Saturday, September 29, 2012

Advanced Perspective I

Aha..!  Finally, Joko's legendary Advanced Perspective class.  The class atmosphere is more easy-going than I expected.  The real challenge of this class is living up to the very high standards set by classmates in previous semesters.

 Themes: Samura, Geisha, Noah's Ark.

Heads passing horizon line.

Midsection passing horizon line.
The background here is a crop from a low res stock preview on 123RF. I like the color palette in this one, so I think I will render it out later, repainting the background from scratch and drawing the reflections appropriately in perspective.  (A previous example of reflections in actual perspective should share this reflection tag).

Figures below horizon line (two-dimensional print perspective).

Figures on and above horizon line.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Thursday, August 2, 2012

tegaki sketchbook III

In this post: Running out of coffee, color manipulation, and vikings with beards.







[ninja edit: replacing a redundant color manip with the San Francisco skyline at sunset.]

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Ninja Slice of Life

Here is an assignment from Spring. I was granted this amusing prompt: Ninjas in the classical Winnie the Pooh pen and ink style. This was modified to include "daily life". From there, I followed a pretty standardized development process.

After sketching various specific Japanese locations, I did a quick painting of the "city" which would include them. The castle would anchor all of them as a background element.. in theory.  I chose the daytime setting.  Ninjas sneaking around under cover of night would be too predictable - no, my ninjas will be doing their laundry and taking their morning jogs under light of day!

Next was character development. Two characters: either a protagonist/antagonist pair, or hero/sidekick. I determined to create a ninja family, with an awkward Dad (guilty of all the tropes; bad jokes, sweat pants, fishing, newspapers, etc) and a responsible daughter type.

Thumbnailing compositions!  Once summer classes end, I will likely complete all of these except #2.

#3 was taken to finish first:
I'm bothered by many things, mostly the empty space (castle didn't make it in time), but it has some charming qualities I hope.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Quickstudies (Nude Figure)







Jungian Still Life


Rework of an old still life, in watercolor rather than oil.  The color and teabox have improved for sure, while the value transitions suffered on the teapot.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

tegaki sketchbook

[Formatting edit. I have been uncertain for some time whether doing this puts it at the top of the reader feed again - I rather hope it does not because I am awfully finicky with tagging and formatting. ): ]


I've been experimenting with emulating some styles digitally. The tool is a hard edge brush with 10 levels of opacity.






Attempting to emulate blocky oil painting here.






Flat gouache or acrylic.





Pen with some washes.





This was built up from brushes at 10-20% opacity.





Another inky style.


I think I enjoy finding and merging dark masses, and accentuating them with lines.  I will work like this for a while.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Redeemed Riven Paper Template




The head and body can be assembled without glue or tape by using the tabs.  The sword and arms will require some sort of adhesive.  Card stock will print better and make a much sturdier figure.  Cut it out carefully with a hobby knife.  This is a mod of the "Paper Dude" template by custompapertoys.  Enjoy!

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Monday, March 26, 2012

Oil sketches



Not sure what inspired this style.  Been watching some demos by Greg Manchess and Donato Giancola via conceptart, though.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Riven



A portrait of Riven, from League of Legends!