Hangar Approach

It's been a long time, sorry about that! Was hoping to be doing more finished stuff, but instead I've been doing a lot more studies, trying to go back and hone in my fundamentals. This was a little exercise in both sci-fi styling and playing with materials. There's a little menagerie of anatomy issues, but I got what I wanted out of it so decided to move on.

Perdido Street Station

Finally! This was 5-6 weeks worth of a single class this semester. It was quite a sprint! I feel like very often at Art Center there's this push to say "I need to do some animation style" or "I need to do some live-action style" stuff, and for once, I'm happy to not decide on a style, but just sit down and draw whatever came out. This is definitely not an exercise in originality or high-end polish, but I learned a lot about myself from not trying to force myself down any one tunnel. Due to the short time frame, this end result as a lot farther behind then where I had hoped in week 1. Can't wait to get out of school so I can think at my own pace again and hopefully start breaking some new ground, mentally speaking.

EDIT: In case anyone is wondering, I made an enormous error when I did this project years ago- while listening to the audiobook I managed to completely miss the fact that Isaac is, in fact, black, so I had drawn\painted him as white. I took it down until I have time to redesign the character and do it justice. Please accept my apologies for that :(

Thank you all for looking, I hope you enjoy it!

Oracle

It's been a while... This was done for one of the community activities on CGHub. About to enter my last year of Art Center, I'm looking forward to doing lots of figure drawing. There are lots of issues I'm running into realizing how much more time I wish I had to go the last 3 years. Unfortunately, Ent Design's schedule doesn't make too much room for the workshops :<

The rest of term 6

Here's again, just some of the better part of the term for me. 

Polis

Some of the only blogworthy work from our Color Theory project this term. :\

Character 1: Second Half

Felt like being a render monkey, and experimented with some photobashing on the creature. After about week 10-11, fifth term leveled out and became pretty easy. Instead of doing more work for classes or spending more time rendering what I had, I invested more time doing personal sketching and painting. Or watching movies. Definitely ready for sixth term.

Character Designs

Alright, this project was for Character Design 1 with Hong Ly and Kevin Chen, two of the most amazing teachers we've had so far at ACCD. Our classes are on Saturday from 9AM to 4PM, but it seems like it just never lasts long enough. The projects are fun, the crits are amazing, it's really great. Here was our first of two projects this term: A miyazaki movie in an animated stlye- anything from Dexter's Lab to Samurai Jack to Pixar or Dreamworks was our range, so for a large change of pace I attempted to do something 'Dreamworks' like. I'm not happy with the designs still, and the final poses I chose are extremely static, but I can't afford time in term to fix that stuff now, it's on to new projects! I'm going to post the development sketches as well so people have some insight on to how I arrived at the finals: As a final note- there were definitely good and bad sketching days, but I've decided not to edit the worse ones for the sake of transparency. Also, for the final renders there is no 3d used, only 2 or 3 photo-textures to add some insta-realism.

With this post comes the close of the first half of Art Center Life.

One of my final paintings for Costume design. Very rushed but the best of the 3.

Some Costume design... more on the way.

Hey everyone! This is just a costume design illustration comp as well as the thumbs and comps that lead up to it (please excuse the template that shows through on some of the drawings, didn't print it light enough apparently)... have a few more coming down the pipe soon!

The other weekend my car broke down and a few of my friends from art center really helped me out. Want to give a shout to Alex, Lindsey, Rebecca and Danny. check them out.