Oni girl & mecha

So, I've been doing the usual square color studies
with complementaries and analogs,
so what better way to try wacky colors
than with underworld characters :-D.

Here is some demon girls.

Oh and btw a quick update on my new PC,
the problem of getting totally frozen is still there,
and i think it has to do with the graphics card . . just a guess.

I started playing Left 4 dead and every time it will get frozen ,
so i lower all the video settings on my card and in-game,
and still would crash . . . .
my wife suggested to close the virus scanner,
which is constantly scanning ,
and for some reason it stooped freezing .

I would say:
-it will freeze 9 out of 10 times
when i play left 4 dead with virus scan on.
-it will freeze 1 out of 10 times
when i play left 4 dead with virus scan off
and all in-game video options at max.

Photoshop Rig & Mecha

So i got a new PC, and i tried to stay below or at $1,500
the main function would be Photoshop, so for the scratch disk,
got a Solid state hard drive and didn't care much about 3d capabilities,
nor the quad core processor.

Photoshop can only use 3 Gigs of Ram in 64bit, if i remember well,
but i didn't go for the 64bit OS so 4GB ram was the way to go.

first test on it was trying some crazy
scaterring + dual brush+ none spacing + texture
BRUSHES at 170dpi , and i gotta say it was very smooth.

I usually work everything at 72dpi cause i like the speed,
with this machine i can finally upgrade to 170dpi for everything
and keep my speed addiction.

Altough, somehow i fear this Rig is not that stable,
yesterday it frooze meanwhile i was painting this image,
just frooze, never happened to me with windows XP
and the same version of PS been using for a while . . . only time will tell.

Here are the main specs:

case: CoolerMaster Centurion 590 RC-590 Mid-Tower 420W Case
cpu: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU @ 3.00GHz 1333FSB 4MB L2 Cache 64-bit
hard drive: Single Hard Drive 750GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
2 hard drive: 32 GB 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk
motherboard : Asus P5N-E nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2
Ram: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)4GB (2x2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory
Powersupply: 750 Watts Power Supplies (Corsair CMPSU-750TX - Quad SLI Ready
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 1GB 16X PCI Express

Gotta give credit to my wife Kelly who was the mastermind
behind the planning of the new PC, great job baby <3

And now some Mecha partially created and finished
in the new "IL MONSTRO" PC

Dominance war III Finalist

Alright, The competition of 2008 ended,
and I am really happy that i made it to the top finalists.

The contest was awesome, and being able to show the progress
of each of the entries and getting feedback was one of my favorite parts.

Also the organizers and Fred did a great job in the presentation
and overall management, being able to see what the judges choose and thought
about the entries was amazing, made me really happy to know
that great Pro Artists liked my entry.

Here is the link to the Dominance War III finalists
and my entry:


And now some links to my favorite 2d entries of the competition, great job everyone! :

Dae hoon Lee - Managa
Myungsin koo - loveme8022
Jonguk Jeon - ENrang
Joongmin Park - JerryJ
Jaehwon song - jisol
Won Jang - OZingan
Jeongsil Lee - persona
Sooho kang - gaeberman
Kelly Hamilton - artkitty
Justin Albers - Albers
Andrew Hou - nJoo
Vinod Rams - Jedi Hindu
Sean A Murray - Muttonhead
Tham Hoi Mun - Rezeroth
Sang Han - fluxen
Christopher Flork - The Flork
Carissa Susilo - gough
Michael Dashow - walrus
Robert Kim - Roboto-kun
Jiansong Chen - chainjane
Yountaek Oh - enozria