Girls Are Made of Sugar And Spice and...Geometric Shapes?

Lately, I've discovered that "Inspiration" is a source of renewable energy that fuels my creative passion, but it has to be constant or else that passion could burn out.

Earlier I was on Deviant Art looking for my next 'hit' before engaging in a bout of figure drawing. I stumbled upon this cute tutorial that had made my life a helluva lot simpler. Hitherto, I've been guilty of drawing the contour of the body first in any given study, i mean, C'mon! Who could resist those dangerous curves? (Hi Megra!!). However, there is another method to capture a gesture of the body via reducing it to its raw geometric shapes.

Basically, I have to adopt a new way of thinking, like when Neo first learned about the Matrix!!
I need to look past the flesh and see the source code....and here's the fruit of my labour:

Crotch Beating

Knowing the very object of affection is about to slip through your fingers is a sickening feeling beyond any maximum crotch-beating one can endure.

A recent visit to a local hobby store has rekindled one of my life long passions for toys and figures, especially the REVOLTECH ones! These guys know how to please the masses with something so fundamental- poseability! They give you enough articulation to recreate some of your favourite video game/ anime moments (suck it, McFarlane toys!). Futhermore, Revoltech's products are well-crafted, waterproof and NEVER EVER tested on any animal.

With that in mind, I've been crazy about this Gurren figure ever since I saw its prototype pictures last year.

CUT TO: Today, with toy in tow, I whipped out my ATM card for the clerk and I realised...I DIDN'T HAVE ANY GODDAMN MONEY! I was crestfallen...but fuck it! I'm gonna use this to fuel my creativity and figure drawing training so I could make a killing at the next Anime North!!

Meanwhile check these out:

Today's Feature: Scribbly girls!

Tony Robbins once said mastering of any skill is about repetition! (Of course! I'm paraphrasing) Well, here's day 3 of my 30 day long journey to mastering the female form. My goal of rendering sexy girls in CG is THAT much closer!

P.S. See, Megra? I did my homework! What did YOU do today?? heh jokes!

Hate-Bender

Earlier today, I wanted to put on a movie for ambience while I surfed the web for reference pictures. As I was going through my DVDs and handful of Blu-rays collection, it dawned on me that I'm missing two of the most venerated trilogies of our time.

Rest easy, friends! Before your fingers are poised to stab at the W,T and F keys, it ain't the original Star Wars or LoTR.

What I am about to disclose here with all of you is probably the most shameful and repugnant tidbit since the Avatar Live-action flick was announced. Thankfully, no Hate-Benders are protesting at my door step for this shit.

To this date, Indiana Jones and Back to The Future still haven't found their way to my shelf (Great SCOTT!). Two of the colossal pop-culture icons missing from my dust-free alphabetized collection, I must be slipping in my old age! I deserve to be fried...with 1.21 GIGAWATTS of electricity! ( see what I did here?)

This atrocity will be remedied soon enough to appease to your silent but deadly outrage. Meanwhile, a second piece of news, I will be doing figure sketches once a day for the next 30 days. Trying to implement a healthy habit of drawing naked ladies

Until next time,
JoNo