Finishing My Comic Cover

Finishing up my comic book cover for Illustration class. Here you can see the process that I went through from start to finish.

Initial Value and Color Study:


Inked:

Final Piece:

The Return of Piko

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.

Through the Cave and in the City

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.

Concepts of Comic Book Me

So it's coming to that point of the year where it's really nice outside, but then there are finals and it's just so hard to stay focused. Plus there's scheduling tonight,  so I'm super stressed about that. Somehow I've been able to sketch a lot nonetheless. Anyway, here's what I've got for this week.

"Self Character Concepts"

These are a bunch of different styles I did of myself in the outfit that I'm pretty that I'm going with. Basically we're making a comic book cover in Illustration class and I am the main character. My favorite one is probably the third one.

"Self Marker Drawings"

Some initial character sketches I did of myself. These are the different outfits that I wear, but I decided to go with the last one to expand on. The one under it is a quick marker doodle that I did to figure out the right colors and feel for my more finished marker drawings above.

 

"Thumbnail Covers"

Some concept covers I came up with. I'm thinking about going with the one on the second page with the check mark next to it.

"Gesture Poses"

Some gesture drawings I did from comic book pages for my Illustration class.

"Acrylic Guitar Figure"

This is the piece that I did for our final in-class day for my Commercial Figure Drawing class. We were given the opportunity to choose whichever medium we wanted to use, and I decided to go with Acrylics. Ever since the previous class, I have felt a lot more excited to experiment with acrylics and determined to improve and learn how to paint with them well. So this was one more step towards that goal, which I will definitely try to head towards more this summer.

"CFD Sketchbook Pages"

Some more additions to my on-going sketchbook project in Commercial Figure Drawing.

"Pubby Doodles"

Some doodles I did while I was studying after meeting with Sarah, the creative coach whom I went to for some advice.

New Scanner!

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.

Beginning of Spring Break

So Spring Break started for me on Friday afternoon and it's been going pretty well for the most part. So far I haven't done too much art besides sketching people, but I've been getting some Liberal Arts assignments out of the way first. And unfortunately my scanner broke so I've only been able to take photos of the stuff I've done traditionally. I hope I can get it working or at least get a new scanner sometime soon.

"Speedvore Initial Character Sketches"

My very first sketches of some of these characters. These are definitely just concepts that will be refined at a later date. So these characters are from the game my brother, Steve, and I are planning on making this summer. We still need to establish personalities and who each individual character is before progressing onward with the final character designs obviously.

"Music Video Storyboards"

Some really quick storyboards I did for my music video project in Video I class. I'm using A Lot Like You by The Offspring as my song.

"Cool Guy"

A quick portrait practice I did of Kazuo Kiriyama from Battle Royale. It's basically just a start, but I felt like doing some digital painting since I haven't done any in forever. I was going for more of a realistic style, but it just looks like a sketch at the moment. I may or may not go back and fix it up.

"Solemn Squid"

This is more progress on my squid painting for Illustration class. I'm unsure if it is finished or not, but I'll see what happens in the next week with progress.

 

 "CFD Sketchbook Pages"

Some more additions to my on-going sketchbook project in Commercial Figure Drawing.

"Ink Wash"

My first attempt at ink wash, which was not as successful as I would have liked for it to have been.

Catching Up Week

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.