Well gang, it’s down to the wire. I have two weeks of school, followed by a week of finals, and then it’s off to Wyoming for the summer internship. While there I can work on my Thesis (hopefully), and get some more information on whatever I’m doing. Until then… time to go for it! XD

I’ve just gotten some commissions done, the one for is done… FINALLY!! Gah… Now I need to work on before I leave for Wyoming. So far it’s looking good, but I want it to RAWK before I’m officially content with it. Don’t worry MTR, it’ll get done ^^.

As with other news, I’m considering starting my own set of tutorials to help others with their drawing abilities. I’ve already given an hour long seminar at Hofstra over a year ago, and I’ve been considering starting up a Workshop-style hour long sessions during the semester while in Graduate School.

However that idea fell through because I’m horribly busy and already behind in some of my classes that it would throw me back even further. BUT! I love to draw and I like to help people learn, so…

~DR, the ART GOD presents: HOW TO DRAW *insert topic here* Tutorial

Topics:
Basics
Combining shapes
Planar Analysis
The Human Body (split into varying Tutorials for different parts of the body that are difficult)
Men
Women
Animals
The Geek Way
Magick (basically how I draw in those styles, Chibi and serious)
Perspective
Machines
Fantasy Creatures
Scientific Illistrations
Inking (various Inking Techniques)
Coloring

Overall I hope I can work on these off and on during the next year or so. Some of theme will be split to cover the various effects and details of some topics. The Inking and Coloring topics alone could take several individual Tutorials (and Inking has three right off the bat!).

I hope to put this as a way that both beginners and more established artists can hone their skills when drawing and the like. Working on making their drawings professional or improving in small ways can have a big difference. No one is a born artist, but some are better at comprehending the basic techniques and special relationships than others. Some are even better at manipulating computer tools when inking their line art. As such, I want to make these tutorials to help everyone in what they do involving artwork.

Anyway… I’ve officially submitted my first Print, and I’ll see how that sells <,<U

Until then, nothing else is happening. This semester kinda started off.. weird, got worse, but now everything seems to be getting better and will end on a good note. I’ve got my internship, JC is taking the rest of the semester off to rest up, my Ornithology instructor may be back later this week (we don’t expect him to teach, but at least he’ll be back ^^), some of my friends are going to East Asia as part of a missionary group, and others are going to a month long Aikido Seminar in Chicago as part of the Aikido Association of America under Toyoda-Sensei.

So yeah, the semester is ending on a good note.

So long as I can pass Herpetolgoy and Ornithology T-T.

Expect some photos from the trip.

Later all!

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I do Commissions… just not that often… or as diligently.

To Commission me do the following: Provide me with a detailed explanation of what you want, at least a paragraph in length. Provide as much detail that you can, the more detail I have the better your image will turn out. Since I’m a Grad student, I can’t devote ALL of my time to art, but I can try and get done what I can.

Stages:
Contemplative: I’ve been asked to do a Commission and am still thinking about pose, features, looking up details, and other random info.
Rough: A quick sketch of an idea for the commission, sent to back to those who ask my services for feedback before moving onto the next stage.
Sketch: A better version of a Rough, also sent back to clients for feedback.
Scan/Ink: Project looks good and is under the process of being scanned and worked on with the new Tablet OR being inked before scanning.
Computer: Inked, scanned, and being finished on the computer using Photoshop and the Wacom Tablet to the best of my limited abilities.
Finished: After the long and complicated process… the Commission is finished and now part of the customer’s collection.

Current Commissions:

Trebor: ROB Dragons (Sketch)
Kenny: Kenny, the God of Death (Rough)
Jerf: Lozordo (Contemplative)
: Gift for being a friend and fan since I first started posting stuff on the net =^^=. (Computer)
Wyoming Dinosaur Center: Bad to the Bone series (Contemplative)

Finished Commissions:
Bill Whal: Fossils working on Fossils logo
: Typholsion and Marina

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The SHITE List:
For those who have proven their inept stupidity and limited logic are thus put here (You don’t have to do anything to them, except maybe laugh at them when you get the chance >:/):

Creationist Scientists, Intelligent Design fanatics, Biologists who publish books against Evolution, Ben Stein, the Discovery Institute, The list shall be expanded upon I’m sure…

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Quotes:

World of Darkness, Changing Breeds, Pg 99: Called Essence, this power helps them bend those polite suggestions Man calls "physics."

Vincent didn't know which fact disturbed him more: The fact that he had lost his virginity to a vampire, or that fact that same vampire said he was actually good in bed. (Vincent Nelson, Ghost Wolf Irraka, Werewolf: The Forsaken)

Werewolf: The Forsaken, Blood of the Wolf pg 37. Discussing the Uratha’s Gauru Form: An enemy is to be destroyed with application of force, a stuck door is to be destroyed with application of force, an unsalvageable game of chess is to be destroyed with application of force, a bad movie...

“I don’t wanna fight if I don’t have to. Don’t make me go Gauru on your ass!” (Vincent Nelson, Ghost Wolf Irraka, Werewolf: The Forsaken.)

“My blood. My Soul. Accept these offerings. SPIRIT! GIVE. ME. YOUR. STRENGTH!!!” (Drako Ralen, Blood Talon Cahalith, Werewolf: The Forsaken.)

“Take your hands off her or else I take them off at the elbows instead.” (Sarah Ramus, Bone Shadow Rahu, Werewolf: The Forsaken.)

“Creationist scientists… not that creative. They’ve been using the same arguments for the last 150 years and they’re still WRONG!” (J.C. Clare, Paleontology Graduate Student)

“You can’t argue science with theology.” (J. Seth Hammond, Paleontology Graduate student.)

“Today, more than a half-century after the appearance of that encyclical, some new findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as more than an hypothesis.* In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies—which was neither planned nor sought—constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory.” (Pope John Paul II on Evolution, October 22, 1996)

“Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.” (Rev. George Coyne, Vatican chief astronomer)

TPM Related:
Grey says:
The real question is: Can you paint a picture so horrid that even you can't appreciate it?
~DR says:
Got a picture of Chris 2.0?

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I am an ART GOD… In need of more followers… FOLLOW MEEEEEE!

Current Followers: , one more, and 1 Psuedodragon.

~DR

After we Embraced and were satisfied, I was Forsaken by her. It was many nights before I Awakened. After, I felt Created. As if I was Fireborn, the Lost moments of our passionate memory already fading before my Vigil into the Darkness.

Vampire: The Requiem A Storytelling game of Gothic Horror
Werewolf: The Forsaken A Storytelling game of Savage Fury
Mage: The Awakening A Storytelling game of Modern Sorcery
Promethean: The Created A Storytelling game of Stolen Lives
Dragon: the Fireborn A Storytelling game of Lost Memories
Changeling: The Lost A Storytelling game of Beautiful Madness
Hunter: The Vigil

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