Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Colorizing Line Art
I'm currently in the process of taking a number of my creature/architecture/environment designs and painting over them in Photoshop CS4. I've also got a lot of new sketches, but those will be on their way soon enough. Enjoy!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
1st painting of the new quarter, Finished Hut scene, lots of sketches!
Phew! So much new work to show, I'm tempted to split this into multiple posts. I might as well start with what I finished a few minutes ago, colorized version of a monster I drew a couple weeks ago.
It's my first painting of the quarter, so expect plenty more. His tail looks like it's made out of candy corns! XD
Next up on these four sketchbook pages are some creature and environment designs for a probable side project. trying to push style and variety here. Trying to imagine different domiciles and types of trees that are visually interesting. lots more where that came from! Mostly done without reference, except for the marmots and the elephant on this first page.
I had a really bad night a little while back, and decided to channel it into a few pages of creepy shit. Just playing with patterns, teeth, and visceral imagery. None of this was really intended on being something specific, mostly just scribbles turning into monsters. The guy with the horns on the third page here was meant to be some sort of demon, and I toyed around with a couple other sketches of him, which i might post at some point. The giant thing next to him could be just about anything, but i like to think it's his throne or something.
Right above this text are two more pages for the side project. Some potential desert creatures (including a rock worm) and some ideas for mountains with large slits cut into them.
Below is the 3D version of the concept art for the futuristic Egyptian mausoleum. I'm not totally pleased with how it turned out due to the fact that it was rushed, but I'll throw it in for a comparison with the concept piece.
Last but CERTAINLY not least, is a near-finished render of the entire swamp scene for my background design and layout class. I must note that I'm not responsible for everything seen here. The background image, the trees, and the textures for the boards as well as a few small objects were done by my group members. What I did was create everything in the main hut, which was repeated in the smaller huts, and modeled the boards and stakes, as well as details like the spears, tiki, skull, etc. I also designed the layout and was responsible for lighting the scene. The second image was entirely my work, although it was before a few problems were fixed.
Credit for everything I didn't just mention goes to my group members Maria Schaeffer, Bryan Sanders, Nathan Thunder, and Chelsi Schetzle.
...and that's it! There are a few things I've done in the last day or so that I didn't include here, but I'll get them in the next batch. Any feedback is encouraged!
It's my first painting of the quarter, so expect plenty more. His tail looks like it's made out of candy corns! XD
Next up on these four sketchbook pages are some creature and environment designs for a probable side project. trying to push style and variety here. Trying to imagine different domiciles and types of trees that are visually interesting. lots more where that came from! Mostly done without reference, except for the marmots and the elephant on this first page.
I had a really bad night a little while back, and decided to channel it into a few pages of creepy shit. Just playing with patterns, teeth, and visceral imagery. None of this was really intended on being something specific, mostly just scribbles turning into monsters. The guy with the horns on the third page here was meant to be some sort of demon, and I toyed around with a couple other sketches of him, which i might post at some point. The giant thing next to him could be just about anything, but i like to think it's his throne or something.
Right above this text are two more pages for the side project. Some potential desert creatures (including a rock worm) and some ideas for mountains with large slits cut into them.
Below is the 3D version of the concept art for the futuristic Egyptian mausoleum. I'm not totally pleased with how it turned out due to the fact that it was rushed, but I'll throw it in for a comparison with the concept piece.
Last but CERTAINLY not least, is a near-finished render of the entire swamp scene for my background design and layout class. I must note that I'm not responsible for everything seen here. The background image, the trees, and the textures for the boards as well as a few small objects were done by my group members. What I did was create everything in the main hut, which was repeated in the smaller huts, and modeled the boards and stakes, as well as details like the spears, tiki, skull, etc. I also designed the layout and was responsible for lighting the scene. The second image was entirely my work, although it was before a few problems were fixed.
Credit for everything I didn't just mention goes to my group members Maria Schaeffer, Bryan Sanders, Nathan Thunder, and Chelsi Schetzle.
...and that's it! There are a few things I've done in the last day or so that I didn't include here, but I'll get them in the next batch. Any feedback is encouraged!
Friday, September 10, 2010
Sketchbook Work
finally getting around to posting some sketchbook work, most of you who are interested in this have likely seen it already. This is what's been taking what little spare time I have this quarter.
This first one is a little scene i did of a candy shop. panda hat :(
The second one is of some internet "urban legend" called slenderman; look it up, it's kinda creepy. also for someone else. I like the pig on the bottom of page 3.
A Zebracorn idea, and an upright crocodile warrior. I love drawing reptiles and crocodiles are my favorite animals to draw. Below, a pregnant chick with a hammer (???) and some viking looking fellow as well as the poodle from hell. bellow right we've got a snail with a rocket pack, and a predator and his three types of prey.
Down below is a lot more randomness, including dudes with weapons, robots, animals, faces, and structures. At the very bottom is a drawing very special to me.
This first one is a little scene i did of a candy shop. panda hat :(
The second one is of some internet "urban legend" called slenderman; look it up, it's kinda creepy. also for someone else. I like the pig on the bottom of page 3.
A Zebracorn idea, and an upright crocodile warrior. I love drawing reptiles and crocodiles are my favorite animals to draw. Below, a pregnant chick with a hammer (???) and some viking looking fellow as well as the poodle from hell. bellow right we've got a snail with a rocket pack, and a predator and his three types of prey.
Down below is a lot more randomness, including dudes with weapons, robots, animals, faces, and structures. At the very bottom is a drawing very special to me.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Swamp Village WIP
So i've been working on a class project that's essentially a ghost town built on a swamp. been modeling unwrapping and texturing and finally have something with enough of a detail that you can see how it's going to look when it's finished. mind you this is just one structure out of the whole village, and still a work in progress. had a really fun time modeling the skulls/skeletons and spears. never modeled anything like this before.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
3 New Paintings
I'm trying to do one or two paintings per day, here I did another photostudy, a fantasy one that should be observed with a blacklight, and some kind of sci-fi corridor fiddling with perspective.
the photostudy is of a picture i actually took myself in Nante, france. Very interesting building. It's the remaining tower (the other was destroyed during WWII) of a cookie factory (LU biscuits, you can actually buy them here in america). I love the color on the actual tower itself, so it was a real treat to paint.
This second one is a fantasy painting of a giant magical tree at night. The story behind it is up to you i suppose, but I imagined some sort of wizard lives in it and conducts so much magic that the tree and all the plants around it have become enchanted.
This last one was a kind of lazy effort at making something sort of futuristic. it's kinda generic, but it was fun messing around with the different lines in perspective and i've always sort of liked this sort of sci-fi vision.
the photostudy is of a picture i actually took myself in Nante, france. Very interesting building. It's the remaining tower (the other was destroyed during WWII) of a cookie factory (LU biscuits, you can actually buy them here in america). I love the color on the actual tower itself, so it was a real treat to paint.
This second one is a fantasy painting of a giant magical tree at night. The story behind it is up to you i suppose, but I imagined some sort of wizard lives in it and conducts so much magic that the tree and all the plants around it have become enchanted.
This last one was a kind of lazy effort at making something sort of futuristic. it's kinda generic, but it was fun messing around with the different lines in perspective and i've always sort of liked this sort of sci-fi vision.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Waterfall
a 90 minute speed painting as a demonstration from a photo. Enjoyed the waterfalls, might do more like it some other time.
Photo painting
I saw a lot of awesome painting today at the school from other people's presentations, so i wanted to try a painting of me and my parents from a photo at mt. rainier, the photo was referenced, not traced. Had a lot of fun with this one, looking forward to doing more work from photos.
the trees were a ridiculous amount of fun to paint. I tried not to go too detailed with anything, just the bare essentials to show value, color, and texture.
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