Doodles

For the sake of an update I thought I'd post some doodles I did yesterday in this lovely shade of green

Finals

It's a sad day when summer classes end, but i've had a great 14 weeks at Art Center and I will be continuing this project for a long time. The project is more or less finished for now but there is such a big opportunity for me to redo everything over and over again on the side, just to see how far I can push it. For now, here are my final character and prop concepts plus some process work. 

Character Lineup

These are rough sketches of my final characters in a lineup in order to indicate proportion and silhouette. 

Fun Stuff

Ive been busy catching up on work lately. I'm preparing for finals, which means at some point I will be posting all of the work I have completed this summer. Ive finalized three different characters in the past couple days and am currently working on an older character. Here are just a couple studies I did today. I discovered symmetry in Sketchbook and have been having a blast sketching with it. I'm not using any of these sketches for the final so I thought I would post. 

Environment Thumbs Cont.

These are two thumbnails for the ground view of the city

Environment Thumbs

Below are some environmental thumbnails. If all goes well, I should have two finished paintings: one macro shot of the city, and one shot from within the city. The first three pages are done with Prismacolor on vellum. Each thumbnail took about 15-20 minutes. The last page was done in Photoshop and was influenced by the 3 pages above it. It also includes a short description of the shot. Hopefully one of the two will become a final painting.

Environment Study

Playing with shapes and composition to develop an interesting environment silhouette

Object Study

I needed something to draw this morning so I found my Nintendo controller laying around and thought it would make for an easy sketch.

It turns out that this tacky, plastic, handheld flowform was actually very difficult to draw in perspective. But thats a good thing. I wanted to draw something loose and organic. I also decided to use Autodesk Sketchbook instead of Photoshop.

I also realize that I managed to overlook the A and B buttons in the orthographic drawing. Fix it? Too much effort

- S

Summer stuff

Ive decided to post a few pages of stuff from the entertainment design class i'm taking this summer. Not all of my process work is in order so these are just pages I thought might be interesting enough for tonight.

Update

I struggled with this painting. Really trying to nail light, shadow, and reflected light. The original sketch was a collaboration piece between me and my good friend Cody

Update

Trying out different styles of rendering. Im hoping to find a sketching process that works well for me

Recents

Here are a few paintings i've completed in the past week or so. The goal of these studies is to better understand light and shadow as well as improve my sketching and rendering speed and technique. 

The sketch below is the first of a series in which a random word (real or not) is converted into an imaginary animal (hopefully with a short description). It was a project that was first thought up a few months ago with my friend Charlie. 

Motivation

Hi. Starting this blog to keep motivated and document my progress. I'll hopefully post on here at least once a day with new drawings and sketches. If I slack off, please yell at me.

-Scott