Week 7 in-progress

Working on Conceptual Illustration stuff all-ish weekend. I've had other engagements to attend to as well and I slept in quite a bit. But I have a loose final design of my main character. And I've gotten a considerable amount of blocking in for one of my environments. Unfortunately, my updated assets never made it through the dropbox, so I have to redo those. Also, quite unfortunate, I forgot my watercolor drawings in my room, and I can't scan those in until tomorrow. So those will have to wait.

But here's Hood and me having some fun with the hue/saturation sliders

Environment 1: The first is the thumbnail I worked off of. The second is my grayscale in-progress. I plan to work on the color in Corel Painter, for practice, and hopefully speed. And no, I'm not excited to draw a factory under that ledge, I wish I could just make it a pond.

Notebook Doodles!

I have acquired quite a bit of girly pen doodles in my notebook this quarter. Here is all of them plus one cute boy.

Props

Yup. We started props. Wasn't feeling too up to it this weekend. So here are some scribbles.

Master Copy

So I had 3 projects due yesterday, boy was THAT an experience. I haven't slept so much in weeks as I did since yesterday

Here is one of them. I had to do a Master Copy of some existing concept art. I did Wall-E, as I have the lovely book in my possession.

The top version is the original and the bottom one is mine.

Yes, I know I can't draw umbrellas. My patience drifted out the door after the 4-hour long bridge.

Concept Art Club

I went today and they had an art pass workshop. It was quite cool. We did an art pass in an hour and a half. I'm quite impressed what I can do in that time [though, I don't think I'll win the contest]

I don't know how many more times I can work on the same thing.

I really don't. But I think I'm table-flipping and keeping it the way it is, because I really need to start the actual assignment.

 But hey, good news. The only homework I have this weekend is for Conceptual Illustration, but oh darn, it consists of 8 drawings like the one above. A complete master copy. 27 line tests, and 27 color tests. More assets for my environment, and actual start the finals for those. Only 4 more weeks until those are due on top of all my other work. [Oh how time flies...and then crashes into finals]

So, expect some updates [my dear non-existant followers] and hopefully I'll have some side things as a de-stressor [It's nice to hope, isn't it?]

Character Silhouettes

I had to do 150-250 character silhouettes in a day. Oh my.. Being the overachiever I am, I planned for 200. Being realistically okay with it, I got 150.

I also bought a Cintiq 4 pen, because I am sincerely tired of fighting for the very few [good] Cintiq 3's in the lab. And I am very much tired of fighting for a Cintiq 3 at all. Now I have 2 pens, and I can pick and chose which cubicle to reign [until SCAD gets Cintiq 5's, and for the sake of my wallet, they better not start on that soon.] Anyways. The black Cintiq's are much nicer and clearer and they don't make me nauseous when I work hours on end on them [maybe it's 'cause they're not so scratched up and blurry]

Anywho, silhouettes are mind boggling.

For clarity, and the sake of posting things on my blog. HERE ARE CLOSE-UPS. 20 per character, for class presentation purposes.

Extra roundbrush study

Maybe I'm getting it this time. Who knows.

Lack of Productivity

It's been rough this past week.

I have to color 4 pages by Thursday for 1 class. I did 2 today.

I'm pretty satisfied with the turn-around. I drew the character last quarter for my character design class. I didn't bother fixing the line-art for color. Mainly because I don't have the time or patience to. (Actually. I haven't the slightest idea what Blogspot did to the colors. It's a lot more subdued, and perfectly fine in the original jpeg .-. [edit: I fixed it. darn channels])

And, I'm not done with this, but I am done with it for today. The line art is a scratchboard assignment I did almost a year ago. I want to digitally alter the blacks, but I need to focus on the colors first. I'm at a standstill with it for now. (Again, blogspot is hyping up my colors, and diffusing my value, I have no idea how to fix this [edit: I fixed this too])