A portable Cintiq - myth? -> Myth my ass! :D

Finally got the PhotoDon Anti-Glare Matte screen protectors! 2 of them.
So that means i can now start sketching and painting for real.
When i throughoutly cleaned the screen just before applying the protector, there were a bunch of small scratches already. So a screen protector is a must for a tablet pc.

PS.
Tablet pc
about 2 hours i think..
Heavily inspired by John Harris. My new idol artist.

A little sketch for this evening..
Inspired by some little thumbnail picture i saw while browsing the web.. dunno what pic or where from.. I just got inspired by the colors and contrast in it.
PS. the astronaut on the left is just having some weird radio equipment in his back.. :) not wings or anything like that.

Morning sketch for today. the lighting changed constantly and the cat rolled to the other side in the middle.. so this is not 100% correct.. maybe not even 50% :)

Heres my first sketches on the new tablet pc!
One thing i noticed instantly was that making circles was much much easier than on a wacom. On a wacom tablet i usually needed to make a circle erase the center to get the thickness i need then transform it to needed position and scale with transform tool.
I shall post more sketches tomorrow.

Heres another shot from opposite direction than the previous one.

A try at rendering the guy + a sketch of the environment for our short movie "Gold Rush"
We left behind the bird vs worm idea and teamed up with another team that was doing this short movie. Its about a worker at a mining corp and his boss. Comedy... Im going to make many more sketches and renders so keep in touch with my blog!

Also.. my tablet pc should arrive in like a week or so.. so cool. can't wait!

Trying out whether i still am able to draw/paint..
The first head i painted from scratch in photoshop was a total disaster.. but this one was better. I drew this on paper first though...

PS CS5
Wacom intuos 4
2 hours
no reference.

heres a little update.. next step would be unwrapping of everything and texturing..
blender 2.54.00 Beta

Been trying out Blender lately.. heres my first work with it... some sorta engine i guess.. no idea.
Blender has some quite nice and fast tools... but at the same time i quite often find myself searching for hours for a super simple tool that would normally be visible straight away in 3DsMax...
This is still a work-in-progress. I am going to morel more stuff to it and in the end im going to unwrap everything and texture needed parts.

A small update on the model..
Rigging course started and we have done legs and the spine.. When i'll rig the whole character - i'll put some more poses of it/her.

Final tweaks before the course..
No time to model the cloth parts.. so i had to quickly map the model and paint in viewport painting mode.. i wanted het to have some sorta BLAME! -inspired techno leather suit or something like that.. :(