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.
Alphabet: D for Dragon Head
Continue reading ‘DC3: Handing in the ICA’
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.
Now back to work!
The illustrations that I’m going to present: (click to enlarge)
Continue reading ‘DC3: Presentation’
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’.
Updated after getting feedback from teacher:
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
