tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29928581141897189112024-02-20T08:56:58.649-08:00sketch blogcrithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-9422310564682216762012-09-29T05:57:00.003-07:002012-09-29T05:57:46.655-07:00Flower Bouquet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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flower bouquet still life study.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-2753580332393053492012-09-28T14:27:00.001-07:002012-09-28T14:27:29.701-07:00Flower study<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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doing a painting on a wax flower in my bathroom.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-39302208959390513982012-09-09T23:46:00.001-07:002012-09-09T23:46:16.146-07:00Rita Hayworth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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a illustration of my favorite actress Rita Hayworth.<br />
Sadly I didn't document my progress on this piece. I more or less just painted and through hard work made it here.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-53543554778321282722012-07-19T20:42:00.001-07:002012-07-19T20:43:02.189-07:00joanna painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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revisiting an older sketch I did about 7 years ago of an old friend Joanna.<br />
Here's some slight images of my work process on working on this piece<br />
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simple break down, not close to the real photo, had to resize the head a lot.<br />
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started early on with grey tones help me a lot, colors are easy to get confused on the shape, so it's best to be black and white.<br />
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the color is blended into the grey tones, although not as appeal but still it works to get the job done<br />
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a lot of slapping of colors in there, the primary colors sometimes just sit there waiting to get blended in. The dress is a difficult piece, but trying to set up a flow of the fabric.<br />
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closer to the end, still always little details to update like the nose, hands, and fabric.<br />
<br />crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-37670775999642597752012-07-14T00:07:00.002-07:002012-07-14T00:09:49.852-07:00Chun Li VS Mai<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm inspired by my friend Justin and Camilla when they draw beautiful statuesque women.<br />
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been sketching chun li all my life, so for me, it's that design of he neck, her shoulders that really stand out and become so iconic. I used Street Fighter 3 for it's more WuShu fighting style.<br />
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takes me a while working on the line work. I feel very insecure about a lot of things, Scanned it in at multiple points, in fact thought about not finishing the lines and going straight into photoshop</div>
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the color are simple, same colors on each not too different considering how mia is so influenced by chun li.<br />
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I tend to use the same cardboard texture<br />
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without the textures<br />
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inspired by the Scott Pilgrim DVD cover, wanted to just try it out and see how it'd turn out.<br />
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I really wanted to push the shadows, to show more weight into their shape and form. It's easy to exaggerate them, but still their known for being different in their bust and thighs, so that's why I went the way I did.<br />
This is really a gift to my friends and their inspiration.<br />
<br />crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-70804868907250761482012-07-10T20:08:00.001-07:002012-07-10T20:08:31.299-07:00TF2 conga Line<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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been thinking about this one since I first started playing the game. Just the typical scene of just a crew of players getting dominated by an effective spy.<br />
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sketching ideas over this piece. A nice idea of each characters own clumsily running to a sentry gun.<br />
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early on I knew this wouldn't work crammed into a simple 8x11 inch sheet of paper. I would need to draw individually each character on a sheet of paper.<br />
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so it's a mess but I could work around this<br />
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the thing is most of the tf2 characters have individual colors even if they are blue and red<br />
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here it's getting closer along<br />
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almost everyone has their own colors<br />
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a more rendered out sniper <br />
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closer to the final version but still not the right colors down, more need for blending into the background<br />
this was a fun piece to work on. Much much much larger then I imagined, a file size of 270 mb large, and 28x8 inches large composition.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-38800297438057073442012-07-08T23:23:00.000-07:002012-07-08T23:23:13.850-07:00strangelove<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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it took me a while to get this right, so I started just trying to work the fashion model angel<br />
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and then I decided to explore myself with my cat<br />
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I have this blue color erase pencil lead so I played with that to get the right movement<br />
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I rushed in and started working in without the lines being finished and set up an early composition<br />
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I compostited an rough using an early illustration<br />
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using the music video screen cap as reference, even down to the detail of the Eiffel Tower<br />
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an experiment with how it'd look with color, just a slight hint of it. A washed out turn of the century film<br />
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closer to the final but actually wrong font because I haven't installed the new fonts in yet<br />
This was a fun piece to work on, it's more my sense of humor, beautiful women and cute animals. The context of the music video also helps, so I hope fans of the video get the joke.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-5790034451989014232012-06-07T00:13:00.000-07:002012-06-07T00:13:11.424-07:00beautiful women studies just after finishing off dinner I would devote time to photoshop and do these referenced photo sketches. So why not do sketches of beautiful movie sirens.<br />
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Marilyn Monroe
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Pam Grier
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Rita Hayworth<br />
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And this is my friend whom I babysit, we watch Chuck Jones cartoons and recite Mad Hatter quotescrithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-52232608643014235882012-05-27T22:45:00.001-07:002012-05-27T22:45:54.843-07:00vanessa lake<br />
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pin up of the model <a href="http://ispyvanessalake.com/">Vanessa Lake</a><br />
some nice close ups which you can't see in this re sized version <br />
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I work immediately on this digitally and here are a few step by step of my art process<br />
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a texture was added temporary. Not sure if I enjoyed it, the shading on the skin was smoothed out <br />
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more attention to hair and tattoos came in . The tattoos were on a layer above, just to not mess up the skin.<br />
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more attention to the hair, eyes needed a drastic improvement, wanted that sleepy seductive look . Really took a long time to achieve that<br />
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a texture was added in the background, opacity was turned down to 16% and layer was set to light dodge.<br />
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A very difficult piece to work on. I enjoyed working on the hair and the tattoos the most. I learned a lot through this and felt it will improve my art process.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-29993190574957713272012-05-02T18:01:00.003-07:002012-05-02T18:01:21.875-07:00Carlotta Champagne<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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an illustration of Carlotta Champagne<br />
and here's a nice close up which you can't make up at this resolution<br />
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And here's a few work in progress how I came to this piece<br />
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simple break down<br />
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not the most difficult piece, but still always checking to see if correct in proportions<br />
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added the teal color to contrast the orange and red tones in the skin.<br />
I loved working on this piece and I'd love to do some pieces like this.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-77390032337671863322012-03-28T08:42:00.000-07:002012-03-28T08:42:52.487-07:00mass effect 2 - mordin loyality<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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a gift for <a href="http://radicalstab.deviantart.com/">Sabrina</a> whom I happy to call a friend
took me a while working on this one. <br />
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I just pushed myself into coloring it in order to achieve something more then just the limitations of simple line art.
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as you can see, the original version I messed up the alignment of the characters. So I changed it little by little as I progressed into coloring it.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-53169379733754967612012-02-08T16:53:00.000-08:002012-02-08T16:53:28.599-08:00eve meyerEve Meyer
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Normally I don't immediately paint in photoshop, I usually work on a pencil sketch then add colors to it. But this one I just went straight to work.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Without really wasting too much time on each step, I'll go into some small details about it
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I was using a new paper bag for a texture
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This was a fun piece to work on, I normally don't enjoy posting referenced photos as a finished piece except for experiments. This one turned out really well.
And also a small sketch I did of Eve Meyers before hand
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Recently been taking a break how I normally illustrate and just using reference photos to paint.
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well originally I start by illustrating in a monotone style with shades of gray.
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As i get close to what I like, I start slapping in high saturation color tone with the intention to blend them into those gray tones.
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there is no real intention to be photo realistic, just try to play around with colors, what should pop what shouldn't.
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learn from your mistakes, it was a wonderful experiment to play around withcrithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-51149358278927196472011-11-19T01:23:00.001-08:002011-11-19T01:45:57.275-08:00Rydia of Mistjust finished this piece for a friend of mine's art show
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Rydia of Mist from Final Fantasy IV, a long time favorite video game character been working on it for a long time because I have high expectations of the character.
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I tried referencing the DS game more then the Yoshitaka Amano art because his art is very inconsistent and hard to use as reference, even if it's beautiful and inspiring.
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I won't lie I redrew her about a good 20 times, so I will spare you with every iteration, but basically I had the idea she spins around and summons a mist dragon like her mother but also her first appearance when she's older.
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the line art is as close as what I want but still unhappy with her breast and her head.
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But still this is a new technique I want to draw, and I'm always unhappy how my line art works and more excited to paint instead. So the lines are more mostly guideline.
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I had to realign her head. It's not quite perfect, in the final version I'm still not happy with it, but I still want to have the the shoulder up close to her chin.
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A new color was added into the shadows, instead of blue I added a bit of orange. I was afraid it separates the head and the body very close to one another but I do think it's interesting to have different fabrics inspired by cosplayers.
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Originally I wanted to have a wing exposed to cast a shadow over her, but I don't quite think it would work if the dragon's head if lean forward so much. So I pulled it back so her hand carcasses it.
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Nice detail on the jewelry and splash details were added
I'm still a bit not sure about it but I'm happy the overall color of it and movement. It's an interesting piece, I might come back and either redraw it or draw her again.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-89425511230669837212011-11-09T16:20:00.000-08:002011-11-09T16:25:02.126-08:00Blue Falcon and Dynomutt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A special Birthday gift to a friend <a href="http://robbvision.com/">Robert Mommaerts.</a>
Took me a while working on this
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Originally I wanted to draw them on the jet, but I think you see that too often. So I went in with the running animation instead
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I often like to see designs through different angles, sleeked up design
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I always loved the silliness of dynomutt, so it felt in his character making silly faces. Although I still wanted a sleek design to dynomutt so I tried to make the expression very limited.
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I redrew the pose over and over and over and over again. I'm never satisfied with just one design, want to see it in every angle.
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You know as long as my work process goes, my pens just die by the time I get to doing the line work. So here it's not quite dead but it's close to it.
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now this is a test composition using two different images. Even if I'm drawing over things with a blue pencil I often am not sure if it's correct seeing each individual object together.
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I'm not happy how dynomutt head is turning out so I'd rather take in a previous drawing and clean that up instead.<br />
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Even just as a rough test, I'm curious in the middle of penciling this to just push it into the coloring process even though I'm not complete with the pencils.
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And like that, just curious to see what colors are like, this is the best way to get me to push development of sketches to finished product.
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A vague idea how colors look, especially how complicated it is in between the two characters
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trying to see how the pipes work just going around blue falcon. it's a messy design idea but it's someone I want to see because it's the humor of the show.
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Fixing up the footprints to make it easier to fallow
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Playing around with colors, want to have some blending in there, it's looking nice
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Drawing behind dynomutt hand and legs of blue falcon using references from a pervious drawing of blue falcon to make it easier.
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Cleaning up the pipe designs, now the final version is a bit too saturated in color. I kinda regret that and might refix it, but right now it's a fun piece to work on. My art process is odd but it helps me push my work.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-42220004159154261752011-10-28T13:55:00.000-07:002011-10-28T13:55:20.343-07:00Drink Cozy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reginald E Norton enjoying his Mint Julep.<br />
I have been kicking around this idea for a while
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and like always I tend to redraw it a billion times over
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so I stooped early on and just went immediately to production of the piece.
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Not drawing the glass wasn't something intentionally difficult, I felt it gave me enough room to change it if it's digital.
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Very crude but still got me rolling along
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this was a small piece, so I didn't feel too restricted into little detail but doing a glass with a drink inside of it was difficult but it just took me a while to render it out. Reginald is one of my favorite characters so it's fun to draw him all happy.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-11584972912249070372011-10-26T16:27:00.000-07:002011-10-26T16:27:56.717-07:00brain talk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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a gift for a friend <a href="http://www.jillkill.com/index.html">Jill Kill</a> a whimsical horror film fan and her loyal sidekick Darkling Dog.
Took me a while working on this one, went in from about a good 8 pages of redrawing the illustration
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lots of silly ideas kicking around, but not focusing on composition and making sure it works.
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Now here's where I had problems I drew this around 5 times. I'll spare you all the drama, and just show you some of them
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I wasn't happy how it turned out, so I was playing around with earlier sketches and putting them into the final piece.
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a tighter, cleaner design, it helped me work faster
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I started work on Darkling, because of the shaggy hair it's easy to get confused, and wanted his emotion to come out clear
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it's fun working on the brain, just kept thinking of every single silly horror film I've seen.
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Now skin is improve and the electricity from the tesla coils is moving around
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now doodling designs of a Rat and a Spider, which I always wanted in the scene but didn't know exactly where and how. Now I rushed into this piece because thinking about designing the rat and the spider would have just made me procrastinate this further.
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lots of doodling the background blending colors together, cleaning up smudges.
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This piece was a lot of fun to work on and I'm proud how it turned out. I've doodles a billion sketches so I might do another one soon.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-78058765215501861872011-10-15T21:19:00.000-07:002011-10-15T21:19:50.362-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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fighting fish of the underwater pitfighting tournament.
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Been working on this for a while. I'm always insecure of my work. SO I will sketch the idea a billion times over.
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there's a simple idea of a little fighting fish beating up big brutes. I might make more of a series of little fishes.
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again exploring ideas of colors and style. It was a wise idea to pick Siamese fighting fish because they are so colorful easy to work with it and design a backdrop that complements their colors<br />
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trying to design the Kirby Dots. I never did anything like this digital, so it was just baby steps while still coloring the main composition.
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I'm awfully insecure how I try something new, so there's about 4 different layers here, on the kirby dots, the glow in the background and each element.
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masking was used to make the lines in the action a white splat over the face the show where the fish is impacting.
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adding simple font with font bending effects to fallow along with the movement
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this was a fun piece to work on, expressing my own sense of humor and personality. I hope to make more of these fishes in the future.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-46578944436231540882011-10-10T02:53:00.000-07:002011-10-10T02:53:03.024-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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originally he came to visit my room but didn't know the web cam was oncrithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-25384264323208125082011-10-06T16:10:00.000-07:002011-10-06T16:10:34.524-07:00good news and bad news<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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while my cat may be cleared of cancer but he's now been diagnosed with a thick layer of bacteria along his stomach. So we wait for another appointment to hear how he will be handled soon. This releases some problems I have but still I wait for more news.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-25342746974360968742011-10-04T03:02:00.001-07:002011-10-04T03:02:43.648-07:00my cat may have cancer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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just talking through an art block with other things happening in my life right now.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-75918766965610042262011-09-22T17:17:00.000-07:002011-09-23T08:02:08.525-07:00MGS1 Pee BoxMy favorite moment in Metal Gear Solid 1.
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Here's a quick little tutorial video, how I do the textures.
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It's a web cam, it's the best I could do.
I've been kicking around this idea for a while, and of course I spend too much time sketching it out on paper well before I get into actual finished line work.
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Such a difficult idea, emoting little puppies, trying to nail the personality, and also I always have fear how large I draw heads.
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I'm very insecure how it came out, so I went into photoshop and fixed up the slips, so the chin and nose are more properly aligned.
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Not exactly sure how the textures should work. I want there to be a bit of Green, but also the green doesn't quite come off right with the skin makes the characters look sickly.
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I always had an idea this is the break down of the scene, and where exactly everything went to. and this was all temporary design of a frame. I normally make frames using water spots, but I enjoy using photoshop's generic brush tool.
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It was a fun piece to work on. Reminded me why I love Metal Gear in the first place. In general I usually try hard to find the momentum to push myself to finish a piece, but if you do every single step one by one. You eventually find out you don't need that momentum and the piece finishes itself on it's own. It was great practice to use Youtube and other programs to get myself motivated to finish this piece.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-33374111543745987322011-09-19T20:51:00.000-07:002011-09-19T20:51:11.098-07:00sketching Meryla work in progress but these videos help motivate me to finish my work
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bibMjsujbnw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-56302048114837641062011-07-19T14:02:00.001-07:002011-07-19T14:10:15.674-07:00self portraityou are what you draw<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcJ5ox7hdxONTnJP5ioeu9g3oCLxeDgjTwmCt7midIsVi8gOeQX0ALGdlL-fTryP49jEH6nwD7jp_avyGVhvc_S8yOCx7AWlHepieptGQMw213T8GmUZC77uzB-uRRGdE6GrtR1fY1BbQX/s1600/self+portrait+2011+final.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcJ5ox7hdxONTnJP5ioeu9g3oCLxeDgjTwmCt7midIsVi8gOeQX0ALGdlL-fTryP49jEH6nwD7jp_avyGVhvc_S8yOCx7AWlHepieptGQMw213T8GmUZC77uzB-uRRGdE6GrtR1fY1BbQX/s320/self+portrait+2011+final.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631172071006285682" /></a><br />just kicking around with a new art style. It's digital in it's filter, but predominately watercolor markers I tend to use often<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yQyoyAXE3soRs5IeBaAb6QesFYU85WcRwta796K1Aq2YzuAUE4hdkIraYVRAjwb6zn-XcBa7D7KJPgSCnEv84_pA-iqhxrUDeGu6LU6irUdkGhewIjmDhirFIiMhhG8PWbpU-xpthDbn/s1600/sketch+072+res+temp.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yQyoyAXE3soRs5IeBaAb6QesFYU85WcRwta796K1Aq2YzuAUE4hdkIraYVRAjwb6zn-XcBa7D7KJPgSCnEv84_pA-iqhxrUDeGu6LU6irUdkGhewIjmDhirFIiMhhG8PWbpU-xpthDbn/s320/sketch+072+res+temp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631172333334368930" /></a><br />it's a fun piece to work on, although I could use a Street Fighter style Shoryuken in there to be all me.crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2992858114189718911.post-29529114054700627942011-07-11T10:08:00.001-07:002011-07-11T10:27:03.978-07:00TF2 Payload antics"GET BEHIND LITTLE WAGON" -heavy<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ukdYECLSvA5bCi4tReMW8Wr5pR7Fobp5LFmmLq93XYkPmYYMlv1KpQ1y13bDztwLU22fMGqnCNkX38UVlOSkZozLg0hbKY7gSvDvfhKnDRBWBUYDUiQCLGpkS2w31y-UA9pX4u6ay3wn/s1600/TF2+cart+FINAL.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ukdYECLSvA5bCi4tReMW8Wr5pR7Fobp5LFmmLq93XYkPmYYMlv1KpQ1y13bDztwLU22fMGqnCNkX38UVlOSkZozLg0hbKY7gSvDvfhKnDRBWBUYDUiQCLGpkS2w31y-UA9pX4u6ay3wn/s320/TF2+cart+FINAL.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628143431212011154" /></a><br />I believe I'm not alone when I say it's difficulty to push an idea into a finished product.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQsLGkHauh35Ya3Rx5OQpy0bsJAfBiYyP7uK8cObOPEUAQQ_PuReVISqAtydHeCMBqsd-Nf0wQr3ZKdXSJ6IBN45uAm6epbkVaYuKultyHXUCdWIepWkzeGhddm_7YUXsSvGhvJWapjbk/s1600/sketch+066+res.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQsLGkHauh35Ya3Rx5OQpy0bsJAfBiYyP7uK8cObOPEUAQQ_PuReVISqAtydHeCMBqsd-Nf0wQr3ZKdXSJ6IBN45uAm6epbkVaYuKultyHXUCdWIepWkzeGhddm_7YUXsSvGhvJWapjbk/s320/sketch+066+res.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628143579487379314" /></a><br />just a kernel of an idea, I wanted to sum up everything TF2 into one piece. All of the silliness and drama players have with one another. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj35DWDKKOxAuSoUfQ48HkWRs4FNj1bspY2FZH4EX_PoewNPu_YJpzm61_yJI1TRtKKZZuXEd1DfDvKg1qdlHUQsrCYbXAU1j_ehTvU0GSvy-dNXQV1KuCtZTOqFSvyvlqzCVdx2y8v2czk/s1600/sketch+068+res.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj35DWDKKOxAuSoUfQ48HkWRs4FNj1bspY2FZH4EX_PoewNPu_YJpzm61_yJI1TRtKKZZuXEd1DfDvKg1qdlHUQsrCYbXAU1j_ehTvU0GSvy-dNXQV1KuCtZTOqFSvyvlqzCVdx2y8v2czk/s320/sketch+068+res.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628143687829206226" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNul0C929LR2oD7WTBJyPQDstkbl9wVVJUgdIlivaACh7Yu6q72pWnKuZi0Tm0TVCLNtcFScrJNohyphenhyphenDePwBKJHo96TjKzyWgpF24BDFYVl86qvnGX8D73ZSx8PVlvrk83ZcMG7XIc9C-Ty/s1600/sketch+069+res.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNul0C929LR2oD7WTBJyPQDstkbl9wVVJUgdIlivaACh7Yu6q72pWnKuZi0Tm0TVCLNtcFScrJNohyphenhyphenDePwBKJHo96TjKzyWgpF24BDFYVl86qvnGX8D73ZSx8PVlvrk83ZcMG7XIc9C-Ty/s320/sketch+069+res.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628143804508087298" /></a><br />Although the actually sketch of the piece took me a two weeks of slowly getting it done. It got to a point where I had to scan it in no matter what. Flaws and all. I knew that it'd be better that I could at least finish it up with digital colors.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaTE7w5cbYuy6unMfsfK15O71DfN0rY1zDbt82IBE-UVqVpBjIQcTOJ79-Riv-gCVC2E9H4VSvf2IY_fWhatvevgO06LRBhIt2r9epgyhCyuOOs0xtxTQOXh3Fgjt3mEo4Cu2mc5WreO9P/s1600/sketch+070+res.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaTE7w5cbYuy6unMfsfK15O71DfN0rY1zDbt82IBE-UVqVpBjIQcTOJ79-Riv-gCVC2E9H4VSvf2IY_fWhatvevgO06LRBhIt2r9epgyhCyuOOs0xtxTQOXh3Fgjt3mEo4Cu2mc5WreO9P/s320/sketch+070+res.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628144516799040834" /></a><br />There came a point where I felt drawing too much detail would actually waste time when I could fake it with colors<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3kohT5qSbWmrIV1jGvqF0fJYnxvhX8J6Y0baRP1HblC2QhwOKSdNkU62plvSaNMp5XyF867SKuuhWX01BD0IzRHdGdmzb3aIWZuQ3eeKi1s0ODYX26RKQhvtEneE7yX37LWnA-NHULC1o/s1600/TF2+cart+temp+001.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3kohT5qSbWmrIV1jGvqF0fJYnxvhX8J6Y0baRP1HblC2QhwOKSdNkU62plvSaNMp5XyF867SKuuhWX01BD0IzRHdGdmzb3aIWZuQ3eeKi1s0ODYX26RKQhvtEneE7yX37LWnA-NHULC1o/s320/TF2+cart+temp+001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628144687638735602" /></a><br />the original lines are pretty decent, I was insecure if the size of the characters would work, heavy being the largest character but he's huddled smaller then anyone else, and other characters are crammed in there without really explaining how they all fit in.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCoF7Qcrf3XzbzwmTpXkBttYxiQz91uwior6IsvDkRFrinACX2owmAxnd8IUDvm75RrWzb5L56DU41YggRO1aJ-rvvQUiMe-VUhBqv9_wbVMR6CEDcZpCjsFDB0e8g9YOcHURLKkT4eCC/s1600/TF2+cart+temp+002.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCoF7Qcrf3XzbzwmTpXkBttYxiQz91uwior6IsvDkRFrinACX2owmAxnd8IUDvm75RrWzb5L56DU41YggRO1aJ-rvvQUiMe-VUhBqv9_wbVMR6CEDcZpCjsFDB0e8g9YOcHURLKkT4eCC/s320/TF2+cart+temp+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628145160296025362" /></a><br />the problem with adding texture early on is that it's difficult to blend colors at this point, but instead I keep beside me color references using in game screenshots.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiTKm1_0UXXCR5mAgx-C4CfDfB7bvPYX_rQJnlXjNi8ksPnKoEx8CLKph9ysjsDAbiQN0qgD2Cxq3ZrPSwyoEDeD_oM6pPqRomYlwEBS7bTE5i2Xa5zh-P5cYmqh2VYv41IPh7KAZ3ozQp/s1600/TF2+cart+temp+003.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiTKm1_0UXXCR5mAgx-C4CfDfB7bvPYX_rQJnlXjNi8ksPnKoEx8CLKph9ysjsDAbiQN0qgD2Cxq3ZrPSwyoEDeD_oM6pPqRomYlwEBS7bTE5i2Xa5zh-P5cYmqh2VYv41IPh7KAZ3ozQp/s320/TF2+cart+temp+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628145358350588034" /></a><br />very rough blending of shadows<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeI5rb04ysF9uoGrtprYx3TeNmKpPJquLEBWteoY3jtYW815L-5faOoO3b9P-WxR_x-au2iM_nULhkScE-C35ss5B4eYELvEXK2qkIjStwOGGEr5CU9aLEpTkjwrvPU3R-sacM8z_TsMQJ/s1600/TF2+cart+temp+004.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeI5rb04ysF9uoGrtprYx3TeNmKpPJquLEBWteoY3jtYW815L-5faOoO3b9P-WxR_x-au2iM_nULhkScE-C35ss5B4eYELvEXK2qkIjStwOGGEr5CU9aLEpTkjwrvPU3R-sacM8z_TsMQJ/s320/TF2+cart+temp+004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628145725918446482" /></a><br />bullets, grenades and rockets are added in<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6Cnu4gZMfwhYUp2mnmq7ONbrraBFSl-pAhFDyoL0QzdpX_b5DhcXXo_S1ctzRypbyD1W2RXVDFRflD_uw_0IE23TAkh21smvYFTgiO5bX4BpKaJ13PMys8Q-NaVRmjjbVqrSwTDJsXws/s1600/TF2+cart+temp+005.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6Cnu4gZMfwhYUp2mnmq7ONbrraBFSl-pAhFDyoL0QzdpX_b5DhcXXo_S1ctzRypbyD1W2RXVDFRflD_uw_0IE23TAkh21smvYFTgiO5bX4BpKaJ13PMys8Q-NaVRmjjbVqrSwTDJsXws/s320/TF2+cart+temp+005.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628146126163492066" /></a><br />more refined detail in the coloring is added. A vague idea of the health icons and red team icon. Later I added multiple layers of color dodge to help the effects glow, and more colors were blended together. In the end it turned out really well for 2 weeks of hard work. Here are some tight close ups.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWqykKE1Q4ISjhvhwM8ia3qpfzgn0Cp7OYiguyArsvmC0uzZvbSqcBL3Cb6fmM29tXhFIYqSUewoX9htc0hWIxmOBcOCry4DUDtqF2Z8pBKMV9k8Ln2qO2C0aBRtwjlC7EH576Xz28gMx/s1600/TF2+cart+close+up+001.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTWqykKE1Q4ISjhvhwM8ia3qpfzgn0Cp7OYiguyArsvmC0uzZvbSqcBL3Cb6fmM29tXhFIYqSUewoX9htc0hWIxmOBcOCry4DUDtqF2Z8pBKMV9k8Ln2qO2C0aBRtwjlC7EH576Xz28gMx/s320/TF2+cart+close+up+001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628146668373230018" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh57tRpXUa3lmK2drW6a6Nsy1_8W1puaOqyPE8m9ie3871eaumRoygr0O6bw_nLHu795ZB33ykaZeR-xKZxnHrCu_iSXEupuDPDXMkX6AMwcFLBUEUUNuwv-t6tJHLhegLsJJfykMijJMIk/s1600/TF2+cart+close+up+002.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh57tRpXUa3lmK2drW6a6Nsy1_8W1puaOqyPE8m9ie3871eaumRoygr0O6bw_nLHu795ZB33ykaZeR-xKZxnHrCu_iSXEupuDPDXMkX6AMwcFLBUEUUNuwv-t6tJHLhegLsJJfykMijJMIk/s320/TF2+cart+close+up+002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628146618936827922" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7kTUUf6_C_quBbu3hq-RisX7-97DnVsW3M5K8aNsFumlPXqwTZ-d3Fx7NY7J-51KYkxL3KUddKqMJyFWu4ed2yL9KBsyYzhM0poXbIQLemlSd9lf_Pzp5WumKr7iBBG6rjcfqxej9TwR/s1600/TF2+cart+close+up+003.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7kTUUf6_C_quBbu3hq-RisX7-97DnVsW3M5K8aNsFumlPXqwTZ-d3Fx7NY7J-51KYkxL3KUddKqMJyFWu4ed2yL9KBsyYzhM0poXbIQLemlSd9lf_Pzp5WumKr7iBBG6rjcfqxej9TwR/s320/TF2+cart+close+up+003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5628146572444503826" /></a><br />It's easy for me to work on this, because it's the game that inspires me the most. But It's hard really summing up everything that I love about the game into one piece, but this is fairly accurate. There are players who do nothing but complain and players who work hard for others. Is it fair? Does it matter when your awesome cartoon characters with ridiculous guns that don't take much skill to use. The only thing I do regret is that I didn't capture the amount of bullets and rockets flying around at the time.<br />Maybe next time?crithonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08658367901013950314noreply@blogger.com5