kung fu movie craze

so i guess after going on a kung fu movie marathon, gesture and pose sketches are what i do.

today's sketch

bleeeeah, being sick makes me draw angry people. upside, HUGE kung fu movie marathon today :D

all i want for christmas...

...is a little soup robot! one might even call it a souper robot ^_^



hope everyone had a nice christmas!

what i want to be when i grow up

warm up paint/sketch of the day: super generic elf assassin! haven't really done anything that's been from my very inner nerd in a while, but it was mostly about the painting and lighting be this time around.

cool down from tonight. looked at dermot power's website and decided 'hey, let's learn how to paint'. while doing the pencils, i started thinking about the movie 'valhalla rising' and when i ought to try and watch it again. evidently, i have a thing for mads mikkelsen and norsemen.

high priestess character concept

i had a dream about rectangles and i had the desire to design some kind of clothing that was really rectangle heavy, paneled and all that. it turned into a character concept for a high priestess specializing in healing arts as dictated by her outer veil's blue stripes. I have a whole thing about how people would rise up in the ranks in the temple and what colors and patterns would signify what specialty they are, but i'm too tired to get into it here, hahaha!

production painting: Enclave

I got permission to show this on my blog and website, yay!



this is a production painting I did for DeMonner Industries of an environment in their project. learned many a thing here :)

cool down (NSFW)

cool down paint from tonight, please note NSFW in title

warm ups

some more warm ups, the former image making me realize i ought to try and paint something from life for a hot second at least. hands have been proving difficult for me lately, so after doing some bridgeman reading on their anatomy, drawing from life seemed the next logical step for practice.

the bespelled king

was watching 'the two towers' today during warm up and theoden's character really struck me for some reason. 'the bespelled king' is a working title, subject to change.

edit: title change ;p

goggle girl

tonight's cool down. finished some art tests for a job app, so this was a nice way to wind down, even if it did take a while. it ain't perfect, but at least i learned while doing it :D

one more

instead of a warm up, it was a warm down ^_^

warm ups

so i'm trying to get into the habit of doing a warm up grayscale paint before starting project work and it's been pretty good so far! it helps to relax me and just get into the flow of simplifying things so i don't over-complicate myself while i'm working as i'm wont to do more often than i'd like. results include being more aware of when i'm getting frustrated and pinpointing why as well as knowing that i need to step back for a moment :)

it was a cold morning:


watching 'batman: under the red hood', which is amazing:


listening to some amanamaguchi to get psyched for the day:


watching 'chocolate' (thai title 'fury'):

pumpkin sheep

i love fall and i love sheep. sketched this today as a warm up and for a friend. hope they like it!s *fingers crossed*

bats

watched "batman: under the hood" and geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeked! inspired tonight's sketch in photoshop:



it came out pretty dark, but hopefully it still reads.

a city

wheeeeeeeee, i finally got the courage to touch up my city painting!

sketch for the night: Mr. Fweeze

one of my favorite dc characters

Hunger Games: Katniss Everdeen's Bow Concept

woot! bows! love 'em! here's my take on Katniss' bow from the Hunger Games, one for District 12 and one for the Arena. anyone want to vote if i ought to pursue a bow design for the one from Mockingjay? i won't mind because I LOVE ARCHERY.

vehicle design: final project

vehicle design: final project!!! woohooo!!

money shot of munitions transport unit concept nicknamed 'buddy'. i couldn't really decide on how to present it; just as a painting? or sort of in the showcase car fashion? or using an interesting border to keep it simple? either way, here it is and we'll see which one he chooses at the final class :D







for a first go at learning some serious vehicle design, i'm quite happy with this as well as how much I actually came to enjoy designing cars! i even boosted how much i knew about storytelling quite a lot with this assignment which is always a plus :D

chitters

some more creature designs, this time for the dark/scary/gross version of Earth. Pretty blue sky with the exception that nothing could be super cute or anything and it was actually a lot of fun! here are my chosen sketches taken to a grayscale drawing after fixing and changing things as per instructor Jerad Marantz's instructions. thanks for looking!

the humanoid:


the herbivore:


the carnivore (which i really want to take to final stage):

more midterrrrms: creature and environment design

2 more midterms done! woohooo!

the color version of my creature design, which i'm pretty happy with, specially since it's only my second attempt at designing aminals:



and the touched up version of my grayscale environment, trying to fix issues with scale and values:



i'm not the most happy with this environment, but it was definitely a big milestone for me in terms of learning what NOT to do. i'm personally not even compelled by this, so i'll have to remember to think of just a bit more story sometime and figure out my focal point better.

*fingers crossed* that i get acceptable grades for them though!

vehicle design: midterm project

3 vehicles in 3 different views. huzzah. time for sleep.

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

advanced digital painting final: the door at the peak

production shot for an environment i posted a while back. whew! ^_^



definitely learned alot in this class :D

product design, final project: Robocop Gun / Redesign

here's the final rendering of my gun redesign. Hope Robocop likes it :)

sketch from today

just a sketch i did today in my sketchbook that i really liked and took to photoshop for some experimenting.

gunz...continued!

my final development pass at my RoboCop gun redesign and i think i'm going to run with model 2