21 Years ago

Twenty one years ago I drew a character for fun. In 2008 I drew it again to the same aspect ratio as the original to try and see how much I had improved, so I thought I'd try it again after finding the original. Trying to keep myself to the same time limit as the original, which was about 45 minutes.
It's interesting to see what I focused on in each. 
2005 was for fun. 2008 was focused on high contrast lighting and detailing (I think this was when I wanted to be a concept artist.). And 2026 was focused on simplifying and making it readable with time constraints. I had tried keeping the same colours from the original, with no lights or darks, but it looked boring and flat. 
If there was a 2016 version, I have a feeling it would look quite similar to 2008, just with different effects.

I think the one thing to take away from this exercise is that 45 minutes isnt much time at all, maybe it seemed like longer two decades ago. I also wonder if, in 2008 I would have considered my artwork today to be a display of 20 years of improvement. I'd probably ask what I was doing all the time. 

There was a time when I drew and painted every day, but now its mostly sketching and painting from life in traditional mediums. Looking back on old artwork and thinking of previous desires, wondering what was planned in my future gives me a sense of melancholy that I dont think I can really escape from.

Niflheim - Church

I always forget to turn off brave shield to use blogger. I've forgotten my password/back up details for this account so while I can still post, here's a little thing I've been working on.

I found some great concept art on a Ragnarok Online 2 web page.  So I found a concept I liked and got to work. I wanted to try out making tile-sets and see what I can do in blender. I sued to exclusively use 3dsmax but Blender isn't too bad once you get the hang of it.

Karakasa card and Portraits

 

Karakasa card by BrushDip on Sketchfab

The Karakasa card, from Ragnarok Online. It was fun, I may try to remake more cards like this. 

More portraits in oil. One of the issues I seem to have is making the eyes too small, which ends up with a small looking face. But this also comes down to lack of planning and incorrect drawing.
Back to the black and white.

Fan art - Ragnrok Online - Wild Rider

Fan art - Ragnrok Online - Wild Rider by BrushDip on Sketchfab

Magnolia - monster

 

I made a little fired egg demon, from Ragnarok Online called Magnolia. It's about 3,000 triangles, I could get it lower but it's just a quick little project for fun. The textures are just plane PBRs without maps apart from the pan, I wanted to get some more texture on there but it looks like what I did didn't end up in the renders I put together.  

The face and beak are just separate objects, maybe if I hid it's face under the whites and flipped it over for its animations, I could do a nice sculpt for it...

It has an idle, attack, hit, "walk", and death animation.

It was good to play around again with modeling and rigging, its been a few years and it looks like the tech has really moved a lot from what I remember. 

Ventricle Razor - The Binding of Isaac

 The Binding of Isaac was a great game, so I think some fan art is in order. 
Id recommend the game to anyone that wants something different. 

I'm currently in recovery from heart surgery. I think I got the bentall procedure, a little aorta fix here and a mechanical heart valve there. Although it seems like something serious, it really didnt feel like it. 

So I now make a constant ticking noise. Its kind of nice.

Ragnarok - Lude

Super simple characters are fun! More Halloween related stuff.
Im looking into how to get the jack-o-lantern to glow and stuff in unity. As well as getting this guy rigged nicely for some simple animations. Other than that I also want to try to get texture swapping down for the face. Im not experienced enough in these areas yet, so a simple character such as this would be perfect for it.
I also want to make the Quve, might model that before I start playing around with rigging and the like. While Im on the ball that is.

LoL - Vi speedpaint

Speed paint of Vi! Ill colour it another time maybe...

LoL - Annie Dark child

For my 666th post, I bid you a Happy Halloween with League of Legends fan art.

league of legends - Xin Zhao

Mathamatical!

 

Some math adventure time icons I made today. Not too fond of that Jake icon though, I made him look like a toaster or something. I dont plan on using these for anything.

Ragna-what now?

I checked out my friend Lisa Mudrowsky's blog a while back this post caught my eye link to Lisa's post! She was my old ragnarok buddy, so when she saw my 3d ragnarok monsters, she drew some nostalgia, which in turn caused me to draw some. This has been sitting on my desktop for a week unfinished, so I kicked myself in the face to finish it, beacuse I'm digging the style yo!

Ive got lots of bits and bobs to upload. Ill save it for another day. But Im wondering when Im going to hit my upload limit again and have to delete a bunch of old posts...

Ragnarok Chonchon

The chonchon flies! They make cat noises when you kill them.
Forgot to mention the alphas on the image, but thats kind of obvious.

Ragnarok Two-Handed Sword

A simple sword, based on the Two-Handed Sword designs from Ragnarok Online. Just a day thing, sweet and simple.
512 textures, they worked just as well at 256x256, even lower beacuse its so simple, but just for why not-s I left it at 512. Theres still alot of space on the map, so I might do one or two more simple weapons.

Ragnarok RSX-0806

RSX-0806, I wanted to give him a normal map aswell, but there wasnt a whole lot of need, everything was quite visable in the diffuse. But still as soon as I got the emissive map in there it started to look really cool.
 Fully hand painted, thanks to the wonders of 3dsmax's viewport canvas and my fancy yet spammed photoshop brushes. Fun times!
For something which is just a rusty sphere, i like how it turned out.

Wireframe

I want to make more Ragnarok monsters now...But which one to chooosee....

Ragnarok - Savage

The savage! A monster from Ragnarok Online, creatures are a blast to work on. 2 Day project.
I think I'll do some more 3D remakes of ragnarok creatures, taking 2d sprites to 3d.

Queen Scaraba WIP

Ragnarok Fanart- Queen Scaraba

Drawing the queen scaraba today, didnt feel like doing photo studys or anything. This isnt finished yet, its still low res. But I might keep it low res. Ill come back tto it, and finish it tomorrow maybe.

Drawing in the labs today, decided to draw pokemon, as Ive currently been obsessed with Pokemon White, so I asked a few people to do a a speed paint of some pokemon. This was 50 minutes.