http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:MurkiShade&section=today deviantART RSS for by:MurkiShade en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:48:51 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/19278844/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/19278844/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:57:18 PDT [link]

I wish I had some paper. But even than I wish I had a scanner that worked. Oh because I have ideas. I even fell like story telling. I want to make a comic, one with plot and a bit of humor. But although I'm prepared emotionally and mentally, I don't have the opportunity or the resources. It's funny how things always work out that way.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/19038583/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/19038583/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:31:25 PDT No.

not really at all. it's more like I'm BSing you and I'm really staying at the home of people I don't really know and sleeping in the room that belongs to there son that's away at college. And I still feel like it's the creepiest and weirdest thing ever. It is not my room or place to sleep it's some one else's space and there posters of Green Day are still up on the wall... and I don't even like Green Day. It's like I'm invading someones space and they don't even know it. I don't know the guy at all... I can't even remember his name right now. I just know that if he knew I had been there for a few days he'd freak out though.

... so anyway. I was supposed to be writing about the pixel art I've been working on. Funny that I spend more and more time shredding paper. It's what they have me do in the office... isn't that an interesting coincidence? My pixel junk is okay. Not bad I suppose, but I'd be happier with hand done work. Pixels are fun for a while... but I just can't get past the whole I have better work I just can't share it crap. I feel like my hand drawn work is just simply better. I'm under a lot of stress with everything... sorry about the whole thing. What can I say...

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18601277/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18601277/ Sat, 31 May 2008 22:18:58 PDT
Did I get your attention? good. My scanner is broken and I've been distracted by other things anyway. So i might not be submitting much lately... wait... I'll rephrase that. I wont be submitting ANYTHING any time in the neat future. Got work to do. Got an ALBUM to work on. Got some great plans involving music and mayhem and what-have-you. so be on the look out for it. It's gonna be AWESOME. And I don't use that word lightly... except for all those other times that I did. But they don't count. Becuase this times for real.

But I'll see what I can draw up. Keep the pencles on the paper and the photoshop programs running. Alright I've already wasted more than enough time on this dribble. I'm off. Look for Never Hundred under myspace or vampire freaks or newgrounds ... maybe download.com ... I don't know.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18366443/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18366443/ Sat, 17 May 2008 11:57:23 PDT
So here we go we have a head on top the body, the head and neck are very nearly the same thing. And the neck rest on the shoulders which are on the same line as were the arms begin. So you can divide the arm into to parts the arm and the forearm. the division is made at the elbow which rests in the same level as the lowest rib in the rib cage.

But the thing that gets most people confused the the tip of the appendage the hand. Even I'm not really great at the whole hand drawing crap... but I know the science. Pretty much you have the wrist where the arm ends and the hand begins. It's a swiveling joint, that eternally is a set of small short bones called caples that are placed togather to create a malleable hinge. It connects to the palm of the hand. Only primates have hands, the palm of the hand is internally complicated with many tendons and muscles. These tendons control the fingers and thumbs. The palm is pretty much there is fit in these important strings. but than the hand externally and proportionally is what we care about.

First I'll start with the thumb, shorter and stouter than the other four digits. It begins much lower in the palm that the rest, and is about the length of the pinky, but ends around where the index finger begins. it only bends twice while the other four fingers can bend three times. It's purpose is to help us grasp material things... those aren't ideas or quantum physics.

The rest pretty much begin where the palm ends, digit ratio begins at the first crease or bend. The longest is the middle finger. The index and ring are about the same size... some might argue the the ring finger is a tiny bit longer... but that's not enough to count. The pinky is the shortest of the fingers, ending roughly at the final crease in the ring finger.

So that wasn't much help. You could have just looked at your hand. Well... um... keep in mind that the thumb is not a finger, it moves differently and is placed out of the side of the hand. the index tends to move more nimbly than the other three fingers, it's often separate from them... that of course is not a rule. The knuckles are where the fingers begin and should be thought of as part of the fingers more than part of the palm. Just keep in mind what a hand would look like without any flesh on it and you're of to a good start.

The skeleton is the foundation of the shape of the human body, you just add to that to make a picture of a person. There are rules... and I should probably start following them.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18035206/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18035206/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:37:24 PDT
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So I had this Protoss druggie. He looks like he could be living on a Terran settlement by his clothing and the background perhaps. I don't know. I love how the character came to life after I drew him, putting little thought into who he was and why... just a protoss using sundrop. Than the apartment unfolded, I decided the walls were a little bare so I put up some posters. Put a coach and a door.

So I thought that Sundrop was applied to the skin and sort of evaporated when it came in contact with air. So that's how I drew it. So he's no on fire, it's just the vapors wafting from his skin. Also they're drifting out of the empty jars, and there are puddles on the floor of the spilt concoction.

So I was thinking, is he a templar, if so is he a high templar or a dark templar. Given the nature of the drug the effect would be much moSo obviously he is a high templar. Becuase he is high... lolz. but seriously the posters on his walls say things like, "For Auir" the homeworld of the high templar and "En Taro Tassadar" the executer and leader of the templar. Another clue that it's a Terran settlement becuase I don't think protoss would has a picture of Tassadar's death... although the Tarrens have pictures of there martyr being hung on a cross.

So that's that picture. The other is of some floating imp-like specters. But they sort of have lithe figures like protoss and no mouths. They weren't supposed to be a Starcraft reference. But along with the protoss using an hallucinatory drug... one that is known to cause fear and bad feelings for High Templar. For Dark Templar they feel better. I could explain why, but you wouldn't care.

So The second drawing could be an expansion of the first. Or I don't care... Becuase It doesn't matter.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18027708/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18027708/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:48:15 PDT
Was going to do a contest thing but never got around to it. Lot's to do this week. Almost switch from savings to checking. Things to do. I have to get my music out there, exposure.

So what do I need... um... artists. I know I draw but I'm going to need more for my album and also for the sites I'm been building all across the freakin internet. I can put links if you want... but they are all the same. The strategy is that if there are enough sites eventually someone will accidentally stumble upon one.

Here are a few

[link] He come to town,
Come to save the Princess Zelda,
Gannon put her away,
Now the children don't play,
But they will when link saves the day
Hallelujah!

Now [link]
Fill up your hearts,
So you can shoot your sword with power,
And when you're feeling all down,
The fairy will come around,
So you'll be brave,
And not a sissy coward,

Now [link] has saved the day,
Put Gannon in his grave,
So now Zelda is free,
And now our hero shall be,
Link, I think your name
shall go down into history!

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18018508/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/18018508/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:03:16 PDT
"What's up man?"

"..."

"um... hello? what's up?"

"... I ... I don't know... no one's ever asked me that before."

And than he stood there for three days contemplating the question.

So yeah, I'm no artist. I'm a musician, and generally people don't like musicians. Sure they may like there music, but they don't like them as people. This may be because musician, like most performers are jerks... only they're they worst out of all the preforming arts. I mean this is no rule, there are plenty of nice musicians, but even so, people expect a musician to be egotistical, immature, ignorent, lacking any REAL talent... and yeah... sure for the most part we are.

For instance I'm saying all this just to end this journal entry with a bunch of links and demands that you listen to my music. Only you don't care and you wont. And you wont instantly think this but in the back of your mind you'll say, "what the crap, why does he have to shove his product in my face. He's being a jerk." and that's okay... becuase I am. And I know it.

But you are lucky today, I still have work to do on many a website before they are prepared for links. All I have is my myspace account.
[link]

Nothing special... or is it?

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/17962859/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/17962859/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:25:37 PDT
So is it now time for me to upload? I'd say yes. Let's go do that, shall we? I've had these pictures for a while, but I have had the chance to scan them. But now I do. And what do I have planned. Pictures of people thing places... mostly people becuase I'm bad at drawing at places and things But I don't let my lake of style, skill or determination deter me.

So I'm, uploading what else should I say? I'm working on an album... yeah... I bet you didn't know that. It's probably going to suck like everything else I do... but that's okay. It will be an improvement. My first album... I'm pretending the last one never existed.

Nothing else about me or my life is important so I'm done with this entry. Yup uploading and recording after a day of cleaning up the yard and listening to music.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/17554845/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/17554845/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:56:51 PDT
Sometimes I'll just draw an ominous or macabre looking fellow. But setting. I don't know. someplace. The setting is the empty void that is my head... maybe it wouldn't be so empty had I paid attention in clase instead of drawing crap.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/17469835/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/17469835/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:01:11 PDT
Thing is I forgot the paper with the picture I drew on it. So... um... I quickly drew some other people and posted them up instead. But maybe I'll post up the colored picture later, maybe even this evening or afternoon if all goes according to plan. or it's super top secret... it's so secret even I don't know what it is yet!

Lame as ever... but yeah... I think you get the idea, just you're traditional loserface. I can't even remember what I was going to write this entry about... becuase there was something else.

I just can't remember the other thing... so it must not be important. oh! wait it's on the tip of my brain, oh yeah, fire, I'm combusting as I write this. Dur! How could I have forgotten that.
but not really.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/16653866/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/16653866/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:58:20 PST
Well it's been ages since I have logged in and posted an entry, let alone put up any artsuffs. I really should get more arting done. And if you don't like that grammar work, I shoot you with my mind bullets. and you'll be like Neo, and you'll say "Shit!" under you're breath and I'll be like Morpheus, "hmmm, yes!" ...

I'm too old, I bet you have never seen the matrix. OH you have? Have you seen it nine times? HA! Didn't think so. Mind bullets!

Gah! It's morning and sunlight is seeping in threough the window. It burns my face. I have to retreat to the realms of death and fog, to my homeland, the infernal land of shadows, darkness, evil bunnies and the like.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/14666601/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/14666601/ Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:45:05 PDT
Music. Yup, MUSIC! That's what I'm going back to. Should a release a another album? Did you know I even know I had an album out? Yeah that's right. I don't like to brag, not because I'm modest, just because it's god awful. Horrible album, my newer stuff is much better. kind of electronic, rock mixed all together, mostly programed, sliced and mixed. It's called Never Hundred.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/14486776/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/14486776/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:23:17 PDT
nothing.

I am bored. Really Really Really Really Really... bored. Seriously.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/13767365/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/13767365/ Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:21:27 PDT
You want job? you get job. punch ticket.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/13496881/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/13496881/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:57:57 PDT
New updates, chexck them out or suffer my nonexistant wrath... Bo-argh! grr. murfle?

Yes. Yes, I'm aware that I am completely out of my mind, thanks for noticing. Have a nice day. I'm done.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/13285673/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/13285673/ Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:16:06 PDT
I had everything all together too, I had all these drawings, lame as they were... ready. And it was going to be rock-awesome, and I was going to be the cool new kid on deviant art and everyone was going to think I was the best... but it never works out that way does it.

I'm just going to go cry about it right now.

okay... I'm done.

]]> ~MurkiShade http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/13264090/ http://MurkiShade.deviantart.com/journal/13264090/ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:45:57 PDT
So this is deviant art... it's great.

...

fantastic.
yup.

I only have one art up. and it's not really real... art... just there so that there is something. I used paint, and that's not the medium I'd want to use... I'll try to get up some real drawings or something like that.

In fact... I'll go draw some right now.

]]> ~MurkiShade