Anatomy study... Miles to go

A study done over the weekend of one of my friends. Some progression, not enough, and miles and miles to go... Using a limited color pallette.

Late Nights

A couple of images from my continuing Independent Study with James Clyne. Interior and Exteriors inspired by a trip to Baltimore, Miami and some images of Iran mountain ranges James showed me. I'll see if I can post the process for one of these when I have time. Enjoy!

Sargent Mastercopy

Acrylic on Cold-presses Illustration board

Porco Rosso Redesign

This is some of the work from a project in Character 1. We had to reinterpret a Miyazaki or Disney film into a 2D style, and I used Secret of Kells as my style guide. It was interesting working with the constraints of a style guide, I learned a lot about simplification, editing and shape breakdown.

If you haven't seen secret of kels it's a visual feast. Almost too overpowering for the story but all in all a great movie I wouldn't have been exposed to if I hadn't been looking for amazing 2D animations. You can see the trailer here.

Mastercopies and Studies

A few studies. Sargent, Repin and Tyrese. The Sargent piece turned into a concept painting, which although I enjoy, it simply butcher's all that made sergeants painting holy. Also worked on the composition a bit. The Repin master copy taught me a lot actually, more than I expected. I'll probably do another one after learning a few of the tricks fromBob Kato's Vis Comm. 5 class.

Babylon: Ancient Near East and Gothic Architechture

These were done for Gary Meyers Architecture 1 class. I enjoy this class immensely, both because it's fun to hear lectures on historical architecture and because its FREAKING GARY MEYERS. On this assignment I chose to do a low shot image of a couple of Ziggurats. Being one of the earlier drawing sin term I think there are a few things I would address compositionally that aren't working. Anyways, its interesting to have the dynamic of new classmates and different types of classes going on at once this term and I'll be posting a little more frequently.

Also have to completely redo the value version, but let's call that top one a placeholder for now :P

EDIT: Added a Gothic Interior, the perspective is really push, and the drawing took me longer than I initially thought it would, like most things. Had to use a ruler to keep the three point true... Now if I could do that all free handed I'd be as awesome as Roy Santua.

Photostudies

Just some warm ups, did a little bit of learning through these. Focusing mostly on color and luminosity. Looking back on them there's no subtlety in the transitions.