digital painting WIPs

wow. school has been crazy busy O_o

these are some work-in-progress shots of my digital painting class midterm. the premise of the assignment was to paint your 'happy place', i.e. a place that you could create if you had unlimited resources, money, and manpower.

starting with grayscale thumbnail shots:




then some coloring:






still got some ways to go, but i learned so much from painting this. i can't wait to start another one where i've thought out the concept a bit more thoroughly as this idea was rather rushed. thanks in advance for looking :)

C. N. Y!!!!!!!

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!! Have a fortuitous Year of the Rabbit, woohoo!!!!

here we go

new month, new term. time to kick asses and take names.

end of term: perspective

by far one of my favorite classes this term, our final project was to first make a list of objects we found visually or conceptually interesting. once we felt that our lists were complete enough, we chose our favorite one from them. the objects i picked were mushrooms.

and then the grand premise of this object we picked: design the interior or exterior of a church devoted to the worship of that object.

fun. times.



i am strongly considering throwing this into photoshop and painting it when i get back from break as this is one of my strongest line illustrations ever. though we only covered the basics and principles of perspective in this class, their applications led us to create extremely dynamic scenes and view points. it was an incredible amount of fun to be had in that class :D

(this assignment was also handed out during the same time my photoshop matte painting was announced, so I sort of used the same object of focus for both :3)

end of term: photoshop for digital production

our final project for photoshop class was to build our own matte paintings of a place that exists outside of our own world.

i thought a giant mushrooms underwater would be good fun :D




for a first attempt at a matte painting, i learned so much more than i thought I ever could. I got away with certain parts of the image mostly due to the fact that the scene is underwater, but emulating the lighting and its diffusion through water was such an immense challenge to try and bring that believability.

end of term: figure drawing

it's the last week of my first term at gnomon. i thought i'd post a few dumps of my classwork on here. why? just cuz :p

first and foremost and mostly because it's the only class i have scanned and laid out are my figure drawings.


























this class was pretty much life changing. for realsies. I can never thank Jack Bosson enough, he was an amazing teacher and really great to work with. Drawing nekkid people has never been more fun or educational. Even though I walk away from this class knowing that i could still use alot of work, i'm not daunted by that prospect anymore. instead, i am welcoming the challenge and I'm unafraid to meet it.

hunting knife concept

it was about time to get back to the roots. it was time to go back to a simpler time. yes. ladies and gentleman.....

it was time to design a goddamn hunting knife.



a machete for your hacking needs

photo manipulation, numbah 2!

another photo manipulation i decided to do for class all asian long neck vampire, complete with scales. i thought the first fishbowl manipulation might not have been enough in terms of changes to the actual element, so i tried to really bring it to become something completely different, which i think was pretty successful!



thanks in advance for taking a look!

photo manipulation assignment

for our next photoshop assignment, we had to manipulate a photograph of something and turn it into something else. i made myself a fish bowl sort of thing....that blows bubble....i guess...hahaha! it was pretty fun to do! thanks in advance for taking a look!

Drag racing mortal enemies

So for this week's perspective assignment, we had to practice drawing ellipses in perspective. what better way to exercise that than to select an object, figure out what its mortal enemy is and pit them against one another in an all-or-nothing drag race?

i chose an axe, its mortal enemy being a chain saw.



WINNER: OLD SCHOOL!