Ok, now it seems like all I’m doing lately is sketches.
It’s true, in a way.
Christ, sketching with the Cintiq is so easy. Have I already said I LOVE IT?
And this is the last time I mention it, enough with it.

Anyway.
I’m not doing just sketches. I’ve been practising sculpting on ZBrush as well. It’s going slowly, it seems like I’m not that fast at learning as I used to be. Which sucks, because I love sculpting too.
I mean, I still get things pretty quickly, it’s just that I forget them just as fast.
Gone are the days when I could read a book the day before an exam and get full(ish) marks.
Now I read the same thing an average of three times before it sticks to my brain.
And it doesn’t even stick like, I don’t know, damn I can’t even think of an example of something efficiently and permanently sticking to something else.
You see, once I was carrying a plate full of pasta to my seat, and I stumbled, and I threw it against the wall. The plate crashed, the pasta slid down the wall to the floor, leaving a nasty vertical red stain. That’s how things stick to my brain now, like a stain on the wall, which will eventually fade.
Too much partying in my twenties, I guess.
In ten years or so I’ll use technology with the same confidence of an old man trying to set up his new VCR.
Anyway, I’ll soon post some of the things I’ve struggled to sculpt, maybe. In the meantime, sketches.

I’m pretty happy about these, I’ll definitely turn them into finished paintings at some point. Apart from the one top right. I mean, that’s a sand dune.
(By the way, I was re-watching Dune while I drew these. It didn’t age well. Hell it didn’t)

The composition of the one top left needs some tweaks though. The diagonal leads away of the canvas too fast and I need to think of something vertical to break it. That’s why sketches are good. They take no time and it’s easy to fix the mistakes you find when you look back at them after a week or so.

The one at the centre-bottom might end up pretty. However, it’s just a shack, so if I can’t think of something to make it more interesting it will remain a sketch. Advice is welcome (really!).
The one underneath the dune is interesting, I don’t mind the spotlight on the city (assuming that’s what it is), so I think I’ll take that one further too.

The two futuristic cities bottom left and right might be my next sci-fi practice, we’ll see.
I’ve done enough sketches to have ideas ready for a while, hopefully next time I’ll post something more engaging:)

by Paolo Puggioni