they are closer to what you think a vampire is than what we really are. Just sayin’… Signed “The latest popular vampire character”
Tags: ragzart, vampires
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