Work in my office....

HI, Work from the shows was in the Mac Lab for a while where some picked up their work.  Now it is in my office.  Not easy to get it though.  I'll be gone the end of the month through beginning of August, and anyway I'm retiring so someone else will have my office in the fall.  Transitions, transitions....  So I guess you should email me if you are around, or I'll just give them to the viz office or someone for you to pick up in the fall???
Both shows looked fabuloso. 

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.

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

FINAL projeck

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

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!