2

Another "digging out" of an image. My mom saw a breakdancer.

Day 2! I actually did this yesterday and cleaned it up today.

Benedict - step by step

I hardly ever make gifs, and never make gifs of my art. However, I had the wherewithal to save this in the form of layers. So, here's a step by step of sorts.

1

I've stored up god knows how many "how to's" in this folder. It's probably best I wipe off the dust and give them a shot.

Since I'm often and perpetually stuck on an island of the banal, I'm up for any suggestions that break me away from what I gravitate towards. Fanart. But you should draw what you love and I love all the silly pop culture things I draw, so I don't care.

When I first really started to draw stuff for myself, it was Harry Potter fanart. And I loved it, I still do.

I digress. One of the tutorials I found suggested using one of the filters from Photoshop, Crystallize, to a photo of your choice. At the very least, you get really nice color palettes.

I took this random image from tumblr. Which, after searching for the source, is a painting by Richard Estes called New York City Subway.

I used the filter Crystallize, and rotated the image.

It took a while to dig something out of it. I had to step away a couple times and erase the face(s) my brain always wanted to find. 

It isn't perfect, but it was really fun to try. I can't say I'd have come up with this on my own. 

Attempt no. 1 at an environment.

Post finals round-up

Here's a collection of all the work I did over the last quarter.


Some of the work from my vis II class. We wrote a script the first week, and the rest of the quarter was spent drawing, and redrawing the same script 4 different times, learning how to manipulate the viewer by changing angles/panels. One of the last assignments was to create 2 covers.

representational/design hybrid cover. 

design cover. oh, teddy. 

and then we inked one of our own.

The final pencils of one of the 4 versions, I think it was the 3rd pass and the one I felt was most successful:

The final for my storyboarding class, recreating different kinds of shot calls by using existing ones we were given. The example I was assigned was strange and foreign and the people looked like they were rollerskating down a hall

I hate zombies, and creepy things, and horror movies. Fear, in general, is not an emotion I enjoy. I'm taking baby steps to get myself out of this mindset. So I went for a post apocalyptic abandoned hospital...thing. Originality is my genetic makeup.

There were very few shots in the example I was given. 4 storyboards was all it took. I don't know why they turned out blueish when I uploaded them...

More storyboards from my advanced storyboarding class. We had to research some rad sword fights/duels, and create our own light saber battle.

There are a few other things I could add. But some stuff I'm not sure if I'm allowed to. If any of you read all the descriptive long-winded ramblings, bless you. 

Summer school starts in a week or so, and I've got lots of things to prep for AFO in August! Hard to get motivated in the summer. All I wanna do is nap in the afternoon and eat pizza...

I saw a spaulder...

and my roommate was playing Bastion. the two met in the middle and spiralled out of control.