Naked Man

Game in the City

So I visited Game in the City this week on friday, was pretty neat. Most notable lecture of the day was the keynote by the awesome Keita Takahashi, former designer of Katamari Damacy and Nobi Nobi Boy. While most lectures were about business tactics and technology, his was about three things foremost: Love, world peace and cars. A very inspiring and uplifting speech. Most surprising was that he had not only been unemployed and on welfare until quite recently, he had also left the videogame industry by choice, often feeling like he didn't belong there. We all feel like that sometimes. These days he was working on a children's playground in Nottingham. 

I found him afterwards, complemented him on his lecture and asked for an autograph. Luckily he obliged: I haven't even played his games, but his lecture was the best. 

big shocker MORE LIFE DRAWING

Wacom

Up until now I've done all my digital work with a Wacom Volito tablet:

It was already outdated when I got it as a gift, but for the past six years it served me well. I learned the basics of digital painting on this thing and always took good care of it. Time wasn't kind on this thing though, after a while it started making straight lines look like ECG's. Not only that, after working on a college Intuos3 for my graduation project I went back to the Volito realising that it's pressure sensitivity required me to work like I was trying to carve my name in with a Q-tip. Time for an upgrade I reckoned. And what an upgrade:

AWW YEAH. I'm starting to get the hang of it, and I'm hoping to get some great works done with this baby as well!

As long as Fallout New Vegas doesn't distract me too much, oh god.

Drawing workshop

A few weeks ago I was at a local elementary school, doing comic drawing workshops for two classes. It was a hoot.

Among other things (and drawing lots of requests) I taught them the basics of visual storytelling:

How to draw basic expressions instead of having to say how your characters are feeling:

 And a gorilla.

Liefeld's Michelangelo

A doodle of one of the greatest statues of all time

Reinvented as an homage to one of the most EXTREME artists of all time.

Tada!

YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH POUCHES

Even more life drawing

Also check out my sweet new header!

And it isn't even Sunday yet.