a skill I didn’t know I had

I don’t consider myself a weird person, at least not overly so, I always enjoy it when someone really goes “there”.

That is why, when one of my friend asked I would help him cover the local graffiti hot spot in print paper, I immediately said yes. Not only was this an amazingly bizarre thing to do, but he promised that he would give beer and pizza to anyone who helped, so I was all in.

now, before I start, I just want to say a few words about this graffiti hot spot.

I live in a small town, where the only real cultural life that exists is crated by the students at the design-school. Because the town in so relatively quite and the school is the only escape, it becomes sort of cultural hob. Sadly once in a while that culture spill over and manifests itself in terms of graffiti, which the local government sees as an act vandalism.

Because they were seemingly powerless to stop it, and it was becoming kind of expensive to keep removing, they decided to designate a tunnel leading under the railway as a graffiti hot spot. Basically, you can paint as much as you want there without any repercussions, which was nice because the place was basically covered wall-to-wall anyway.

The place itself is however not particularly enticing. It is a somewhat broad but dank and “rapy” place that you kind of can’t avoid if you live in kolding.

Because of it’s central location and probably because it is one of the few places in kolding that you can do this kind of project, my friend Markus, decided that this would be the perfect place to be arty-farty.

He talked allot of his friends into joining him in this bizarre assignment, which really isn’t that hard for him because he is both hot and charismatic. I, of cause, was one of the friends who showed up at 4 pm on a cold windy November afternoon to paste up copy-paper to the wall.

It was a pretty straight forward job and it should have been boring as hell, but strangely I found an aptutute for that particular task. Yes I know it sounds weird, but I was the fastest person in my group to paste up pieces of copy paper to a concrete wall in a dank tunnel.

I guess I can add that to the list of incredibly dumb tasks at which I excel.

It was really quite exhilarating to get compliments all the time and show off this skill I didn’t know I had and I stayed much longer than I had planned, but in the end, the cold did get to me and I ended up leaving before the job was done.

I know that is not very gentlemanly of me, but if you have ever been outside on a windy, rainy November day in Denmark, you would understand.

A game of grief – the strategy guide

 

a long absence

I realize that it has been a while since I have uploaded anything, and for that I apologize. This should nit suggest that I have not been working, but merely that I have been working on other stuff.

rest assured that my project is moving forward, even if it isn’t being broadcast as much here as I would like it to.

So, not to leave you high and dry I have decided to start uploading my daily drawing ritual and drawing tips on this blog, starting with the greatest tip I can give. do as much figure drawing as you can.

Once a day I take a 30 minute class from http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php which I cannot recommend highly enough. On this website you have the opportunity of taking classes spanning up to 6 hours. I only do the daily 30 minutes, but I imagine that whoever does the 6 hour, must serious.

this particular sketch took me 11 minutes to pull of and is no where near my best work, but it does show the kind of quick sketch that this site allows you to do. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you might even surprise yourself at the skill level you have obtained

The gaming engine

These last 2 weeks I have had the pleasure of being part of a Unity workshop (Unity is a gaming engine, for those of you who aren’t in the know) and one thing has emerged out of that, is that while I have allot of enthusiasm I really lack some hands on programming experience… to be frank I am just awful. In fact I was told by my teacher that if it was up to him I would not be allowed to pass the course, thankfully it is not.

This is quite the hurtle to overcome when one wants to create a game, but I will not let it bring me down.

Sadly, with all of the pressure that I have been putting on the look and the story of this project, I have been neglecting the playability of the project, which, when designing a game, might have been a way for me to shoot myself in the foot.

But as the proverb goes “better late than never”, so now I am going to start the awesomeness for serous.