Once again

I'm a slacker. Things get hectic at work and I don't blog. Doing a bunch of research on the wedding front. Playing a lot of fun XBLA games. Somehow I don't feel bad paying 1200 MS points for a small game that supports new developers / companies, what have you. Haven't spent much time on my figures or paintings, though I will, i still sketch little doodles / ideas out for them in my down time which WILL get used.

PS. things I've played or seen recently that I really enjoyed.

1. District 9 (movie)
2. JCVD (netflix rental)
3. Shadow Complex (xbox 360 game)
4. Braid (xbox 360 game)
5. Street Fighter 4 (xbox 360 game)
6. The Wire - (HBO series on DVD) - soooo sad this is over.

K, back to work!

Simon's Cat

Random Nugget from Cartoon Brew

Sorry

Got real busy these last 2 weeks. Doesn't look like it's gonna let up much but hopefully this weekend i'll be able to mess around some more with this stuff. In the meantime I sorta experimented with some paints, resurfaced and primed the mini MAD'L head cuz i didn't like the face anymore. The nose started looking like a mouth, which i didn't want any confusion on. So I resurfaced it. Anyways, still have lots and lots of testing to do because i'm not sure this is the type of paint i'm looking for. Also the tape i used bleed a little, or maybe i painted too thick in that area, either way I gotta get THAT under control a little, you can see it mostly on the edges of the arms. The paint actually even looks much better than in the pics but whatever, not exactly what i'm looking for anyways. Here's a few little pics.

Oh and to make up for some lack of Toy updates...i did some 20 min. paintings for fun. No where near done, more of like work in progress' You can tell how lazy i got, i didn't even worry about definition anywhere, or attempted to hint much at shadows and layers. Just something to start with for kicks. Here's one regardless...

Testing some paint

I messed around for an hour or so last night with some paint, brushes, pens, pencils...all on the vinyl to see what kinda 'feelings' i got from all this. Meaning, how the paint, pen, pencil, etc felt on the figures. I plan to do more testing and whatnot this weekend when there's some light outside so i can test spray paints, as well as maybe walk over to some shops and grab some other types of paint. I realized that the stuff i had at home (mostly for work on canvas and wood) wasn't thinning enough and was leaving brush strokes on the figure which i in the end don't want. So I got a little more researching to do. Can't wait for the weekend!!

New Toy

Got one of my DIY vinyls in the mail today!



Should have a 10" MAD'L on it's way as well!
OH and i beat F.E.A.R. 2 last night. Was easy, even on the hardest setting. Ending kinda sucked too. I'll rant about it more when i have some time. Lots of work to do!