Excelsior teaser thumbnails and wip

A few really quick thumbnail sketches for possible teaser images.

Monk looking down at the mcguffin box

Rear view of monk, kneeling at an altar lit by candles 

Monk posing with his spear.

The first idea I had- the 5 masks laid out with the emblem, while the mask that the monk wears is cracked and blood splashed. 

Several people mentioned about not seeing or understanding the shapes either side of the main symbol, so I took it out ad moved the text around somewhat.

Animex Sketchbook scans!

I had intended on posting these sooner. Oh well. 

Up until this point, I'd focused on trying to draw the hands of the various speakers.

Then after being 100% unable to draw Rhianna Pratchett correctly I gave up and drew Barry Meade (Fireproof studios) and shifted my focus to random thumbnail and environment ideas

(Pause in drawing for an excellent anatomy lecture from Stuart Sumida)

I think that next year they should run a thing on twitter called #Animexsketch or something similar, since I was certainly not the only attendee drawing through the lectures.

As for module work for the second semester, I'm working now on a series of teaser ideas for visual story telling and the Excelsior brief from before. 

Back in business!

After a long week of Animex talks, workshops and networking events, I'm finally back at my computer to update this blog! It slipped by the wayside as deadline for the first semester drew near, so I'll start off with some of the finished paintings and speed paints from then, and at the bottom I'll show some of my Animex sketches.

These are a mix of character and enviros from the Excelsior brief as they appear in the final submission, along with a compilation of sketchbook work from the visual development. 

Gryphon final painting- This was a somewhat arduous painting. I can't say I'm exactly a fan of painting fur and feathers and somehow mixing the two. 

Taken from T.S. Eliot's "Preludes" - the line "The Shower's Beat" inspired this painting

Now that that semester 1's briefs are all concluded, We have three more (with a fourth yet unknown) for the second semester. So far we have received assignments from:

1. Pete Amachree : The "what if" roman history brief, of "What if the Romans discovered and developed practical uses for electricity?" 
2. Ron Ashtiani : NeoRacer brief, Car concept with weapon variations, or Eden environment race track
3. Shelly Page : Dreamworks character brief, design a character from the list for a new setting
4. Jack Couvela : Mysterious Ubisoft brief ~~

 I'll be updating at least once a week now for the next semester with work any of these assignments (or anymore that we receive.)

Edit: I forgot about the Animex sketches, I'll add them in during the week since I don't own a scanner :)

drawing for concept artists

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Termite brief work

Decided

Drawing for Concept Artists

Further developed the city scape, though I've started loosing readability within the design. Added a character based on one of the lifedrawings from a previous class

5/11/13 life drawing & Digital processes

This week I brought a watercolours set with me to evening lifeclass. Mostly because it's been a long time since I've worked brush in hand, but also because I'd never used that particular medium for quick, loose drawings. Certainly got some nice marks, but I need to invest in a wider brush, and less absorbent paper- I was looking for a messier more of a wash kind of effect, but the brush was too small and the card too quick to soak up the water. At the start, I tried to get the gesture down in conte first, then paint the volume/weight in with the w/colours, but this didn't really work out in the time we had, so I restricted my palette (cobalt and crimson) and left the conte out of the process. One step, no longer evident was drawing everything pretty quickly with water before putting down paint, then adding pigment to diffuse in the wet card.

This morning we had a workshop class on refining digital practice- starting with a quick thumbnail and speedily working it up to a firm idea, but not getting chained into details- 20 minutes spent, tops. 

I went to an old idea I had during the summer for the practice thumb, the key principles being a clear sense of depth/perspective, solid composition, and quickly using gradients to try out different colour palettes for the potential painting. 

-Sam

Drawing for Concept Artists Week 4- Identify resources and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of techniques required for a range of drawing tasks

a quick painting over of the gryphon in the style of the american bald eagle, a lioness and the secretary bird. 

Feedback:

• Chunkier feet!
• Give him more of a feathery ruff/mane looking effect to reinforce the join between fur and feather
• Look into albino lions/fur patterns
• Will the tail be fur or feathers?

Next we were to draw the cityscape using our previous drawing and our imaginations as the only reference

Instead of a life model this week, we did conceptual work based on a still life set up in front of us, and had to imagine it as a cityscape using the various media provided. And then we were left to combine the three into one with photoshop, as a potentially new way to arrive at a finished product.

Since the overlay and multiply blending layer modes result in quite loud colours, I collapsed the layers and ran a gradient map layer, collapsed it and painted quite loosely over the top to try and bring it all together without getting tied down in small details.