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

gunz...

who needs 'em? RoboCop sure as hell does!

my progress so far on my Product Design final assignment: redesigning a prop from a movie released in your year of birth. lucky me, RoboCop's gun didn't quite hack it for me, so this is my take on it thus far.



some selected pages of my silhouette/form ideation:










second pass:


third pass:

what i do

sketch done in class, trying to exercise more calculated decision making for values and where they belonged by using a brush where i didn't have anything adjusted to it except for its flow.



also a precursor to exercising how to retain the graphic nature of the major players of your image's forms so that important things read clearly. sweet steps tonight :)

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. ^_^