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.
An update! Woohoo!!!
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.
And here’s the result:
