Hnil's Buncha Stuff

[Hnilmik]

Fighting that creativity block LIKE A BOSS.



Now back to that screenplay.

[GhostingFish]

Mad evil awesome chicken.

[Shida]

That Cockatrice is flippin awesome!! You should ink and colour it!!

[Sinitron]

i came here to tell you that your drawings were fucking shit


but i find that this is pretty acceptable


gw!

[Hnilmik]

Thanks everybody~ I'm still a complete n00b at coloring/lineart, especially in Photoshop, so I'll try to figure it out and give it the full color treatment someday. At most, I did some cleaning to get rid of the distracting lines.



I feel kinda bad that my lame doodles will ruin future expectations though, especially since I'm still dealing with the animals/creatures versus humans thing.

Doodled a lot between writing pages today. Was trying to work more on structure since I'm slowly recognizing how I tend to "see things as lines" and the consequences of learning this way for pretty much my entire life. It felt weird seeing things in a new way?

[SHADOWFOX2]

I think I see some improvement in the last batch of sketches
I am also a fan of the cockatrice BTW
Keep it up; be as random as you gotta be to beat the art block

[Hnilmik]

I pulled 2 all-nighters completing my geography HW due this Sunday. Got addicted to the Elysium Project audio play series during those all-nighters. Fan doodly comics happened since (1) the voice acting was so kinetic that I was inspired, (2) wanted to see how fast I can draw, and (3) I needed to go bonkers after struggling with my HW--Lunar New Year celebrations have been eating up my HW/study time.

Witness my wonky sense of humor.
I really need to learn how to draw more structured things by habit instead of falling back on my "crude doodle style" all the time.





I can still put in some effort, I swear!

[SHADOWFOX2]

Ben.wmv reference aside, keep 'em comin'!

[Hnilmik]

Haha, that Ben joke is because... The character's name is... Ben... ::gets shot in the face::

One of the voice actors from The Elysium Project commissioned an avatar of the character he voices because he liked my doodles.



I don't usually do commissions for a laundry list of reasons, but I tried to put in more effort than I did the doodles. I have issues with the back of his head and his ear...

A friend of mine who's been helping me get used to "seeing things structurally" told me that it's gonna be weird to see and draw things "the right way" (as in, less from my stylized way of seeing/interpreting things). Body-wise, I'm sorta getting used to seeing structure because of this tutorial (I started trying it since the page with the crocodile pirate), but for heads?

>_x; Still having a tough time wrapping my head (har har) around it. 90% of the time, I'm not sure if I'm drawing a head/face right. Still a lot of guess work and flukes.

[Hnilmik]

Lunar New Years was EXHAUSTING. I wanted to use it to be completely caught up with my school and recording work, but... Welp!

Anyways, I was creatively running into a brick wall and just happened to sketch some rooms from my great aunt's house since it coincidentally further inspired the setting for the screenplay I'm currently working on for class and I didn't have my camera with me.

[Hnilmik]

As shown in the bottom half of the picture above, I tend to doodle/think in lines if I don't know what I want. Methinks it's a bad habit at times when I get stuck in that mode... Like when drawing the entire main cast (minus the antagonists) of the screenplay I'm working on.

For me, it's easier to develop a strong character after knowing what she or he looks like; If changes are necessary, I just modify the design and modifying is always easier than getting an idea down on paper for the first time. Very rarely have I created a strong-ish character without knowing what he or she looks like, but even then I have to go off of some defining features or I won't be able to "see a person".



The two main protagonists are kinda pissing me off at how I keep screwing up their appearances...

These two characters below finally got drawn properly-ish today. Dude on the left is still in the "lines" realm, but I think I'll figure him out eventually.



I'll be working on the treatment of the screenplay this weekend, on top of other HW assignments and lines I owe lots of (upset) people. Premise-wise, I got the green light in my class, but I'll have to flesh out the antagonists more if I don't want them to be lame and one-dimensional.

[Hnilmik]

I submitted my geography HW and got displeasing results, so I vented by art'ing/fleshing out one of the antagonists of my screeplay. Decided to try practicing expressions/facial structure some more while I was at it.





Kinda hit or miss in the structure department, admittedly.

Now to record those sample lines!

[Hnilmik]

I draw a lot during Camera Acting class. Here, have a page full of animal heads.

[Hnilmik]

http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/files/1306/789A5t_jabberwocky-hnilmik-uses-a-bunch-of-voices.mp3

[blockquote]"Jabberwocky" - Written by Lewis Carroll from "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" (1872)
It's one of my favorite poems evar~

14-ish voices, but if you listen carefully enough, a lot of them are just "base voices" + little things like texture, different placement, (attempted) dialect, and so on thrown on. Not sure if I did too much with pacing and I have a decent feeling that these are "more voice than acting".

; I believe 2-ish of these voices are in the "I can DO the voice, but can't do longer than half an hour without it hurting". If for some WEIRD reason you want to cast me based on those voices, well... Ask me first so I don't end up thrashing my chords forever.

That said, most of these are "voices I can do, but never get cast as" too. Someday I'll upload samples of my vocal and acting range that I can do competitively.

/whereismydemogrrrrrrraaa aaaaaahhhh[/blockquote]

I owe recordings. I haven't forgotten.

[Hnilmik]

I JUST finished recording for a ridiculously big-ish project and my brain was fried since I needed to start my screenplay's story from scratch to give it more structure and focus (since it was too episodic when it needed to be a feature). Doodling was done to stretch my brain and help me "see" my characters better. Namely the antagonists.





Also, don't ask about the title of the scene I wrote for Comedic Writing class. It's totally unrelated... To both the scene and the doodle I drew.

[Hnilmik]

A long time ago, I doodled a Gengar in Tegaki and thought the lines where beautifully clean.

They weren't.

So I played with Mr. Pen Tool and colored Sparkle-Butt the Gengar!



And I provided vocals for this hip-hop doohickey. No, I didn't do the NSFW noises.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/403839

[Hnilmik]

I've never done a storyboard before, much less for a Camera Acting class. Here's a warm up doodle I did. Of something unrelated to the class.



>_o; Why is the storyboard due THIS week and not the NEXT...

[Hnilmik]

>_O; The stuff I draw during class...



I actually have other reference/development-ish drawings of Arlene too, but they aren't as cool as Montag's.



Montag = 7'1" + 700 lbs (+ 13' to nose to tail)
Arlene = 4'11" + 118 lbs

Does this look about right?

[rtil]

your creatures are as awesome as ever. your humans still look very strange. her pose is reminiscent of those poser dolls. i dunno, considering how dynamic and shapely your creatures are, your humans look very plain.

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]