two things I learned from jetskiing for 6 hours on monday

One: unless you want to get thrown off trying to stay on, lean into your turns...

and Two: unless you want to turn into a lobster put on a pound and a half of sunscreen!

My feet are still swelling from going from white to beet two days afterward...

district 9 is an awesome movie very complex with a great focus on the main character's character above all else...(I was rather impressed by his freindly exterior but harder underlying personality, slightly creepy too)special effects of course were very well done especially for the way it was shot... wish they could of done something a bit better with the ending though...kind of inconclusive... the whole thing raises interesting questions not really about racism but about how everything changes when something alien is introduced... especially something that is a burden and even potentially dangerous... it gives a whole new aspect to it as a good movie should...  

It's the dog days of august....

And I haven't even gotten in a pool this year... that has to be a bad sign...

Un-Lock

unlocked by ~freakdearts on deviantART

it's about time! been sitting on this for almost a month now. It's just the first page of my fourth peice in the XN... I don't really like the second so I'm not gonna post it

This was super rushed I only had like a week to finish it all because of the wacom contest... and yet I still obsessed over the colors...

stupid comic sans...

contests... contests...

you all know I do need money for the FDTP and since it worked so well LAST time... I entered another DA contest with a large some of money for a prize... along with a WACOM 4 tablet... at least that was the first one... yes I have no idea why I did it but I didn't win this one either (of course) not even semi finalist but I do like the entry immensely... some of my finest romantic work imo...

The Idea was to create a poster for the film "paper heart" which answered the question: what does love mean to me...


And Love by ~freakdearts on deviantART

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay, love isn't love til you give it away...

this was so much fun to do I think I actually learned something from it... that my art just needs a bit more definition...because it just looks so much better with a big ass art neauvou outline!

oh, and I used[link] from

EDIT: changed the words to hopefully read clearer...


oh and umm yes the second contest I entered was one celebrating the sites ninth birthday... as I write this, the winners have not been decided so I'm not saying anything about that yet... But I will say that it was a challenge because we were given a template of random overlapping lines and shapes which was to be colored in with a paint bucket tool... in an infinite number of combinations... I played around with it filling stuff in with black at random till I came up with their mascot Fella...[link] and the little speach beneath it...but I think it might be interesting to note that I did find a crouching ninja as well, but that was not to be... anyway, wish me luck!



PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTA- by ~freakdearts on deviantART
Going with a more PARTAY theme with this one...


and HEEERE'S FELLA by ~freakdearts on deviantART


Happy Birthday DA!!!

As much as I may try to hide it I am a deviant... despite how begrudgingly I admit that I am a member of that site I cannot deny that I have gained a great deal from it's vast and sometimes embarrassing bulk... I've learned practically everything I know about digital art from the tutorials there and much of the inspiration and influence of my style has come from it too... I don't think I would be the artist I am today with out it... and so what better way to spend her 9th birthday than by showing my love and loyalty with an adapted portrait of their illustrious mascot FELLA?!!

kind of gives a new dimension to the term of cel shading

cheers mates!

(LOOOPY FIST!!!)

-The Revig

what is up?

The opposite of down?

sorry for the lack of updates... I seem to have gotten lost on the path of life...

well, it seems like I've finally gone out and found myself another anime to watch... Naruto, BELIEVE IT!!!

although it was a little difficult to get into at first I have to say that I'm really seeing why it's so popular... it's totally hilarious and awesome and thoroughly enthralling... what I really like about it is that it's so focused on character... you can really see the way that each character grows and progresses throughout, it's not just about the action although that's incredibly cool, but it's about the problems and challenges that each person faces and how they overcome them...you are there with them sharing their experiences and emotions, it gets you involved...and the comedy is just so foolish it's priceless... like seriously I laughed myself to tears this one episode,but I think that it's mostly based on the relationships between different characters and how they interact and react, plus the characters themselves are pretty humorous too...

the only problem that I think I have with it is the pacing... it takes forever to finish a story line... like seriously a single fight could take three whole episodes... that's an hour! I can quite literally watch it and work on something in the next window, because it's usually a monologue or flashback or just changing viewpoints... but I guess that's what makes it so easy to watch and so addicting it always keeps you guessing... like seriously there will be this huge important long sequence and poof! jutsu smoke and then end of the episode and you're just like... WHA...

sigh looks like I've also found another game to sap my time with... this one an nifty little rpg, one which I discovered while I was in mexico at the fresh age of 12... and I just found out that it's one of the earliest ones made by square enix(or squaresoft back then) no wonder I was so drawn to it. I Wonder how long it will last this time...

I think I'm coming down with an aircon cold... but I will try to post my recent artistic capers tomorrow at least...

cheers!


-The Revig

The Glitch playlist system tutorial

It has come to my attention that the playlist system on The Glitch is sorely lacking in the area of explanation... I've managed to figure it out... after much deliberation and frustration, so as to save you all the trouble I will post this short and hopefully simple tutorial on it...


It's actually quite simple... once you find the song you want click the + symbol in the corner up there(you may notice that "add 2 mystation" will flash next to "rate this song") then click on "my stations" and in the pop up window, type in the name of your new station in the type box under the middle panel then click "new" to create your new station. Select that and click on your song in the left panel and click "add to playlist"; from there it's pretty self explanatory... your new station will show up on the station list with the defaults to be used for whatever you wish!

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-The Revig

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music leave me breatheless and bare...

LuLu-Revamped

Lulu--Revamped by ~freakdearts on deviantART

Lulu from FFx-2 in real clothes(finally)

this is an illustration-fanart for my girlfriends fan fic "Love in Pain" I know you're used to seeing her in her traditional costume but... since the story is in a modern highschool setting(don't look at ME) I was requested to redo the costumes though still paying homage to the originals... after all would you go to school in something like that?

I don't think the pants work too well with the rest of the outfit now that I look at it... maybe leggings would have been a better choice...

lulu (c) square enix...and tetsuya nomura

Baralai-revamped

Baralai--Revamped by ~freakdearts on deviantART

Baralai from FFx-2 in real clothes

his style was requested to be "ghetto"(fail) with stoner eyes which I don't think I did too well... of course by the time I that I finally got around to finishing this the paper that was under them was pretty mucked up...finding the refs for him was hard enough... onion head!

many thanks to this:[link] by ~Baralai-Lovers

Baralai(c) to sqaure enix... and tetsuya nomura

On the team

On The Team by ~freakdearts on deviantART

my third piece in the XN! finally I can post it...

In sports I don't really think that any one position is more important than the other all are just as needed...after all, where would a striker be without his midfield? (myself, I'm more of a support player) I really wanted to show that everyone on the team is a winner regardless of whether or not they shot the last goal

I could of done a different sport since soccer wasn't exactly specified, I even seriously considered american foot ball, but I chose this one because its international, team intense, and also one of my favorites to play... not to mention it's not every day that you get to draw a bicycle kick... (even if it is slightly incorrect) the action shots were rather a challenge to keep coherent as well...

the trophy is the final one they went with... not exactly my favorite but it's clearer... although it's a trophy, isn't it all supposed to be symbolic? or at least impressionistic

I rather liked working in greyscale... don't have to worry about color and you can focus more on shade and light... although it does look a little boring... sigh

drawn on half a sketchbook page then inked and shaded in photoshop

Elements--Air

finally it is finished! I'm sorry for letting it take so long...


Elementals--Air by ~freakdearts on deviantART

finally this series is up... it's taken me through many different stages of my art and I've learned alot through it, light and shade shape and line... but I think this one is my favorite... of course I am an air sign so I ended with it so it would be the best... I'm really happy with the way it came out and the ease that it was accomplished with.

there were certain things that I wanted to keep consistent throughout this series... one was the size and portion of the faces, another including the hands of each element in the picture so as to give it a certain interest, another was their eyes, I used the same basic technique on them throughout, and their facepaint... the guys on their cheeks and the girls on their eyes... oh and the borders with their little graphics...I did these so as to make them all similar and connected despite the progression of my skills of my skills... so that they would at least look related... still I might redo this eventually... especially the fire one i cringe when I see it still

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Water:[link]

Earth:[link]

Fire:[link]



-The Revig

memage

its time for... FAMILY FUN!!! (dududududadadadaadududaduuuuh!)

no really I want to know more about whoever it is that reads my blog... I know you do... all those hits down at my clustrmap aren't me checking to see if I have any hits... so yeah:

this is a little something from deviant art that I got from mikou if you want to know what it means by watch it means that you basically follow someone... as in you get updates whenever they post new art... sometimes it's rather annoying really...

"YOU WATCH ME. I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. Let me know with whom I'm friends with!"

1. Your Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Film:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. boxers or briefs?:
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favourite memory of us?
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?
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you don't really have to do this if you seriously don't want to... but I'm just slightly curious...

Have fun !

-The Revig

tryptich

triptych by ~freakdearts on deviantART

portraits of my characters that I drew in the front of my little sketch book as a sort of conversation piece and opener... I wanted to get a sort of engraving look with the two toned backround... but I think I failed with the high contrast highlights... ah well...they're pretty...

chap on the left's name is Hale starherder. Half elf from my book which is indefinitely on hold... research purposes... what's he's holding in his hands and staring at (if you can tell) is a very special crystal the properties and purpose of which I will not discuss here... the little creature on the statuary is a physige a cat sized gryphon thing... although mostly cat...

chap in the middle's name is Magelyke... but just mage for short... he's a half dragon experiment gone somewhat wrong in the head...ptsd in the end... but lets just say that he's amnesic and already hates himself... I use him as a sort of channel for all my negative energies... for those times when I'm feeling particularly down or emotional...

And the fellow on the right there is Zane simply... he's the main soloist in my music comic 'The Room' that is in the works... hopefully not pipeworks... he was the first I did in this series for no apparent reason... he's a bit of an escape artist if that gives any hints...

I really like the little monogram graphic that I cooked up... it's my initials: Ben Revig... or at least my pen name's

Waiting Bear for Mikka

Waiting Bear-- For Mikka by ~freakdearts on deviantART

white sails are born on the wind...

my little fantasy bear for Mikka...[link] journey on warrior teddy...

Done with cheap colored pencils to see if I could actually do something with them... the paper is just in my sketch book, rather curled now... oh and I used a bit of detailz facepaint for the foam and highlights... probably won't stay that way...



why can't I do anything simple?

Miscellaneous Art Dump

before we start this exposition there's something important that needs to be said...

my niece Gabrielle is back! AAUGGHH!!!

well it's actually not that bad... I've only got her for the morning until three and then joy has her for the rest of the day... still she does have a nice tendency to get in one's hair! don't EXPECT pictures even if I say I'll post them if I can... :D

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First we start with a portrait of my dad

Gandalf with Glasses--My Dad by ~freakdearts on deviantART

this is a bit of an informal tribute/gift that I did for his sixtieth birthday last month... it was difficult because I knew that he would be a bit nervous about sitting for me and so I had to steal little snapshot sketches throughout the day and composite them into something like this...

I chose to portray him as a sort of Gandalf, because he is a great lover of the books and because my first introduction to them (beyond the movies) was when he would read them to us before we went to bed... I remember that I would almost always fall asleep to his low droning voice and so it was only appropriate that I did something like this... also I kind of liek to think of him in that way and I'm sure he sort of does to...

no his beard is not that long in fact he doesn't have much of a beard at all and I know that gandalf doesn't wear glasses but my dad wouldn't be my dad without them and neither would gandalf be himself with out his beard, so I think that justifies my splicing! beyond the fact that it is his sixtieth birthday!

still don't think I got the hat right... my mother said that he could work as either a pirate or santa claus... but I'm tired of fiddling with it and I need to give it to him...

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unlocked--xn teaser by ~freakdearts on deviantART

a teaser panel from my fourth piece of work for the xn this one consists of two pages, but I think I'll only post one cause I'm not too sure I like the other one...

this one was a pain... so many paths and details, I went too far on the chest... it wasn't easy to color in the time I had after the lineart was done... which was like a week... but I managed...

I especially like the little crystal up in the right corner and the ring in the left, though...

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Elementals--Air--WIP by ~freakdearts on deviantART

quite a likable fellow really...

well I figured I should break the suspense on the development of this one... I have not been able to work on it in a while due to various other constraints on my time and attention but such as it is here is a preview of it... I may take it up again with the break but my bear needs completion before the twentieth... colored pencils are nice...

it's still quite messy and irregular but were getting there...

what I like about this type of shading is that you don't have to worry about gradients you can just block it in and that's final! no more mucking about with the eye dropper tool and opacity... maybe I should do my comics like this...

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Nathalie called me on saturday for my birthday... we couldn't really talk for long cause I had to head out to do a spiderman party, but it was nice to know I am loved... I really have to write that woman there is much we have to talk about...


I hate chemistry! and here I was thinking I was done with math!!!


-The Revig

Annual Musings.... no. 18 to be precise

It is with slight reluctance and regret that I stand on the threshold of my adulthood(in other words I'm turning eighteen, and I'm not so sure if it's such a great career move)

regret not really because my years of sentient adolescence were bad, but that they weren't... better. Doubtless I have learned everything I must from them and I do not begrudge that, but they most certainly could of been I am sure. Certainly more eventful and less tedious and with a bit more adventure in them (perhaps concerning a parallel world) than that of simply getting daily out of bed. But being the time stamping being I am I can not do anything about it nor change the fact that they were just normal years... well lived though they may have seemed at the time...

Reluctance one could say because I don't really think that it's a good idea to go about thrusting myself upon society at large, nor does prying myself from the cushioned stupor of adolescence look very gratifying either. But life as we all (should) know doesn't care about what I think(nor any one else for that matter) and I'm sure eventually I will be able to accept the fact that it plods along like a great clockwork elephant. and I will be dragged through the last second of the tenth of june(or have been by the time you're reading this) and will most exasperatingly be eighteen

sad... but true...

Still there is a sort of thrill to be found sitting on the precipice dangling my toes(or having dropt off of it) the future and all it's dim possiblilties stretching out before me like a sheet of endless paper... Lord knows That I am good with paper...
Still I rather like sitting here with the future, almost expectant, not quite because that would only spoil the small peace to be found in it( or lost really depending on when you're reading this)

so much blank space... So much Silence to break... The future is so nice bright and clean... what will we do with it?

So, I'll slit my gills and face full stream
Lest I be found to dance with the jellyfish queen...

-The Revig

Because you shouldn't fence at night...

or you're gonna hurt the gymnasts




Anyway enjoy my mindless video spamming... but I stumbled apon this jewel and I couldn't help but post it for its... ultimate cringe factor!

And really why do they play football inside? I've always wondered...

enjoy!

(spin around ninjas...)

-The Revig

paintballed

the brief:

I got shot a total of 7 times although four of them were in a single game and hit two people for all my trouble... although I think that all the times I kept someone under cover could be counted as assists... not too bad a beating this time: only two major welts the size of quarters as compared to last time's four... I think that I might have done better if I had been a bit bolder and daring... pretty much the way I survive is a considerable amount of talent at keeping my head down... of course this limits my offensive abilities and lets the other person shoot his own terms so to speak... I think that next time I won't so worried about saving my own neck and in sted be worried about cutting the other guy's, or something to that effect...

I like to anime run!

-the Revig

choices final

heheh I crammed in like hell last night to submit it perfectly in time...


choices by ~freakdearts on deviantART

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we each hold a nature of good and a nature of evil within ourselves... they each influence our way of thinking, of seeing, of acting... we may hear them both but the only thing that matters is which we listen to... for it holds our doom...

I used this more symmetrical format in order to stress the fact that we are each a free moral agent and that each side-so to speak-is striving to get our attention in order to influence our lives and choices, not because one is better than the other necessarily... the sword and circle above symbolizes doom as in fate (not necessarily death) and eternity as it is usually the smallest choices that have the farthest reaching repercussions which we cannot change...
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I hated this piece while painting it...I just couldn't see it forming right, and seriously wished that I had chosen something less complex... I was quite stressed about it...but then I stopped worrying and started trusting god... about the picture, about the whole contest... I prayed and then it just clicked... and why not? after all he was the one who gave me the inspiration in the first place... so isn't it only right that he finish what he started? sometime during the auras it happened and I had the peace that the image was coming together and it would all work out fine... and it did... I don't really care too much if I win or not(okay, well maybe a little bit) but what was important to me beyond the act of creation... was the way that heaven came through for me when I needed it, and that is something that I will never forget... and may be worth more than any prize...

XN teaser

allow me to whet your appetite with this


The Final Goal by ~freakdearts on deviantART

this is a teaser for my third piece in the XN mag... the theme of the page is teamwork... and this final triumphant shot is to show that everyone on the team is a winner regardless of whether or not they shot the last goal because hey where would a striker be without his midfield?

this won't be the final one, since it too cluttered and not "clear" (it's a trophy obviously what more or less should there be?) but I liked it with all the flowey lines on it... there's always something that i need to change when I work with these people...

the contest piece!

My apologies with my recent lack of updates I have been... detained by other diversions. Maybe this time I can follow through and actually post something of merit, but for the time being please accept these fruits of my absence


choices--pencils by ~freakdearts on deviantART


choices--inks by ~freakdearts on deviantART

we each hold a nature of good and a nature of evil within ourselves... they each influence our way of thinking, of seeing, of acting... we may hear them both but the only thing that matters is which we listen to... for it holds our doom...

I used this more symmetrical format in order to stress the fact that we are each a free moral agent and that each side-so to speak-is striving to get our attention in order to influence our lives and choices, not because one is better than the other necessarily... the sword above symbolizes doom as in fate (not necessarily death) as it is usually the smallest choices that have the farthest reaching repercussions...

only one week left! perhaps I'll just have to forgo the promised newsflash... or perhaps not

HOOOOLd that thooought...


-The Revig