I'm still catching these things...

Been awhile since an update, and I'm still been coloring these wonderful little pokemon sketches for when I'm all groggy eyed and I've hooked up my coffee IV in the morning. Probably done with these for a long while though. It's relaxing, but at the same time my drawing skills are falling behind, and that's no good. More drawing. Plus, I still have no idea what the names of these things are, as I don't actually play pokemon.

I realized I've been doing nothing but digital stuff for so long now. I actually had to dig out a sketchbook. Dig it out... just... a pretty good sign that I'm not doing enough traditional sketching. So I've found some more bic pens, and will be doing that for warm-up again. This digital stuff spoils you: proportion changes, a fix it later mentality, insanely quick colors... but it's hard not to fall into a rut with those tricks and rely on them. So, traditional warm ups from here out.

Also I'm gonna start streaming again soon, as I haven't lately because to be honest, that free time I spend to do that I've been using to play through Portal 2 and Super Meat Boy. But i've all but conquered Portal 2 and Super Meat Boy's dark worlds have dang near crippled my button mashing fingers. At about 80% completion on it... and I'm not quite sure if I'll ever hit that 100%. So now I'm going back to drawing now that I've got those out of the ol' system.

Portal 2 was so worth the near 3 and a half year wait though.

Lines provided by: http://www.carlyhwang.com/
Colors by: Mike Puncekar

Adventurer... kind of.

Went streaming again for a bit and to redeem myself from the sketch that prefaced the sea monster I painted up another female adventurer. Although, the further I went the more, zombie apocalypse she got. Still was fun though. Took way too long though. A pretty embarrassing amount of time for such a simple sketch. Ah well, how it goes sometimes. Just wasn't making good decisions as I painted it.

Shamble away Frankenstein.

This is the result of tonight's impromptu stream. Decided to paint something up real quick and frankenstein came to mind first. Took about an hour to finish. Then I wasted another half hour doing all sorts of stuff to it that I ended up undoing. So before I got trapped in a poorly planned, slightly random finishing process for 5 or 6 more hours I called it quits.

Still sort of getting used to the pressure of having people watch me paint. Have to remember not to rush.

Sea Monster is still stuck in an uncomfortable stare. But slightly different.

I made some quick revisions to the sea monster I doodled up last night. I'm a bit more happy with this version. I've been liking square compositions more and more.

I'm catching them all?

I stumbled across a forum topic where a budding artist was taking requests to draw pokemon, then she would draw them from memory. Now personally, I've never really played pokemon. When the craze hit during the 5th grade I had some cards, but I couldn't "shoot things with guns" in the games, so I lost interest pretty quickly. But I still have some nostalgia for it. I think the final straw was that knock off "mewtwo" card they gave out at the pokemon movie screening as a promotional. That was not a real pokemon card. I was entirely dissapointed, as at the time he was the one I thought looked the coolest.

Anyway, before I get too sidetracked, she's posted something like 68 so far, maybe more. Just an awesome amount of these little doodles and she's streaming them as well. Great artist, and the lines on these things are great. So I've been coloring them as warm-ups and just for fun. It's absolutely relaxing to color these. It's like I've got my coloring book and crayons again.

Be sure to check out Carly's stuff...
Her Blog: http://www.carlyhwang.com/
Her Stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/drawan-n-shit

If you didn't read any of that: I just did the colors on these. I did not draw the lines.

You don't watch sea monster. Sea monster watches you.

I'm streaming again. New link, and you can watch me here! 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/drawing-painting

This was the rather random result of streaming last night for a good 4 hours. I was watching a stream and the broadcaster had to leave, and I ended up broadcasting in her place. For the first hour I struggled with a weak drawing until finally giving up on trying to save it. So, I asked what I should draw/paint and "monster" was thrown out. After the previous effort, I stuck with a relaxing headshot. There's a lot of stuff here, technique-wise, reapplied from the fictional mass effect character I did, but some new stuff too.

My favorite thing being that to get the red tint in the eyes I made a copy of this very same painting, tinted it heavily read, then stretched the picture so it wouldn't be recognizable, then masked it over the black eyes this fellow has. Im quite pleased with this one. Had fun with it, because it was painted with 6-7 other people who were great company, but also because of the result achieved in 3 hours worth of work. 

All Photoshop - 8.5x11

Mike Puncekar... Not so Live

Well, Ustream banned me for copyright infringement... of what?... I have no idea. So until I work this out with them I guess no live shows.

I think maybe they got me on the music I was streaming as I painted? But I've seen a heck of a lot of channels do that. So I'm at a loss as to why it was a problem now. And if it was because of the tiny bit of nudity I was painting at the time, why does it say I've infringed a copyright, hell if that isn't defamation. Need that off of there fast. Not exactly words I want attached to my illustrations. If it was Terms of Service thing I get that... but that is way different.

So Ustream... I take all the nice things I said about you back.

UPDATE: I worked it out with ustream, as in I am still banned and never allowed to stream again due to a boob violation. So, when I get the time I shall resume again on justin.tv since I have a much better grasp on live streaming now. It's sort of irritating that they offer an education/drawing channel and don't allow the human form in it's entirety. If it was lewd, I may understand, but it's sort of a big part of drawing otherwise.