CHR Model Sheet - Steve Ustinksky

Steve Ustinksky, the 70's pornstar with a mind of his own.

BG Tonal

Okay, so our second project this year was more or less review from last year so I wasn't so stressed with it as I was the fish. But I didn't have a lot of free time this last week because of family stuff to work on it. I wanted to love the lines, but ran out of time, so what you see is the finish.

I started it the with a completely grey background, and working on the light and seeing how it would work in the real world without complicating it. I then put some shading in it, and then darkened it to give it a softer light look, as not to make it an over-bearing light, plus it gave it more emotion in the making, so I got two birds with one stone in that hit.

Other than that it was a pretty standard pen busting digital project.

Digital Fish painting breakdown

So our first assignment in Digital painting class was to paint a fish...easy enough right? Wrong!
I started off painting a flounder, the fish with both eyes on one side, and that was an epic failure, and 3 hours I'll never get back.
So I started to paint this tropical fish, I forget the technical name, but it's the same fish Dory was in Finding Nemo.
I started with the usual, line arts to flats, and a threw in some rough shading. I noticed the fish looked like it had freckles so I had to add those to the nose area. And for the teeth I made them more human like because I thought it was cuter and I didn't want to go for realism too too much for my fishy.
Then when it came to the scales, in a separate file I made about ten up in a template and masked them over my fish. Then I realized that looked awful, so I painted new shading and lighting over each one...aka hours of work just for the scales. So them I continued throwing in multiplay layers and screen layers to finish him off, including the fins. And I threw in a quick background and blurred it to focus more on my fishy.

Anthony Kiedis (By The Way)

A portrait I did of Anthony Kiedis, the vocalist for Red Hot Chili Peppers, it took a few hours in my

free time over about a week.

Cartoon for Momma Yoch

Figured I should put something on this blog for August, so here we go!

It's me in my Animation uniform, aka me shirtless

I spent too long on this

'Exit Highway' out this September

Claire Life Drawing Painting

This is one of the more finished pieces I've got done

digitally in my summer life drawing sessions in K-town