The time had come to finally deliver something for the DC3 module. It was interesting considering that the only delivery was at the end of the year, but I don’t complain. The final part of the ICA, before handing in things, was to draw pictures of “The continents”.
So here are the drawings that I delivered (had to be twelve, and two of them had to be in traditional media), and it seems like you can learn a lot from observing life to learn to draw as well. I didn’t draw as much this year as I intended to, but still I can see improvement in my work. Wonder what it would look like if I had made drawings all the time… Well, that will be something I’ll have to work on, after all the other modules are finished.
Anyway, here are the pictures that I delivered (in alphabetical order), some unfinished (like the environment and the scavenger), and some of them you’ve seen before. As always, click to resize.
The last part of my ICA is to create something from the continents of the world (meaning I can do almost anything I want), so I’m going to make a Japanese fortress/city. For this I needed a cloud brush, which worked perfectly, but I got lost somewhere… Making a SPACESHIP!!! Oh yeah!
Well, it ended up as a speed painting, testing more brushes from the same package. These brushes are from Adonihs’ deviantart page, and can be found HERE.
Update (26. November 2009): I made this in Photoshop, but after a presentation/tutorial by Nigel Dobbyn at the University, I’ve decided to continue this style in the superior (for inking) Illustrator.
This is an experiment. I went away from my sketchy/painty style and went for some comic book-ish style for this piece.
It just started as a doodle, but I kept working on it. The composition is not good at all, but this is one layer, so I can’t move things around easily. Note to self: Start with composition next time.
I could remove the guy to the right and cut away a tiny bit of the backgrond, then it would be solved, but it wouldn’t be a team anymore.
I’ve been busy with other things this week, but managed to put together an animatic for the AVE assignment.
I took the storyboard pictures, cut them out and imported them in Adobe Premiere. Then the shots we’re put together in the timeline and timed.
Added an animated cloud layer over the exterior shots and a fume layer over the interior shots. They are hard to see in the render I did, but will hopefully be fixed.
I added a piece of music that I intend to use in the final product. Sound effects are yet to be put in.
I think I started on this about two to three hours ago. Now it’s about 3 AM, and this is supposed to be finished in time for the lecture/lab tomorrow.
The assignment was: “Draw a coloured 2D image representing your European star sign or Chinese year sign.”
So I’m both a rat and libra, and wanted to combine them, but meh! Too much work. Got to sleep as well!
I wanted to put the libra sign on the shield, but that’s very time consuming (at least to get it right).
I started out with a line drawing, then shaded it. Made cleaner lines around it, made the shading resemble fur and tried to blend the lines in with the shading. Added colour with a layer set to overlay mode. Tweaked levels. Added texture and more colour via more layers, some set to overlay, some to multiply. Added a spear tip to the staff. Desaturated the overall colour a bit. Flipped the picture horisontally.
Ok, so the whole sketch-a-day project was a failure, but here’s a new drawing:
I made this one for a friend of mine. Took some hours divided in two days to finish. Not being any good at using different pencils I just made the whole thing with a 2B pencil on A4 paper.
Her horse’s name is Fame.
I didn’t expect to use that much time on it, but I’m quite happy with the result.
In other news: Michael and I are going to England 23 September, with his father driving the car. We will arrive 25 September then I will start with Digital Character Animation goodness!
Made with the OLD Wacom tablet. Just IMAGINE the possibilities with the magnificent and fantasticular Intuos 4!
I just added ‘Stuff’ to the gallery along with some old pictures.
Earlier today I woke up by a TNT-man(or UPS-guy) ringing the doorbell. Obviously he hated his job and probably wanted to strangle a monkey, but he gave me my brand newWacom Intuos 4 tablet first.
Oh joy! It didn’t work at first *panic*, but found some drivers on the net that fixed my problems *relief*.
It’s a lot better and sensitive than the Wacom I borrowed at school.
Now I just got to make something with it. Hmmm… Animating or “painting”. Animating or “painting”…
I’m a 25 year old norwegian male student, currently residing in Middlesbrough, UK
My goal is to get a bachelor degree in Digital Character Animation at Teesside University, and get into the industry as an animator or concept artist(when I’m good enough).
This blog is here partially to push myself to become a better artist.
