c-c-c-creature!

first attempt at a finished creature design, combining elements of an otter, snake, crabs and lobsters with a panther as a base.



colors to come next ^_^

characters: the intrepid and the cantankerous

i forgot to post this up a while ago, but here are two characters i've been working on for a story :)



the intrepid young Xing and his cantankerous blacksmith buddy Yan

veeeeeeeeehic-ups

my past 2 submissions for my vehicle design class. for a first attempt at actually trying to draw transportation devices, i'm pretty happy with myself :) can't wait to take some of these further!













it's actually also been a really nice way to learn how to design shapes better! even the smallest exercise of just drawing shapes in my sketchbook that resulted from this class so far is really simple but soothing ^_^ onwards!

the values, they are hard to paint! T__T

so the past 2 weeks have been an extremely humbling experience; i have realized how poor my grasp on value and scale is with regard to pushing perspective and depth as well as how poor my grasp on shape design is.

below is a grayscale paint up for my environment design class where I attempt to put these 3 concepts (value, scale, and shape) to better practice.



i feel that this was a pretty successful step in discovering what I need to think about when I am painting and how value works, as well as the next few steps i ought to take. rather than getting caught up in so much detail crap, i think it's time to do some smaller exercises :) outlook: optimistic