I heard yesterday that the Cookie Brigade (people who make and sell/give away cookies at PAX) raised $9,000 at PAX East last weekend. That is incredible.
The Cookie Brigade take lots and lots of home made goodies to PAX each year, and give them to PAX attendees, who then give them money. It amazes me that people take time out of attending a convention to do something selfless, in fact, do something selfless beforehand, in baking yummy things to give away.
Last year at PAX East, people found the Cookie Brigade a bit odd, this year, they didn't. This money goes to buy toys, games and game consoles for children's hospitals worldwide.
Anyway, hopefully this painting will raise a few hundred dollars at the charity auction in December in Seattle.
Progress so far - here's the guitar done, with the drums visible next to them.
After I finished the 5 RockBand icons, I decided to paint all 5 on one canvas - the person I'd painted them for as 5 canvases had included a link to an image of all 5 in a line, so I've decided to paint that for the Child's Play auction/dinner in Seattle in December.
I love RockBand, although I can't play the guitar on it for toffee - really frustrating, because I can play guitar IRL! However, I love drumming and singing, so that's what I do. I don't have a headset mike, so somewhere, there is a picture of me drumming and singing at the same time, but with the mike cable wrapped around my neck, and the mike jammed under my chin!
I also had a go of the keyboard at Eurogamer last year - rocked the hell out of "Everybody wants to rule the world" to the amazement of the guy promo-ing it!
Enough of that, here's the pencil outline:
And here's a close-up of each section:
Bass and drums:
Drums, mike and guitar:
Guitar and keyboard:
I've done a little more - the clouds and the land on the horizon:
I'm off out to my Olympics volunteer recruitment training tomorrow, so probably won't get chance to paint again until Sunday.
I spent a lovely morning today, painting the sky for the Star Wars painting. Its quite a moody sky - very dark at the top, hazy around the sun, but then cloudy and light at the horizon.
Here's the start of the sky:
I've worked on it for a while - I'm not totally happy with the haze around the sun, so I'll probably do some more on that over the next couple of days.
As well as re-doing the RockBand paintings, I've done the pencil outline for the Star Wars painting. I'm going to start the sky tomorrow.
I'm also going to hunt for some youtube walk-throughs, as the image I'm working from isn't very clear, so I know I'm going to find the detail difficult unless I have a better image.
I wasn't happy with the depth of colour on the RockBand paintings, so I've re-done them - they were too translucent, I wanted the colours to be more solid. I think I've got the graduation of shade better, as well.
Maybe I was just being picky, but I'm much happier with them now, so I'll be posting them to America in the morning.
