Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Illustration 5: Absolved Character Archetype #3 - Germs (WIP)

 
 

Title: Illustration 5: Absolved Character Archetype #2 - Vigilants
Date: September 22 & 23, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6
Scale: Original is 8.5" x 11"

Notes: This is very much a work in progress. Just trying to get a sketch down for class. I have much work to do, much more realization to do as well (especially with those cats). I'm not sure if I want to keep her hands static or have her more so interacting with her cats or laptop. Just quickly trying to throw down some lines and tone. 

Sunday, September 21, 2014

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.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

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.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

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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