Sketch dump and life update!

That last one keeps getting longer and longer every time I open the file! "Oh wouldn't it be cool if there were more mob references? WHAT ABOUT MORE TENTACLES lets just move that up and voila more room for more characters" It'll be the death of me but It's going pretty well so far! I intend to animate the writing (placeholder font) so that it, and several aspects of the painting flicker/fade. 

Top two are yet more visuals for my Dragon Age pen and paper campaign, 3rd is a 20 minute warm-up for thumbnails and then of course at the bottom my old nerd guild wars feels.

Not much has changed since the last update, though I will be heading to Industry workshops next week and I am hella excited about that. I look forward to seeing all everyone from my MA course too, and to catch up with everyone while learning a lot! I will be in London for the week and I intend to be sketching a lot!

Also I started a new project, lowkey. I've been thinking about it since office days in Osaka and I'm gonna make a little oneshot Guild Wars 2 comic, about 10~ pages long, give or take a couple. I've written the script so far, and started thumbnailing out how I want the layout to go. Its pretty dang hard but I knew that going in. Thanks to this though, Im finally starting to get my head around clip studio paint! Another program to learn the quirks of! Hopefully next update I'll have something better than napkin scribbles and some cheesy lines in a .doc to show for it. (And also progress on the long painting)!

Sketchbook update as of July; Lots of people looking at me! So I drew their eyes :)

See you next time!

-Sam

Master's Project: the last four weeks!

 Last four weeks of work till the submission date,  and I'm making good time with the painted assets,  which I'll arrange separately for the pdf submission aswell as within the composited avi. Something like the page below.

For the initial shot where it begins as lines drawing themselves into ruins, then colour brushes itself over, I've come up with some quick thumbnails; with a focus on space and light. Personally, I've been really trying to keep things loose with visible brushstrokes and blocks of colour. Its quite challenging for me to stop before I overpaint it so this has been a good experience in itself.

The previous blogpost is sparse with information because I was in a hurry and needed work online to show easily; the first few gifs preview the line drawing idea that I mentioned above. Then there are some early city concepts, and a further developed but still loose idea, some early set pieces and a short video clip of everything in 3D space. 

a quick mockup of how I want the upper city and tower to scale to the very detailed lower city. Though the tallest tower should be much more slender in the painted version- closer to the video example below. 

Lower city clip previewing an early camera movement and wave animation with 80% of the lower city assets completed.

A silhouette asset of the meteor strike that destroys the city- resulting in the ruined version you see at the start of the clip. 

This week's life drawing!

This week I was trying a different approach. This class is structured to be untutored and the poses are usually a mix of long and short. Previously, I've drawn messily in conté and then smudged it together for a colorful mess, which while usually looking good, is a lot of fun to explore. This week I wanted to do something more restrained and also something without construction lines. So using a 0.2 fineliner pen, I drew Clare from various angles and tried to get the form and proportions down before blocking in some shadows. I think i need to work on the lines of these shadows though since they leave the figure looking carved or angular. 

Next are some more random sketchbook pages from drawing in the various Clements coffee shops around Belfast! Drawing with a morning coffee is an excellent thing! Also some drawings of various fantasy and not so fantasy weapons, I was playing with designs for more silhouettes for my Oculus Sclera project (Which I will write up and explain in their own posts! If you're interested in worldbuilding, maybe you'll find it interesting?)

I'll be back on thursday, or sooner! With more sketchbookery and mmmmmmaybe print designs! Woohoo!

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Online Portfolio!

Old post short title

First an apology, I have been neglecting this blog and my art of late. I haven't been able to finish things or follow through with ideas and its been really frustrating; there has been a personal matter that has been really stressing me out recently also. I'm trying to follow Neil Gaiman's advice that I should use the bad times to "make good art"  but so far I've only managed pretentious scribbles and other rubbish.

thanks for taking the time to look :)

Sketchbook update

I didn't like how the design for the White Walkers and tried to get my image from the books on paper. Something like the figure above. 

Miscellaneous sketchbookery. I got some cheapy fibre pens so I could add a bitta colour into stuff. Limited palettes show I'm not a master of colour choices lol