Andrew Dang

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2013.07.21 day sketch "unnamed"

Drew this today, though it took two sittings. He's unnamed (I didn't want to give him the biblical John), so I'm open to suggestions!

...and thought I'd do the obligatory Rei/Asuka fanart. I had fun drawing this. For brush I switched back to using a circle brush; the last couple months I'd defaulted onto a more rectangular, vertical brush, which worked well for weighted cartoony lines but not much else.

This painting wouldn't be complete without an Asuka + Wille, but I want to do a landscape action painting next (potentially Attack on Titan), so red-hair is going to have to wait. >,<

I thought the third Evangelion film sped by really quickly. A number of new characters showed up, but don't get developed... It's forgivable in part that civilization has become more ruined since 2.0, but in 3.0 its just about Shinji and Kaworu, and even then they learn to love each other so abstractly. I think Studio Khara was successful in making me feel like I have no clue about what is going on, right from the start of the film. The musical metaphor was nice but I did not expect it to be extended into 4.0. The final Evangelion film will have the sheet music end bars in its title. (シン・エヴァンゲリオン劇場版:|| ) Regardless, Evangelion just feels so good, and I can't wait to see and hear the familiar characters in the final act.

Below is the process from sketch to final.

Paint Tool SAI - Flexible Brush settings

Line-art has been a difficult area for me. I've been stubborn about painting/drawing with single size media, and while it works very comfortable when I'm drawing traditionally with a ballpoint pen (I just found a pair of Zebra's at Staples, one of my favourite barrels), the results on non-cintiq tablets are disappointing.

I'm going to try and break down my findings from Paint Tool SAI.

Animation practice!

I was hanging out in the Animation cubicles and decided to play with a bit of traditional animation. These were the original five pages that I drew and watched back on an old Lunchbox downshooter, which would take photographs of the frames and play them back on an old TV.

I animated it with out using a light-table, and my character's head shrunk as the pages went on...

I reworked the animation and cleaned up and colored it in Photoshop.

Digital Figure Drawing

Quite a different experince! I brought my laptop and tablet to the drawing session today! I started out in Alchemy and then switched over to Photoshop. (images posted in reverse)

Blue Witch

Line art and color practice.

Riven Breaks Things

I painted this for the League of Legends Digi-Art contest. Riven and Leona are among my favourite characters, along with Ashe and Fiora. I had quite a bit of fun painting this, but realized that I have to set up the foundation of the painting better to avoid headache.

CP!R: Cardio Punch! Resuscitation - Global Game Jam 2013

Met a bunch of cool guys at the Global Game Jam site held at USC. We made a game called CP!R: Cardio Punch! Resuscitation. It is incomplete and buggy, but we got all the assets in! Check it out here on the GGJ site: http://globalgamejam.org/2013/cpr-cardio-punch-resuscitation

Testing out some COPIC markers

Over Winter Break, I had a chance to try out the few COPIC markers that my sister had bought. She and her friend picked a strange arrangement of colors. I inked a couple of drawings with the Deleter G-pen and #2 ink, then coloured them in with the COPICs

I also did a watercolor illustration of a miner and her canary. I was very timid with the colors, and didnt put any vibrant darks down. That weakened the painting, but it was a fun day watercoloring.