Hey all, I just got back from my three week freelance gig out near Seattle. I was doing architectural previsualization for a building project. School started up yesterday, it looks like it's going to be a packed semester!!

Well, this is my final assignment for the class. I drew it with Wolff's Carbon pencils, which I have come to really enjoy using. It took me a bunch of hours, but I didn't really keep track.

This class was fun, and it really pushed me a lot. Figure drawing has never been one of my strong suits.

It may be a while before I post again, I am off to Seattle tomorrow for a whirlwind freelance gig.

Hey all, this is what I did for module fourteen. The assignment was to create three different characters out of one model. In my first drawing I attempted to just draw the model as I saw him. The second I made him fat, the last emaciated.

This is my assignment for module thirteen. I was going for a female James Bond kind of look. The purpose of the assignment was to place a figure in a composition. I had her peeking out from behind cover. I put lots of negative space all around her, to show danger and uncertainty, her peering out into the void.

I did the drawing in just under an hour, but obviously I could have used more time to finish it. I still struggle with getting charcoal to do what I want quickly.

Windows 7 God Mode

I recently built a new computer, and I loaded Windows 7 onto it. Over the past few months I have been tinkering with it, to get the settings to where I want them to be.

One very cool thing I came across recently is Windows 7 God Mode. While this mode does not provide you with infinite health or even infinite ammo, it is still pretty cool.

In order to access it, create a new folder anywhere, and name it:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

This immediately changes the icon to a groovy little flatscreen panel thingy, and changes the name of the folder to GodMode. This really works. GodMode is a one stop shop to pretty much every setting you can adjust in Windows 7. It's awesome, even though I am still out of ammo.

I found this info here:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/windows_7_%E2%80%9Cgod_mode%E2%80%9D_has_all_controls

This is the assignment I did for module twelve.

Here are the three drawings I submitted for this module. The assignment was to draw from the perspective of looking up at the figure. The goal was to get used to the foreshortening and distortion we see from that angle. These were all done in twenty minutes.