I read an interesting article about how americans are obsessed with working and what it's doing to our society. Def worth a read.

http://www.esquire.com/features/thousand-words-on-culture/working-life-0909

crazy doodles....

These are some doodles I did today. I have more but I haven't had time to scan them. I figured I would post something anyway because I haven't posted in a while

another sketch

Another random sketch in photoshop.

my new website is finally up....

My new website is finally up. There are still some bugs in it that I'm currently working on (yes I know I need a loader which I am planning on doing and a scroll bar doesn't work) but I was nervous about putting it up online. I think I was afraid I would have to change web hosting sites because I wasn't sure if I could upload all the files I needed to my original web hosting site. Luckily, I figured it out and I uploaded my files to an FTP site instead and that seems to work fine.

Def check it out when you get a chance.

www.iantopple.com

random sketch....

Here is a random sketch I did today. Thought I post it. 

random sketch....

This is just a random sketch I made out of boredom. Drawn in Photoshop.

sample perspective study.

Okay so I found a random photo online just to play around in perspective. What I'm noticing is that the building matches the two vanishing points on each side (2 point perspective) but what I don't understand is why does the cross walk (white lines on the ground. Refer to yellow lines above) connect to two different vanishing points on the same horizon line. They look like vanishing points inside of the two outer vanishing points for the building and I've read about perspective before and I don't seem to understand why it's like this. I'm a little confused. Does anyone have the answer? Thanks.

Hey everyone

Okay so my new flash website should be up hopefully by the end of this week. I was having a technical problem but after spending 2 hours online last night trying to find tutorials to figure it out, I finally resolved my problem. I'll let you know when it's up.

I also found some really helpful tutorials on conceptart.org. I found this great tutorial on perspective. I've read books on it and I thought I knew it pretty well but after watching about 30 minutes of a video, I realized I wasn't doing it completely accurately. I would def recommend it if you want to get a better grasp on perspective. It's only $15 and you can download the files straight to your comp. (Just beware that the first download is a rar file and you need to download winrar to open it. You also need a pc to open the file because you can't open it on a mac. I have no idea why that file is a rar file but all the other files are zip files.)

rough foot painting

This is a rough painting of my foot.

another painting sketch

This is another painting sketch I've done. Maybe about an hour. I am really getting annoyed at these slight color changes when I upload it to the site. If you have a pc I think it'll actually look better for some reason.

On another note, I learned how to create my own custom playskin in Flash. I'm not sure how that will come in handy but it's still a neat trick.

rough building painting

This is a rough painting of a building. It looks better on my screen than it does here. For some reason the colors aren't exactly right.