Scholarship Quest 4: Male Character

Dear Diary,

It's a new day! And I only slept for like 3 hours. Maybe 4. I don't know. But it doesn't matter because I have more work to do (by golly). I only have two more days off from work (5 day weekend after working 30 days) so I don't have time to dilly-dally.

The next thing I have to do for the scholarship is a male character. And I already have one:

I created this steampunk photographer fox in the Concept Art Introduction Class at www.Vanas.ca and you can see the blog posts about the making of it at www.fuzzyoutlaws.com .

I got a pretty good grade on it but I lost some marks in his expression and I missed an opportunity to really play with the fox's natural proportions. After watching the critique video for the fox I know I need to make these adjustments on it before I put it in my scholarship portfolio:

I'm going to get to work. Wish me luck.

Love Michael

Scholarship Quest 3: Finished Exterior Environment

Holy cow, Diary,

3 blog posts in one day. I can assure you I won't be able to keep that up. But I finally have one piece of artwork finished for my scholarship. Behold!

It's about 2 am so there's a good chance I'll see this image in the morning and curse myself for some mistakes that I can't see right now. But I think it'll work for my scholarship application. My character art is much much stronger. I have to make 2 characters. A male and a female. Fortunately I already have the male "almost" finished so I won't have to start from scratch for him. And I have the mechanical objects and one creature done. Woo!

I go back to work on Wednesday so I have two more days to finish everything. Wish me luck!

Lurve Michael

Scholarship Quest Part 2

Dear Diary,

It's been roughly a day and a half since my last blog post and I still haven't finished any pieces of artwork for this scholarship.

But I've been working on it! Behold my work-in-progress for the natural environment:

I clearly have no idea what I'm doing. I wanted whimsy but not quite to the Dr. Seuss-esque extreme. The good thing about it is that it reminds me why I want to go to art school. BECAUSE I CAN'T DRAW SO GOOD.

I wonder what my competition is like for this scholarship...

No! No time to worry about what other people are doing. Back to work! I will have this picture done TONIGHT!

Love Michael