Illustration Project Round 6

This week, I smoothed out the simple fish animation I made for our scene.

Illustration Project Round 5

For this week, I updated the animation for the fish in our 2D project.

I also created a few simple flamingo animations.

Illustration Project Round 4

For this round, I was tasked with animating the fish in our pond. These are the work in progress shots I was able to do with a proxy fish model and simple rig.

Illustration Project Round 3

For this round, our art director assigned me the task of reshaping the mannequin we have to fit the body type of the Crowned Hog more.

I was also tasked to pose him out in the scene, where he lies dead on the steps after being impaled by a sword.

Concepts Round 1 - Silhouettes & Thumbnails

This week, I was assigned to work with a wonderful group on an illustration idea featuring Carnacki and Fantomah. So far, an additional character for this includes the Crowned Hog, who is a villain. We were assigned to do thumbnails for our characters, and this week we chose to focus on the Crowned Hog so we could flesh him out. These are the thumbnails I created:

Bringing It All Together - Illustration 2nd Pass

As a conclusion to our two week assignment in creating an illustration based off of a story, with our own twist, this is the final result for my piece on The Cask of Amontillado.

Bringing It All Together - Illustration 1st Pass

This week, I had to make a first pass at an illustration for the story I chose, "The Cask of Amontillado", with my own twist.

Story Choice

The story I chose to recreate is Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado.

Basic Lighting

This week, I had to take a picture of an object I had and create three point lighting, then recreate it as a painting. I chose my Garnet figurine from Steven Universe. This was the original image:

This is the end result:

Perspective

This week, we had to take an original piece by John Berkey and replicate it in 3D, then make a 2D drawing from the 3D to study perspective. This was the image I chose:

I then imported the image plane into Maya, and made a simplified 3D version of the spaceship.

I then took this image into photoshop, and used the lighting and 3D shapes to create my 2D piece.

The perspective is two-point.

Composition

For this week's assignment I had to recreate a piece by Drew Struzan to understand its composition. I decided to recreate his poster of The Thing.

This was the result. The composition of this piece is radial.

Values

This week I used the work of Frank Frazetta to practice painting values. I chose this drawing to do my assignment.

This was the result of my assignment.

Silhouettes

This week, I looked through the art of Brian Froud. To do this assignment, I had to find a piece by him that had an interesting silhouette that I could alter and create new silhouette thumbnails for. This was the image and creature I decided to go with.

After drawing over the image to get its silhouette, I created eight variations to it.

Basic Shapes

For this assignment, we had to choose a piece by Syd Mead to recreate a portion of with shapes. This was the piece I chose.

I really liked the posing of the character on the left, so that is the portion of the drawing I decided to recreate.