color tests

some color tests for my advanced digital painting production shot. more textural detail will be painted when the colors have been decided on.



on that note, all hail the overlay layer mode in photoshop.

EDIT: another pass at some color tests. just trying to get a bit more zany with it :p

product design, project 1: echo-tech

the main idea for this concept was to provide a way in which visually impaired people can interact with the objects of their environment without bumping into them. with neural impulse transmission directly to the lateral geniculate nucleus, this completely bypasses any visual information that would have been sent otherwise from the retinas and optic nerves, the areas that have a higher percentage of causing visual impairment.

my echo locator visual aid concept for my product design class:





it also promotes a less sedentary lifestyle, both physically and emotionally, as it needs its wearer to move around to power it.

environment thumbnails

advanced digital painting assignment #3: refined thumbnails of an environment from 3/4 top down view to stage a production painting.



i think i got carried away with this assignment though :/ instead of refining a single environment, i sort of did 3 totally different ones because i couldn't tell which I wanted to do more. however, i did get to exercise my painting chops, so i'm not going to be too worried about it. ^_^

character design: relationships assignment

for our most recent character design assignment, we had to design two characters from a list of archetypes assigned to us and create a visible relationship between them. the two archetypes i got were a wise old man or grandmother and a villain, devil, bad guy, etc.

my submission: original on watercolor paper with graphite, sepia ink and watercolor and added touches in Photoshop.



i did not go for a strictly antagonistic relationship, but hoped to soften it a little so it was a bit more family friendly. thanks for looking in advance!

wow

school. crazy. gah!

quick PS paint practice of a head, just to relax from freaking out with all the school work O_O

Digital Painting: final

ta-daaaaaaaaaaa! Digital Painting final at Gnomon: your own concept of Willy Wonka's Chocolate room. Without referencing the movies and only the description of the room in the book, redesign the chocolate room, keeping in mind that it should be turn of the century architecture with instances of art nouveau.



thanks for looking :)

character sculpture 1 final piece

after 10 long weeks of figuring out how to even sculpt, my labour is finished!! Here's the figure I designed and sculpted in chevant for my character sculpture 1 class with john brown.

Character Description: A Forest God that has lost his once infinite purpose in life on the earth.





*photo credit to Maya Wysocki ^_^

in a bit of self reflection, I will more than likely work on this still. after a great talk with john about it, hindsight is truly 20-20 when i find that i could have done an even more evocative pose. all in all though, i am not disappointed as this was my first real attempt at sculpting a personal concept. i cannot even believe how much i can apply what i've learned in this class to my drawing, concept design and painting skills! so extremely happy that i took this course :D

portraits

more submissions for anatomy! dat class makes you work like whoah ^_^

first is a self-portrait:



and then because i felt so awkward after staring at 2 pictures (the reference photo and then the drawing) of myself for 2 hours, I decided to draw Abe Lincoln. the man has planes.

here's the reference photo:

and here's my drawing:


enjoy.

anatomy stuffs

finally got around to scanning my stuff so far from anatomy class.

ASSIGNMENT.1/copy a renaissance drawing

Reference: Raphael Sanzio

My Submission:


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ASSIGNMENT.2/copy another renaissance drawing

Reference: Raphael Sanzio again

My Submission:


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ASSIGNMENT.3/copy a B&W, single light source photograph of a nude pose

Reference: photograph from Hong Ly's CharacterDesigns.com website

My Submission:


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ASSIGNMENT.4/draw 5 skeletons interacting with one another

My Submission: 'gambling spectators'


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thanks in advance for looking :)

digital painting: midterm complete!

the final submission for my digital painting midterm. I learned so much from working on this, I'm really excited for our final project so that I can apply those skills, it's going to be awwwesome ^_^



thanks a lot in advance for looking :)