Art, Portfolio, Showreel
My hard drive crashed. While my computer is up and running again with a new hd and Win 7, I’ve lost all my files. Every single one.
I curse thee, foul desolate storage units of despair!!!
The good thing though, is that I have Win 7 as opposed to Vista, and I’ve started backing up my files online.
This is a major setback in every module at school, but I don’t think it’s hopeless. I just have to workincredibly hard . Yes, it sucks, but I’ve learned a very important lesson. Backup your files!
The illustrations that I’m going to present: (click to enlarge)
Made this one over the night, as I don’t have much to show on the presentation today.
It’s a concept for a futuristic scout on a distant world… *sigh* Yes, “space marines” are fun to create.
D for Dragon Head is done and ready for the presentation on Friday.
Eleven more to go *sigh*
I started with my initial sketch and coloured on a new layer in with a natural brush set to ‘colour’. Adjusted opacity. Made a gradient fill with texture for background, then I started painting with a natural brush set to ‘normal’, with angle jitter turned up to around 70-80%. Then I adjusted levels and saturation.
Here’s the final image:
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.
And yes, Mike Mignola is awesome…
I was looking through my sketch folder and found this, which I apparently did 22. October…
…Which I played around with until I got this:
Now I just have to finish the thing.
The balance of the character is of course wrong, but I will fix this later, when I continue working on it.
I will give him/it some weapon and maybe decorate him with skulls and bones, to make him/it become ‘H’ for ‘Hunter’.
Just to give myself motivation an a clear plan to follow I’ve made a list of what I want to draw(mostly characters, as I suck at making environments):
(List will be updated until I’ve decided on what I want to draw)
A: Alien Creature
B: Bridge or Baba Yaga
C: Cannon Bearer, Cthulhu, Crusader or Centaur
D: Dragon
E: Emperor or Epona
F: Femme Fatale
G: Guardian, Galaxy, Goblin or God
H: Hunter
I: Inca
J: Jerusalem
K: Knight or King
L: Lion, Lighthouse or Longboat
M: Minotaur, Monster
N: Night
O: Officer
P: Pirate (yarrrr!!), Planet
Q: Quest
R: Robot
S: Scavenger
T: Tavern, Tower
U: Unicorn
V: Viking, Vampire, Victory or Volcano(-temple?)
W: Wizard, Witch, Werewolf or War
X: “X marks the spot”
Y: Yggdrasil (the world tree)
Z: Zombie Legionary
Last Friday I showed my sketches for the assignment to one of the teachers, and some of the criticism was that my work was too generic (not exact words).
Here is a modified sketch that I just worked on:
I started to think of where it would be cool to see a zombie; a medieval setting, viking setting etc. and ended up with the Roman Empire, which I haven’t seen used too much when making undead.
So what I did was to add legionary armour to the zombie, which I had to google for reference.
I will keep adding more sketches in the next few days, and perhaps scan in some of my sketchbook as well.
Update:
I just remade the dragon head as well. It’s based on a some lizards and crocodiles, to move a bit away from Disney’s dragon design from ‘Sleeping Beauty’ (1959), which has been the basis for a lot of typical fantasy dragons… Just a bit
And a design even further away from the standard fantasy dragon:
This one actually creeps me out a bit. I tried to challenge myself and design a creature a bit different than i usually do… Which seemed to work, so I should probably continue taking small steps out of my comfort zone.
We have been given an assignment again. This time we’re supposed to create a picture for each of the letters in the alphabet. Here’s some sketches I just did in Photoshop:
D for Dragon:
F for Femme Fatale (there’s something wrong with this sketch, but I don’t know what it is):
Z for Zombie:
So I hope to get some constructive feedback. I suspect they’ve expected to see more sketches, but I’ve been busy with other things this week.
I’ve just started on three courses over at FXPHD, simply because I didn’t know much about compositing, which is vital to pass the Advanced Visual Effects module here at Teesside.
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.
Jeff Smith, Mike Mignola, Jhonen Vasquez, Steve Purcell, Andrew Loomis, Alan Lee, John Howe, James Gurney, Richard Williams, Ed Hooks, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Sergio Leone, David Fincher, J.R.R. Tolkien, Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, ILM
