#161

This Friday, Jon Clapp gave a great lecture on the optics and science of water for illustrators. I learned a lot and wanted to apply what I'd learned in a painting. I also tried to apply Goro's advice and really push the light and mood.

Todd McFarlane interview - Kingdoms of Amalur

I was delighting to see this video in my youtube subscription box today. its a 30 minute video with 2 people I admire in two totally different ways. Sean (day9) Plot interviewsT odd McFarlane on the new game: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, of which Todd was art director. I played the game a little bit and the art and animation is superb. So naturally I was excited to watch this.

#160 Paintover by Goro + a few figures

Goro Fujita gave me a great crit on my last painting noting that I can push the light further. Ive been doing this same thing with my last few paintings, so I'm really going to work on pushing the light for my next few. Here's my origianl and Goro's paint over side by side.

I really like what he did by pushing the warm lights and adding some atmosphere.

Thanks Goro!

And here's a few figures I liked from today.

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#159

yay school started! 4 studio classes, lots to learn. Somehow squeezed this in.

#158 - King

I recently picked up "Alla Prima: Everything I know About Painting" by Richard Schmid. And learned a lot about edges, focal point, a bit about color. I tried to apply what I learned to this painting.

Life drawing marathon

I attended my first figure drawing marathon this year, 4 days of figure drawing with amazing guest speakers: Mark McDonnell, Cameron Chun, and Glen Vilppu. I had a lot of fun and learned so much and got a ton of practice in before Sheldon's anatomy class next semester. Although, I must say the timing on shutting down the heat in the building for a week could not have come at a worse time.

Anyway, I had a blast and hope we continue this tradition in the years to come, I'll look forward to them. It would be nice to compare these drawings to the ones I do a year from now at the next marathon!

# 157 Lake House

Color Practice

Very vaguely inspired by TinTin. Saw it in IMax 3d recently and it was amazing.

my illustration teacher gave me a great critique on this one concerning the composition so i changed that a bit.

I spent hours messing with the colors on this one though, and I'm still not happy with it. but its time to move on.

Desert View

Hello! hope you all had a good New Year,

Heres the lines and simple values for the next piece I'll be working on.

I've found that putting in the time and effort to get a solid thumbnail and tight lines really pays of during the coloring part, making it a whole lot more fun.

Color soon!

Finished!

High Rez (click)

Demons, Daggers, children and playgrounds

Working on value and silhouette. Color tomorrow!

 

Also Worked on this a bit

#156 JnJ paintover

Spent a better half of today painting over my Illustration, so this is hardly a speed painting, but I learned a ton.

I browsed Nathan Fowke's plein air paintings alot so Its probably heavily influnced by his work. He's an amazing artist.

#155 Purple Pants

Unlike many of my other speed paints, I started with a gesture and developed it into pretty detailed line work. I think this allowed me to be more confident during my painting process.

Painting Jack and Jill

I put so much time on my Illustration final, I decided to paint it as well. Still in progress.

The Making of "The Black Soulstone"

My friend Alvin pointed me to this hour long video of the process of creating this beautiful cinematic Its amazing how much reference gathering they do before any production. It seems, the better the artist, the more reference they gather. correlation maybe? haha check it out!

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Practice from photo

#153 Cowboys & Aliens

Cowboys & Aliens screen cap study.

Final pencils

Final pencil rendering for my final. next up, ink!

tweaked levels in Photoshop to push values I couldn't get with the graphite I was using.
9x12 on Bristol board.