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For the month of November I’ve been working on a novel. I’m currently at 6,000 words out of a total of 50,000. I don’t think I’ll make it to 50,000 words but I will make a game out of it. The novel is called Spike InfoSec

To generate some ideas I started the Concept Art: Assault on the Ramparts EOW theme. This reminded me straight away of Hellfire Ramparts from World Of Warcraft. I did a quick search for ramparts and got back interested Jewish buildings that could be used for reference. I used these for refereed and completed this.

There is a game jam currently happening called pointandclickjam. I was inspired by the colour palette so used the palette.

Drawing for the novel. Blueprints of the office building, and Janets various robotic forms.

Black and white, and colour layers of the map and Janets form.

It is November. Here is a collection of chalk drawings I’ve been working on.

Giant. One eye, two fangs. The line was orange and tone yellow and white. I started a red line on the head and arm but never finished it.

I drew this at a friends place with a six year old. He drew Micky Mouse and then I redrew the Micky Mouse - you can see this in the ears. In the background I added a landscape to the background. Windows are floating in the sky, along with ballons. Water comes to the foreground. The ballons in the bottom right are drawn by him.

Dino drawing I worked on. In the background I drew trees and land. water comes into the foreground.

Monster on brown paper. Started with pencil line, drawing the monster and line for horizon line. Trees and land added to this. The monster has a trex like head, with sharp long teeth. Instead of hands the trex has two claws. The colour was added with oil pastel. Yellow for the skin, red for dots, arms, legs. Blue was used for the background.

Chalk. Dinosaurs. Spikes everywhere.

Two eyes, nose, and sharp spikes making up the rest of the face. Red eyeballs.

Houses and land on the horizon line with ocean coming to the foreground.

More dinos. Tone was added to some of these.

Hulk vs Bane. Punching each other.

The month is November. I have been writing a book. It’s called Spike InfoSec.

Giant chalk piece. I did the line first, then filled with black and

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The following artwork started as a tracing over an earlier bug painting I did. I enjoyed adding more detail to the line bug by tracing over the tonal colour. The 80% opacity on the colour tone helps give it more detail and texture.

Today is November 1st. 

Recent digital works completed in GIMP.

Lately I have been focusing on the line layer and ignoring the black and white/colour tonal layers. The line layer is usually the idea generation layer and the black and white/colour tonal layers just build upon 

Line layer. Reference was a screenshot from Oddworld: Abes Odyssey.

Grayscale tonal layer. I am happy with the texture and alive feeling that the scrap produces.

Colour. Mixed things up a bit by using the blue for the ground instead of the background. Red is used for the background instead. Happy with the yellow of the scrap, especially with the light and dark tones.

The following works were completed last week and during the weekend. It is all red line. The themes are dinos, bugs, landscape, and robots.

This will be my final post for BaconGameJam08. I enjoyed the jam and just drew and painted the whole time. I’d like to take some of the images further into 3d and a game in future.

Enjoy -

Continued with the digital works from the previous post. I have also included a digital drawing that I did in MyPaint.

The MyPaint painting. Taking bug elements and mixing them with humanoid figures. Flowers and plants mixed in.

Grey-scale layer of the previous posts red line. 

The color version

The theme for BaconGameJam08 is Millions Of Them.

An excellent theme. Very open and wide with an interesting keyword - millions.

I was at my Mothers place when the them announced. I had a team (2 other programmers) but had problems commuacting with them so I gave up for the afternoon and just focused on helping Mother.

I did talk to my sister about the theme. My first thought was bugs and beetle.

Once I got home I started on digital painting of weird bugs.

Next step is 3d.

Ideas for the bugs theme. Lots of bugs Large bug in the middle is the main. I love the headpiece attached to their head. I watched Bobs Burgers with my sister and drew several characters. These will likely not be turned into 3d models, rather focus on the more bug like characters.

Here are some recent traditional drawings. It’s been awhile since I have updated so this is somewhat of a bulk post.

This was drawn at Fairfield Community Centre. I have been really enjoying drawing spikes. Those sharp edges, getting them to look good.

Dolly drew this colorful character. I love the level of detail. Eyes with eyeballs, a mouth, hair, top (shaped beautifully). Arms. Though the left arm is very fat! Both arms are interesting and different. The fingers count to 5 on the right hand. Left hand has four fingers.

I sat at the Queen Street, Auckland Burger Fuel store with my sister and drew this. We ordered ‘The Bastard’ and shared it. Clouds and burgers were a focus. I copied logo and text from Burger Fuel.

This was drawn at Overload in Auckland. I used Horse Ninja postcard as reference.

Coloured Pencil and ink. Blue colored pencil and yellow and green ink.

Close up of the character.

Texture of colored pencil. Sitting on the concrete outside and making markings.

Amazing marks from the kids.

Plant in a tree, with a landscape at the bottom. Similar to the landscapes I draw.

Started with the robot and grew. Houses in the landscape, along with wild forests.

I did a drawing of Dollys tree inside a bubble. The brick wall at the base. I was drawing straight lines and not making them rugged. I was told this was wrong and that I should do it more ruged, like the original. I obeyed (and agreed).

Great shapes. We thought it was a snake at first but later relized there may be some rivers and boats happening. How exciting!