Remember When I Had a Blog?

I know I've neglected my blog and its whole two post, but there's been a good reason. It's because, well... frankly, I've been neglecting my art and abandon all the projects that I've started in the past two-plus years. Okay, so maybe it's not that good of a reason.

So what has brought me back here after all this time to create a third post? It was an actual interview for an internship. I don't think I got it, but it was enough to light that fire under my ass to get to work and do something that I've forgotten I loved doing. So I modeled my glasses. It's somewhat crude because I've been out of practice, but I'm fairly happy with how it turned out.

So... Yeah. Hopefully I'll see you again soon.

Look. A Tree.

The first piece of art I'm putting up: a tree I've been working on. It's my first time using normal maps, and I think it turned out pretty decent.

The texture gets a little funky at the top, but that will probably be concealed once I add leaves to it.The color is a little bland, but I don't think I mind it at the moment since there are no leaves. It makes it look like a dead tree. That's sad. I'll make the texture more colorful once I get the leaves in there.

poly count: 9534
Too many? I don't know. Generally how many polygons is a tree? Well, It can be easily fixed if need be.

Getting My Name Out There

We all want to be known. That's the beauty of the internet: we can all be stars in our own way. We won't necessarily be rich and famous, but, at the very least, we can feel appreciated by having people follow us and look forward to or next post or update.

I'm not looking to be famous. I'm just looking for an avenue to get my name and work out there. I plan on using this blog as an art dump. It will be a place where I can send prospective employers to look through what I can do. It's better than sending them to my, for a lack of a better word, website. Calling www.asanberg.com a website is laughable. It's something I whipped up in a week with Dreamweaver and no formal web design training. I do intent to improve it in the future once I learn the basic skill set of web design, but, until then, this will have to do. If I get a few fans that look forward to seeing my posts, well, that's good too.

What you can expect to see here are a few drawings, some 3D art work, and whatever may come from my creative urges. Hopefully you'll like what you see. Hopefully this will motivate me to create more (I've, admittedly, been slacking on this). Once I dust off the old sketch book, open up some programs, and read up on some tutorials, I feel as though the motivation will follow. This is step one, because what good is art if you can't have people admire it, or, hopefully, give me constructive feedback?