First week back

Speedpaint dessert scene

Classwork:

This lesson we did a speed paint of a dessert scene.

Original image:

Speed paint:

Sci-fi Digger

Classwork:

This lesson we created sci-fi diggers. the task was to create them with only certain types of shapes.

Triangles and straight lines.

Circles and curved lines.

Whale Boy Speedpainting

Classwork:

This lesson we did a speedpaint of a whale boy character and some light practise.

Bug creature - part 1

So the task this week was to create a bug creature!

Wanted to go with a fantasy theme with this creature.

Rough:

I drew out the creature naked to get an idea of how all of its body looks like and to also see what kind of armour/clothing could work with it.

In the end I went with armour for it (has shown in the blue outlines)

Finished:

The final product was a foot solider for a bug tribe. With this done I can now done the final piece in part 2!

Anatomy Study - Skeleton

Some study on the human Skeleton

Tree WITH character

Okay, so our homework this time was to draw a tree with character. 

No, not a tree character, a tree WITH character. Big difference there.

Mood board:

It was not easy finding these images. A lot of the time it would just pop up with a plain tree, instead of an environmental piece.

Initial designs:

Here are the initial designs I came up with. My favourites where the first and last ones, with the last one being the one I went with.

Rough:

I made a rough version to get the feel of it. Like where everything was placed but wasn't happy with the colours for the tree.

Final:

Changed the colours of the tree, added a magic core to it.

Added a moon in the background and a silhouette of a person in the foreground.

Conclusion:

Meh, it's alright. Could be a lot better.

Environment pieces are my weakness (which shows in this piece) so I need more practise with it.

1 point perspective

My go at doing 1 point perspective after watching a tutorial on it (link will be on the bottom)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCW9D2GytHo

Vampire textured

Classwork:

Speedpaints

Classwork:

Anatomy Study - Muscles

Muscles

A bit of study on the human muscles.

Tribal Frog!

Alright, so this week our task was to create a Anthropomorphic (dare you to say that fast three times!) creature based on an exotic frog. Also, there has to be a theme with your design.

Mood board:

So I decided to go with a tribal theme with my frog.

Reason? Forest + tribal = tribal frog.

 Sketch:

Outline:

Base colours:

Finish:

So the idea behind this guy is he's a tribal warrior. While not the highest rank in his tribe, the black with blue tipped feathers show he is strong and can hold himself in a fight. 

Conclusion:

I'm pretty happy with the end result! It came out more or less how I imagined it.

One thing I realised while colouring it was that I could use some practise on how to shade different types of materials. Shading in cloth is much different to shading metal or leather.

Using value to create form

Last week we learnt how to use values to create form in an object.

This is what we did.

H/w

Our homework was to draw a tank and use what we learnt in class on it.

MoodBoard:

Sci-fi Room

This week we're making a sci-fi themed room.

PS: I'm terrible at doing backgrounds ¬_¬

Mood Board:

 WIP:

Tentacle Creature

Alright, this week it's Hentai... wait what? 

*Double checks brief*

Oh, my bad! It's Tentacle week! *coughstillcountsashentaicough*

Mood Board:

Initial Designs:

Final Design:

So, the idea with this guy is that he's an experimentation gone horribly wrong!
(Though, that would depend on the persons point of view...)
His face is badly disfigured and blinded, hence the wraps around his head.
The symbol on his chest shows he is 'Experiment 4'. What happened to the ones before him? Somethings are better left forgotten...

Conclusion:

This was a fun task (though, not so fun researching for references. There some things in the internet that no one should ever see. *shivers*)

A few things I need to work on, and that's muscles and cloths shading.

Attack of the killer zombie!!!

Classwork:

It's Zombie time! Last Visual design class we were tasked with editing the texture sheet below to make the woman look like a Zombie!

PS: I HATE ZOMBIES!!!!!!!

Lava Creatrue

This time, our task was to create a rocky, lava creature!

Mood Board:

While researching, I found that most rocky, lava tend to be big, tank-like creatures. This got me thinking if I should go down the same route or try something different.

Initial designs:

As always, first initial designs are just random drawings to get a feel of the theme and style I want to go with. Also, it lets me see what possible ideas could work.

While I was sketching, I was playing Final Fantasy 14 when I summoned this little creature.

I stared at it for while, then realised that I could use a similar design for the lava creature.

This was the initial sketch that came from that idea. I loved it so I used it for the final design.

Final Design:
The final idea with this creature is that it runs on lava (lava creature duh!) which also has the ability to float. The smaller stones around the arms are floating and spinning in a slow motion.

Conclusion:

End result, half-and-half. Liked where the idea was going but didn't really get there :P More practise I guess.