More Progress!

The concept of Falling. I used both the literal sense and a play of the phrase "Falling into a trap."

Character Design Progress

Character Design for Adv. Digital Illustration

Yeah, I know it's more like REGRESSION than progress, but at least it's something! Working on a couple different color studies before I dive into this fully...I figure it'll take me maybe a whole day to do this...maybe a day and a half...we'll see!

Animation Update!

Flour Sack Animation....Chubby-loser-boy flour sack meets cute-girl flour sack....high-jinx ensue. WITH SOUND! ...Bad sound, but SOUND nonetheless!

Walk Across the Page...This torso-less pair of legs is fully capable of explaining itself.

Normal Walk Cycle...stealthy, lanky ninja with stripes that made me want to stab myself in the eye with my pencil afterward.

Attitude Walk (Anything goes!) ....cowboy walk. 'Nuff said. Also sound! Would've loved to have time to give him a hat though.

Cowardly Lion?

And here is the result of my first Traditional Illustration project! 

It was mostly just a bunch of mini pieces meant to introduce us to several different mediums and ways to create an illustration. We had to choose two "objects" and just use them over and over.

I posted these in the order that they were assigned.

Pencil Rendering

Line in ink

Silhouette in ink

Scale reversal silhouette in gouache

Cropping using ink and watercolors

Geometric shapes in colored pencil

Historical/cultural reference using gouache and ink

Window effect using acrylic and colored pencils

Metamorphosis/Combination using ink and colored pencil

The Winter Lord's Castle?

Our first project in Advanced Digital Illustration was due this morning, and I'm happy to report my painting was well-recieved (from what I could tell, anyway).  

There were several genres and prompts to choose from for this project such as:

Underwater sea lab

Shipwreck in a jungle

and Winter Lord's castle

We had to choose a prompt and create an exterior. 

I really like how the glaciers and the rope turned out, but I'm still feeling kind of ify on the "castle." At first it was going to have those shell shapes but with like large crystals protruding out of the middle of the structure, but then I thought that'd be too many icy/crystal type shapes hiding the focal point, so I just sort of started making up the middle architecture. Now, when I look at it I just think it's REALLLY Art Deco....which could be a cool take on a Winter Lord, but the rest of the image seems really fantasy and dated than the modern-esque castle. Maybe if I make the boat at the bottom some kind of retro-yacht? 

Anyway, I think I'm also planing on fine-tuning those ice sheets on the water, and adding a misty fog effect along the bottom to make it feel more "wintery" as well as giving the castle some snowy rooftop collections.....maybe.

Before Photoshopery.

After

The after piece was actually my instructor's doing, he used it a one of the examples on how to just push your painting a little more to really make it pop just by using things like Levels and Color Layers in Photoshop.

More Animations...

Here's my take on the typical ball bounce.

And this one is a "pendulum" with a "tail" acting as a secondary action.

Unfortunately, my higher quality videos wouldn't upload, so here are the crappy versions  instead.

First Glimpse into the World of Painter

So, for my Advanced Digital Illustration class, we've been slaving over a hot tablet in order to practice the new medium of Corel Painter by painting....apples. Fascinating right? Not really. But I'll show you what I did anyway. :P

The first 8 were only allowed to be in one medium and the final two were mixed media. We also were not allowed to use ANY blenders! No!

And now for your enjoyment...in the order I created them: