Drawing Update

"Imperfect, Ugly, and Full of Good Intention," conceptual self-portrait

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Hello lovely people.

Above you can find the final product from the project "Something Unwanted" that I posted about a while back.  I have chosen to title the piece "Imperfect, Ugly, and Full of Good Intention," and I feel that the piece moved from an emotional response to a reflection of myself, making it a conceptual self-portrait.  I've also included details of the project, as it is hard to view everything from a distance.

Below I have posted entries from my Drawing III sketchbook for my newest project, "The Mass of Us."  The premise of this project was to combine the video games "The Last of Us" along with the "Mass Effect" series.  I am using the protagonists from "The Last of Us," Joel and Ellie, who are struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world infested with fungal zombies, who have cordyceps that grow off of them and turn them into vicious, terrifying monsters.  In the third installment of the "Mass Effect" series, the Reapers, a sentient, alien race intent on "cleansing" the universe of every evolved species, invade Earth in an effort to completely destroy the human race; I am using these enemies combined with the fungus from the zombies from "The Last of Us," and placing Joel and Ellie in this sort of world.  Joel and Ellie will be simplified figures, silhouetted against the landscape where the brightly colored invaders roam.  Sketching has proved essential to this project, as I need to research and practice drawing certain elements of each game.  I will be posting results as they come in, so stay tuned!

"The Mass of Us," combining the text and logos from both video games

"The Last of Us:" experimenting with making Ellie, an otherwise innocent character, as scary and dark

"The Last of Us:" practicing drawing Joel

"The Last of Us:" practicing rendering the fungi or cordyceps properly

"Mass Effect:" practicing rendering a Reaper ship

"The Mass of Us:" experimenting with placement of protagonists with Reaper forces; the current large-scale drawing of this has changed quite a bit in a good way, but here was the initial idea

I realize that perhaps not many of you are gamers or are familiar with these particular games.  I've included links down below to each game, in case you wanted to investigate exactly where I am coming from.

"The Last of Us"

"Mass Effect"

As always, thank you for reading and have yourselves a lovely, lovely day.

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