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Lately...

I've been drawing mini portraits of of people I ride the bus with as I go home. They are side portraits and are no more than an inch and a half to two inches in height. The two that I've completed I have since taken and supersized on the chalkboard at the UD Boston Stoker, coffee shop for those who might not know. While I don't drink coffee personally, I'm a hot chocolate fan (their's is ridiculously not sweet enough, I add syrup), it's a good place to hang out and the regular weekday crew are cool bunch. So I present to you my supersized portraits, this also my first time dabbling in the world of color artwork at such a large scale. There are only six colors of chalk there, if you're lucky.

The previous post...

was just obnoxiously whimsical thinking before I had; a name, Jay Jay; and character description, "the tall skinny guy, who somehow knows everything and gets really annoying at times." Special thanks to Timmy O for that great description. It turns out that it's really hard to design a character when you have no real description of what they should look like and what parts of their personality should be exaggerated in their body. I now have a page of drawings and one good concept to go off that are making my modeling which is now being done completely in Maya flow very nicely.

It is a bit difficult to learn new modeling techniques and software at the same time but it's coming to me even easier in Maya than in 3DS Max. Ultimately if you really have the art part down pat the software become nothing more than a tool that you need to practice to become completely adept with. I have to admit that thanks to the Digital-Tutors modeling tutorials it's so easy to go through the process using their techniques for my model really makes it all fly. So here's the start of Jay Jay: