The Cold and the Dead

First piece of 2015.

Tonal Sketch

Color Exploration Sketches

For an illustration project I decided to do a bunch of quick studies to explore color and digital painting techniques.

Vehicle Design

For this project I designed a fun and fast little vehicle for flying around the desert at blazing speeds.

Shape and silhouette ideation

Refined silhouettes

Rough Sketches

Aquavember

I did a watercolor painting for each day of November as part of the aquavember challenge which is similar to inktober. I used google streetview as reference for the landscapes. The first 7 were gouache on toned paper, the rest were transparent watercolor.

Bouguereau Master Copy

I've been meaning to tackle copying a Bouguereau for a while now. There's a lot of subtle temperature and tonal shifts that I find interesting and I wanted to try to recreate them using photoshop.

Bank Robbers

I was playing a lot of Payday 2 over the summer and had the urge to do a scene inspired from that game for my first illustration project. It was a pretty ambitious project that I definitely learned a lot from by trying out some new techniques.

Thumbnails. Chose #5 because I wanted to tackle something new, an interior with lots of figures.

I used some of my blender skills that I developed over the summer to create a 3D block mesh to paint over.

Lots of Figure Drawing

So this semester I'm taking 2 figure drawing classes, and already almost to the halfway mark I've burned through hundreds of sheets of paper (I filled up a large newsprint pad, using both sides of the page, in the first week). One class is very traditional in it's approach by focusing on correct drawing and proportion and the other is more expressive and experimental. I'm just putting up some of my favorites that I did.