Observational Sketches

Here are some observational sketches. These were created with references, be it an Image or a physical Object.

Imaginary Sketches

These are all sketches from imagination, no reference used. The main purpose of these is to see how well I am learning anatomy, proportions, shape, and composition.

Using a texture to paint

The purpose of this task was to paint using a texture. The example we were give was that of Feng Zhu again as he painted a smoking bug. He used ants as a texture to help paint.

I decided to draw and paint on my own drawing this time, and I'm relatively happy with the outcome.

 

 

The form also holds pretty well without Linework:

 

However I still prefered the image without colour:

 

 

And again, without linework it still works:

Using a Colour Swatch

This exercise was to try and create a painting using a specific colour swatch obtained from a source image.

This was the source image:

  

I then used this process (as explained by Max Leah):

http://cgamax.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/my-favourite-chocolate-bar-is-mars.html?spref=fb

To create a colour swatch for which I then painted this with:

Using this as a reference:

To help with my painting I altered my Photoshop Workspace slightly. It concentrates on the colour swatches, my reference image, and the layers.

Changing Perspective

This was an exercise to change the perspective of a photo so we could use part of it as a texture.

This was the original photo:

This is what we changed it into using various transform tools in photoshop:

This is what it looks like on a cube in 3DS max, we also added a little more geometry by cutting out the windows:

Female Life Drawing

Final Life drawing class. Had a really good lesson today. Really shown some improvement, and you can definitely see I'm starting to draw with my eye and not my what my mind THINKS I see.

Had a few issues where I kept making her too long, but I learnt a few things to help avoid this in the future. My final drawing avoided a lot of the issues but still required some tweaking before I was  happy with it.

2 Minute warm up sketches:

10 minute continuous line (outline):

40 Minute sketches:

50 minute Speed Paint

Another speed paint, painting night time light this time.

Without a blur on the background:

With a blur on the background:



1 Hour Speed Paint

A quick 1 hour speed paint to practice getting values down.

Steam punk Frog

This week's brief was for character design. We had to either create with Sculptris a 3D model, or draw a character.

Sculptris is going to require a lot more practice, so I decided to complete this one 2D.

I am not happy with this piece. I had the full motorbike in there to begin with. But I couldn't achieve the detail I wanted, nor the perspective on the wheels. Because it ruined everything else I decided to crop it this time.

I feel I've captured movement with the scarf and hat direction, though my frog seems lifeless. I couldn't achieve a decent texture on the skin without making it look too busy, and nothing I tried boosted the specular values without messing up the lighting completely.

Things I did like were my attention to detail on the leather goggles, and the shape of the frogs head.

UV Unwrapping

Today we were given a model to practice unwrapping. We covered the trousers and the glove.