Y1W31 Experimenting & metaphorical bottom kicking

• Gestures & Learning: breaking this off into its own category. Hello, I say as I step side to side.

Made up Gentleman

Made up Lady

Gestures & assorted mishaps?

As usual, these preview images are never planned but I mash things together from what I’ve done so far and make up stuff…and this weird thing comes about.  This is the preview image that didn’t make it. Because owls. Unfortunate for you, flustered guy.

Poses and then dabbing at some lasso tool creatures

 

• Character/s for the Week: play continues?

BLINDING RED SLUMBER Playing with Alchemy shapes. I draw more than paint so I’m trying to get myself painting for fun again.

• People Drawing/Derp Doodles:

Hermit Sniffles. Meet Very-Cold-Marshmellow-Derp and White-Stache-Derp while I didn’t bother with KO’ed snoozing Derp. Derp not feeling too great.

Other Adventures: 

• Games (watching bits or all of it): you just realise how much of a hermit I’ve been. Look at this list! I know I am missing a huge part of the experience of gaming itself, don’t you call in your angry mob! Anyway I can play my bro’s collection of Steam games but that’s rare. Still, playing games and watching movies is an extremely rare treat for me in general anyway. And I don’t watch much TV or keep track of the music industry/world either. Definitely in the deep, endless pit, away from the “cool, trendy, news savvy” crowd to the point that I am an alien when I display signs of ignorance and evidence of inhabiting under a rock to fellow hoo-mins. I guess in terms of interests, I’m just focused on art-making/animation/game related stuff really. But I am open to learn more, including the things I am completely ignorant about. Just too occupied with this arting though haha whoops
  • Minecraft and Garry’s Mod shenanigans
  • Okami
  • Resident Evil 6 – bad gameplay continues with the Jake and Sherry campaign
  • Lone Survivor – all of it
  • Eleusis – uhh terribly designed
  • Broken Age Act 1 – my bro has it but decided to not play it for myself and to watch it. ._. It’s wonderful anyway with gorgeous art. I really enjoyed it! That cliffhanger! And those looong credits!
  • Silent Hills P.T. – brilliantly executed and it made people scramble at every clue to make sense of things and get the actual ending
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  • Mario Galaxy – snippets
  • Riftmax
  • The Banner Saga
  • Girls Like Robots
  • Paper Sorcerer
  • Antichamber – whoaaa such a clever and well executed game
  • Tesla Effect – just a bit
  • Yesterday – what is this; so many levels of crazy weird as a plot…saw it all
  • GamesCom Microsoft 2014 Conference – got my bro to play SuperHot and he reached the end of the demo; I didn’t have the time to finish it but at least he did. Still I feel so accomplished hearing my bro exclaiming: “Super! Hot! SUPER! HOT!”
  • GamesCom Sony 2014 Conference – during the latter half I was…falling asleep. Um. I like watching and/or experiencing real-time gameplay more than trailers as it’s more true to the game. Trailers are supposed to look good, says my skeptical voice. And most of the games I don’t really keep track anyway so there’s definitely bias there.
  • Infamous: Second Son
  • Shadow Warrior…all the Wang jokes and then the game ended on a serious note
  • Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
  • Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate versus mode – as expected, all the girls still look young & samey and one is dangerous in age
  • Mount your friends
  • Insurgency
  • OTTTD
  • The Expendabros
  • The Expendables 2
  • Project M battles
  • Five Nights at Freddy’s – saw the whole thing and it got popular so quickly; effectively executed. It’s all about being paranoid versus staying calm when you get used to it.
  • Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death – can’t help but laugh at the ridiculous, over-the-topness! Ooh! The amusing slow-mo 3D matrix like shots became cut scenes.
  • Divinity: Original Sin Alpha
  • RAGE
  • Trials Evolution
  • Realistic Summer Sports Simulator

• Spent a part of a morning bouncing & testing showroom mattresses in-store. :O For science.
• Copy Paper Tower Challenge: Made all of it into makeshift sketch booklets. I can’t do fancy ink/watercolour/paint/traditional media stuff in them but they are cost effective and will last me for many years to come…
• Workstation Approach: Trialing my own makeshift standing “desk” (ie boxes). It feels so much better standing for most of the day. Let’s see how this goes in two to 6 week’s time. It’s incredibly tiring and painful for my feet thus far though. Ouchie. Standing for ages makes you prone to leg and back injury too so I realised later that I needed to get a suitable mat for this.
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