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New method, here I come

Cardinal City 40"x32", mixed media

A map of Stanford University campus. It’s more just an illustration than a real map since the selection of buildings is very biased. In fact that was the point of the assignment I made this for and it just includes places frequented by my cohort in the Learning, Design & Technology program.

It’s done on a big tan paper panel with a Paper Mate Flair felt tip pen and then shaded with warm grey Prismacolor markers. The red is done with chalk and whites in a combination of chalk, gel and in a few places the Molotov acrylic pen. It took me about 150h to finish, probably a bit less.

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Oops, wrong blog. Here ya go :P

An attempt at a kukri-ish knife. Not sure why, but all photos taken with my (decent) phone in my house get this lovely pink/green tinge.

edit: Dear heavens someone actually found this blog. *fans self*

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Byahtiful

JG (v2)

Graphics demo by Arthur Rakhteenko features interactive 3D scene which is rendered using Impressionist painterly strokes as particles (in the video below, the effect appears three minutes into it):

The “painted” effect wasn’t planned. Originally I only had an idea to render a natural scenery of a certain kind, and I wasn’t ready to spend a whole lot of time on it. It became clear to me, a “realistic” approach won’t work, resulting in either very mediocre visuals (due to engine limitations and the complexity of real-time vegetation modeling), or a whole year of trying to catch up with Crysis. So it wasn’t the way.

What I really wanted is to preserve the atmosphere, the feeling, avoiding ruining it with technical limitations.

A demo for PC can be downloaded here

More background on how this was technically done can be found here

[H/T: @fluate]

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Today I have replaced the instrument of death with an instrument of... an instrument. Yup.

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Koaliteh

So, as it turns out, these photos look much better on mobile than on a bigger screen, and I’m not sure what to do about this. It may also have something to do with the fact that my phone screen is higher resolution than my desktop monitors...

Anyway, I don’t believe I have anyone actually following me at this point, so I could say any sort of nonsense here. I would like a Plumbus for Christmas next year. It’s only about 500 dogecoin. That is all.

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Today was fun with something that might be a chakram? The idea of a blade with a useful pistol-grip is interesting, so that's in there too.

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Up next, a khopesh I made last week. I’m having a lot of fun with the cloth/rope wrapping, if you couldn’t tell. Hail the smudgy pommel!

edit: this is from the same night as the first post, btw

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And so begins my returning foray into weapon design, which I haven't really done since middle school.