Josieworld

Hm, this whole painting-in-photoshop is actually quite fun…so here’s to attempt number three. I call him…”Radioactive Hand Man”. For me, it was more like a bald Peter Petrelli before he takes down NYC in Season 1 of Heroes…bald only because I suck at hair. And faces, apparently.

Lessons learned from this painting:

• Define a light source (in this case, it’s coming from above. I know fire emits light. Just too lazy to calculate that >_<)
• Draw a better outline – The original sketch was done in a notebook…and I probably should have outlined it in Flash like I usually do
• Mixing with constant alt+click and brushing. Yah.

And here he is:

My second “digital painting”…never done humanoids before. Came out better than I thought…

Work-in-progress? Maybe…I’ve been trying to work on the legs for a while, I just can’t get them right for some reason.

Cheers to my mate Tim, it’s his birthday today.

I’ve been trying out this program called Rosetta Stone these past few days; it’s a language learning program that covers the listening, reading, writing, and aural aspects of a language. It’s been pretty cool so far. Right now I’m learning Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese. It’s quite a challenge, especially for Japanese, as I’ve never taken Japanese before. I now know how to say “boy”, “girl”, “man”, “woman”, “dog”, “cat”, “airplane”, and “car” in Japanese. Who knows, maybe that language will come in handy somehow.

I’ve also started planning my summer out. I’ve decided that I want to at least minor in Computer Science, and maybe even go as far as double majoring too (right now I’m officially a “Computer Systems Engineer”…weird thing is, I won’t really learn a lot of programming skills at all, which is something I hold close to my heart). To that end, I’m planning to study at BU this summer semester and work out my CS requirements…that way, during the “normal” semesters, I can focus on my engineering degree. I’m still in the progress of planning it all out that, but I’m 95% sure I’m going through with it.

Checked out a tutorial on faking Depth of Field, was pretty neat. Was waiting on some stuff for physics lab, so why not give it a go. Compare and see for yourselves.

[object of focus was the watch...]

Before:

After:

Back to physics. And my CMU decision still hasn’t come.

[Pre-Post Note: So, I've decided to give this wordpress thing a try. Who knows, maybe I'll grow into this new niche.]

Anyway, latest artwork. A phoenix, made mostly by three circles – a red, a yellow, and an orange sphere, then brushing it. I kinda like the effect, especially by the wings.

Enjoy.