Día de los Muertos

Here is a warm up painting I did based on the Spanish day of the dead. It's pretty cool to have several days where you celebrate those who have passed on. Being all sad is over rated, might as well party it up! They get to wear some awesome make up and costumes to boot! Another experience to add to my bucket list.

Dailies again

Moar dailies. Clouds...my other weakness >=(

Dailies

Moar dailies. One hour speed paints once again...waterfalls are hard ;(

Return of the Studies

I realized it's been almost an eternity since I've done any studies, time to bring em back! This one is an hour, not too happy with it and definitely realized I could do with a more efficient approach. More practice is needed!

Sweet Arabian Dreams

A concept about what an Arabian princesses bedroom might look like, my style >=)

Sweet dreams everyone!

Blogger still killing image quality....bye bye sharp edges :(

Dragon rawr!

Here is a concept for a story I'm creating that I hope to someday bring to the big screen! Here are two different versions, one with slightly more intense colors and contrast. I feel like all of my paintings are missing something, but just can't put my finger on what it is at this point...very elusive >=( Hope everyone has a great reading week and gets to relax a bit before the last stretch. Time is just flying by and before we know it, it'll be summer...CAN'T WAIT FOR WARM WEATHER! Until next time...take it easy everyone!

Egyptian Airship

Here's a painting I finished a few weeks ago! Still trying to loosen up, not as easy as it sounds though :(

Year of the Dragon

Legend has it...that if the new year lands on your zodiac sign, that it is somewhat of a curse! :O You will face many barriers and things won't necessarily go according to plan. Surviving a full year of bad luck seems a little overwhelming! But Dragons can take on anything >=) That's only if you believe in that kind of superstition of course...hmmm.

Anyways! Here are a few more of my paintings. Both digital pieces were done during the holidays, the carnival one being a revamp of a concept I did in first year, the gouache version of which can be found somewhere around here....

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Here are a couple of assignments from first term. The painting was fun but I'd burn the whole thing and do it over with some actual planning lol.

Lanternnnnnnns

Yes, I love the Chinese lantern festivals, and thought to myself..."HOW AWESOME WOULD IT BE TO MAKE THEM 100 TIMES BIGGER AND THEN PUT THEM IN A GIANT FOREST." And so this painting was born...

I have never changed the composition of a painting so much, honestly more than ten times at least. Thanks to Maureen for teaching me that sometimes the best way to make your painting work is to destroy it. Falling in love with your initial ideas can be dangerous and keep it from reaching it's potential. One day I would love to go and actually see one of these festivals in the flesh.

Anyways, hope you enjoy it! And until next time...well Halloween is coming up and thus parties so...still stay thirsty my friends!

I'm in love with a robot!...head in a garage...

Title inspired by a sweet song! "The Girl and The Robot" Jean Elan Remix! Anyways.... ;)
Here is my layout I did for our assignment. We had to separate it into layers which was super annoying since I drew the entire thing on one page and then had to redraw half the background digitally. And yes the perspective is wonky in some areas, got a bit lazy. I especially butchered the Nissan GTR, will fix that. But whatevs...it is done, can't say the same for the painted version, we'll save that for another post. Until next time, stay thirsty my friends!

Lifes Heart

Here is my latest painting, once again a revamp of a sketch, and gouache painting, that I did towards the beginning of the school year. This took way longer than I expected, due to restarting the painting about fives times in order to capture a more interesting perspective. Getting the colors to look somewhat natural was also a real struggle for me, some reference would have made my life way easier! Overall I'm fairly happy with the final piece, but it's still no where close to what I want to achieve. And you know what that means...more practice! But for now it will come in handy for decorating my new room. Let me know what you think, areas I can improve etc! Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Until next time...



P.S. Grrr The quality keeps getting messed up when I post paintings and seems to be pix-elating them a bit. I've tried saving the file as normal jpeg and also using the optimize for web option. Does anyone know why blogger is screwing up the image quality?

Fields of Destruction.

Here is another quick painting I just finished! Again it is based off of a sketch I did during the school year.

First summer painting, hopefully of many!

Here's my latest painting. I took one of the layouts I had drawn during the school year and decided to practice my digital painting on it. I altered the dimensions and composition a little bit based off of what I have learned since the original sketch in hopes of improving on it. With most of my paintings thus far, I find that I have a tendency to spend way too much time on the details. So this project was really focused on loose brush work and implied detailing. I also played around with brushes a bit more. This has definitely been my fastest painting so far, and overall I am pretty happy with it. But I still am a long way from the point I want to be at, which just means more practice. Stay tuned!

Yes...Layouts again!

Here are some of the layouts I've done over the past few months. Really dynamic and interesting compositions and perspectives still manage to elude me, hopefully over the summer I can break that wall down!

We're Free!

The end of the year has finally arrived and boy did the last semester fly by. It seems like just yesterday we all came back from Christmas break and now, here we are, ready for several months of some much needed sunshine. Congratulations and thank you to everyone for an amazing year! I look forward to spending many more with all of you. Have a a great summer everyone.

I'll start by posting several of my paintings. I don't have the last couple of assignments in my current possession, so they'll have to wait!

Intermission

Here's a mini update for the time being, just some layouts I did around the winter break.

Tekkon Kinkreet Painting.

After being inspired by Tekkon Kinkreet, we were given the chance to recreate a background layout from a movie for a painting assignment and I just couldn't resist doing something out of it. The layouts are mind blowing to say the least, they have definitely changed the way I draw and made me realize how much more work I have to do to get to that level. It also gave me a new appreciation for how much work was put into the entire project. To think that some of the backgrounds probably took days, if not weeks to paint, only to appear on screen for mere seconds makes me shudder. But the end result was worth it, and in the end that's what matters. This the only painting I've been happy coming out of the first term, but it looks like we have some really cool assignments in the present forecast, should be fun!

Layouts V 2.0

Here are some more of the layouts that I've been scribbling down throughout the year. I fear I have gotten into a bit of a rut in terms of composition and perspective, everything seems to end up sharing the same general design which really needs to change. It seems to be a mental block that is proving difficult to overcome, almost like I am scared to venture out of my comfort zone and experiment and just go wild. But alas, it is finally winter break and I can finally focus on my own personal projects, should be fun! And without further ado here are the layouts which I also handed in for class as part of my personal portfolio.










This Egyptian painting isn't even close to being done but I doubt I'll finish it, so figured I should post it anyways. It shows a little bit of my thought process in terms of color and atmosphere which isn't really conveyed through my sketches. Think of it as a color key.

Character and Bones and Holidays!

So today was our last day of school before winter break, boy did the first term fly by. Looking back, I am not sure if I made as much progress as I feel I should have. It could be that I just need to take some time off and take a step back from my work to put everything in perspective. Nevertheless I shall continue on and see what happens, that's all we can really do. I just finished watching Tron as a finale for the end of first term, and I must say it was quite the visually stunning movie. I would highly recommend everyone to see it on the big screen if they get the chance. The Daft Punk soundtrack was awesome too! And I want to wish everyone a great holiday and hope you all get some sleep for once, you deserve it! Anyways I hate talking so much, here is some more of my work, enjoy!




I guess I should post some character stuff since I avoid it like the plague. I really hate feeling so frustrated when I do anything involving characters, there is just something about it that doesn't click with me. I guess it doesn't help that I don't do any real practice or that I quit after five minutes of trying. Looks like I'll have to smack myself and try to get better.

As well, here is the title page and one of five pages for my bone drawing assignment. I did about 85% of it the night before so I didn't have enough time to get my concept realized. Basically I was going for a high tech laboratory creating a robot based on the human skeleton. But it's my own fault for leaving a several month long exercise until the night before. The final bone sheets had labeling as well which I found out that we needed to do after class had all ready started. Yeah it was a brutal and late night to say the least, but it felt amazingly good to have it over with.