The Empire AND You 2 - Track 9

The Empire & You 2 - Track 9 by dmtspeck

Yo. I made this album sometime in late 2009. I was doing a lot of very experimental stuff and playing lots of different instruments by myself.

Tasks

Tasks by dmtspeck

Yo. This song is really old. I recorded it years ago using this program called Riffworks. This song gets pretty wild. I don't think it's that bad considering how much I feel that I have improved since then.

Tattered

Tattered by dmtspeck
Yo. I made this song around September 2009 and I decided to upload it because I think it's pretty cool. I always wondered how to upload songs...but what sucks about Soundcloud is that I think they want you to pay money and you can only upload like two hours of stuff for free...but still. Two hours. But Itunes says I have 1.8 days of music...So I need two days. Not two hours. You greedy bastards! Anyway, check it out!

Assortment

Yo. I've been doing quite a bit of sketching lately. Good thing! I'm almost at 50 pages already!

So anyway...at the top there is a self portrait that I did in about 20 minutes tops last Friday.

Underneath that is some awesome stuff I did last night of Cedric from At The Drive-In and another gouache piece of Dr. Octagon on the same page.

Then there are two pages of attempts at full figure poses from my mind...not bad if I do say so myself! Definitely helped me notice some more weaknesses...

Below that is some sketches of breakfast eaters at The Cracked Egg and a couple of referenced sketches from the October 2010 issue of Spin magazine.

Underneath that...I did some sketches while I was playing Dungeons and Dragons for the first time ever last weekend hahaha! It was pretty fun and it gave me a lot of cool ideas and since I've been trying to improve my imaginative figure skills, that was a great time to do it. I was trying to sketch some of our "adventures" that we were having haha!

Below that, I touched up that master copy a little bit and then I did some thumbnails of an animation that I want to do in 3ds Max.

Then finally, I was working on an outline for Arcade Fire, just because they were on the cover of Spin. I have never even listened to them! Oh well whateva.

Life Drawing Workshop October 27, 2010

I used ink and colored pencil for the first time. It was fun and it kept me very excited about the drawings. And hanging out for Kevin's Drawing & Anatomy was a great refresher for the torso which is one of the toughest masses to truly master, for me anyways...So I definitely brought some different approaches to this session. The workshop was dope. The model brought a couple of costumes to wear and it is always good to practice the clothed figure.

SKETCHBOOK BATTLE!!

Yo. I took pics of a bunch of my pages that I have done so far for the Blackbook Beatdown, son! Peep that! Gangsta typin' right now for no reason.

G Minor

G MINOR by dmtspeck
I did this a couple weeks ago but I just put it onto cd then onto the computer and did all that fancy conversion-ness to get it onto soundcloud and the blog. SO enjoy. IN OTHER NEWS...the digi-recorder has this plastic scrolling piece...and it is now dysfunctional which practically renders the device USELESS as there is NO WAY to perform certain actions such as audio scrubbing, scrolling easily through tracks, SELECTING VIRTUAL TRACKS FOR MIXING(!!!!HUGE!!!) and lots of other stuff. SO...GIANT SAD FACE.

Time Well Spent

What's up?! I chilled in the Anatomy class yesterday, then I went to a couple hours of the workshop afterwords. It allowed me to draw in many different mind states. Everything from warming up and feeling all rusty, drawing while casually talking, getting silently into the zone, feeling like I suck ass, deliriously making sloppy lines to experimenting and possibly getting lucky...

So I was hoping you all could help me out and tell me which pose YOU like best! And oh yeah...I posted something I did in my sketchbook for fun the other day...

Oh and just so you know, there is one drawing in ink that Sheff did to help me out on a pose! Thanks Sheff!

I also uploaded some stuff from my Designing Comics class with Jerry Miller. He is an awesome teacher. Very professional and serious but he gives super helpful critiques and he isn't boring! There are also a couple pages from my sketchbook that I am still working on.

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