Character Design Package

Opening Door Final

After spending a lot of time on friday and finishing it up on saturday for a few hours I finally inbetweened and cleaned this bad boy up. It took too long, but it came out looking pretty smooth so I'm pleased with it.

Gorwalrus Monster painting

This is the Gorwalrus monster that breathes through a lung sac on the outside of his lizard like body.

It took far too long to get done, but I like how it came out. I started with my line art and flats and worked my way up with some shading. I built it up to make it look 3d, and then started to add some textures I made.  And many overlays of paintbrushes and filters I used created what I wanted for textures. And then I used mostly the grass brush on scattering to get the hair right, and everybody was like, "you can't do that," and I was like, "if the glove fits."

when it came to cleaning it up I put some more screen and multiply layers in and added some more contrast with orange and blue, an orange gradient and a blue rim light on the opposite side. I added in a drop shadow that tryingly fits the characters light source. That's probably just about it...yep.

Face and Hands Digital Painting

After some struggles with this head and hands assignment I finally got it done. I started painting my pornstar character, but shortly realized he was wrong for this assignment by a long shot. So I drew this caricature based on loosely on David Bowie and Devin Cheribuni. 

I started with the line art, then put some tonals in grey over it. I placed the light source as a lighter in his hand, assuming he's about to light a cig. Then when that was done I painted in some textures, mainly the wrinkles and old man spots, then the hair and nails came in.

I plopped the lighter and cigarette in and put on some overlays and tweaked the colours to make it as creepy as I could. I put on some final touches like the rim lighting and more wrinkles in the shirt and it was good enough for a good ol' fashioned night on the town.

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.