tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26658647349278695272024-03-12T22:04:23.537-07:00BOGEY'S WHIMSIESThe journey of improving my art towards the next level and having fun in the process.Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-25791644310358330532014-07-03T00:47:00.001-07:002014-07-03T00:47:41.443-07:00Best quotes about art<br />
“In committing to artistic growth, you need to refine your skills to support your instincts.” Joni Mitchell<br />
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"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."<br />
Marcus Tullius CiceroKevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-53191166921785747802014-07-01T18:08:00.001-07:002014-07-01T18:08:36.093-07:00Thoughts on style<div style="text-align: center;">
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When finding a style, try to make a list of the things that you dislike, on top of the things that you like. One is not the opposite of the other.</div>
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Also, try to make a distinction between the things you genuinely want to create yourself and the things that you just enjoy consuming.</div>
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Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-83756653451308854882014-02-06T22:57:00.001-08:002014-02-06T22:57:09.075-08:00January - Continuation of Design and Prep Work for Months to Come<div style="text-align: center;">
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Another year, another batch of days to improve or atleast claw my way out of the holes I dig myself! One thing I'll to do this year is to track my progress each month. I find that doing so keeps me motivated, sometimes by the sheer shame of how I practically did nothing to move forward. </div>
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Besides playing the stupidly addicting card game Hearthstone, here are the things I've worked on.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cockaigne, an imaginary land thought of by smelly medieval peasants</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Avalon, where the trees are delish and King Arthur's blood flows freely</td></tr>
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5 out of 6 of these illustrations are done when I didn't have a freelance gig. After I had one, things have progressed turtle slow. Hearthstone, big surprise, is something I blame for this as well. But forward motion is forward motion so onwards to February.</div>
Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-64771565649027566102013-12-04T19:51:00.001-08:002013-12-04T19:51:45.733-08:00Biker's Broccoli<div style="text-align: center;">
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Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-73288963392217748122013-12-04T19:49:00.001-08:002013-12-04T19:49:18.845-08:00Monster Lumberjack!<br />
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The first of the many Cup O' Doodles I'll post here.</div>
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Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-4870399942165361272013-12-02T19:16:00.001-08:002013-12-14T00:23:46.941-08:00New header!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-55039367192435535882013-11-27T23:59:00.000-08:002013-11-27T23:59:59.517-08:00More DND<br />
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<br />Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-76860506300635160572013-11-22T21:45:00.001-08:002013-11-22T21:45:14.030-08:00Green arcanian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nigby’s acidic spittle flew as he passionately gave his lecture about the many evils of beauty. It was a life-changing talk, no one got a chance to apply it though.</div>
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Eight months of hard work, four seconds of clumsiness, two villages wiped out.</div>
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Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-46178575395929520232013-11-11T19:30:00.000-08:002013-11-11T19:30:31.219-08:00Vandine the FertileI was sketching last week and had this idea of a barbarian woman blessed with such incredible fertility that she uses her children as disposable minions in battle. The name “Vandine” popped into my head and I knew I just had to make an illustration out of it.<br />
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Here we are many late nights later, the piece is finally finished. I never knew making an illustration is soo challenging. I guess it’s like giving birth. It’s messy, you struggle and push hard to get it out of you and once it’s out, it’s just…out.<br />
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I am hungry, sleepy and I need to catch up on work but at last that idea in my head is now born. Ladies and gents, I present to you - Vandine the Fertile.<br />
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In addition to this, I also made a coloring tutorial and a preliminary sketch for the character. Check em out below!</div>
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<br />Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-56979719685333080142013-11-03T02:24:00.002-08:002013-11-03T02:25:21.519-08:00Ridin' Dirty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On his 5000th day of service as a squire, Pekto discovered the ability to turn into a fun-loving cyclops with a set of perfect teeth(for fun-loving cyclops anyway).</div>
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At that very moment, both knew their lives would never be the same.</div>
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"Werewolves are the best at what they do, and what they do is love."</div>
Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-37257666661812869732013-10-31T03:18:00.001-07:002013-10-31T07:53:11.512-07:00Yamabushi Heretic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Why would I help in avenging your family, boy? I may have even caused their deaths for all you know."Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-10709020303476773422013-10-29T07:14:00.000-07:002013-10-29T07:14:11.202-07:00The Future of Storytelling - Week 1 - Introduction to storytelling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-9150292741388661422013-09-22T22:56:00.001-07:002013-10-02T07:06:37.077-07:00My own principles of design<br />
What is design?<br />
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According to the dictionary, design is a specific arrangement of elements to create a desired result.<br />
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Lately I have come to the realization that I can't master all areas of art in my lifetime. I enjoy and want to make many kinds of art but I can't possibly learn all of them in my time here on Earth. Instead I made a list of the things I enjoy most in art and focus on them. These are based on my own values and what I enjoy the most.<br />
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In short, these will help me create the desired result - simple, lighthearted, appealing illustrations.<br />
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Here are my criteria for good design:<br />
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1. CONTRAST - size(big x small), direction(horizontal x vertical), angles(straight x curve), lighting(light x dark) texture(rough x smooth) substance(hard x soft). Don't be shy on making big contrast, push more, experiment, have fun, learn. Experiment the distance between elements(eg. eyes from nose), and play on proportion.<br />
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2. SIMPLICITY - simple shapes, clarity and silhouettes<br />
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3. APPEAL - anything that catches the eye, could also be but not limited to - cuteness and childish features<br />
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4. STORYTELLING - the illustration, animation or work of art must tell a story, not just pretty figures standing around<br />
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5. INTEREST - the secret sauce, the thing that will separate your bear design from all other bears. This is<br />
something unique and quirky about your character, like a bear that grows flowers on it's nose, a flower that eats moonlight, a young kid who gets insanely strong after the adrenaline rush of a panic attack. The humorous, the insane, the creepy, the tongue in cheek; anything to add life and make your heart skip a beat while drawing. One can only play with shapes for so much, somewhere, a poor guy is doing the same thing wondering why his characters still look generic.<br />
<br />Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-34254066140175058482013-08-26T23:29:00.002-07:002013-08-26T23:29:46.012-07:00DSC - Batroc the leaper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-18724265644977915172013-08-25T03:29:00.003-07:002013-08-25T03:29:41.382-07:00WHEEL OF TIME FANART!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This has been a long time coming. </div>
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I’ve been listening to WOT audiobooks for the past months while working so I guess it’s just natural to make fanart for the book I love. </div>
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P.S. Mat Cauthon is the coolest character ever. Uno is not far behind though with his cursing and eyepatch.</div>
Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-23662545001088218182013-08-20T21:02:00.000-07:002013-08-20T21:02:01.627-07:00Quick painting test<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The result of playing Bastion and listening to WOT while working. I'm planning to use the same style in a WOT fanart piece. It's been long overdue.</div>
<br />Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-24114165789604923512013-07-30T01:20:00.002-07:002013-07-30T01:21:25.700-07:00Mid year catch up<div style="text-align: center;">
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Wow! It's been a month or so since I last posted on this blog. Time flies so fast and life threw some huge boulders on my way so yeah. But here I am, stronger than ever before, and itching to get some personal projects done since it's officially the eighth month of 2013. I usually release a cartoon atleast once a year and I'm not planning on breaking that tradition now. It'll probably be released in the last quarter but in the meantime, these are some designs I did for the game I'm working on. I had fun working on them, but more importantly, I got a chance to exercise this new drawing style I've been developing behind the scenes.</div>
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<br />Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-4743295475695302732013-07-01T22:07:00.001-07:002013-07-01T22:21:49.973-07:00My best animation so far<br />
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Last year, I accepted a project - making cutscenes for an ipad and iOS game to be exact - and did the best I can for three whole months, even if the project budget is only for 1 month, and being under an NDA until the game is ready to be released.</div>
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The reason for this is that I wanted to test where I am, skill-wise on making animations. The budget didn't matter, nor the NDA, I just want to know what will be the result of my full effort. Eventually, I finished it, and the weird thing is that it didn't even bother me knowing that other people won't be seeing my hard work until a year or so.</div>
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I forgot about it and moved on to other things.</div>
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Fast forward to this day, the client suddenly contacted me, telling me that the game is about to be released on July 16. It's time to release the project to the world! Somehow this didn't excite me, but as I watched my work again before uploading it, the feeling of wanting to give everything I got to making a project suddenly came back to me. I miss that feeling - you're totally exhausted to the point that you just like to sleep for a week, yet you're happy cause you never held back. I think I'm going to try that once again soon, but this time, I'm gonna make sure it's for my own personal project.</div>
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Anyway, here's one of the cutscenes I'm talking about:</div>
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I did the art and animation, my good buddy Patrick did the voice overs, while the client provided the story.</div>
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How bout you, when was the last time you worked really hard for a project? :)<br />
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Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-41626478792994679772013-06-20T02:19:00.002-07:002013-06-20T02:46:11.779-07:00Parade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was a pretty unique experience.</div>
<br />Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-65959988686836089462013-06-17T23:09:00.004-07:002013-06-17T23:09:23.156-07:00Zombies!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New designs for work.</div>
Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-56764177759495617892013-06-15T22:28:00.002-07:002013-06-15T22:30:00.633-07:00Rationalization<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-52948498868724688122013-06-14T03:26:00.001-07:002013-06-14T03:26:19.256-07:00Anime-ish character designs batch 4!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just like your favorite talent search shows, my character designs also come in batches. This week has been particularly tough as I was down with the fever for a few days yet I didn't have the luxury to take a day off. But tomorrow will be a different story as I promise to treat myself extra special for all this hard work.Kevin Tanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05154656113608219803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665864734927869527.post-24389271001241294242013-06-11T23:09:00.002-07:002013-06-11T23:09:49.380-07:00Latest Anime-ish character designs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1. A little superhero girl. This girl is really adorable but her moves are really brash and violent due to influence of film and tv. She thinks of herself as a real superhero trapped in a little girl's body.</div>
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2. The method-acting cosplayer. In every costume she wears, she becomes that character. Confidence and great poses are her signature in game. She knows how to project her best angles.</div>
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3. The consumer fangirl. Just a typical teenage girl addicted to cartoons, books, and internet culture. She lacks athletic ability or finesse but has hard hitting moves because of her bulk.</div>
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4. Shy "harajuku" nerd. This girl grew up embracing the fashion of Japan and it's famous street named "harajuku" where people express themselves through clothing. She is terribly shy though, and often hides the lower part of her face in a mask. In game this shyness will be relayed through a bit of indecisiveness in her every move.</div>
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5. Boisterous working girl. This girl acts more manly than most man, she works blue collar jobs and shouts a lot. In game this will translate to really manly moves that will surely match her tomboyish look.</div>
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