So I'm officially starting into the last week of this semester. It kind of feels like it flew by and I don't really feel ready to leave for now. But anyway, this might be my last blog post before I'm on summer break.
"Animation II Demo Reel"
For my Animation II class, our final was to make a demo reel of all of our projects this year, including the roughs and various stages that it has went through.
"CFD Sketchbook Pages"
Some more additions to my on-going sketchbook project in Commercial Figure Drawing. These are actually my last pages of filling up the sketchbook.
"Pokemon Sketches"
My friends and I have been really in the mood for Pokemon this weekend, so these are some sketches of Pokemon that I did. The first half in pen were all pretty much without references.
We've been working on a walk cycle with personality for the past week or so in my Animation II class. This is a refined design of a character that my brother and I created: Vhan.
"Vhan Personality Walk"
I finished my personality walk cycle (my final for Animation II) this weekend.
"Vhan Concept Sketches"
Some concepts that I did for Vhan, as well as the background.
"Background Design"
The background I did to pan behind the walk cycle. This is from a scene in The Nays in which Vhan, as well as a few others, are eating at a fancy restaurant.
"Character Walk Concepts"
These were some sketches I did while trying to figure out which character to go with for my personality walk cycle. As you can see above, I decided to go with Vhan.
"Animation Gestures"
Some gestures that we did of cartoons in Animation II class.
This week has had its ups and downs, but overall it's been pretty good. My CFD sketches have been improving, which has been making me feel a lot better about myself. So art-wise, things have been going better than usual. And I'm finishing up a bunch of my finals, which means the last few weeks won't be as stressful as usual.
"Piko Re-Designing"
So I decided to try and figure out a new re-design for one of my characters. I've been struggling to find the right kind of design for him, but I think I'm finally coming to something a little better here. The color palette still isn't completely to my liking, but I'll just keep experimenting until I find something better. I'm still considering changing his name too, because I feel like I could come up with something better, but that's still gonna take some time to come up with as well.
"Animation Walk Studies"
Our next assignment in Animation II is to create a walk cycle with personality, so I did some gestural sketches of people walking to try and get a sense of their personalities through a simple walk.
"Illustration Face and Expression Studies"
Some studies we did for my Illustration class, dealing with value, facial structures, and expressions.
"CFD Sketchbook Pages"
Some more additions to my on-going sketchbook project in Commercial Figure Drawing.
"Weeklies Animal Sketches"
This week we sketched a variety of animals, which was actually pretty fun.
So the beginning of this past week was really hectic with scheduling, but for the most part, it seems to have gotten a little bit better. But even so, it's been an awfully busy week with finishing up some digital pieces.
"Multiplane Background Animation"
This is the background that I illustrated, as well as the animation of it above. We're working on a multi-plane background in animation class. So I decided to go with a cave to go along with my blog theme.
"Invisible"
Here's the value study and color study for my comic book cover for Illustration class, titled 'Invisible.'
"CFD Sketchbook Pages"
Some more additions to my on-going sketchbook project in Commercial Figure Drawing.
So this weekend I got a new scanner. No more of those bad quality images for my traditional work. But anyway, my family was in town this weekend so there wasn't quite as much time for art, but I still managed to squeeze some in. Also this past Friday was the Illustration Round Table at my college, in which a bunch of Illustrators from the industry came in and spoke with that. So I got pretty inspired from that.
"My Little Buddy"
So after drawing a bunch of stingrays over spring break, I really realized how much I liked them. This is a quick piece that I did this weekend. I decided to play around with some textures in Sai.
"Speedvore Character Concepts"
I decided to try and expand on my original character ideas for my game-to-be, Speedvore. So I experimented with drawing some various concepts for the three main characters: Gonavee, Sum3, and Speedvore.
"Documentary Storyboards"
Some really quick storyboards that I did for my final Video I project. It's a documentary about my group of friends.
"Illustration Comic Concepts"
Our next project in my Illustration class is to create a comic book cover with ourselves being the main character. After some brainstorming with my friend Jinny, I decided to go with an idea of a comic in which I am the background character. Thus, titling it "Invisible."
"Acrylic Figure Drawing"
In Commercial Figure Drawing this week, we worked with acrylics. My instructor gave us a demo at the start of class, which really taught me how to use acrylics the correct way. Honestly I never really knew much of how to use them until now, so this is probably my most successful acrylic piece thus far.
"CFD Sketchbook Pages"
Some more additions to my on-going sketchbook project in Commercial Figure Drawing.
"Forensic Pathology"
For my Genetics class, our final was to do a research paper on a type of pathology and create a piece of artwork to go along with it. So this is what I came up with.
This week didn't have all that much art from classes, since I didn't have class on Tuesday and Wednesday. Plus I felt like this week was more of a catching up week where I caught up on a lot of work. I also worked on clean-up for Aria this week, which is a short film being produced by the Advanced Time Based Projects class at my school (I have not yet uploaded it and will not until it is completed). Plus it was Jinny's birthday, so lots of celebrating and good fun.
"Prince of All Saiyans"
So I've been re-watching Dragon Ball Z Kai with my roommates and so I decided to do some fanart. We just introduced the series to my friend Jinny and she ended up liking it. So since today's her birthday, I decided to draw her favorite character from it, Vegeta. Also, I haven't done DBZ fanart in forever so this was a lot of fun.
"Me With the Face"
Just a doodle of myself. This was real quick sketch I did. But basically Jinny was talking about this one face that I make, so I decided to draw myself making that face. I still need to figure out a good way to draw myself, but this was another test.
"Special Effects Concept"
This is the concept work I did for my special effects animation. I'm planning on working mostly with smoke.
"Dusk Concepts"
Some concept sketches I did of Dusk. She's going to be the character that I use in my effects animation for Animation II, so I decided to do some sketches of her.
"Special Effects Test Animation"
A test animation of smoke and then a short one of rain. These were just some initial tests that I did for my final effects animation.
"Portrait Practice"
A bunch of portraits I did from photographs as practice. We had to do 3 pages front and back of portraits for my Illustration class.
"Solemn Squid Wash"
This is the first part of my squid painting for Illustration class. I did a basic wash so far, but I plan to finish this piece within the next week or so.
"CFD Sketchbook Pages"
Some more additions to my on-going sketchbook project in Commercial Figure Drawing.
"Pubby Ragger Expression and Model Sheets"
This week at the weeklies, we worked on model sheets and developing a character. I decided to develop Pubby some more since I never made a full model sheet for him. I may finish this one up sometime soon so that I can have a finished model sheet for him.
So I finally decided to update my banner, since it's been awhile. I actually started up concepts for it over winter break, but I didn't get around to actually finishing it until now. Also if you haven't noticed, I changed the name of my blog so that it would add a bit more of my personality to it. Plus I wanted it to be a little bit different. I'll start off this post with the high-resolution version of my banner:
"New Banner"
High-resolution of my new banner.
"Animation Gestures"
Some more gestures done during Animation class.
"Silhouette Practice"
In my Intro to Illustration class, we were given various prompts in which we had to create a unique silhouette of. Some are a lot more established than others, since for our final we are only building upon three of them.
"Ink Study Take 2"
My second time working with ink. This one got a bit more finished than the first round, but there's still work that could have been done to it.
"CFD Sketchbook Pages"
Some more additions to my on-going sketchbook project in Commercial Figure Drawing.
"Cat Practice"
At the Weeklies this week, we drew cats. First we started with gestures, then continued on to make our own characters. I used Pubby and Eather for some of them, but I made up a few new ones.
