Digital Week!

This video is so much more impressive when you've seen the original movie that it's pulled from. Everyone should watch Natural City... It's actually on Netflix. It's the Japanese answer to Bladerunner. I'm sure people will end up smacking me around for this, but I think it's better than Bladerunner in the fact that it actually has excellent character progression that I kind of think Bladerunner lacks. The overall story is very similiar, but the visual effects and overall story seem much more high-reaching than Bladerunner was. All I can say is... watch the movie, it's amazing!

This week's Artist of the Week! goes to agnidevi over on deviantart.com!

While this artist doesn't neccessarily have a huge variance of art, the art that is being presented is amazingly well done. Their style is smooth and interesting. I hope that they continue to draw and paint like crazy. I'll be watching.

Just working more and more on finals. This week is vacation though, so I'll power down a ton of studies during this. Plus it's just plain fun. Here's the art...

Digital Gestural Studies 

Title: Digital Gestural Studies

Date: November 19, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Notes: This is actually just a quick study sheet in photoshop. I placed the canvas on one side of my screen and then painted as fast as I could. It was a fun exercise that I'll probably try a whole lot. Each pose is from 45 seconds, all the way to 11 minutes.

Hand Animation Test

Title: Hand Animation Test

Date: November 18, 2011

Medium: Graphite / Photoshop

Notes: Really quickly studying my hand to try and work more towards my animation final. I'm trying to get a good feel for hands as my animation final is insanely filled with hands. You'll see in the coming weeks...

Still Study

Title: Still Study

Date: November 16, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Notes: An attempt to study color and form while staring at a video still. It's from the video that was shown last update.

Photostudy with Quickness

Title: Photoshop with Quickness

Date: November 21, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Notes: A quick study in photoshop, just mainly trying to continue to get a feel for the tablet over pencils. It was fun, will have to do many many MANY more of these...

Mah Man JOE

Title: Mah Man JOE

Date: November 21, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Notes: This was a study for my ink drawings that were assigned by my professor. 

Stoph, One Year Later and Progress

Title: Stoph, One Year Later and Progress

Date: November 20, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Notes: I did a study of this last year. Just trying to get a feel for digital portraits.

Duality

Title: Duality

Date: November 20, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Character of the Week # 268 - Urban Samurai (v2.0 - WIP)

Title: Character of the Week # 268 - Urban Samurai (v2.0 - WIP)

Date: November 18, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Notes: Another version of the Urban Samurai character of the Week on conceptart.org I like this version the best so far...

Burnt-Out Pin-Up

Title: Burnt-Out Pin-Up

Date: November 17, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Whistlin'

Title: Whistlin'

Date: November 15, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Notes: Kind of reminds me of my fiancee. Just chillin' out.