A Paintover

This week I digitally painted over one of my pastel drawings that I did at community college over a year ago. I wasn't happy with the piece originally and I figured it would be a good exercise to fix it up. Also, it would be fun to easily see an improvement in my skills.

 Above is the repaint and below is the original pastel drawing.

I did this to play around with color more, too.

Vietnam Color Studies

I'm trying to get better with color, so I did these two sketches from black and white reference photos and tried to come up with colors on my own. It wasn't working out too well so I ended up using a color photo as a guide. I'm happy with the way they turned out, but I think I need to have some patience and practice painting figures.

Landscapes

I finally started messing around with some textured brushes and did these quick paintings. The first one is from imagination and the bottom two are from photos.

Final Projects

Here's all my final projects from this semester. I'll start off with my academic drawings from figure class. 

We spent about 2 weeks in class drawing this one pose. It's still not quite finished but I think it turned out alright and I felt like I learned a lot spending the time to be precise in my drawing and rendering.

Above is a self portrait rendered in the same technique as the figure. While I was creating it I remembered doing another self portrait exactly 2 years ago and when I compared them I could see how much I progressed. It was quite remarkable.

My invented animal for drawing class which spent a week at the zoo down the road from Ringling drawing animals from life. We were then asked to combine some of the animals we saw at the zoo into one creature. I created this one from an aracari toucan, iguana, and python. Also my first time using colored pencils to render.

 The final product of my 3D project. I posted the concepts earlier here which I chose to create this futuristic-monk who has managed to summon a portal to the knowledge of the universe in his closet. I had a fun time building the environment and soldering together all the lights. Below is a final slightly photoshopped photo illustration.

3D Project WIP

This is what my 3D project currently looks like based on the illustration from the 3D character designs post. Still a long way to go on it though. I need to rig up LEDs and EL wire for the portal to the universe which he is guiding us to and figure out the balcony and cityscape background design. Sorry for the awful cell phone pic.

Clay model

3D Character Designs