"Drama" Final

 For the Final in my Drawing for Animators class we had to create a piece that utilized a character we had created earlier in the year and put them in a story driven situation that conceived a sense of drama. Unlike our last project, however, this piece had to be rendered in color. I have to say this is probably the most challenging piece I have yet worked on, I typically like to render things out in really complex and intricate details, but for this piece I knew I wanted to try out a style that would be more appealing but also a lot more simple. Below is my process for the piece. Enjoy:)

Reference Page: This page helped me solidify a look and feel that I wanted to have in my painting.

Early studies.

Two color studies that had really flat composition but helped steer me towards the feeling of conflict that I wanted in my painting.

Another color study. With this piece the composition is finally set, I liked the drama and mood that I was getting but I felt that had I continued with this the only way to render this would have been with a realistic style.

Posing for the character.

Taking the composition and putting in a different shape language.

While the style of this worked much better I felt that this was still too complex.

Final Piece. I took the composition that I had and once more simplified the overall piece, I also changed the color scheme. The character still ended up a little bit more overdone than I would have liked but regardless I am happy with the overall piece.

Drawing for Animators "Valuables"

For the latest DFA assignment we had to create a story driven piece using characters we created earlier this year. I chose to use my mermaid sisters, the overall piece took a much more realistic style than I had hoped to use but nonetheless I am pleased with the overall work. Done in Photoshop. Enjoy!

Abstract compositions that help narrow down a solid look.

Incorporating possible characters with a little bit more roughed out environments.

Final Piece.

"Push/Pull" Character Model

Here is my latest model for my Computer Animation III class, she has modeled and rigged and will soon be animated for our class' Push/Pull assignment. Drawing done in Photoshop. Model done in Maya and Zbrush, Enjoy!:)

"Celebrity Caricature"

For this recent DFA assignement we were given the task to pick a celebrity and caricature them, I picked a childhood icon of mine, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. I had a blast with this assignment and learned a lot of cool shading techniques. Done in Photoshop, Enjoy:)

Reference Sheet

Final Line Work

Quick Value Study

Final Render

"Self Caricature"

For this DFA assignment we had to caricature ourselves, it was extremely fun and it was a great learning experience. Below is a lot of process work that went into all the attempts at capturing just the right look. Everything is done in Photoshop. Enjoy :)

The cropped photos are from fellow classmates who caricatured me, they were used as reference.

The cropped photos are from fellow classmates who caricatured me, they were used as reference.

The cropped photos are from fellow classmates who caricatured me, they were used as reference.

Images that I used as reference

Final Expression Sheet

Final Turn Around Sheet

"Design Lab 2"

Here are the rendered characters I developed for my Drawing for Animators' Design Lab 2 Project. Even though the time to get this done was not very much and the stress levels to get this finished were through the roof, I am overall pleased with how they turned out. Here is the character sheet as well as high res images of each character. Done in Photoshop. Enjoy:)