How Can One Guy Have So Many Thumbnails?

You may want to scroll down some, I posted pics fairly recently and haven't given much time for anyone to see them. These are thumbnails & homework from my latest assignment. Yes, I'm finally getting them in on time. This lesson deals with fish-eye perspective. Being that I got seriously burned out from all the stupid rap videos using them during the late '90's-early '00's, I really wasn't looking forward to this particular lesson. But ya gotta trudge through the shitty assignments to get to the good ones, right? By the way, a new Golden Brown is confirmed for tomorrow morning, so check it out!

I became frustrated with finding subject matter, so I only did three for this one. 

Here's the inked version of the one I picked. 

Here's my rendered version.

Library Parking

There is a new song one the Bone Daddy blog I suggest you guys listen to. It's only audio and you'll have to click on it to play it--it's located just below the paypal link.

More from my assignments:
The inked version of the one I chose.

Thumbnails for my last lesson.  

No More Kevin Pics? Turkey Weekend, etc.

Thanksgiving was pretty cool. Thursday we went to Karissa's mom's and had turkey and everyone seemed in a real good mood.
That night, I wasn't able to get to my drawing until late, and as a result had to hurry through a couple sketches which compromised their quality, but they all come out in midtones these days anyway. If it weren't for ink, I'd be very despondent about my loss of shadowy pictures. Also, it's not like any of these are going up on my walls. Don't worry, though, I'll try harder next lesson.
Friday, we went to my dad's & ate ham all day. We watched a shitty movie about a vampire from the old west--oh, we finally saw Click. It was okay. I'm a little done with Adam Sandler, really. But I have to admit, he did really well during the more dramatic scenes. Just not the funny ones.
And now, back to the same ol', same ol', except that we did get our Xmas decorations set up, I'm sure we'll get pics posted on one of our blogs one of these days.
Oh yeah, and the Vikes finally pulled through this weekend!

I finally got done with my inked version of this. 'Twas the trees that did me in for time. This is also just supposed to be a line drawing, but the instructor said we could fill in the shadows if we wanted to. I'd leave it like this anyway, except the trees are too white. It just looks like a big freakin light is coming down on it from somewhere. 

This is in response to April's accusation that I'm obsessed with Kevin. This is clearly Kevin--I mean Ben, so there, April. Shows how much you Kevin, you dumb Kevin, Kevin Kevin. 

Yeah, I hurried through this one. I was trying to get it done friday morning at work, and a bunch of ladies kept coming down to breakfast in droves (getting ready to mega-shop). 

Yes, that's a giant me, stepping on a tank to keep it from shooting me.  

Doug's Playing in the Se-mantic Pond, Jethro!

You know what annoys the freakin hell out of me? Two very obvious observations:
1. Semantics. When you're arguing with someone about something they or someone else said, and they state, "okay, now you're just getting into semantics."
Ah-duuuhhh. I'm trying to figure out what the fuck you or (enter shithead's name here) meant when he/she said (whatever they said). Sooo, yeah, I'm trying to get into the semantics of it. "Let's not argu over semantics." Ummm...that was the point of starting the argument.
2. Popularity Contest. I know, I know, plenty of youhave uttered these words in contempt of someone who was elected prom-queen/senator/fanclub president. But I have to put my foot down. OF COURSE it's a popularity contest. That's why these people win with the popular vote! That's how the President of the United States SHOULD be elected, being that the popular vote comes from us, the populace. How else should the previously mentioned win the contest? Outrun the giant fireball? Actually, that would be cool.
Anyway, those are painfully obvious statements to make, and those who make them tend to do so with the apparent intentions of removing this term from the situation as though it never belonged. It does, in fact, belong.
Oh, and you can't say ain't is not a word, just because you believe it shouldn't be. It is a word, although the dictionary states that it's typically used by uneducated people.
But let's not argue over semantics. We all know it got elected into the dictionary because it was just a popularity contest anyway. Plus I heard ain't gave the whole football team blowjobs.

P.S.--pictures below of latest assignment, and new Golden Brown out on my Bone Daddy blog, happy turkey-maskwanzikah!

These first two were actually based off Kevin's unsuccessful attempts at axe-throwing, pictures courtesy of April's blog. 

Here I come, I'm gonna peck you! I told you I'd peck you, but you didn't believe me! WHY didn't you believe me? 

I goofed my perspective on this one. His arms came out skinny. Not too bad a job on the pants, at least. 

Doin' a little dance...or trying to pinch his nuts with his own legs... 

Depression Guitar

This guitar was finished in 1934 in Philadelphia. It just sold on Ebay for $81.99, and it is one of the coolest acoustic guitars I have ever seen. My only regret is that I wasn't that guy who could afford to throw $80 at this guitar, otherwise I'd be showing it to each and every one of you in person. I LOVE the sharp angular body, the neck that overlaps the hexagonal sound hole, also the HAND-CARVED & initialed bridge.
While I'm on it, I saw an extremely well-done custom acoustic guitar in Scott's Music for over &2000. It was made by a lawyer in Grand Forks. It has a sharp bottom cutaway and f-cut holes on either side (imagine the holes on a violin) and was laquered and shiny to beat all hell.

Yeah, this guy put dots to indicate the odd frets & 12th fret, but there is no metal, and this wood looks extremely worn. 

Two-Point Thumbnails

More thumbnails for Perspective. This time, we have to capture Two-Point Vertical shots. I left most of the directional lines in, I figured they help show how to depict two-point. Isabella saw these, too, and she recognized her stool in the middle right shot. Then she smiled at me and proceeded to crumple up my paper (you can't see it because I smoothed it before scanning it). Karissa liked the fridge shot and the middle right one. Personally, I can't choose between the DeSoto and the old school coffin preparing for cremation. What do you guys think?

The remote picture doesn't have a lot of detail, but I'd think of something. 

Waiting

Here is my inked version of the assignment. Apparently no values necessary.

Prognosis: Busy

I must be like the master of late. I got everything done this week--except the final ink for my Perspective class. Sonuvabitch! I found out I'm getting a "b" average for both classes, and that acually is pretty cool being that they drop you a letter grade for late assignments, and I've been late a lot, meaning I've at least done "a" quality work. Typically I believe what you learn from the class & its experiences overrules the grade you ultimately receive. Ideally the two would match up, but that's rarely the case. I'm at least happy to be graded so objectively now, though. I hate grade curves because I think they're excuses for the teachers to look good and show that their students all have decent grades.
ANYWAY, I've posted my thumbnails & pencil drawing for Perspective, the ink will come later today.
This week: I have to draw more folds, only I have to draw the whole body this time. Not only that, but I have to dress someone in a "costume" and draw four pictures of them telling a short, simple story with actions. For my other class, I have to do thumbnails depicting teo-point vertical perspective, which actually seems pretty easy, from the examples I've seen.
Outside school, we're going (hopefully) to Comfort Inn tomorrow to get Isabebella's pictures taken by April. I also wanted to get a start on one of the "projects" I'd been planning since before Halloween. If I pull it off, it'll be pretty cool.
No promises, but I should be able to get the next page of Golden Brown out this week. I've got a cople panels penciled, and when I get started I usually get a good rhythm going.

My thumbnails for the reflection assignment: Top left- Houdini preparing for a stunt, Top right- Tom Waits waiting, Bottom left, a little tribute to Evil Dead, and Bottom right (which is sideways)- a nude chick holding a flower, the photo reference is ca. 1890. 

It was supposed to be Tom Waits, but just looks like some jazzy dude. I'll have the inked version coming up. 

Stretched/Compressed Folds

This and the next one are more shots from the Grand Forks Flood book. The figures themselves aren't well detailed--the main point of the assignment is to show stretched and compressed folds in clothing, so I focused more on that.

I think I didn't do too bad with shading, and I think the stretch folds are interesting because we're seeing them more from the front than on the side. 

Not Quite Golden Brown...

I didn't get a page done on the comic this week, but I did manage to fuck off and draw up something equally silly when I should have been working on my homework. Seriously, what is my problem? Anyway, I have no intentions of going further with him, I just thought the concept was funny at the time it was conceived.

Good, Bad, I'm the Guy With a Pencil...

Okay, so I ended up getting all womany over a stupid issue. I know what you're thinking--Doug, you're so awesome and your new hat just makes you the coolest of the cool. But what does womany mean?
Well, it's a chauvenistic term I made up that perpetuates the stereotype that women are slaves to their emotions and act solely on them. But then again, for all the times I've heard that men "think with their penis", I think chicks had this term coming.
Anyway, I finished my Figure Drawing pictures last week, but didn't post them. They're substandard, and I was pissed that I could have done better but didn't. So I got all moody about it and decided to forget about them and move on to the next assignment. But that isn't fair. I can't just post what I think is good on my blog, I have to post my shit work, too. When Kevin comes home from a bad work day, he doesn't just bottle it up. He gets all womany too, cries for about an hour and says the entire world is just a bunch of stupid jerks, then I pat him on the back and say, "There there. You just cry your little eyes out. No one will ever know." Then he says something like, "*sniff* You know, you're a good kid. I think this world will be okay after all." Then the ninjas surround us.

The building isn't too bad for the limited amount of markers I had to work with, and I liked my thumbnails. Kevin turned out okay, Dwight was alright, but Amber's eyes are too small and uneven. It's like I modeled her after Alfred E. Newman. Sorry, Amber. I'll try it again. I do have to thank April, though, I keep finding good sources for pictures in her blog archives. Hope she doesn't mind!
Womany.

These are my value thumbnails. There only about 3x4" each. 

My finished drawing. I don't have a shade blender here, so the values do get a bit choppy.  

Kevin might be okay if not for that stupid set of chompers. He's looks like he's wearing falsies or chiclets.