licking your eyeballs as you sleep

**Texahol** · August 26th, 2006, 11:16 PM

*poops out another one*

**Texahol** · August 27th, 2006, 01:58 PM

another one (I think I sill will work on this arm weaopns and legs a little more before putting this one down:

**Texahol** · August 28th, 2006, 08:01 PM

irc lazy ass #2 "red cleric" :

**Carnifex** · August 29th, 2006, 03:59 PM

nice things you've got going here. last one's pretty good,although the bg is competing quite much with the figures. some dynamic posing pages wouldn't hurt either (stick figures n stuff)

**Texahol** · August 31st, 2006, 10:35 PM

yeah carni, I really do need to start doing dynamic poses for figures.

I also need to start concentrating on environments. I shy away from them so...

IRC LAZY #3 : futuristic icecream van man

**Texahol** · September 12th, 2006, 01:22 AM

quick sketches. They are ideas for my ceramics/sculpture class.

**Texahol** · September 25th, 2006, 12:35 AM

first 50 gestures out of the 100 that I'll be doing for the lil td. this is 50% of what I drew at... :-\ (psst it's ginormous)

**Mr-Joe** · September 30th, 2006, 08:33 AM

yo tex, whats up brother, I figured I'd try to find your sketchbook and check out your work cause your always giving me good info in the irc.

The silliouette guys really stood out here, I like that, and The Ice cream truck thing is pretty funny. These last gestures are really amazing, are you using references. Looks like done in photoshop. I don't have any crits to offer, sorry, but I will check in for your updates and hopefully I can offer some helpfull crits them.

Take care Tex,

Joe.

**Hyptosis** · September 30th, 2006, 01:28 PM

got so great stuff man, those last bunch of studies are freaking outstanding

**armando** · September 30th, 2006, 03:55 PM

You could get more variety into your Rorshach scribbles by including straight lines, and patches of value.

**fooxoo** · September 30th, 2006, 05:59 PM

Gestures are looking cool, but watch balance! Some of them are falling! The girl with the umbrella is sweet!

Good stuff, keep working! Cheers!

**Mr Man** · September 30th, 2006, 05:59 PM

Hey Tex, nice stuff you got there, keep updating it dude

**Texahol** · October 1st, 2006, 07:35 PM

the other 50, to make 100 gestures. I have to say, towards the end, I started getting bored. and the last 20 or so were done in 15 minutes...I was actually trying to adhere to the TD deadline. how foolish.

**Bartovan** · October 1st, 2006, 09:36 PM

Nice gesture studies. I'ld like to see how they influence your work from here on.
Keep on going

**Mr-Joe** · October 2nd, 2006, 12:14 PM

Tons of props for getting those done, thats alot of figures to draw. And you didnt just scribble them out, they look pretty clean, well you can tell on the last few you said you did real quick, but the rest look real nice. Good poses.

Joe.

**Mr Man** · October 2nd, 2006, 01:02 PM

Good to see you updating ^^
What sort of paper and size did you use for those gestures on, Just plain printer paper? It looks so smooth and yummy.

**Texahol** · October 2nd, 2006, 02:53 PM

electronic paper. They were all scribbled in PS (no ctrl+z, I promise!) they are actually at 50% of the size I originally drew them at.

on another note, here's something from when I was 9 years old:

Makes me really wish I had stuck to my guns and didn't quit drawing in 5th grade. I started 5th grade, and then skipped into 6th --from there studies took priority. What a nerd.

**Texahol** · October 3rd, 2006, 04:25 AM

couldn't sleep..decided to doodle:
now I'm wondering if I should just stay up for the next two hours and start my day... :|

**rorke** · October 3rd, 2006, 11:23 AM

I love pandas and I love bats... put them together and you have pure over weight flying greatness.

I love the action poses... .I should do more of those....>.<

**Dile_** · October 10th, 2006, 12:35 PM

Damn, this sketchbook is really cool! Nice gestures

Not much to say, keep it up man!

**eddfrutos** · October 17th, 2006, 02:18 PM

great panda-bat dude...

**Texahol** · October 17th, 2006, 11:53 PM

a tentacular man dances under the rain with goldorak, 3ch td with John:

**Ashrumm** · October 18th, 2006, 12:18 AM

Those gestures are awesome i need to do those good work man! Keep up the good work!!

**Idiot Apathy** · October 26th, 2006, 10:48 PM

Nice gestures dude!

Just some random thoughts for you to uhm think about; try using as big a brush as possible in your paints. Block things in, planes and shapes - refine little by little ending with detail. On your monochromes, work 'warm' or 'cool' with your light, try using more saturation and value (obviously) for warm, less saturation and more value for cool (as you add light that is). Watch your edges, particularly where they meet other shapes and planes, soft edges means 'slower' transition like a sphere, sharper edges are more like a box. Check out elwell's post in the... I dunno fine arts section about edges for more. Values and edges are the most important factors in form and readability I think. Color can be finicky, I'd suggest reading up on how light works and basically going about color as a 3d rendering program would. Check out the Peer project link in my signature for more of my thinking on color too.

Just some thoughts, Cheers dude.

**Texahol** · October 27th, 2006, 09:45 PM

two small figure studies from my painting class (something that's small and scanable!) it's small...but I need to figure out how glazing techniques work with acrylic...and I still need to work on getting better colors :| (although...my scanner blows and the colors are all fux0red...waaaaay darker than they should be)

**Texahol** · November 3rd, 2006, 12:33 AM

more of those 5x7inch matteboard leftover paintings...I'm starting to feel a lot more comfortable with acrylics now...

**Texahol** · November 5th, 2006, 10:00 PM

some things from yesterday and today. Sorry for the quality. My sketchbook is tooooooo big to scan (I don't think I'll be buying another 11x14 inch sketchbook after I fill this sucker up.

**0kelvin** · November 6th, 2006, 07:36 PM

Hey man, your stuff's looking really good lately. Those pages of gestures turned out great.

I love that drawing you did when you were 9. I used to draw ships the exact same way.

See you in San Fran!

0kelvin

**Lot** · November 6th, 2006, 08:19 PM

I like the falling concept

**jcaffoe** · November 6th, 2006, 10:18 PM

hey devin, the acrylics stuff is actually looking really good. as far as the sp goes, try something a bit more dynamic for the next one. it's actually much much easier to do a portrait when you have dynamic lighting.

I'd also try doing gestures of expressions in a mirror. I started doing it this week and it's really paying off