Idea test/video experiment

On Friday I decided to use the newly painted ogre creature to create a mock up for what I will be producing next year, I have been worried the effects of 2D characters in 3D environments will look out of place and not work to create a dynamic new way of presenting characters..

I create PNGs of the arms at first and animated them in after effects, Blogger hasn't allowed me to upload the video unfortunately but using a 3D environment I found online the outcome was actually quite impressive though from this test I learned that it will probably be best to do the line work for the character, place them in the environment before colouring to make sure the lighting is correct for the scene

Revisit

After experimenting with my old character sheets I also decided to go back and recolour a character I produced in my honours project, the character was a goblin like giant and as I already had the linework I used the rest of the that Tuesdays lesson to recolour it, (the old one on the left)

The new version had alot more depth to it however it lacked character which the original had, now whether thats because of the scattered brush i used on the original or the colour choice im not sure all I no is that the two outcomes have confused me greatly.. though Im really starting to get a hang of the painting technique!

With the last part of the lesson I decided to go back to an old silhouette face that I really enjoyed and felt had alot of potential however the shading I had done at the time lost the initial concept-ed Idea so I produced this quickly, already alot me in depth and true to the concept however still lacking in my opinion..

Its been a while my friend!

So alot of time has passed since I l uploaded anything on my blog however I have still managed to do a large amount of work it was just finding the time to document it on here which was difficult, so anyway.. since last time I been practicing painting as much as I can and a couple of weeks again I showed Josh a character sheet I had produced in third year of uni so he told me to colour those instead of drawing new ones as they where front facial profiles perfect for colouring

I coloured the three below first in slightly different styles, despite the sickly colours each was produced in a matter of minutes, some with the line work merged into the colour and all done with the tonal detail being a lowered opacity solid black shading

After these I practed more as the character sheet consisted of about 20 creatures faces and below are the results..

The largest one from these was the best piece of digital painting I had done so far oddly, by blending the colours into the linework and highlighting ebrow ridges with solid coloured lines and also the implementation of apposing colours to compliment it I was shocked by the depth this image had and now Im aiming to achieve this with all future works

I also key pointed the stages I went through while colouring these faces for future references

Female Painting "study"

After practicing painting the skyrim concept art peice I decided to try and paint from a photo this time so I chose a delicious female as the subject matter and began painting, after about an hours work I grew tired of the peice as so much of it was based of subtle white shades however I still felt it was a good source of research to practice

 

Artwork study and practice

So over the last couple of days I've wanted to take a already existing art piece with great lighting and copy it myself to try and pick up some techniques or whatever so I found this skyrim battle scene and decided to copy that as its lighting and coloring was stunning, The process of copying this piece was over whelming at first as the quality is much higher than my own however after an hour or so I produced this result..

Im pleased with the outcome and now im excited about producing my own battle scenes with my own characters but until I still need practice though I'm feeling as though I'm getting somewhere now I've learnt the painting technique I just need to master it!!

Animal light paintings

So in todays lesson I completed my animal painting study sheet and I'm really happy with the results, I switched brushes for the bottom three dog paintings which has given them a slightly different appearance to the others they look more painted and less blurred together with a soft brush like the others, I'm still looking for more things to practice painting and im planning on either doing 3 tone character paintings or I will take a piece of concept art and copy it to try and understand the elements of the piece I'm copying

Not really sure what I did here..

As I said in the previous post its been a while since I updated this and unfortunately due to Halloween shin digs and working Ive not had a chance to do much :( so today I had a go at coloring an old silhouette to test if I was getting any better, I kept it fast as I don't want to be precious about detail until Ive mastered the basics however Im disappointed in the result, it lacks everything the outcome is nothing like the concept for this character. *Signs*

Last weeks work

So its been a while since I last updated my blog, In last Tuesdays lesson I used scanned in sketches of character faces and went about shading them in using the same technique Josh was showing me using two solid tones to start off then blending with lowered opacity brushes and there are the results, Em still lacking in understanding of lighting etc but I'm also running out of characters to colour I'm starting to think I should practice other peoples work, coping a well light scene would help alot I'm guessing.

Anyway below is the results of my painting,

The bottom left and one up i only used three tones as Josh was sat with me at this point and he told me to take that image onto another page and work on that while still only using three tones and then add colour to it to enhance it the result below isn't a high standard but the understanding of tone works well in it so this use of minimal tones needs practice which is where I'm heading next!