Sunday sketch

More Post Semester Art Dumping

Last post was from Concept Design Class, today's post comes from Digital Painting. My first piece was done with some water color texture and a fun idea:

Maybe this is what the villain in Quantum of Solace hallucinated before he took a drink...

Piece 2 was my final: EPIC Space Dragon Battle!!!

I'm working on some personal work this summer, so more to come!

Post Semester Art Dump: Concept Design

It's over!!!! I survived (barely) what was probably my most stressful and busy semester. Hopefully it's downhill from here. On the plus side I did do a lot of art, so without further ado lets get to it.

Firstly is my concept design class. For the last month we selected 2 characters from this fantasy short story. We did a turnaround of each and a final illustration:

The wizard is named Ezdagor and he was not my favorite by any means, though I do like how the fire turned out. My real effort and fun went into the following character:

This Bad A is HoanDor, some sorcerer character that is described as gristly and sable. I interpreted that to mean he was held up with many tendons and it kind of snowballed from there.
I won the award for most disturbing character, so I'll take that. Stay tuned for pieces from the rest of my classes.

Keeping it alive

I'm right in the middle of the end of semester crunch and as a result my posting here has been slim. Luckily I have a spare moment at work and some images on my iPad of a project from my previous semester crunch.

The assignment was to do an illustration based on a piece from any dead illustrator. I quickly (and naively) chose JC Leyendecker and found this piece:

I took the idea into a more modern era and with my wife and myself as reference I went to work.

I took these horribly yellow progress shots with my iPad along the way, I've never done an oil piece of this size and it kicked my butt for a good awhile. I think by the end I had some kind of idea what I was doing and I learned a bunch in the process.

That's it for now, I shall return in about 3 weeks with work from this semester to show off!

Happy Congrats You Have Cancer Day!

My wife and I no longer celebrate Valentine's Day. It holds no special value to either of us because something else far more personal and shared took place that day. 6 years back we had just started dating and I asked her out for Valentine's. At the same time I was starting to feel very weak and sick pretty much all the time. The day before Valentine's I went to the hospital to see what was going on where I found out I had very little blood in my body and needed a transfusion. That brings us to Valentine's Day. My then friend had come over that evening along with my family and while she was there the doctor came in to tell me I had Leukemia. What followed was months of chemo and treatments and fevers and crappiness all around except for her being there and helping me through it.

As a result we celebrate that "great" news I received every year since because 1. I'm still alive and 2. she is the reason why. For this year I had been working on this piece for quite some time to give to her. She's a Harry Potter nut so there she is with her beautiful yet ferocious patronus. Happy to report that she was quite fond of it as well. Happy Congrats You Have Cancer Day, Love.

Red Riding Hood scares me

In keeping with the twisted fairy tale theme I've given Red Riding Hood a shot. I've decided I might have some vendetta against little fairy tale girls. This is a WIP so I hope to get a finished post up in the next week or two. Just gotta keep this blog alive! Let me know what you think and what I can improve.

Dang you Goldilocks!

The final assignment in digital painting was to do an illustration on the theme of "3 Bears". That could mean anything and some people did some pretty crazy things. I decided to stick with the first thing most people think of, but with a twist. I never found Goldilocks to be a very sympathetic character. I'm sure if the story continued it would get to this point. "Goldilocks, insulted that the 3 bears did not like how she broke into their house and broke their stuff, came back that evening teach them a lesson..."