The Coughing Dog

Old School

2009-01-07T03:06:00.000-05:00

Sometimes it's fun to dick around in MSPaint

More stuff

2008-06-20T00:47:00.011-05:00

I recently discovered the program Sketchbook Pro and have totally fallen in love with it. Give it a try.

Here's some caricatures I did from late night TV watching:

I really gotta move away from Pete Emslie's style. It's a bit hard when he's taught you everything you know about character design.

And sci fi sketches for some job related stuff:

Generic Space Marine guy. Shoulder decal look familliar to anyone?

More mechs. Yes I know.

My Iron Mans: Let me show you them

2008-06-09T19:22:00.007-05:00

So yeah I obviously really LOVED this movie, so I decided to do some artwork. Did this in photoshop and was going for a more realistic look (but not too realistic lest it became a mess of reflections)

Art

With Lineart

Lineart

Did some wallpapers too (I suck at doing backgrounds)

Wallpaper (1650x1050)

Wallpaper (1260x800)

Character Design

2008-05-03T01:59:00.003-05:00

I've been focusing on tuning my character designs lately. Doing a lot of cafe drawing too, will post those up later.

Digital Painting Thing

2008-03-29T01:04:00.001-05:00

Second year animation assignments

2008-03-24T18:29:00.005-05:00

Here are the animation assignments I did from this past year.

Wave/Motorboat/Flour Sack:

Weight Lift:

Walk & Run:

Expression Change:

Human Lip Sync:

Muzzle Lip Sync:

Mecha WIP

2008-03-03T01:32:00.008-05:00

It's been a LONG time since I posted, but I'm moving the blog soon so I'll save most of the updates til then.

Anyways, I'm starting to get the hang of Maya. This is a work in progress of a gundam I designed. I haven't learned how to rig yet, so this is just a complicated model that can't move, heh. The plan is to build a frame for it and then attach armor pieces and equipment.

MMO Icons

2007-05-27T02:17:00.000-05:00

Some ingame icons I did

Robuts!

2007-05-27T01:40:00.001-05:00

A commission I did. Very fun

Bored, did a sketch.

MMO interfaces

2007-05-27T01:35:00.001-05:00

Some interface work I did.

Game Make Stuff

2007-05-17T17:36:00.000-05:00

Logo and some artwork I did for an mmo.

Recent Doings

2007-05-13T00:59:00.000-05:00

Some recent stuff:

Master Copy - 1 hour - Gouache

This one has taken quite a long time since it's pretty big. Did it in graphite.

Paintings

2007-05-12T02:02:00.000-05:00

I haven't done much drawing lately since I'm trying to learn actionscript so I can code a Flash game. It's taking some time, but I really want to try to make a basic platformer. I'll get some more artwork done soon though.

Til then, here's some paintings from the school year.

Still life - 1.5 hours - Gouache

Master Copy (heh :P) - 2 hours - Gouache

Kitchen Layout - 2 hours - Watercolour

Scifi Theme (Day & Night) - 4 hours - Gouache

Still Life Study - 40 minutes - Gouache

Slow week

2007-05-10T22:35:00.001-05:00

Pretty dull week.

Some Links I did for a project.

First Year Demo Reel

2007-05-01T22:40:00.000-05:00

Enough slacking off, it's time to do some actual work. But first here's my first year demo reel, set to Earth Wind and Fire's September, a glorious song I gleamed from Elite Beat Agents for the DS. Go play that game, or else you have no soul.

Figure Paintings

2007-05-01T20:26:00.000-05:00

My first attempt at figure painting. Most of these are 5-10 minutes. They were done with gouache. Sorry about the shitty quality, I'll get a new scanner soon.

Flour Sack

2007-04-21T15:51:00.000-05:00

So here's the final animation project of the year, the flour sack animation. My theme was modern art so I went a little nuts with it.

The Fancy-Pants Chronicles

2007-04-16T00:55:00.000-05:00

So I'm making my demo reel right now. This is the cover I have so far:

I haven't finalized the fonts yet, and I'm debating on whether to change it to "prologue" instead of chronicles. Any input would be much appreciated.

Layout

2007-04-14T12:56:00.000-05:00

Layout Project with two vehicles.

Bones

2007-04-14T12:43:00.000-05:00

Animals

2007-04-14T12:18:00.000-05:00

So the school year is winding down, and I'll probably have time to put up some stuff I've been too lazy to scan. For starters, here's some animal character sketches.

Arrested Development development arrested

2007-03-29T08:35:00.000-05:00

I'm putting this up since some of you wanted to see this. I keep going overboard with these assignments. Probably should reel it back a bit.

EDIT: This isn't showing up on the blog right, so just click that white bar or something.

Character Rotation and Lip Synch Nightmares

2007-03-07T09:39:00.000-05:00

Well here's the rough of my character rotation. I foolishly chose a character that I thought would be 'fun' to do. I didn't get to do everything I wanted but it still turned out okay. I still need to do a clean-up and a coloured version.

Zelda and the like

2007-03-06T23:55:00.000-05:00

So I did this for a contest, didn't take that long and was pretty fun. I'm just getting used to using filters in Photoshop and blending crap.

Random Crap

2007-02-07T23:52:00.000-05:00

Some random doodles:

First steps towards greatness. Aka. First Filler Post

2007-01-31T02:05:00.000-05:00

Welcome to The Coughing Dog, the art blog of Di Yao. You may be wondering why I, Di Yao, haven't named this blog after myself. Well you see, there are certain people who have already taken that name with their greedy little paws. This means you Jim Millen, author of DiYao.blogspot.com, you've become my number 1 enemy. I will crush you.

Oh there'll be art here eventually.

~Di Yao