OC "finished product"

I wouldn't usually call this a finished product, but it's what I made and what I submitted.

Whateverrrrrrrrrrrrr

-Dan Fenn (BlurryGrawlix)

OC assignment planning

The concept of my OC is that he's a team rocket member that's actually smart. 

• He helps team rocket because he needs a high paying job to support his sick mother who lives back home. 
• Despite him being smart and having good ideas, Jessie and James never listen to him. 
• I describe him as "emotionally dead" or "emotionally devoid" because for the most part, he never shows any sign of emotion.(Side note: he has a major crush on James. This is one of the only occasions where he shows emotion)
• He sometimes gets overwhelmed with thoughts and breaks down, but with the nature of team rocket, he's cheered up by their stupidity quite quickly. 
• He has a Phd in theoretical physics, he did well in school, despite being bullied. 
• He only has one pokemon, a Gothitelle he raised from a Gothita from his childhood that can sweep any team on its own. 
• He's sometimes thought to be rude, but he's mostly just brutally honest. 
• He has some witty humor that's sarcastic and not always appreciated.
• He is sometimes insecure, but only until he talks to his team members and realizes how superior he is compared to them. 
• He is pretty condescending. 
• He lies from time to time, making him not entirely trustworthy. 
• Yes, he is sadistic and derives pleasure from Jessie and James being exploded into outer space and whatnot. 
• As just a weird thing that he does, he rips paper out of habit. He brings 8.5x11 paper everywhere he goes just to rip it. He leaves scraps of paper everywhere. 
• A big theme with him is that he never takes off his glasses (which he can see through, but others can't see through. He never shows his eyes in front of anyone). In the sketches, there's one that has his glasses off. The story behind that is that someone caught him crying (alone) and he had taken his glasses off.
• He's a germophobe
• He "likes cats more than anyone should"
• Most of the time he's serious, but when he swoons over James he can be seen being pretty giddy.
• He has super good tactical skills and planning skills, but no on ever listens to him.
• He hates it when he's ignored, which happens quite often. He does relish telling people "I told you so" when things go wrong from them not listening to his plans
• He's pretty forgetful because thoughts are constantly rushing through his mind
• He's obviously pretty quick witted.

These are mostly just following the prompts in the assignment that are supposed to get "juices flowing."

 Physical appearance

Background

(This pic got messed up when uploading) 

 Environment/Setting

(Forgot to add that he works specifically with Jessie and James)

 Flaws

 Motives

 Personality

 Sketches

When he is caught crying with his glasses off

I haven't traced this into Inkscape and I haven't drawn him with his team rocket uniform yet.

I'll do it tomorrow. *eternal procrastination*

-Dan Fenn (BlurryGrawlix)

Heck Inkscape amirite

THIS IS A VECTOR PROGRAM!!! WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN WHEN USING A FILL ENCLOSED AREA?? Why? This happens on raster programs and that makes sense, but why on a vector program? Just when I was starting to appreciate the use for vector graphic programs...

Done. With the drawing and the stupid program. Even in the tutorial he was like "if we do this, oh, well it's supposed to do that" like ugh

Whatever I guess

-Dan Fenn (BlurryGrawlix)

I'm going to squoosh three posts into one bc I don't want to make 3 posts

Okay so I need to make a critique for my 3 assignments I've done in digital art. Cool beans. The assignment says to make it into three posts, but I don't really think that's necessary. Well I guess I'm just going to get started on this. 

Critique #1

Description: I see a lot of things, very cluttered. I see orange circles overlapping, I see striped circles making a trippy effect as they overlap. I see a grey box with a light blue outline, I see a bunch of rectangles of different colors, ellipses with gradients, a spiral that looks like sausage links, and a calligraphy line.

Analysis: I see line being used, the broken lines in the sausage links, thick and thin lines of different colors being used on the shapes. Obviously shape is being used, pretty much the whole drawing is just individual 2D geometric shapes coming together to make chaos. Space wasn't really thought about here. With value, you can see the gradient ellipses getting lighter as it goes inward, somewhat making a 3D effect, but not really. I don't really see any texture other than the lack of it. Color is obviously used here very haphazardly. The stuff in the background is mostly bluey-greens, so I think I may have accidentally put emphasis on the orange overlapping circles. The best way I could describe the color is complementary. Meh. Not much pattern, but the stripes in the overlapping circles could be considered pattern, as well as the sausage links I suppose. Not really any contrast except the back background is white, while the subjects are colored and pigmented and how the shapes in the back are bluey green and the shapes in the front are orange. Like I said before, accidental emphasis was put on the orange circles because of the contrast, size, repetition, and placement. If I had cropped the image at the end of the striped circles, it would be in optimal focal point position. I really  don't see any balance here. The proportions kind of portray a depth to the picture with the orange circles being closest and the sausage links being the furthest. There is practically no harmony in this photo that I can see. I think there is at least some movement in the circles (both striped and orange) with their flow.

Interpretation: through the eyes of a viewer and not a creator, I see chaos in this picture, which funnily enough is how I felt at the time. The program gave me extreme frustration and was very difficult to get it to even work. Chaos was happening in my head. I guess it kind of went onto the canvas, somewhat unintentionally. 

Evaluation: Yes, this piece did technically fulfill the requirements at the time, but no, it did not fulfill my wants. It was difficult enough to even get the program to work; I did not want to spend effort on making it look pretty. In a way, I was somewhat purposefully making it look shoddy out of spite of the program. I had a vision, but it just couldn't be fulfilled on canvas.

Critique #2

Description: I see what appears to be a text book cover for earth science. Grey border and a sandy background. It has elements of nature, or the earth's spheres, put into circles with white halos around them. The author is Eenk Skapé Sucz and the publisher is Krapprogram Publishers. The publisher is put on a dark blue, uh, rectangle? The words "Earth Science" are just the outlines with a transparent inside and they have a gradient that goes diagonally. The text for the title and author are both an ivory sort of creamy and yellowish whitish color.

Analysis: Line is used for the title and all the circles (all the circles have a thin solid border.) Shape: all pretty geometric. The letters of the title are obviously pretty organic if you want to count those. Space: I guess not really much that means anything. The space between the shapes are occupied by sand. Value: I mean, obviously the royalty free images have shading in them, so yeah. Just natural value. Texture: the sand is very gritty and sandy, the ice in the bubbles are very slick and shiny (broken up by cracks), the water in the bubbles are, you know, watery. Color: lots of harmonious colors that contrast well. Emphasis: bubbles and whatnot Balance: a bit between the bubbles being different sizes Proportion: There's size differences between the bubbles, but also depth, suggesting they're overlapping. Harmony: eh Rythym/movement: eh

Interpretation: Earth's spheres are important and beautiful at the same time.

Evaluation: I met the requirements of the assignment while making a good looking textbook cover that I kind of like. I also got revenge on the program with the author and publisher names.

Critique #3

Description: I see an anime-esque man (Dwyer from fire emblem     (・ω・)) traced in a digital art program.

Analysis: line: thin, organic Shape: organic Space: eh Value: shading in the upper face and under the nose, highlights on the hair and eyes Texture: smooth throughout Color: just the colors that were used in the original artwork Pattern: eh Contrast: between the upper face and lower face Emphasis: hair? Balance: eh Proportion: eh Harmony: eh 

Interpretation: not really any interpretation to it. It's just a tracing of a character.

Evaluation: I fulfilled assignment requirements and made something decent looking in inkscape, but also made something I find morally wrong (tracing artwork), but I didn't really want to trace any of my art so whatever.

I'm tired bye

-Dan Fenn (Blurry Grawlix)

WELL THEN

While delving into the depths of the photos on my computer, you know, for old times' sake, I found this. This was my actual first piece of digital art ever. This was actually an assignment for my 8th grade English class. We were doing a book report (I did a book called "It's Kind of a Funny Story." Great book btw, probably my 2nd favorite ever) and we had to make a comic representing the book. If you look in the 6th panel you'll see it's kind of faded, that's because I screenshotted it while the program was not responding so I wouldn't lose any work. I spent sooooo long on this. To be honest, it's pretty crappy. But what do you expect, it was my first time using the program and the first time I had used my Wacom since I gave up on digital art because I couldn't find a viable program that was free. I have come so far :)

Pretty impressed by my progress; you can see my latest big drawing to the right of the screen

-Dan Fenn (BlurryGrawlix)

Stock photo representation of me right now

Here's a default dude stock photo which represents me looking at what I need to do for art.

Here's a default dude stock photo which represents me after seeing the line shown above in the assignment:

I'm just going to do my 3 assignments I've done for class and not any of the work I've done in my free-time. If I did all of my work, that would be a lot of posts.

Sneaky Sneaky Sneaky Peeky

Sneak peek on the animation I'm going to do having my good friend do voice acting.

I SHALL SAY NO MORE!

-Dan Fenn (BlurryGrawlix)