Tristan Silva

A-24 Dauntless

2012-01-29T12:32:00.001Z

Thought Id paint a aircraft today, went for a A-24 Dauntless inspired craft. Its relitivly similar, however I seem to have given it a bigger engine-air duct deal and no spinner, It dont need no spinner! (Although It does)
Anyway this was my first 3d render pass drawing, its a pretty cool method, I remember Al told me to give it a shot, think Ill have to play with it some more before getting decent results.
Some some bothersome reason it uploaded and made it darker, I dont know why.

Punk Monks

2012-01-28T14:09:00.000Z

Spent an hour today working on a set of Monk-punk characters. Trying to combine to characteristics, not sure how I feel about them, but they're interesting.

Receptionist

2012-01-27T12:06:00.000Z

Wanted to make a kind of, aggressive receptionist. I think I got the idea across, think it would have been better if i had given her pastel colour clothing, would have been an amusing contrast.

Blondies got her bumps

2012-01-22T14:48:00.003Z

By bumps I mean normal bump maps, and some occlusion mapping aswell, havnt really fixed them up yet. Still, fun fund! Slaped on difuse!

Sketchbook post!

2012-01-20T14:27:00.001Z

I dont think I've posted anything from my sketchbook in a couple of weeks or so. A bit of a shame really, but thats how it goes. Just havnt had the time to scan them.
Having a bit of fun at the moment with pen and scribbly stuff.

I remember I wanted to buy a set of oil paints when my loans came in this year. Sadly, I havnt been able to buy any, as I've been left with only a few hundred to live upon untill my next loan comes through. I foresee this happing allot. I still want to do some oil painting though.

Filing Cabinet

2012-01-18T01:46:00.002Z

Made a little filing cabinet today, mainly to test out opening and closing in UDK, it was pretty fun to texture and I feel I could have got away with having a small texture if I wanted, also I could have shaved off some more Triangles. But Its okay for now.

Chars and Trads

2012-01-08T23:02:00.003Z

Some Character work ive been playing with, my hands are always letting me down. :\
And some paintings now!

Mortal Engines LOD

2012-01-05T14:14:00.001Z

Wish I found out how to rig sooner, rigging LODs is a "cake walk" compaired to rigging a 6k mesh. Damn. Rigged this LoD in less than an hour, which is crazy for me, however something tells me it should take more time than that, but hey, it works.

Self portrait Wip

2012-01-04T19:07:00.002Z

Well does not marmoset make the difference?

2012-01-02T21:26:00.001Z

Sometimes I just guilt myself in to writing something about my work. Mainly because I rarely write anything and secondly, It will make me look slightly more professional. Not only that, but it could build character, who knows. Give people something to read you know.

So This will be about the use of reference material, as we all know use of reference has its up and downs.
Copying a photo to the pixel is something that I consider poison, however the use of photos can change your work from something alright, to something a bit better. How do you know what your charcters face will look like if you dont know what a face looks like? Many artists use a photo or a model or something like that. Life drawing is using a referance, just primary referance. Recently Ive been thinking about how I can use my life drawing for illustration purposes, Ive done this a few times before, a few digital paints and a few traditionals.
Change the clothes, change the setting, change the mood, change the stance. The limits are unending, the first push is all thats needed to catapult ones imagination into a place unknown, who cares how you get there once youre there?
I dont really know where Im going with this. I guess I can just say, I used referance, than changed my painting untill it no longer looked like the reference picture, In fact, I got the reference from a korean photoshoot website. Oh well.

Todays Mushrooms

2011-12-29T15:14:00.002Z

Every 3D artist ever has to end up modeling some mushrooms at some point, so heres mine.
Just a simple set of 3, theyre probably a little expansive for mushrooms when you think about it, but Its not made for anything in particular. Being wasteful on the map, lots of empty space.
Flat diffuse map with marmoset render.
Was a fun little day project non the less.

2011-12-26T17:59:00.000Z

Photostuday

imagination i cant draw boobs

2011-12-25T15:29:00.001Z

2011-12-24T12:26:00.002Z

No refs, her face is seriously derpy

Photostdudy

Its a Thursday at the national institute of time

2011-12-22T10:47:00.000Z

35mins

Still life work is still enjoyable, playing with shadow and what not, I perfer using human or animal subjects more than glass balls and what not, feel Im learning more about character features than when i was studying the later. Maybe I should do a long still life. Get something highly rendered and what not.

2011-12-21T14:14:00.001Z

Speed from imagination awaayyy

Photostudayyy

2011-12-20T12:06:00.002Z

30 min still life

Another one of those lladro still lifes, thought id do a quick one.

Beep

2011-12-19T22:18:00.003Z

Got fed up of this pretty quick, porcelain and glazed sculptures reflect like crazy, oh well.

Reading is a pile of, okay I guess.

2011-12-18T21:40:00.001Z

30 minute speedpaint

Considering Im back in Reading I thought I would do a quick speedpaint. This is a little stuffed bear that sits in my hallway, thought it was kind of fluffy, dont draw many fluffy things.

On other news, I forgot to bring my tablet mouse with me, this isnt a problem for drawing, however using 3DsMax now has a added challenge to it, it would seem.
Oh I also forgot to bring my lamp, so still lifes are going to look kind of dull in the afternoons, stupid light.

Oh yeah, and this stuff. Dont you love it when youre university gets you to do work for them, but make it part of your university projects? ...what that doesnt happen to you? Well youre obviously missing out. (If that sounds bitter, its not, Im fine with it, but still find it amusing.)

2011-12-14T15:54:00.001Z

Hand studies

2011-12-09T12:21:00.001Z

Man, hands are a real bastard, can never get the tones right. Hmm, need to do more studies I think.

2011-12-08T13:39:00.001Z

Just some more speedy photostudies. I did a good set of life drawing today, might upload them in a bit.

Work In progress shots

Studiess

2011-12-07T14:21:00.001Z

Photo Studie

A snazzy photostudy I fount on thatslikewoah.com. Just trying to warm up in the morning, but it kind of lasted longer than was intended.

2011-12-05T19:58:00.001Z

Leicester Final fuck yeaah, grey on grey action, serious grey tones, getting some sweet grey rays from the grey godess here!

Traditional paints

2011-12-04T14:14:00.001Z

Some traditional paints Ive been messing around with, still needs work :I

Weekends

2011-12-03T11:59:00.001Z

30 Minute photostudy

Morning Self Portrait

Long time no real words. Ive been kind of pre-occupied with silly little things and been unable to update frequently with a good amount of text.
Not much has been going on.
But ive noticed a trend in my course of blatent photocopying. Makes me want to make a tutorial on why one should do a photostudie. Or copy from a photo in general.
Theres nothing wrong with photo studies, but how you use them can be. Copying from a photo and saying " heres my final illustration, look at me im badass " is pretty lame, theres no real challenge and youre not helping yourself create new imagery, you already have the photo, what the point of painting it? No one will ever ask you to copy a photo to the T. Painting a realisitc scene from like has some promise. Youre changing a 3D scene, into a 2D plane with the illustion of 3D. Which is a great skill you learn and will make you understand the 3D world in depth. Where as the 2D photo study is flat naturaly. Not to mention, the difference between youre two eyes vision and the vision of a one eyed camera.

You should realy only do photostudies for reasons such as: How do I draw that? Ive never drawn that before. I want to know a bit more about this. I want to test out this new technique/brush/medium.
Some people dont seem to realise that and just go " DUR THIS IS MY AMAZIN FINAL PEICE ", its pretty lame.

2011-11-23T16:54:00.001Z

Speeder painter :I

2011-11-23T10:13:00.001Z

Oh you know some scribbles, Its pretty early and I need to go to class, so off i go!

2011-11-22T23:13:00.001Z

KNIGHT!

2011-11-14T10:49:00.004Z

Quick self portrait after getting out the shower. Man, I need to plan a 3 week course :b

2011-11-13T18:23:00.001Z

Bark bark bark.

2011-11-12T14:39:00.001Z

plerb

2011-11-06T19:16:00.002Z

Derp

2011-11-02T23:38:00.001Z

2011-11-02T15:15:00.001Z

2011-10-31T00:58:00.001Z

2011-10-30T18:33:00.003Z

DMUGASPEEDTACULAR was fun, been doing alot of green/orange this week. Those complementary colours.

:I Green and orange day today. Also this drawing is lame like the lamest thing ive ever drawn, whats wrong with me.

2011-10-23T20:28:00.001+01:00

2011-10-22T23:07:00.001+01:00

2011-10-21T09:40:00.004+01:00

A speedy self portrait in the morning :V Woo

Some renders of my crocodillian treasurechest. Weewww!

Masters Study, Pierre August Cot

2011-10-20T23:53:00.002+01:00

Masters study attempt, Springtime by Pierre August Cot in 1873. Quite possibly my favourite painting, for its beauty, warm lighting and emotion. I wish I could capture the love in the girls eyes, instead, she looks dead and bland. Its just a cropped version, the full is far too stunning for me to attempt yet. If I was Pierre, I would have been happy to die after painting this.

Morning!

2011-10-17T09:26:00.003+01:00

30 Minutes

This morning I felt a speed paint was in order after I had showered, so I looked through my photo reference database (now up to 3GB and going for 4!) and decided to pick a nice simple animal. Dont think its too bad, but a painting is what I really need to do more of right now, along with everything else.

2011-10-15T20:02:00.001+01:00

Work in progress, High to Low bake'd from Zbrush using Xnormals. Unfinished bump map and AO map.

2011-10-10T20:52:00.001+01:00

Eh.

2011-09-30T18:49:00.000+01:00

Al Capone Wip 1.9K

A work in progress of a bust I've started of Al Capone. Tried brushing norms with a xnormals bake and ambient occlusion. Its 1,900 tris, didnt optimise it. Problems with zburshing normals is there are always seams, and theyve very noticable. Still I have a method of hiding them, so I will try that later.
Got the idea of modeling Mug shots from police records, because if its one thing the police do right, its decent reference photography.

2011-09-20T16:28:00.001+01:00

Who really needs decent lighting, when you have crappy glasses?

Back in Leicester

2011-09-18T18:02:00.001+01:00

45 mins

Back in Leicester, moving into my new place took a good 4-5 days out of my work routine, I should have known it would, but oh well. I also blame playing Alpha Centauri, man that games addictive, yet very cool, I consider it the best of the civilisation games.

Well, this is my first still life in my new accommodation, its a little car I pinched from home, I quite like the design of it, which is why I took it. I need to become less rusty.

2011-09-09T16:14:00.003+01:00

Character Progress

A fancier render than last time, threw her into Marmoset. Today I started to play around with specular and bump mapping. However I still haven't finished the Diffuse completely, I think I will try to go for a chipped paint effect on the red areas. As you can see, I still have not properly rendered out the diffuse for her ear yet. Im happy with where this is headed though. I do not remember what number character Im on since I started making characters, probably somewhere around about 7? I should also look into proper rigging. Also, try to catch up Saran, only a couple weeks to go! Oh nooo! I wonder what the next character will be.

Also going back to Leicester soon, I just hope there isn't any difficulty moving in. Bla bla bla!

Glass bastard

That glass thing got boring quick.

2011-09-08T22:03:00.001+01:00

Hogarth metal?

Followed up my sketch of the MtG thing, realised my soldiers looked allot like Hogarth figures. Hur, I haven't studied his work in about a year! Should really do it again he has got some amazing theory, his anatomy off though, but who cares, right? Anyway, the figures looked too cool to draw armour on top of, a bit of a shame really.

study

2011-09-07T15:14:00.001+01:00

Crappy render

Glass whale

MtG Thumbs

Well Im onto texturing now, just need to fix out all of the colours, theyre looking a bit weird. Getting the hair right seems like a big challenge, but I have 1K tri to play with. Found a good way of unwrapping the hands so seams are minimal. Still no bump map as of yet.

2011-09-06T16:46:00.003+01:00

Glass Snail

I did 3D in the morning today, instead of in the afternoon. Its quite nice achualy, I think Ill swap around my work plan you know. I will post the model when its blocked out in colour, coming along now! Anyway, continuing the glass paintings. The glass snail was pretty interesting, whats strange is its an overcast day, so the lighting wasnt super cool, if there was some light going through it, it'd look really nice and amber. But than again, you need to know how things look in poor lighting. Guess it looks a little likea jelly candy, doesnt it?

MtG Illustration of the week at Conceptart? OH HELL YEAH!

2011-09-05T11:47:00.002+01:00

Speed paint

I got given a tone of glass objects to paint, so I gues I can enjoy that for a couple of days.

2011-09-01T15:10:00.000+01:00

1hr

I spent most of today derping about not being the artist I want to be and how I cant seem to make interesting imagery. Than I just doodled whatever.

Enviro speedy

2011-08-30T14:46:00.001+01:00

Waterfall Cottage

Still practicing with me enviroments, heres a little cottage at the foot of a waterfall.

Some character WIPs now, those fingers are looking a little chubby, theyre going to have metal gloves on, so i think ill bulk out the thumb so it doesnt look wierd.

Bird head

2011-08-29T11:21:00.001+01:00

2 hours maybe?

Had a look at some awful japanese street fasion website yesterday, some were interesting but other were just stupid. I did like how the full bodied shots were taken though. How the VP was usualy about sholder hight, pretty fancy.

Finished a walk cycle of my sprites, managed to get a little bob going aswell. Would look better a little more sped up maybe, i think theres a part of the hand that throws it off a bit. Hmm.

2011-08-28T14:01:00.001+01:00

Queens building practice

Knight Illustration

Decided its time to look into perspective, absiacly, one again, I start from square one. Found some really nice links on Isometric perspective. Anyway. Derp derp.

Characterss

2011-08-27T10:27:00.002+01:00

Junk durrr

Maybe I should start doing a charcter a day, could be a good investment. Do a bunch of small drawings than have a day of drawing a more highly polished one. I dont know.

I should probably be more selective of what i post online. Oh well.

screenshot

Screenshot trying to explain one of my recent drawing methods. Works kind of well when doing large scale things, but you need to work delicately, but loose? If you get what I mean, More controle in a tighter space. Like a, surgen, or a cat.

Doop

2011-08-26T10:41:00.001+01:00

40 minutes

Just a quick speedpaint today,practicing etting everything in perspective.I think it's a good idea to try and implement parts of perspective in all darwings, ofcorse nature doesnt have very much perspective, it has distance fade which makes you see distance. Overall yeah, quite a dull picture.

Shack

A nicer render of that shack I did a while back.

Also this is my first sprite since i was, what, 13-14? Ignore the nakedness, this is just a base, the heads are detachable and so forth. Going to make a full sprite sheet with changeable heads and what not, I just need the correct limitations for this to go ahead. Also these dont take very long to make. Its strange.

Wip Knight

2011-08-25T21:27:00.001+01:00

Work in Progress

Quick WIP of my knight character illustration. trying a limited palette this time. This is going to take a while, so Ill come back to it later. Back to 3d modeling.

2011-08-23T15:09:00.000+01:00

Photostudy

Imagination spader speeder

Been studying spiders and stuff today, theyre cool. Didnt know their hearts are in their abdomen. But you would think so from the name...derp.

Bloop

2011-08-22T10:59:00.004+01:00

Photostudy

Still Life- Plums in water

Been studying feet this morning. Complicated little things. I think my tradiational sketches this morning are better than the photostudy. I think I spent a bit too long on this, wasnt really neccacary. Oh whell.
Still life with some plums, decided to put them in water just to see what they'd look like, they floated for while but when i got to painting them they fell, bit lame. Took an hour, natural lighting for the win! Infact the lighting was so bright Im not sure how grey the achual image is, cant see it from glare and stuff. :I

High poly Model

Low Polly model

Man am I sick of these models. Took the low polly into zbrush, zbrush messed up the low polly mesh along with the bump map and deformed the low polly. The maps had all sorts of problems, major head aches all over. Im pretty tired of these models at the moment. So Im going to start a new charcter, and forget about these. Im so fed up with them, texturing the bodys in detail is too draining to do at the moment. Just slow pased. :L Also I've come to realise his head looks tiny, that sucks.

2011-08-21T12:07:00.002+01:00

More crap

Imaginaton crap

Did something like this with a similar method of painting 9 months ago, this looks better than that, but still not 9 months later good enough, well they are speedy things anyway.
Also hurr, silly 40 minute doodle, would have done more corrections and gernarly made it look good..but i ran out of time. :I Bummer. 3D time!

Queen Scaraba WIP

2011-08-20T14:57:00.001+01:00

Ragnarok Fanart- Queen Scaraba

Drawing the queen scaraba today, didnt feel like doing photo studys or anything. This isnt finished yet, its still low res. But I might keep it low res. Ill come back tto it, and finish it tomorrow maybe.

Wut

2011-08-20T00:33:00.001+01:00

First zbrush mess

Well this is what i made today (yesterday). The goal was to set out to make a bump map in Zbrush, from a high polly to use on a low polly mesh. I also hada try at AO mapping. Suprisingly, these things worked. Yay, now I know how to do it, now i need to learn how to do it right.
Problems ive ran into, random textures on model, very apparent seams, AO arifacts. also, the AO is very dark on the fingers for some reason. Oh well. It's my very first try at both zbrushing a model, high to low and AO. Other attemps I havnt really known what I was doing at all. Hey, this is just a bench mark for me. And a pretty easy one to beat. Soon, Ill be making cool zbrush shit with Mary and the like. ;D

Dooeldeder

2011-08-18T13:11:00.003+01:00

Female armor

Photostudy

Crapshack- 583 tri

The more photostudys the merrier.
And a speed model with hand painted textures. Just finished this dead on 12. Nice one.

Sick gain

2011-08-17T09:02:00.002+01:00

Photostudy

Male Armour Concept

D: Feeling fatigued today, keeps happening when this throat infaction thing decides to flare up again, I've had it for months man.
Ah finished the male concept, I'll draw up some heads another time.

Working

2011-08-16T10:18:00.006+01:00

Photostudy- 30-40 mins

MMO Character - W.I.P

MMO Character- Idea Map

Self Portrait, 30 minutes

George Cohan Statue

Ak! Over slept today, instead of 9 hours drawing, I get 6, lame! I look quite smug in this painting, hu?
And another photo study, I was only interested in the armor and the face, didnt care too much for backgrounds this time.
Also some more work in progress for my MMO chaeracter project. Just need to render them out and theyll be fine.I also added my current idea map, Ill add comments later on, but keeping a PDF of photos I collected seems like a good way to keep my ideas together. Today is a bit of a shambles, so im going to just out some drawing time and go right into 3D. (edit) Think it was worth it, got most of the Cohan statue down, just need to go in and lower the poly count and fix up areas. Going to have to rig this to get it in the right stance, ah, it will be worth it.

KNIGHTS!

2011-08-14T10:30:00.002+01:00

Photostudy

Quick photo study of a knight, goingto model a charcter later want to get the concepts out pretty quickly, so just soaking up info for the moment

Knight Concepts

Okay, heres the front veiws of my Male and Fermale Knights. They still need work ofcorse, need to render in the details and finish up on the side and back. Really want to sharpen up those edges soon.
I think what ill do is make the heads seperately, as in, if I chooseto model a male Ill make a seperate male head for it away from the costume. Anywho. I need to go eat, my diets gotten pretty more. And take a walk to morrison. Yey.

2011-08-13T11:19:00.002+01:00

Photostudy

High top cop!

Still life

Im begining to think all my studying is beginingto pay off, im quite happy with the result of that copper, didnt have have referances for the person at all, referanced the clothes though, I dont know what New york police look like. Perhaps I could tie this character in with my race track... Probably not.

Duffy statue is coming along, took it into zbrush and back out to retype. Trying to cut the tri count down now, 7K is too much for a sculpture.

:A

2011-08-12T09:53:00.003+01:00

Photostudy

Ahh, my external hard drive bugged out today. Says I need to format it. All my stuffs on there man.
Well that got fixed, die in fire windows updates!
Though i'd aslo post some hand painted textures ive been doing. These studys have really helped my texturing i think. Well painting skin atleast.

2011-08-11T14:12:00.001+01:00

Photostudy

2011-08-10T10:49:00.001+01:00

Still life - Treasure chest

Photo study- Patryk's mom

Spent abotut 45 on the still life, took a break and lost track of time, but it was serposed to be quick. Argh.
Couldnt be arsed to render out the face of the photostudy. Im 15 minute over my drawing time anyway. Time forsome 3dsMax.

:l

2011-08-09T11:34:00.004+01:00

Still Life, Cactus

Photostudy

Head from imagination

Drape study

Self portrait

Father Duffy

Couple bits done today and a bit from yesterday. Dont feel like comenting much on it all today. :C Sad face.
Think I got some nice shading on that pinup though.

Keeping it loose

2011-08-08T13:28:00.000+01:00

Girl with spraypaint

Havnt been doing enough drawing from imaginationg! How dare I?! Also woah 1:30pm, where does the morning go? Anyway, keeping things loose here, not too worried about perspective and things, just getting into the swing of drawing from my brain, so theres probably some big mistakes. Think this was about an hour or so.

Photostudies

2011-08-07T11:56:00.000+01:00

Photo Studies

2011-08-05T20:58:00.002+01:00

Morning practice

2011-08-05T12:29:00.007+01:00

Im Ready for Skyrim

Hawk with a fro hawk

Robert Moore

Photostudy of woman

Still Life 30 Minutes. Zorki-4 Camera.

Its always a good idea to get a quick study in before working on something bigger. Be it an Illustration or texturing your 3D assets. This however was a bit to complex and object for a good 30 minute study. Worth a try though.

Pig!

2011-08-03T00:15:00.000+01:00

Still life of a pigy bank and a speedy photo studie.

Photostudies!!!!

2011-08-01T21:26:00.000+01:00

Photostudies sure are fun, think I learned a little bit here. Something very strange, no matter how hard I try to be acurate, grids and all sorts, I just cant replicate it all in the right place. Strange, how am I not seeing?

2011-07-30T23:08:00.001+01:00

Another drawing for my 3D project. Not a fan of this drawing at all, doesnt look all that grate, its boring, its shading is crappy, I spent too long on it.
But i learned a trick or too, so I guess it was kind of worth it. I know what to avoid now thats for sure.

2011-07-24T14:02:00.000+01:00

Man do I look bored...
How many self portraits am I going to bloody do?!

Lots of crap

2011-07-23T19:19:00.001+01:00

I did a large set of free sketches on Deviantart yesterday, this was the result.

Hoe's house

2011-07-20T21:07:00.001+01:00

Apparently this has Russian folk law origin, some house on chicken legs and some crazy witch that lives inside it. I thought I inturprited it in a strange kind of way. Only problem is how dark the image is, you can even see theres a table in that house!

Gobolin

2011-07-18T21:34:00.000+01:00

I duno, about time I did some personal stuff. That goblins lookin green.

Testing brushes

2011-07-17T15:04:00.001+01:00

I thought, today I will try something different, today I will test brushes, but only one. Today I tested the Soft brush, i did this self portrait completely from soft brush. The results were different from what i expected, I thought it would come out blurry and a mess. Although it is blurred, its quite refined. If I were to take a hard brush to it now, i could neeten it up and it would begin to look quite interesting indeed.

Well, allways try new things, you know?

Self Portrait

2011-07-15T12:03:00.000+01:00

Been a busy the past couple of days, movieng back to Reading, packing, unpacking, prainting my room, unpacking a second time, havnt had enough time to do work. I should really go into town soon and do some drawings there. Currently have 3 big 3D projects Im serposed to be working on. Argh.

Armstrong sidley racer

2011-07-06T21:22:00.000+01:00

For a little summer project set by Lee Piper, I decided to make a little sylized racer to go with my level. So i squished down an Armstrong Sidley. The goal was to make it low polly for a game. But 6,000 triangles was far too low, after talking to some people about making mid polly things for my portfolio. So I amped it up to 17k+. 20k being the limit, but I didnt want to get too neer it. Its low polly in places, such as the interior.
And so far has 1 1024x1024 Difuse, spec and normal map for the shell. 1 256x256 dif and bump for wheels. 1 512x512 difuse and alpha for the frame and interior.
Twas a fun little thing. Oh the car would be far less polly and more efficient if i didnt include interiors such as the engine and breaks and what not.

2011-06-30T11:51:00.003+01:00

Just some sketch book pages, thought I havnt posted any traditionals in a while. Apparently my faces are getting better. Hmm.

Sculpty Press

2011-06-21T19:48:00.002+01:00

Decided to quickly paint my girlfriend's sculpty press, I on the other hand, am not fond of that material, looks cool though. In other news, tonsillitis is annoying and having your wisdom teath grow in afterwards is a greater annoyance.

2011-06-13T17:47:00.003+01:00

The colours of this painting appear very dull, however its pretty highly textured. Was going to a differnt feel than my usual one brush method of working.

2011-06-13T13:23:00.001+01:00

I dont think I've had "Five a day " in months, and whats this turning up to "72 a day? " hmm.
Hour or so still life. Mmm reduced price.

Self Portrait

2011-06-09T19:32:00.001+01:00

Havnt done a self portrait in photoshop in a while, so I gave it a quick go. Mer, its looking alittle grey. Also the mirror was right up in my face, this caused me to draw my face too wide, think I corrected it. Gave up when I got hungry. :l

Cloud people?

2011-06-08T16:36:00.003+01:00

Some conceptual sketches for this creative writing task thats been droped on a few people, what can I say? There a a good few contradictions in the story I was given, so its going to be as realistic as a Jerlompkerdonk.

photo studies

2011-06-08T12:43:00.002+01:00

A while back I decided not to post any photo studies i do, I do a fair amount of them every now and again. I think it was because some guy kept thinking I was cheating some how by doing it, which was hypocritical as he would trace or copy from photos, getting them very wrong aswell. My point being studying from photos can be good, although in some cases its often bad practice (if your tracing or something like that). It realy seems to be what you're using the photo for, if youre using it directly to draw over, thats kind of crappy however you can use them to study things like values and tones, aswell as shapes and other things.

These are 30-40 minute studies looking at shapes and tone.

How did I go about them? Well I gave my self a few restrictions to stop bad practice.

First, I select my image, making sure theres something interesting about the picture, I quite liked the harsh black and white. I than put the image into photoshop, select a boarder around the image and on a new layer, paint in the slection area, move the now painted box to the side and use that as my canvas. Thats the only help I give myself so that the scale is correct.

Im not alowed to use rulers or eracers. The pippet tool (eye dropper) is not alowed to be used on the photo, only your canvas, so no grabbing swatches or piching tones. And I can only use one layer. Only the brush tool is aloud to be used.

This way, I have to measure and get the tones by eye.

So its basicaly just training the eye.

2011-06-06T15:58:00.003+01:00

Drawing in the labs today, decided to draw pokemon, as Ive currently been obsessed with Pokemon White, so I asked a few people to do a a speed paint of some pokemon. This was 50 minutes.

2011-06-06T14:48:00.001+01:00

New York Duffy Square Race track

2011-05-31T15:09:00.003+01:00

This is a concept for a codemasters brief thats currently underway at my Uni, the idea was to create a race track of a glamourus location, whats more glamourus that Broadway? Well, this isnt exactly the best part of broadway, but whatever, its the coolest looking.

Tesco's Flowers

2011-05-28T00:03:00.002+01:00

I bought some flowers from Tesco today, these were only £4. Again, painting a few things I hate to paint, Glass and water, for some reason, theyre the things I hate to paint the most, but always seem to end up painting. Wanted to spend a good 5-6 hours on this, only managed 3, although it doesnt look like it. Although In those 3 hours some of the leaves have started to die. Bit of a shame.
I used to have a history teacher who said that painting flowers is easy and is a crapy painting, or whatever, I can quite easily say, the man never painted flowers. They're hard to paint, and under good lighting, look pretty cool. I think Ill paint these again.

Coins Revisit

2011-05-17T21:36:00.002+01:00

As I rarely ever comment on my own blog, I think I've been coming across as some kind of, strange machine, submitting work to a dead blog. So to counter this, I think I should say just a little bit about the pices I submit, or the thigns going on in daily life.

This was a revisit of one of my older pictures, basicaly I collect all my old coins, like a particular stereotype and take them down to Morrisons to exchange them for fine ales. Only problem with this is I have to get the change first. Last time, I saved up to £8.70p or something. Im not close to that yet, and Im -£1 from scavanging all the 10p coins.

Oh well, just been working on character modeling in my spare time! I have a bunch of projects in my desk draws and so many distractions. Work work.

2011-05-15T12:25:00.001+01:00