Custom Brush

For the animal fur, cat whiskers, and random lines brushes, I followed the tutorial on pg.12-22 of Digital Painting Techniques Volume 1

Final Project

This is a 20''x16'' painting. I followed the tutorial from Digital Painting Techniques Volume 1. I followed the "Painting Fur" tutorial on pg. 118-121
Step 1: Find your reference materials and fill in the background. Briefly outline the general shape of your subject
Step 2: paint in key colors (browns and white in this case)
Step 3: use the smudge tool to soften the edges
Step 4: Try to start refining a few of the details. Use an airbrush to show a few individual strand
Step 5: Add more fine strokes according to the direction the fur grow. Lastly, work on the eyes. The tutorial for the eyes can be found on pg.122-125

The key things I learned from this tutorial was the important of blocking in the key forms, and making sure that everything is very suggestive. I did not have to individually make single strands of hair to let the viewer know that it is a hair. Only a few strands was refined to suggest that we are looking at the fur, and blocking in the information first really make it easy to keep the artist mindful of the types of hair they are looking at (heavy clumps of hair or light and thin strands.

Inspiration

This is my "Inspiration" project. Originally, I was trying to study the works of Vincent Van Gogh. I tried to mimick the thick texture (bottom photo) he used to create movement. However, I was not very successful so I attempted something different. I tried to play around with the colors to retain the energy that was flowing from the giraffes to capture the mother-daughter feeling.
After the peer critique, Mrs.Saslow recommended I look up the work of Franz Marc, and his style is similar to mine. I love the vibrant colors he used for his subject and background. At first I couldn't decide if I wanted to keep my background a solid color (2nd photo) or put in an actual background. So here is a finished version of my progress. Although I did not entirely achieved the style of Franz Marc, I really enjoyed learning the ways he used color to convey emotions and landscapes. The colors were distributed throughout the painting so the entire composition will seems more synchronous.

Flying fish

Character design ended up being a flying rainbow fish. Was originally going to draw the god of Autodesk Maya (TM) but after several sketches... this happened.

I won't lie. I got lost in my own painting. At one point, I seriously asked myself what in the world I was making. There were so many ways I could have taken it. Here is the bizarre painting. I'm still going to change some thing like the platform on the right.

Final

"Healer's Touch"

Final

UG Wed 9am; Thursday VIZAGOGO 12 noon Thursday, Federal Building

Neil
Adam
Nick
Monica

Adam
Catherine
Travis

FINAL projeck

My final creature, i had fun.  it is cool.

Disney Final DONE!

Here is my final final! I had a lot of fun with this. The Disney brushes were a HUGE help

final

Final Creature Design

My Final Product!

Final

Final Project

Final Character Design - Warrior

Here's my final character design... Decided to take my original warrior concept and develop it towards a more sci-fi/post-apocalyptic marauder feel... Had a lot of fun with this!

Final

Final

Final

Still going to work on the fur and eyes more. And maybe change the background if I get around to it.

Final Project

Originally I was doing an environment and the skull was going to be an entrance but I ended up playing around more with the colors and liked how it looked so decided to leave it. I may go back and finish my original ideas and add more detail, but for now I am pleased with the results. Feedback is welcome!

Final Project

  

final WIP

It still needs a lot of work, but here is WIP for my final.

Disney Final Project

Here is my final project, but it still needs a little more work.

Decision

Concept 4 Update: I have decided to go with the herbivorous looking long necked creature in the top row,

Concept Art Final

In the beginning, I wanted to make this very realistic and then the longer I worked on the bricks, the more I realized I wanted to make it playful and similar to a children's story book. Once I started to make everything else less detailed I decided I liked the contrast between the simple and the detailed so I kept the stone the way it was.

Final WIP

this one is going to be my final creature, if still have a lot to do (color/details)

here are some of the silhouettes that i did for the final creature design

Concept Art Final Neil

I thought I had lost this in my frustration with project 3. I deleted it off of my flash drive in frustration. I knew I had saved it twice but I didn't know where. It was on the Raiden computer in the lab which I haven't been on since the start of project 4. Sorry it took me a while to find it.

UPATE ON MONDAY CLASS!!!

1)  Please bring PS File(s) with layers to download to my computer. 
     Need for final grading.  Want to see your process.

2)  Trim and sign your work for VIST show.

3)  Look over your Final work briefly online.

4)  Sign up to help on Wed 9 am at Geren lobby.

That's it.  Short and sweet.

UPDATE ON WORK IN SHOW DOWNTOWN!

BECAUSE OF SPACE CONSTRAINTS THE FOLLOWING WORK WILL BE IN THE SHOW DOWNTOWN:

* Nick Eisele Concept Art of 2 figures at bar

* Priscilla Hon Concept art of cat in Italian city

* Jesse Lane Concept Art of frog king

* Adam Rehmann Concept Art of landscape pointing to the left

    Adam:  can you also print the vertical Concept Art WIP?  

* Kinsey Simmons Concept Art of two creatures looking toward right

Please make sure these are in the Mac Lab.
COME TO CLASS MONDAY TO TRIM AND SIGN.

I will take to downtown additional work to include if there is room, on Thursday c 11am if it is here.
(Need 2 prints, because one will already be hung in VIST Show and stay there until Mon.)
 
 
These will be hung at 12 NOON at the Federal Building downtown on Th May 2.
Please email me at saslow@viz.tamu.edu if you can help.

Recent sketches

Here are some things I've been bouncing around on recently, not sure which ones yet are worth pursuing. Some are definitely more finished than others...

Final WIP

Work in progress of my final... It's a character design for a warrior, still have a fair amount to do (mostly on the face and details) but I'm happy with how it's coming along so far!

Final Self Portrait

Forgot to upload the final of this one.

Correct Final Self Portrait

forgot to post final self portrait after I added the mask

In PP in VIST SHOW????

Today I showed you the PowerPoint I made of your semester's work.
The PP will be looped on a plasma screen as part of the VIST Show.
If you want your work considered for inclusion, you must put it on the blog.
Deadline:  Monday.
Thanks.

PS  I will grade from the blog too, so be up-to-date.
Also need to give me a complete PS file of your work with layers.  On Monday.

Some Work for Final

These are some concepts for Jake's game.

CONCEPT FINAL Project: Silhouette Monster Designs

Final WIP

This is the photo that I plan on transforming

Edited Project 3

Final WIP

Final WIP

Final WIP

Just base colors laid on over a line sketch. Adding the fur and detailing the eyes soon.