Spider

 I drew this with Alchemy, a free open-source program that uses vector graphics and an arsenal of awesome tools.  It also has no undo-button. :D It does, however, have a setting that will automatically save for you, so you never have to worry about loosing the original copy of something and can look at how the work progressed through the drawing process. The first of these two pictures is the first save file; I scribbled it in around two minutes, and from there produced the second image in something close to half an hour. Alchemy never fails to amaze me at the speed I am able to make something in, even if it comes out looking sloppy; however, that is the point of the program, as it's designed to make concept art, and thus the work isn't really supposed to look extremely polished.

Concept

Zelda

      I'm not sure how many of you remember my Zelda drawings on my last blog, but here's another I drew. It's Zelda from the Skyward Sword. :D Looking at it now, I see how much I messed it up, but that's what I get for only spending 5-6 hours on it. (Plus I pressed too hard with my pencil so I couldn't erase.) :D
      Once again, I'm blaming my scanner for the weird contrast and lighting. :D

Figure Test

I sketched the first one late one night, and then I drew the second one over a long-ish period of time. Somehow they turned out to look kinda different, LOL. :D (I'll probably post these with higher contrast sometime later to define the lines more. My scanner made the second look rather gray and the first a little too sharp. LOL. Whatever.)

Lent

Greetings to all my non-existent fans!

I'm giving up computer for lent and so from Ash Wednesday (Feb. 22) until Easter Sunday (April 8) I will only be able to post once a week: Sundays, and even then I may not post, so don't expect to hear much from me for a while!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you all have a good Lent!

Best Regards,

James Declan Hench

My Old Blog's Logo

     I'm still working on a logo for my fictitious company. Here is my first draft.
     Just thought I would throw this up here. Enjoy! ;D

     --Todd

Leaves

It is February.

        The snow

               Melts

And the dry

       August leaves

              Blow

Aimlessly around

               Through the streets

                          and the grass.

   They wait

for the next of their

                     Kind

              To blossom

And take their place,

Never knowing

                When

             To give up.

The Last

The last of the worst

Is when the fire will thirst,

And when the sorrow will mercifully cry.

The beautiful burst

When the flowers are cursed

Is when the burrowing heroes will die.

Journal

              A girl

              writes

her own story.

             She adds

       the date

            to

       the page,

but it changes

              when

             she looks away.

Someone wishes

                to

              gain

     her attention.

             Thinking

              she made

a mistake,

           she erases,

   and rewrites

          the

         marker

      of the day.

        But

        it turns

          and

changes

        once again.

     No matter

     how hard

she tries,

             her pen

       will

    not

forget.

Glasses

My good friend James Hench suggested that I post these renders over here since originally I just had them on my other blog. Enjoy! :D