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Artwork from the past week. Taking old pencil street enviorments into GIMP along with life drawing on Friday.

Taking an old pencil sketch into GIMP. The location is Courtney Place in Wellington. Have been digitising lots of Pepper and Carrot sketches so it has been a natural process to take my own pencil drawings into GIMP.

Grayscale layer. Whenever I use to digitise pencil work I would always create a grayscale layer. My favourite area is the traffic lights and the courte sign.

Colour layer. Using more green than I use to and in different areas such as the figure. Yellow is used for the buildings roof and walls. The floor and sky - blue.

I partook in a Twitter chat last week - create lounge and have started listening to the podcast. This was my warm up drawing in life drawing on Friday - I was listening to an episode.

Hamilton line. Again digitising pencil drawing this time it’s at Garden Place. The structure is a stage. I added details such as triangles.

Hamilton grayscale. Attempted to keep details in areas such as the structures triangles.

Three drawings of Mia from life drawing on Friday. Included is a portrait of someone new I drew from the backgroup. Sometimes I wish we had multiply models!

Mia looking towards the right. Again in the background added portrait from someone in the class. Lots of white space that a landscape could of been added to.

Two drawings of Mia. The legs are extra large in the foreground and I am happy with the shape of the feet.

Four drawings of Mia.

Warm ups of Mia. Attempted to capture the whole body. Needed to make sure that the portrait was small enough to fit everything else in.

Grayscale Levin street drawings merge. Took 4 different pencil drawings I created this art montage.

The line layer of the Levin street drawings merge.

Shopping centre in Palmerston North. Final pencil drawing digitise for this post.

Palmy Pillar line. Traced over pencil sketch that was drawn in Palmerston North.

Created at my brothers place. Started as a portrait of Pepper and then let an imagination over. Landscapes, spikes, waves.

Currently in Levin. I am over 50% through The Pillars of the Earth. It is long but I am enjoying it.

Talk on Creative Commons in schools. Show the policy and how to get it into schools. Examples of Creative Commons in practice. ArtCtrl/ArtControl remixing Jem, Hicksville, Pepper&Carrot. Always on the lookout for free licensed artwork to remix.

I decided to add the four horsemen into the world of Pepper and Carrot.

In Good Omens they are featured and I wanted to write a novel about the characters. Mixing them into Pepper and Carrot is interested. Moulding them into current events - such as them being involved with The Great Tree.

Characters. This was drawn on the bus travelling from Hamilton to Levin. 1120 was the bus number, written on the piece of artwork.

The Great Tree. It’s black trunk leading up to it’s branches. It’s leaves swish in the heavy winds. Underneath are the residents buildings.

Mixing in ideas from reading The Pillars of The Earth.

Line version of the Pillars artwork.

The character Saffron whom I plan to make a main character in my pepper and carrot novel.

The next for Death in the Pepper and Carrot novel. Need to type out and edit the text. Using the wacom drawing tablet for a mixture of drawing and writing helps ideas.

Text for the Witch in Pepper and Carrot novel. Again type out and edit the text.

No lifedrawing during this week due to attending EdChatNZ conference 2016. Here is the artwork from the conference along with recent Pepper and Carrot artwork.

Drawing the intro slide with wifi/password and conference sponsors. Beginning notes on the school - history and the current status.

The start of EdChatNZ conference 2016. Location this year was Rototuna Junior Highschool (RJHS) , which meant it was walking distance for me.
Notes and drawings continued from the talks given by senior management of RJHS. I found the modules system interesting - mixing subjects together - maths/PE, art/science. Several teachers collaborate together to teach the modules.

The first keynote was a tech driven look into current tech trends and where it is going in the future. Slides moved quickly but I was able to capture a few portraits from the slides.

The 2nd keynote. This was slower than the previous but still a great talk, just a change of pace. Looked at tech people in the past and their predictions of the future. Quite a few videos in this keynote.

This was drawn in the cafe on Saturday. I attempted to open the warcraft mobile app to create auctions. Sadly it didn’t open and I was stuck in the login screen. I think the school must of blocked ports to in order to stop students from playing video games. Stuck on the loading screen I ended up drawing it.

Notes and drawings from the student talk. It was similar to the talks senior management had given - but a students perspective. Along with an excellent talk we were given tours of the school from the students.

Drawn at Hamilton Python Usergroup on Monday. Shame that EdChatNZ happened afterwards - could of handed out Python pamphlets (especially to those Hamilton teachers). Still I talked to several Hamilton teachers and invited them along to the Python User Group. It would be great if all teachers had a better understanding of computer science!

Line layer tracing of original pencil drawing from the E18 episode of Pepper and Carrot. Something different!

A grayscale layer of E18. Of course detail was removed but it’s always satisfying to get a grayscale layer finished - especially with env.

Another Pepper and Carrot line art - this time from an early episode. The focus is still on the env but several figure are in the scene.

The third and final line tracing. This was from E02 - Peppers home.

Grayscale layer of Peppers home, I like how the smoke gets darker as it rises.

Artwork mostly from Global Game Jam 2016 that I took part in.

Wings, horns, robots, hills, sky and water.

Render of a 3d model I created in Blender. Walk cycle in game.

Wrote this for Writers Den Hamilton. The theme is hard decisons. Will edit and write this up, reading it at the next meeting.

Lightpost, wat, portrait, signs.

The grayscale background for game. Black strip at top and bottom for cinematic look. Hills with dots and stripes. Sky with clouds,

Colour. Blue and purle tinge. Quick loose work.

Line layer. Other pieces ignore lines and sculped their own path.

Sketching in the hallway and rego/food area before the start of global game jam.

Colour layer created for game. Used the 3d model as reference when painting the logo. Team members are happy with title.

Cellistwitch and Rihana grayscale portraits. I like Cellistwitch but Rihanas could use more work. Can you still tell it’s her?

Line layer. Rihanas face is complete. I have yet to hear her new album.

Seven recent artworks. Sadly I lost the wireless dongle for my wacom tablet so I have had to go back to using a normal USB cable. I only owned the dongle for a week before it fell out of the drawing tablet when I was walking home. When I buy a new one in the future I will tape the battery in so that it doesn’t fall out. I have lost the cover for the wacom to keep the battery safe. It was upsetting for the first couple of days that I lost it - basically the same as throwing 70 dollars down the drain. Anyway I think I’m over it now and just been drawing in my room mostly.

Created at Hamilton Python Users Group. For this meeting we didn’t have a speaker, instead we watched two videos from the recent pycon. I had seen both the videos but it was enjoyable to re-watch and see peoples reactions. The artwork includes notes from the when is it good to be bad talk.

Drawn during all you can eat hells pizza. Landscapes, towers, a magical forest.

I’m doing a course on statistics. Started taking notes on it but got distracted and did Pepper and Carrot sketches instead.

Thursday night I attended Hamilton Book Club. These are the notes that I took during the meeting. I hadn’t finished the book myself. People really seemed to enjoy it. It annoyed me that the characters did not have names.

Getting back to some World Trade Centre artwork using photograph and diagram references.

More Word Trade Centre artwork - photo reference of Windows of the World restaurant.

Artwork from the June wlug meeting, Vision Collage App meetup and life drawing.

This was drawn before wlug.

Life drawing. Peter a regular from the group was the model. It’s the first time since I started attending life drawing in Hamilton that we had a male model - it was a nice change.

I liked the pose and drawing on the right. The circle bald spot on his head is shown - surrounded by spiky straight hair. His arms rested on his knees. These were 5 minute poses.

Sitting pose. This was a 10 minute pose that was drawn before the break. Instead of sitting looking out the window I decided to sit on the other side of the room - looking out towards the kitchen and toilets. The ladies bathroom door is visible.

After the break a long 40 minute pose. I used dots on the figures leg in order to show the spotty completion of that area of the body. On the bottom is a portrait of a fellow artist. The USB cable for my power pack and unstable so I don’t like walking around the room with the Pi, forcing me to stay in the same spot. Need a new USB cable!

I like the portrait on the left. It has a nice style and it’s captured the likeness of the model.

The warm up poses for the day. A series of 2 minute poses. Peter was excellent with the use of props - a wooden stick and chairs.

Imagination landscape.

On Thursday night I attended an IT meet up at Vision Collage. These were the notes I took during the meet up from the three speakers.

The second page of notes from the IT meet up at Vision Collage.

Notes taken during WLUG June meeting. The topic was systemd. It was interesting and I learnt some new commands.