Diary of the Unreal

Four Panel Swordfight

2009-02-17T13:08:00.000-05:00

Just a quick study in sequential action-heavy motion.

Faces and Titles

2009-02-17T02:55:00.002-05:00

Let's mix it up a little.

Some titles and some sketches, one in each hand (nothing in the bush).

Faces 5

2009-02-10T18:33:00.001-05:00

A few more faces. There is a goal in mind here - draw a realistic, or semi-realistic looking face without using any sort of reference.

Baby steps, as they say.

Also, a sketch of something I'm working on and hoping to have finished by the time the week is out.

A Great Damned Merging

2009-01-18T09:51:00.002-05:00

On a wise suggestion from my friend to consolidate, I've merged my sketches blog "Faces, Fiends and Cake" with Diary of the Unreal.

Faces, Fiends and Cake will no longer be updated and sketches will be posted to here, but the blog will continue to sit on the internet and silently take up valuable space, like a mildly creepy schizophrenic squatter with people issues.

Or not.

Long live Diary of the Unreal.

Some Requests

2008-12-13T22:04:00.001-05:00

Sometimes I get requests from people who want to see a sketch of something, and hey I like to oblige them.

For example:

"BATMAN PUNCHING OUT THE HUMAN TORCH ON THE BACK OF A T-REX"

"A PRETTY PRINCESS PONY!"

"SANTA FLYING OVER A VOLCANO!"

"A ROBOT EASTER BUNNY GUNNING DOWN EVIL SANTA CLAUS ON THE MOON"

"NAKED MUDWRESTLING AMAZONS"

Oh yeah.

Asides

2008-12-12T16:10:00.000-05:00

RORSCHACH 2

KAWKINI RED or LEECHES

Rorschach 1

2008-12-05T19:33:00.002-05:00

Moving Textures

2008-12-05T14:41:00.009-05:00

Presenting, the texture before, now in motion:

Edit: gonna repost it somewhere else where the resolution is higher. A lot of the moving parts are being sloughed away in a wash of lowres noise, so...stay tuned.

Edit: reposted it, go here to see a full resolution version of it.

Bygone Days and Days Yet To Come

2008-12-04T20:57:00.003-05:00

Noir

Science Fiction

This last one is a texture for something. You'll be seeing it again.

Gilgamesh

2008-12-04T16:06:00.002-05:00

Gazing Woman

2008-12-02T19:55:00.002-05:00

Face and Fiend

2008-12-01T22:13:00.001-05:00

Fiends 6

2008-11-23T08:25:00.001-05:00

New Sketchbook

2008-11-20T10:13:00.001-05:00

Christened it with a drawing of our good friend, the Maskmaker:

Mag

2008-11-13T22:56:00.003-05:00

If I were to parody the high-falutin' artsy design magazines I've seen floating around the museums and stores in the city.

Oh wait.

Endless

2008-11-11T19:59:00.001-05:00

Apologies to Neil Gaiman.

DEATH

DESIRE

Live Ground

2008-11-11T14:23:00.002-05:00

Storm's Eye

2008-10-31T14:42:00.002-04:00

Brain Spilling Over

2008-10-24T15:08:00.004-04:00

SAGUIN CONCHOLUS

More Monsters aka Fiends 5

2008-09-28T23:10:00.001-04:00

Might do something more with this guy. I really like how he came out.

Curves and Lines

2008-09-27T16:51:00.001-04:00

Fiends 4

2008-09-27T16:41:00.001-04:00

I've also been playing a metric fuckton of Spore lately.

Consequently:

Faces 4

2008-09-26T05:18:00.001-04:00

Here we go.

Her name is Nachti.

And here's some Nachti's people. Not really HER people. But like, her people.

And here's Boaz Livny saying "caustics". He's my Lighting and Rendering teacheroo.

I have no idea what accent that is.

Cause its all Brooklynese and Jerseyspeak until you say something like "cowsticks" instead of "caustics" or "fractile" instead of "fractal" or "dinosaur peanuts" instead of "maya shaders" and it all goes to hell.

Except for that last one, that didn't actually happen.

Stormy Waters

2008-09-10T21:15:00.002-04:00

No relation to that guy from Sealab 2021.

Faces and Then Some

2008-08-17T12:49:00.001-04:00

Trying to use my sketchbook more and more, and for more different things, and think of every page as less of a piece-space and more of just space to play around.

And some more playing around with expressions. I think I'm going to use this character for something in the near future.

Veves and Colors

2008-08-15T14:41:00.003-04:00

Experimenting with some different things this time around.

Veves are inscriptions written in powder (salt, flour, rice, gunpowder, whatever) on a flat, horizontal surface, used in Haitian voodou to call the attention of one of the hundreds of Haitian gods, called "loa"s. Haitian veves are as varied as the loas they call and so far I haven't found any discernable pattern in how they're made.

So naturally I tried to make up some myself.

Also a self portrait, kind of showing off three different aspects of yours truly's personality:

I'll put up a color version of this once I'm done with it.

Also a quick attempt at doing accurate anatomy off the top of my head:

Self Portrait, Now In Color!

2008-08-15T14:41:00.002-04:00

Veves and Colors

2008-08-15T14:41:00.001-04:00

Self Portrait, Now In Color!

2008-08-15T14:41:00.000-04:00

Musings and Reflections

2008-08-08T23:28:00.002-04:00

Some things.

TORNADO

DREAM

TREE

INSECURITY

Fiends 3

2008-07-10T21:03:00.003-04:00

Faces 3

2008-07-10T21:03:00.002-04:00

Some work with expressions, and the like:

A quick, rough and probably not all that accurate sketch of my visual literacy instructor during class:

Things To Come

2008-06-13T19:23:00.001-04:00

A little preview of something I'm working on.

5 Days A Stranger

2008-06-03T03:46:00.001-04:00

If you haven't heard of this game series, give it a look.

A throwback to the old days of point and click adventure games, and made with game making software Adventure Gaming Studio, the "John Defoe" series by Yahtzee Croshaw is, in short, pretty damn well made.

The games form a "quadrilogy", a series of four beginning with "5 Days A Stranger", and can be found here: http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/games.htm

Needless to say these particular sketches are characters from that series.

Art vs. the Artist

2008-05-30T11:53:00.001-04:00

Sometimes the things I'm drawing start getting sassy on me.

Nahas Nagassin

2008-05-29T19:22:00.001-04:00

Random Tonal Things

2008-05-29T19:21:00.001-04:00

Aglion

2008-05-29T19:11:00.001-04:00

Faces 2

2008-05-29T19:07:00.001-04:00

-Kefka Palazzo from Final Fantasy 6/3. I know he doesn't actually laugh like that.

-the sketch on the other side of the page bleeds through a fair amount on this one, you can almost see Reagan, one of my other characters, turned around here.

Fiends 2

2008-05-29T19:03:00.001-04:00

Fantasy vs. Science Fiction

2008-05-29T19:00:00.001-04:00

People Real and Imagined

2008-05-29T18:58:00.001-04:00

Some of these people exist, some of them don't. Care to hazard a guess as to which is which?

Fiends 1

2008-05-29T18:55:00.001-04:00

Faces 1

2008-05-29T18:53:00.001-04:00

-A self portrait and one of the few things I've drawn in charcoal that was photographed and recorded on some medium other than the original paper. The original copy of this has been lost.

Cake

2008-05-29T10:37:00.001-04:00

This blog will serve as a dumping ground for the things that I find myself drawing. Random things will appear here, randomly. None of this will appear on my main website, mostly because sketches are generally far too numerous and lack the visual punch of actual pieces to be actually featured on a separate webspace.

Since a lot of these are scraps or rough work, there's a good chance that some of this is going to get done in ink, color and what have you, so keep an out out in other places.

All work, unless mentioned otherwise is copyright to yours truly, Patrick Tsao.

And so....

Tidbits

2008-05-26T01:44:00.002-04:00

Some random things.

-created using Maya's hypershade window as a base

Soil Man

Titling 4

2008-05-23T10:52:00.003-04:00

-apologies to Damon Albarn and the Gorillaz

Blood and Maggots

2008-05-23T10:50:00.002-04:00

Black and White

2008-05-23T10:42:00.002-04:00

The Mountains of Madness

-title inspired by HP Lovecraft

Swirl

Tedium Storm

-made after an especially arduous day of classes

Titling 3

2008-05-23T04:33:00.006-04:00

-modelled after a spoken-word piece of the same name, by Tom Waits.

Minimalism. Sort of.

2008-05-23T04:27:00.003-04:00

Four Men In A Snowstorm

-this one was made entirely using Photoshop filters. No brushes or brush-like tools were ever touched while making this.

Fire

Color vs. Black and White

2008-05-23T04:23:00.003-04:00

Feverdream

An Experiment In Red, Yellow, and Black

Titling 2

2008-05-23T04:17:00.002-04:00

The bits that these are titles for are ethereal and strange, psychologically menacing experiences, which is something I try to portray.

Conflagration

2008-05-23T04:06:00.001-04:00

Playing with fire.

This little experiment ended up on the title page of my webcomic, here.

Titling 1

2008-05-23T03:46:00.000-04:00

Experiments in color and simple text placement for titling purposes, these in particular were made to accompany chapters from a serial interactive fiction bit I'm working on.

Here Be Monsters. But not really.

2008-05-23T03:29:00.001-04:00

This blog will contain all of the modestly sized abstract and experimental work that I've created over the years that I've felt were either too deviant from my current two-dimensional work to be posted anywhere else.

All work, unless mentioned otherwise, is created entirely in and make use of the various iterations of Adobe Photoshop, and is copyright to yours truly, Patrick Tsao.

Without further ado-