Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Projects background

This is a lower-res version of the background I created in Photoshop for my Projects class.



About 48 layers active at this point. Got a ton of other stuff in the works, just no time to post them.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Couple pieces

hese are a pair of projects I did over Summer term last year for my Animal Anatomy course.



The top is a Crysaor, a mythical creature I had to bring to life as an illustrator for the class. The bottom was a skeletal analysis of a cartoon character - in this case, Hello Kitty. See?

Sunday, March 7, 2010

More sketchbook stuff

Some more sketchbook stuff from my second semester. A lot of these are put up to show progress (once I start posting more current work) and show the process I go through to get to some of the more finished pieces I've done.













































Awesome cg animation

I found this neat little animation over at CartoonSmartBlog, done by Mike Winkleman from Beeple. It looks gorgeous in full-screen HD, I highly recommend enlarging from this tiny screen.


subprime from beeple on Vimeo.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Here's a couple drawings I did for my Tone, Color and Composition class during my second semester.





The following are thumbnails and reference images I did for a final for this class, a self-portrait as a game or other fictional character.

The last one is the pencils for the final painting I did in acryllic. Below are progress pictures from the process. It still isn't my favorite, by a long shot, but it's kind of fun looking back at the process I went through for this stuff. A year later, though, I really, really wish I could re-do this. So many problems.


Unfortunately (or maybe not) I don't have a copy of the final, but it is basically the face out in and a few color corrections. Looking back at this, I should have paid a lot more attention to the light, the gun flares and the reference, and bounced the light around a lot more, reflecting the color of the armor into the skulls and back, the green of the environment onto the armor and not used as much black and worked in more dark desaturated tones. And ideally, used oils instead of acrylic.