The Crabshack Gallery » life art http://crabshackgallery.com/blog Art and Game Dev Blog of Marina "MashPotato" Siu-Chong Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:13:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Can I Get a Couple of Hands, Here? http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/10/21/can-i-get-a-couple-of-hands-here/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/10/21/can-i-get-a-couple-of-hands-here/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:05:46 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=316 …Ahh, there they are.

My hand felt a bit gnarled after modelling for this one.

And it’s surprisingly hard to hold a pointing gesture.  A good reason for people not to jump to conclusions and start pointing fingers willy-nilly ;)

]]> http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2010/10/21/can-i-get-a-couple-of-hands-here/feed/ 0 Pencil Crayon Fun http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/02/22/pencil-crayon-fun/ http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/2009/02/22/pencil-crayon-fun/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:35:04 +0000 MashPotato http://crabshackgallery.com/blog/?p=134 I’ve recently been taking some art classes, and we started work in pencil crayons (which I’ve used before, but only as opaque blocks of colour).  Anyway, we made portraits of a live model, and I was pretty pleased with how it turned out :) It’s neat learning to use other media, as I’ve been almost entirely digital for the last while.

Pic’s after the jump because it contains nudity (*shock, horror*! ;) )

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A reasonable facsimile of me working from a mirror:

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