Going out soon, Jared's last night in town. Enjoying a bit of Baroque at the moment. The fact that I can listen to BBC Radio 3 on the internet makes me happy. Makes me feel like a child again, really.
Organ music makes me happy.
Just a little something from my sketchbook.
Slaving over my small 3x5 tablet and tracing something I drew sketchily in class is a huge pain in the ass. Case in point, this took me over two bloody hours. My hand hurts.
The face needs to be redone before I shade it.
It occured to me that it's been a while since I've posted anything from my sketchbook. Since I fixed my scanner today...
Here's one I did on the bus.
And here's another I did at home. The shading's unintentional, I swear. I set the scanner to 24-bit RGB and it picked up the faint colour differentiations of my penciling... and couple that with the blinding sunlight streaming in partway into the scanner (despite my attempts to block it by covering the scanner with my t-shirt)... it turned out like this. I like it. I was going to shade it in Painter anyway and this kind of saved me the effort. Kinda. It's also very long.
I haven't worked with a live model (these are just out of my head, hence the lack of detail) in a while. I should get someone to pose for me. But then I'd probably just whip out my camera. Teehee.
I moved in. Head kinda hurting from booze last night, so I won't talk much about moving in till later.
Here is a picture I doodled on the WACOM tablet. Modelled after a photo that a friend sent me of themself.
Not very much like the photo, really, but creative liberties can be taken occasionally.
I just drew this out of the Fall 2004 Holt Renfrew catalogue... which I found in the TV Lounge. Suprisingly quick sketch... 30-40 minutes in class.
Enjoy.
It looks better on paper, I think. Possibly cause it's too dark on the scan. Oh, and the date is wrong. I have since changed it.
Just a few doodles I have been playing with in class and such... a few pencil ones, since I don't think I have any pencil stuff up here.
This was a while back... just a few thumbnails I was doing as figure sketches... and yes, I am aware the girl in the middle has huge boobs.
This one was done on the back of the ones above.
This was today, actually. Just messing around in class, didn't turn out exactly as I'd have liked it, but s'okay. I was just playing with poses. And yes, you can see the faint shades of ink doodles from the other side of the page. I think the right (left on the page) shoulder's a little too big for the perspective, if I'm going to have her leaning backwards on that arm. Oops.
Yep, that's it. I have things to say... but I don't think I have the energy to type them up tonight.
I kicked some people's bums at Risk today. Taking over the world is so much fun.
Muhahaha.
So... it's 9:14 AM and I think I shall be headed to bed soon, get some sleep before my Anthropology class at 2:30...
I spent the last few hours working on a character design sketch. I titled it "Hunter"... but that's just a filler title until I can come up with an appropriate character name.
Designed for a more modern Alternity campaign. Could end up being a quite an interesting character, I'm not sure.
I was in the middle doing a sketch of a woman in her 20s, and being in the very altered state of mind that I am, the question came into my head... what if modern day hippies and left-wing activists adopted Vietnam-era protest methods, and placed an image of it into a poster similar the propaganda of the "witch-hunt" period? So I did a quick sketch, again, as I said, in my altered state, I turned what began as a quick excersize into a ridiculously outlandish thumbnail. Shame, the face could've turned out really well, if I had the time to work on it. It turned out a little something like this:
The shirt says: No More Bush Oil War, with a peace symbol through the "O" of the "No". The pamphlet/paper in her right hand is supposed to be the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms The picture, as it is difficult to see in this quickie, is of a girl (wearing a waistpouch, mind you, an item of everyday use that has become rare now) getting hit over the head with a truncheon by a cop.
Trust my crazy nutjob head to come up with anything when as messed as I am right now. =)
(Oh yes, and the lettering "Keepers of the Peace should be graffiti on the wall behind it. I will have to work this whole thing out into a real drawing sometime on the computer)
Ahh... that was enjoyable. I just finished watching an episode of Magic School Bus on the telly, while eating a bowl of tomato (toe-mah-toe, not toe-may-toe) soup in dorm common room.
Things have really changed since last I saw an episode of Magic School Bus. I've gone from being a bright, young studious boy to a complete burn-out University slacker who gets by on writing essays on sheer genius and inebriatory powers... if the papers get written at all.
I think I have a paper that's about a week late now that I still have to start. I don't know why, but lately I cannot even commit the willpower to finish a book, much less write a paper. It's rather upsetting.
However, to wind the cogs in my brain and get them to start turning again, I did manage to finally install movabletype and get this blog up... so perhaps that bodes well for me, that I actually got around to doing this.
So, for the ceremonious first post, I suppose I'll begin with explaining the title of the site:
The Merkavah (alternative spellings: Merkovah, Merkava) is the chariot of God as described in the book of Ezekiel. One of my favourite professors, who will go unnamed here for now, described the Merkavah as God's SUV, based upon Ezekiel's elaborate descriptions.
I would have to agree... God's rims exhibit a consciousness of the concepts of bling.
16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. (Ezekiel 1.16-17, KJV)
Well, that, or Ezekiel was looking at a fleet of alien starships... which is just about as likely. Nonetheless... by claiming to drive the Lord's SUV, I either imply that I have stolen God's ride, or I have his blessing to use it. Both propositions that I enjoy, personally.
Of course, the novelty wore off a bit when I realized that the Merkavah is also the name for the IDF's main battle tank... they just put the Mk. IVs in service last year, I believe.
Given that I don't normally like to take sides in that hideous conflict... I may change the title, to something more akin to "Buddha is a shit-stick"... but it is unlikely at this point.
The drawing up there is of my friend Tim. In case the titlebar changes in the future, I have uploaded the original image, a quick sketch I did while we were sitting here and chatting in my dorm room.
I'll post again later today, when I'm not near passing out and far more coherent.
