Last post of 2009!

I felt like I should get one more post in in 2009, but I don't have anything non work related from the last two weeks. Except for this silly comic. So here you go. Happy New Year!

Mr Tumnus' house

Lava Fields

Poor neglected blog - here's a new picture

I've been posting to Phil's Christmas everyday, which means this poor blog has gotten very sad and neglected. So here are two versions of a doodle I did today, plus a bit of homework that's still really rough.





Oh yeah, and we had homework in my other class to do Lucy and Mr Tumnus meeting on the lantern waste. I want to redo the trees.

Mr Tumnus:

Books came out this week!

I have illustrated a children's book and it just came in this week! It looks great, the print quality is fantastic, the paper just feels really good. I'll update you when I know more about the ordering information, since it appears that you can't order it from Amazon quite yet... But the amazon link is here. The author is also giving to a lot of good causes, which you can check out here.

Phil's Christmas continued!

Phil has arrived at the north pole and run into a sea monster!


the rest of the series is over at Phil's Christmas

Phil's Christmas

So, it started last year, and we're doing it again this year - my sister and I do an advent countdown with our character Phil the penguin. You can see it all happen over at Phil's Christmas

December 1st:

Mountain sketch

A little sketch using a technique to get started that we learned in Environment Design the other day. Pretty fun. My other experiment with it for the night was less fruitful, but still fun.

Something is coming in DECEMBER!!!

A preview of things to come in December perhaps?? HMMMMMM? Hehehe
Also, that was my first try with a little phototexturing. I felt dirty and immediately painted over almost all of it, haha. It did give me some nice random shapes in a time when I was stuck.
Some homeworks in progress (HWIP I shall call them from now on). This first one is a game level design. It's painted over a mesh that they gave us. It was just a wireframe of blocks basically. We had to come up with how the level would go. I went with circus/old timey theater with a touch of steampunk. There would be a creature in that cage and once you solve the puzzle to open the cage using the chains and stuff it would come out.

And here is John Carter discovering stuff in a cave.

Whale

Something different than my usual thing

Miner camp

man, classes and work have been keeping me super busy! Here is some homework from Production Design - a color version and the value study. I sketched some props over it real quick to see what I want to do, I'm a little worried that maybe they are all too much the same size? Or maybe it's just that they're all in that corner. I feel like I need something in the open area, but I can't figure out what. I had a fire pit for a while, but it stopped things up too much. Maybe I'll move the rifle over there.

A rainy day

And because Emily Su asked for it, a larger version of that Planet Earth study. It's still pretty small - it wasn't a very big study.

Environment Design Homework and Planet Earth studies

This was the homework for the first week of my environment design class.


And here are some studies off of Planet Earth. I've been doing so much stuff out of my head, I felt like I needed to do some studies to remind me of what real lighting looks like. It wasn't my best day ever for doing studies, but at least it's something, right?

Sunset house

an experiment in making things look watercolor-ish in Photoshop. I'm not sure I'm actually interested in getting it to look exactly like watercolor (then wouldn't I just use watercolor?) so much as making things look a little more physical.