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In a effort to be less lazy I present the next 7 days of attempting to finish a single piece a day to get ready for the next semester of school.

This isn't going to be a totally blind effort~ The guidelines for each will be:

Must have some emotional content and tell a story.
The final piece must be appropriately formatted for 30"+ printing
References must absolutely be used at all stages.
The style needs to remain realistic.
At least half these pieces need to have a male subject. (Look at my gallery to see why.)
Sketches must be done traditionally (this is to avoid a personal trap in my process)
Do not rush. Period. If it does not get completely done the day it is started, that's okay, there will be more time, the important part is that things were done.
A organized method needs to be taken in development and creation of each piece;
Write the idea down->Thumbnails->Rough sketch-> Refined Sketch correcting for anatomy, perspective and other weirdness->Rough paint over for lighting and color choices->Final paint over and refine until satisfied or time runs out (I pass out at like 11pm PST so that gets to be the default..)

You guys can totally join me on this or something, be less lazy.

Anyway my first piece is called and themed "Repose for a Nuclear Age." The idea is that a woman is draped across an old rusted out nuke propped up on an mount made of skulls and other bone bits in a waterlogged city of some sort, Lots of boxy things that piss me off.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME *BOOM*

SCEG the space craft exploration game is what I have been up to lately, it is a indie game project where you control a race and try to explore and conquer the galaxy. The world is entirely procedurally generated so every time you start a new game it will be a new experience.
If you want to learn more about the rather cool programing side of development head over to my bro's blog where he regularly updates with new info about his side of development and other fun things. ixineering.tumblr.com/ <-here!
Today I am going to show you guys some recent stuff on my end, two of the Jump Gates and some of the stuff made up to them.

The Jump Gates (JG) are intended as the largest scale transportation system in the game and the only practical way to travel between systems. They represent the pinnacle of development within any system due to the resource cost that comes with them. The two on the bottom of the image are respectively the JG for the sinister drone race (right) and the currently unnamed alien-raceB (Left) Thematicly speaking it is a basic representation of the attitudes of the respective races, where the drones are a sentient AI that build structure out of themselves and raw materials, freely combining and breaking apart as the situation needs, AlienB takes a precision look to their designs, born from their superior design at the cost of longer construction times due to its complexity. That's all I can tell you guys right now but depending on development going smoothly we will have an early Alpha-Release for testing in April!

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