Random Poll of the week.

So I'm checking out some pics of male models for reference for the comic and I start to notice a trend. All of them are pretty muscular and practically shaved clean. Now what I'm wondering is, because I'm not a body builder, is it like some kind of club when you can only shave your chest if you look good? haha I was curious to test this theory with myself, even though it's been years since the last time I shaved my chest, I wanted to see again if I'd look ok. lol I'm kinda not too thrilled about the miniature forest that's parked itself on my chest, myself. Change is needed sometimes right? DO I need this? I guess we'll see. Also, do women find it attractive for men to be hairless? If so, I'm also wondering about other areas where hair grows. ;) What do you think about shaving down below? Did before and found it interesting, I would contine so if it meant that most women wouldn't freak out or wondered if I worked in the porn industry if I did. haha! Anyways, I know no one reads this blog but you , but your opinion is all that really matters to me anyways. So I guess the Poll Question is:

Should I shave, and how much is too much or not enough?

Oh yeah, how do you like the new blog layout?
-Chris

Web/3D Comic Concept Design

Not a whole lot of creativity on my end, mostly due to Dia de Padre. Had to get the house prepared for family and put lots of spare focus time on making my dad's present. (I'd show you a picture but I forgot to take a picture of it. lol) The day went well, with lots of awesome food to eat and ended on a bizarre twist with my dad giving my Brother-in-law a pipe bomb, that after blowing up the wrapping paper revealed a cigar inside...........haha, now you see why I am the way I am, my dad's crazy. Even during all that madness I at least managed to get some sketching done. Would like to have done more, but can't complain with what I got. So far I've been working out a over all style, look and feel of the "world", starting with the characters first. To Amy: To explain, it's going to be a comic about our random collection of conversations, ideas, flib flab and mumbo jumbo. hah And the main characters? You guessed it, us. lol Why not, half the crap we come up with is way more entertaining then real life anyways. I was tired of wracking my brain for some superly awesome, overly convoluted, story of bad assery for a comic idea. So I'm taking many steps back and going with something I already know and love. Why sweat it, it's art right? It's suppose to be fun! Besides, if I ever wanted to go back and make a comic about a 16 year old girl that finds an abandoned Mech suit only to discover that she's royalty of an ancient alien species that has the duty to stave off invading evil aliens with her suit for the preservation of Earth..........I can. Would I make this porta-potty catch tank of a comic? The world may never know. ;) Aaaaaaany who. Back to the subject. Art! So I doodled some various styles for the characters and am getting closer to what I'm looking for, still not quite satisfied but is hoping you could help me with anything you could build off with what I have already. Hell, if you have something completely different that you think would work please tell me. Ideas are great in any way. So take a look of what I have so far:
Like I said, it's not much and VERY much so in the beginning stages. This is me too by the way. Haven't gotten to stylize anyone else yet, but your character is next for designing. Muahah! Keep in mind too that I haven't designed bodies yet, just been mostly working on facial expressions and features. So if you have ideas for clothing too, that would be appreciated. But first I need to find a style that gives the characters something memorable, unique and fun to look at. Ex: body proportions (abstract, realism). I still have lots to play with as you can see. I'll make sure I'll post more sketches when I gt them done so you can see the progress. I can't wait to really get this thing going. It's going to be fun as hell, also with lots of surprises I have in store. Stay Tuned!

P.S I think that smiley is checking you out Amy. ;)

*EDIT*

Well that was fast. haha! Post edited now with a new sketch! This is still conceptual, and right now I'm kinda liking my comic version of Amy. Again, if you have any critique please let me know what you think. If I made something that was unflattering, or maybe make her more sexy, what ever you want I can change. :D What do you think of the hair. haha *shot* Sorry I couldn't resist, I know how much you hate your hair, Hmm, this may give me some ideas now for the comic heh.

-Chris

Haha. You need a hat. Like a barrett! Or better yet those glasses you wear from time to time! Either would add really great character. They wouldn't look good together though, so you'd have to decide.

Actually, I think the way you drew my hair adds character and... mirrors what I look like now haha! Go with it. Though you have to for my ego draw a very sexy version of me. I really need to bring sexy back.... I'm feeling anything BUt sexy. My wisdom teeth are gone! I still look like I have a chance at being a member of Alvin and the Chipmunks and it's been 4 days! I feel like I'm dying from pain or hunger.. maybe both. I can eat, but it gets to the point it hurts so bad I can't. So I get tiny liquidish meals often to compensate. Anyway enough of my tiny violin. Do the webcomic! I'm going to harass you until you have a working page!

~amy

*Edit*
Okay, well here is another update of a full character design sketch. This was a quick sketch that took me two hours to draw O.o............it's quick in that I didn't put too much effort in clothing design, yet for some reason I still had a hard time drawing these two. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get the girls glasses to fucking look right, I was getting REALLY pissed. lol Why would glasses be so damn hard to draw?!?! Then I realized I was making her eyes too big, so if looks like I erased there a shit load of times....its cause I did. lol After that it was cake, figures it would take no time for me to draw boobs. haha As you can see I did kinda go with a style, modern bohimian. But over all style is still up in the air, everthing I do is still experimental untill I say it's final. lol So this is still experementing. As always let me know if you have anything you may think would look good. Oh yeah, for now the web comic is kinda sorta on hold, the only reason why I am still drawing this is cause for my summer workshop I'm doing a one time project using these two. Later I might use it again for when I get back into further developing the comic. So don't worry about the Assasin Story characters. :) They are next up. So here they are:
-Chris

*EDIT again*
One character down, one to go! Amy is drawn and ready to color and cut. Yeah I know I'm not getting very original on my poses. For this project I don't care, but for the comic I will defiantly have a plethora poses. hehe At least I tried out a different outfit, AND with lube! lol Doesn't she look soft and warm :3 I call this "Comfort Amy" hehe. Glad you suggested this outfit, I really like it a lot and REALLY loved drawing it. :) Well, better get cracking on Chris now, stay tuned for that update!

-Chris

*EDIT*
Once again! lol Here now we have Chris in all his glory. lol Now in summer gear! lol I thought I'd make him complementary to Amy's outfit, btw, I do own these clothes and are my fav thing to wear at home. lol So as you guessed this might be a dress rehersal for the lube comic lol. So far it's looking good. What do you think of them now? BTW, do you know that you can click the pic to get the full size? Just making sure you knew that. hehe

-Chris

Sculpters Guild

Blah, sorry for not posting lately, it's not that I've been busy or anything, I just kinda at the moment lack anything really worth posting about. In fact, there was a plan to have some work, either in progress of finished, shared here on a weekly basis. To explain more, a small group of art friends I made from the last two semesters decided to create a summer art workshop to help us not get lazy and to keep the creative juices flowing, so that when the new semester begins we can rock out our creativity on day one. heh But the reason why I said at least every week is because that is what our group decided to go with for project deadlines. First we would pick an idea out of the hat, for example "figurative sculpture" during our weekly meetings. Then from that day, we have a week till the next meeting to pull together any and all info gathered from research, sketches, and then finally a final finnished piece. All of that will be brought in to the next meeting to be shown, discussed and critiqued. This way not only will you be geting some very valuable info and feed back from your peers, you might actually educate them in the process, such as like a technique they never considered using. Either way, someone is bound to learn something for the process, which is what all of this is all about. Eventually after a few weeks of doing this we discovered something that leads me to writing this post in the first place. Our dead lines were too tight for the type of high quality projects we are giveing ourselves. Unfortunatly, after awhile, instead of turning in a completed work to show to the group, it was only half way finnished or less, or I only had enough time to only make a prototype and eventually it got so bad that only sketches were only being turned in. This was turning into a group wide epidemic, which was totally bumming us out because the level of projects were exactly what we wanted to expand on and we were stressed to work on them fast which in the end had a loss of quality and more inportantly, it just wasn't fun! Thankfully last week we had a good meeting with the members and decided to hold a vote to expand the dealines longer so that we are actually making progress in our skills instead of hindering them. Eventually we decided to give ourselves three weeks on a large project and a two week dead line on a smaller one. This should work much better, the only down side is that there will be less time for doing more projects durring the summer. But if you ask me, I'd rather have quality over quantity. So that being said, I would have had two things to post on, I just ran out of time to finnish them up, so the quality is nothing worth talking about or sharing. But with the extended times on the rest of the summers projects, there are some really good chances that those will be talked about here. I'm currently working on a 3D comic, which was this weeks group pick from the hat. Soon, I should have some bits and pieces to show and talk about. Hmm, lets see, well I think I mentioned everything about the group, it pretty much the only real exciting thing I'm doing this summer, but hopfully I'll to get out of town a few times too. hehe Oh, to give you an idea ofI should be showiing you more of soon, I had an idea of bringing back an old work and incorportate it with a new comic idea I came up with a month ago. It's more or less going to be about my daily life that is, wheather I like it or not, spiced up by a certain friend. ;) But the style of it will be baised from this work:Right now I'm thinking pop-up book, orsomething of the like. If you have any other ideas, PLEASE let me know. lol The more ideas I have the easer it will be for me to figure out how to do this. haha Well that it for now. Check back for some updates on the progress. :)

-Chris