Sketches This Week

Maybe I should archive my (more presentable) sketches instead of throwing them away…

Anyway, yesterday I was at the SAF Wargaming Centre to play the world’s most boring Real-Time Strategy game. This was mainly because it took “Real-Time” to new levels of realism; the bloody icons took an hour to move a few pixels. Aaargh! Mind-numbing boredom!

Thank goodness for the sketchbook (and a two-hour canteen break with TTK, coincidentally in the opposing force). However, only one sketch interested me enough to keep it, other than sketches for the community service logo I’m designing (ML, do you know how embarrassing it is to draw hearts all over my sketchbook for ideas?! In public, among Army people?! Stupid design requirements).

Sketch

Various (very rough) concept sketches for a possible comic strip, done in a half-working pen because my boss stole my good one. Hmph.

Space Chicken

So I thought: the year of the rooster is coming up, and this is stupidchicken.com, so I should probably draw something to usher in the new year. Umm. Actually, I got distracted while trying to do some real design work — sorry ML.

Anyway, in the same vein as this painting, here’s a space chicken in time for the new year.

Space Chicken

Done in pencil and Photoshop. Click on the picture for the full 600×917 version.

Having finally drawn something, that takes care of one of my new year to-do items. Furthermore, while writing this, a friend just sent me an email from Republic Poly about how they’re looking for fresh graduates to lecture in their EE/CS department — worth a shot, I think (thanks Gail!). My, aren’t we moving along.