Daylight Saving is Making Me Nocturnal

Why hello there. It's been exactly a month to the day since the last time I posted an update. Fancy that! I have no excuse other than to say that I've been very busy. Busy playing a lot of games, to be quite honest. But I've done other things too! Productive things... like working on my portfolio and putting sample sheets together. Interviewing and applying for work. Collecting unemployment. And so forth.

I've also been attempting to keep up with doing artwork as well, although I made a tactical error while working at BottleRocket in that I did not invest any money into new computer hardware when I had a disposable income. That's biting me in the ass now, as my computer is at least four years old and incapable of running the latest version of Maya or whatever. Also, my tablet at home is still a shitty Graphire that I bought on the cheap long ago. So I haven't been able to do much 3d work lately.

But I have not been idle! I have turned instead to crude implements like pencil and paper. Slumming it, really, as I imagine a caveman must have done. Here is the result:

Did this first set while watching Phantom of the Opera (the 2004 movie).

I believe these were done between matches of Street Fighter IV. You might recognize a couple loose interpretations of Chun Li... the figure between them is Vega.

Done while watching CSI. I kind of like how simple these are.

These are just three examples; I've actually been pretty good with sketching something on a near-daily basis. My buddy Adrian (props brutha!) has been keeping pace with me, and we've been meeting infrequently for sketching sessions... something that I hope will continue. At any rate it's keeping my production up, which in theory means I should have new material to post more frequently. At least, more frequently than once a month (no promises).

That's all for now. I'll need to make another entry soon about the games I've been playing, because there have been some pretty awesome games released recently and I feel the need to talk about them. But in the meantime, an endorsement: buy MadWorld. If you own a Wii, this is a game you must pick up.