no more group work

As I touched upon yesterday, I have been doing a project for school for the last couple of weeks that really took it out of me. As a matter of fact, I am still reeling on the heels of it. But as you know, if you follow my blog, there is no rest for the wicked, and I am definitely wicked.

So I have started a fun little playful concept art project. The only real thing I know about this project is that I know nothing about this project.

I call this girl “the survivor” but in truth i don’t know who she is or what she has survived from. Honestly, this character came form the playing “the last of us” and realizing that there were no happy people in that game. I know they were all struggling to survive, but one cheerful character wouldn’t have killed them. Or maybe it would.

I made this girl to add an asian character to their roster. A cheerful Asian girl, as a matter of fact.

I don’t know if I am going to work further with this girl. maybe she will become the character I work on for the next couple of weeks, maybe she is just a one-stop sketch for today.

Only time will tell.

the last of us

There are a couple of yearly events that I have started to take seriously.

These events include: christmas, the first real day of summer, the annual gaming conference in malmö and the release of a small group of elite blockbuster games.

This last event has come to pass some time last week, as Naughty dog released their masterpiece “the last of us”.

I don’t use that word (masterpiece) lightly  but after playing through this newest title from this developer I understand why I own a playstation and why I will be purchasing the new one when it comes out.

This game is about as good as gaming gets. the story is engaging and the character performances in this game are so captivating  that the animators, voice actors and mo-cap people should collectively be awarded an Oscar for making some of the most layered characters on screen currently.

at the end of the day, I think that this game has a very real chance of becoming the game of the year, and if it doesn’t walk away with some kind of accolade  I will be sourly disappointed

Tamagotchi

This small thing defined my generation big time. So much so, that if you can tell me what it is I can say for sure that uou were a teenager in the late 90’s.
For those of you who weren’t, I will defuse the tension by telling you that it’s a tamagotchi (look it up).
I was the first in my class to get one, whivh was quite something.  My parrents even let me take the day free from school to go buy it, which was almost a bigger deal than getting the toy itself. As most kids, I loved this machine for about 2 weeks, about as much time as it made me popular in school. Then I sold it to my dad, and got two video games instead. As you can tell, I had an action packed childhood.
This little guy will always have a special place in my heart, which is why I decided to draw him for you today.