my interpretation of beauty and the beast. For cghub.com bi-weekly drawing jams.

Jedi update

so i ran out of time for cghub but i am going to keep working on it. I was feeling a little morbid though and played with a idea of the jedi being stabbed. It would add a third light source but i have not decided to go through with it or not. I will post both versions though

Start

Photo shoot for Jedi project

Space Cowboy

this is what i got. its due in 3 hours so i"m going to call it done... for now.

Plein air update

done on october 19 at Mar park

taking what i learned from the master study and applying it to a larger painting

both this image and the one below it are master studies. Meant to get a use of moving color around in a landscape without using different shads of green.

some of my reference

Perspective

Watched a video on perspective from Massive Black. This is the result

this is what i got done for class today. Sill have some things to work on but i also edited some things out.

Was wanting to do a painting start to finish using photoshop. it is the same subject as my last piece, but this is more complicated with is being zoomed out. I also was thinking of trying to

w.i.p

before i took the picture into photoshop.
I made a pastel drawing off my deck last class just using random colors in my pallet. I then to a picture of that and brought it into photoshop. I started painting over it using the colors that were more true to life.

Big Massive update

This is my first painting at the ucm farm.
Both of these paintings were done at cape hollow. The green i used was to blue, but the 2ed one sis better cause the contrast is much higher.

this is my first painting for plain air. We had to do it in monochromatic. IT was done on campus.
i decided to start this update with my progress on my old drum mural.

Playing with layer effects

used different layer effects and played with contrast to do this

update on alice

lighting elements got played with

Master study that got out of control

I was looking at a piece done by Yap Kun Rong and was working on a master study but then i just started to play with different components and made it my own. I want to add more but i can't think of any thing els so ideas would be great.

Alice and Wonderland

i started a piece for the Drawing Jam number 15 that was themed after Alice and wonderland. This is my w.i.p. so far

self portrait idea

this is what i was thinking for my self portrait. kept it simple cause i don"t find the idea of doing a self portrait to exciting

Blogger and I are fighting

I could not get blogger to lode up my tutorial up so everybody could read it but it shows up perfectly on deviant art in you full view it so it is here http://SuperJMan.deviantart.com/art/Tutorial-131566823

Final Tutorial

This is my final.

Final Tutorial

I am almost done with it and it should be up before the weekend. The piece is not complete but i feel that i have used all the tools i have gained over the class to create a decent tutorial. I hope that it turns out to be useful in showing how i work.

W.I.P

My second day of work is moving just as well as yesterday. I started today by creating a new layer and lowering the opacity to 50% and started building volume. I also started thinking about how extreme lighting from the lighting would effect the things around it (hammer, skin, clouds...). I began working and making color changes through the piece. By now i have about 25-30 layers. I like to at this point go through and combined layers so i can manage them better. I also for fun go through and turn layers off and on to see what it dose to the piece. Sometime i find that by deleting a layer all together makes a piece stronger. In this case it worked i believe. I found that having some of the flat wight from the background layer gave it more of a sky feel.

New idea w.i.p

The last idea i was working on did not feel like it was working. I felt that the scene needed a lot more work then i was willing to commit to it. The idea was sound but the figures were not energetic enough for me to want to continue with it. Whil i was sleeping i came up with a much more dynamic composition. I also switched the character focus to Thor and Jörmungandr.

The start of this pice was the background. I picked a blue and green and created a gradient.

Then i when in on two different layers with a custom cloud brush and created a vortex pattern that

would create a focal point. I then created a new layer and just started sketching to see how i would

lay the figures in the composition. After I figured the posing I used the selection tool to block in the

base colors. Thats what i did today. Tomorrow i am going to start to build form over the base shaps

and start in on a light source

Last week of class

For the last week of class I'm going to be working on a piece for cghub.com drawing jam bi-weekly challenge. The topic is Ragnarok. Here is the start at a low rez. This was done cause the site needed a smaller file to attach it to. I will post a higher rez one later

Reflection

Prof. Babcock told me that i should go back and reflect on my progress today. I did and felt like i have grown as a digital artist. Going into this class i wanted to improve my digital art skills and i feel like i have accomplished this. I have done studies that ranged across all kinds of art styles and feel that it has helped me grow. This is the first class that i have felt really passionate about and felt like i need to strive fore excellence in. Thats why i have been working so hard and spending so much time working to get things done. It is my hope to carrie this on to feather classes and make use of the skills that i have acquired to have a great year in illustration. Can't wait to start the year off and show Prof. Willey and Lynch what i'm made of

Interp.#5 Final

Interp.#5 w.i.p

So i got off work early and have not been able to sleep so i went to working on my interpretation. Things are going to alot faster for some reason. I spent one and 1/2 classes on one figure and now all of a sudden i have to more characters done. I think it needs to be tightened up better but you won't be able to see in the blog. Can't get my images to open in the larger window. I think i'm going to call it quits for the night though.

Interp.#5 w.i.p

I still have alot to do over the weekend but i have one of the figures mostly realized and the composition worked out. Like i said i have alot to do but it should be pretty far along before the weekend is up

Master Study #5

For this pice i made the line art on a layer and on a layer underneath it i just colored in the shapes. It was a simple study and more monotonous then challenging

Interp.#4 corrections

fixed the thumb and could not stop so i kept working on it for the first part of class. Working on my master study now and will post it before midnight.

Master Study #5 image

My next master study is by Sean Galloway. He is a comic book artist that has worked on the comic for TEEN TITANS GO and did all the character design for the cartoon show the Spectacular Spider Man. I chose this pice cause it is a good example of his art style (that and i have been wanting to do a master study of a X-Man for awhile :)