Sunday, September 21, 2014

Digital Painting -- Life Drawing

11:32 AM anatomy , digital painting 0 Comments
Digital Painting: Life Drawing










 

 




Title: Digital Painting: Life Drawing
Date: September 19, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CC
Scale: Each 'piece' varies.

Notes: Life drawing is not something I've done in quite some time, so this was really interesting to do. I can imagine without a laptop that doing this would be kind of ludicrously hard, but somehow the other people in my class managed to pull through. I notice that my colors are a bit strange and washed out. That probably had something to do with turning my laptop's brightness up, so if I try to do this again, I'll have to figure out how to adjust the brightness, contrast, and colors for the screen better so that I can get some more life-life colors in there.
It started with some quick one-minute poses and jumped all the way up to the last one being a forty-five minute sitting. Life drawing digitally is a whole different beast when compared to photo studies.
Regardless, it was pretty fun to experiment with and I would love to do more of it.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Digital Painting -- Texture Painting

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Digital Painting: Texture Painting










Title: Digital Painting: Texture Painting
Medium: Photoshop CS6
Scale: Same as above.

Notes: For this class we were to do a bunch of different texture paintings. I forgot to post these, but here they are.
I definitely learned a very important detail while doing these: TEXTURE ARTISTS ARE BADASS.
I mean that in the best of ways. When you play a game or watch a 3D animated movie, pay close attention to those texture artists - they got it really hard. These things take longer than I would have assumed, and sometimes they still don't look as good as I would have liked.
Either way, I can say that it was definitely a learning experience. I've never really done anything like this before.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Illustration 5 -- Absolved Character Archetype #2 - Vigilants

7:49 PM absolved , archetypes 0 Comments
Illustration 5: Absolved Character Archetype #2 - Vigilants







Title: Illustration 5: Absolved Character Archetype #2 - Vigilants
Medium: Photoshop CS6, Pencil
Scale: Each 'piece' varies, final is 11" x 17"

Notes: The second archetype in a long string of archetypes that I am working on.
This piece was definitely out of my comfort zone because of the composition, color palette, and mood. But I think it was definitely a push forward in where I want to be.
There was a ton of research done for this archetype, so I feel like it was quite a bit more fleshed out than other ones that I've done thus far. All I can say really is that I want to keep pushing harder and learn from what I did here. As always, more to come!
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Friday, September 5, 2014

Digital Painting -- Twenty Textures

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Digital Painting: Twenty Textures

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Title: Digital Painting: Twenty Textures

Notes: This was for an assignment in digital painting class. We were to photograph twenty textures that we found interesting.
I'm kinda hoping that we are to use these as bases to paint on or maybe make brushes from. Some of these are pretty interesting to me and a little surprising when you really zoomed in on them. It was fun and unexpected to see what turned out when you really got in on an object.


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Preview of Next Illustration


Title: Preview of Next Illustration
Date: September 4, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6

Notes: The next illustration is going to be an interesting one. I can't give any info except this teaser. You'll just have to watch and see soon! I really want to push this one next to THE MAX! 
See you soon.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Illustration 5 -- Absolved Character Archetype #1 - The Grafter

2:21 AM absolved , archetypes 0 Comments
Illustration 5: Absolved Character Archetype #1 - The Grafter





Title: Illustration 5: Absolved Character Archetype #1 - The Grafter
Medium: Photoshop CS6, Pencil
Scale: Each 'piece' varies, final is 11" x 17"

Notes: The first assignment for the semester! And these are going to be such fast turnarounds.
Okay, so the first character archetype for Absolved is basically a glorified fence. I intend this character type to be more of a social gamer rather than a combat first type of character.
Throughout the sketches not only was I exploring the character, but also the Displaced race as a whole. What kind of clothing would they wear? What type of areas would they live in? Basic questions were at the forefront of my mind so that I could start to create a bit of environment for these guys / gals to live in.
Ultimately, I realized in the final that there are some shortcomings that I need to get over, most notable the real lack of distinguished light source. But I can say that this is a real step in the right direction for me because I have a real hard time breaking from my reference, so this is a major push into the right direction!
I want to redo this piece before the semester is over so that I can make it right!
More to come.
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