Photography: Concrete & Clues

Clue: "00110010"

It's been quite a while since I've added anything new to this blog but, in the meantime, I've created a collective photography/art challenge blog called Delightful Aberrations. Each week, new themes/tasks are set and anyone who wants to submit a response to them can do so. The main aim is to focus on getting your ideas flowing and to create images with those ideas, rather than to worry about how technically skilled or perfect the finish product is. Of course, that doesn't mean that no one will produce anything beautiful or interesting, it just wasn't what made me decide to made the blog in the first place. 

Clue: "00110011"

My offerings this week were rather last minute, as I only took them this morning, but it was still fun!

Anyway! That said, these are a few of the images I submitted for the themes of "concrete" and "clue". You'll be able to see the rest over at the other blog, along with any other submissions. :)

Concrete: "Red & Grey"

365 Days of Art: Summer

171. Summer

This is "Summer", which is number 171 on my 365 Days of Art list. I posted "Winter" in my last entry and "Spring" & "Autumn" will be coming soon as well.

365 Days of Art: Winter

173. Winter

This is number 173 from the 365 Day of Art list I'm making my way through. I've drawn this character (Rybka) before and previously included her in this post. This time, she's taken on the guise of Winter and is staring backwards over the year that's passed.

365 Days of Art: Doodle

26. Doodle

In the previous entry I mentioned that I had intended to do the 365 Days of Art "Doodle" piece, but ended up with a different one instead. So now, here is the ridiculous little page of doodles I did!

365 Day of Art: Gas Mask

351. Gas Mask

This is another 365 Days of Art picture; this time it's theme number 351, "Gas Mask". I haven't been able to use the computer for more than around 15 minutes recently, so I've gone back to using charcoal/chalk and graphite instead of digital art. 

Originally this picture was going to be the "Doodle" image, but I got carried away, ended up spending 20 minutes on it, so it doesn't really look like a doodle anymore...maybe. Haha. Excuse the bad photo, but I didn't feel like scanning it.

365 Days of Art: Slime

80. Slime

This is number 80, Slime, in the 365 Days of Art challenge and it's a couple of months old, but I'd been putting off finishing it for a while. Yesterday morning I completed though, thankfully! 

Slime is the name of the being in the middle; they are a parasite/symbiote. They take in the nutrients through a parasitic relationship with humanoid beings. There is a lure/decoy is on their back and this can be completely hidden beneath the skin and disguised as clothing. There is a "slime monster" (sometimes known as Slime spawn) to the right, which functions as their external digestive system, is actually a collection of symbiotic organisms. These organisms are provided with nutrients from Slime's parasitic activities and in exchange, they process these biological food and liquid sources. The resulting waste products become from these processes are edible to Slime, which they can then consume. 

With regards to life cycle, Slime lives for an average of twenty to forty years, dependant on the amount of  Slime available and the atmospheric conditions. Slime prefers to reside in temperatures between 0 to 12 degrees centigrade, but can exist comfortably between -5 to 15 degrees centigrade. Slime has no sex and, although they have the capability to reproduce through asexual reproduction, they will only do so if they are nearing the end of their life cycle. This means that only one Slime exists at any one time. 

If Slime's life cycle's ends without having produced a clone offspring, some of the cells of the deceased Slime will remain alive, encased within slime spawn in a dormant state, until optimal environmental conditions return around them. Once this happens, they will then begin to feed on the nutrients from the slime spawn and grow at an accelerated rate.

I may draw a better picture of Slime at some point, because this is a really bad one. I'd just had enough of it already and needed to let go of this for now!

365 Days of Art: Create a new species of animal

006. Create a new species of animal.

This is a strange little creature I drew/painted (and tidied up slightly in Photoshop) for the 365 Days of Art challenge, this time for number 6: "Create a new species of animal". This is the Flying Long-tongued Lizard Catcher, an amphibious creature that swims when in the water, walks on two legs when on land, and uses its wings to either fly through the air or to propel itself through the water.

It predominantly eats small lizards, fish, and large insects. When on land, it catches its prey by swooping down from the air and using sticky secretions on its legs to trap them. When in the water, it flattens the bulk of its body against the sea bed and buries itself under the sand, It then uses the lure on its head to draw fish towards it before grabbing them with its long tongue.

365 Days of Art: A musician

180. A musician

Today brings another picture for the 365 Days of Art challenge! Originally, this picture wasn't going to be for the "challenge", as my initial intention was just to draw it as a surprise for my wonderful friend Rina (she blogs over at Kreativ - take a look! :D). However, since it's a picture of her favourite musician, Közi (solo, ZIZ / XA-VAT / Eve of Destiny / MALICE MIZER etc.), I decided to include it here as well!

365 Days of Art: I don't know you...

205. I don't know you...

This is the latest picture for the 365 Days of Art challenge, number 205: "I don't know you...". I started it quite a while ago, but forgot about it for months. Today, I finally got around to finishing it!

365 Days of Art: An Original Character (with Back Story)

109. An original character (Zaichik)

Well, well, well, another 365 Days of Art entry! I had intended to post this one ages ago but didn't get around to it until now (I finished it back in June/July).

This time it's number 109: An Original Character (with Back Story). There's actually several drawings for him (and one of his sister too, who I've also included in the backstory) because I'm trying to make a short 3D animation at the moment, with the help of a friend of mine, and both he and his sister are in it. This character's name is Zaichik and I made him up around 4 years ago (though I'd never drawn him until this year). The rest may get a little long, so everything else is below, after the cut. Apologies if this becomes rambling and overly detailed...