After winning the chess piece challenge, I was given the honor of picking the next week’s topic. I was sketching exploded views for my freelance work and decided it would be an appropriate topic. This gave me an excuse to take apart an old remote I had lying around and sketch it. It was an interesting challenge that brought back memories of viscom from my days at CIA. Once again, I really enjoyed trying to create a clean sketch with pen and markers.
Sketchwars chess pieces
A few weeks ago one of the challenges for Sketchwars was to draw chess pieces. I submitted two entries. A digital knight sketch and a good old fashioned ideation page.
Gundam Gouf HG model
I was very pleased with how the Epyon model turned out. It was a very great experience from start to final detailing. For Christmas this year, I decided to get myself a Gundam Gouf. It made an appearance in the original Gundam series, and then another appearance in “The 08th MS Team”. Heres a link to see it in action.
The design of this Gouf is much more utilitarian and brutal than the Epyon. From a modeling perspective, this Gouf has a lot of potential in material depiction and wear. I loved depicting worn paint and gunmetal.
After making this model, I now want to make a Zaku with a camoflauge paint scheme. It’ll have to wait for later.
Weathering the Epyon model
After assembling the Epyon model, it didn’t look complete. Typically Gundam models are finished by inking in parting lines and adding decals. After I proceeded with that step, it still didn’t look complete.
I stumbled upon some youtube tutorials on weathering Gundam models. I tried some of those techniques on smaller parts and was very satisfied. I moved onto bigger parts, and then spent a few hours drybrushing to get the effect that I wanted. I wanted to indicate maroon and dark grey paint being worn out from use.
I was very satisfied with the results. This motivated me to work on another model.
Gundam Epyon HG model
With things slowing down, I have a little more time on my hands. I decided to catch up on things that I’ve been putting off. One of those things is a Gundam HG Epyon model. I bought this around 7-8 years ago at an anime convention in San Diego. Its traveled with me and been taking up space. A couple months ago, I decided to finally work on it.
It brought back many memories watching anime in my early 20s. I used to collect the 1/144 models from Gundam Wing. I rewatched some of those episodes now, and they were ridiculous! The series was very dry, but there were some great giant robots in that series.
