...MORE silhouettes...

...in my head, that's said like Samwise Gamgee "More...lembas bread."

Second rounds of silhouettes, developing assets, costumes and value studies. I'm fond of the fish, though it's hard to make fish that don't look...derpy. 

Visual Language

Last week we had a lesson on visual language, and how to create a cohesive world by finding commonalities that you can echo in the characters, objects, environments, creatures, etc of a story. Think about the triangles in Atlantis, the shapes throughout Cinderella, or more difficult with live action you can find colors. Shapes in the environment but altering someone's physical shape might prove to be a bit of a challenge.
Unless you're Peter Jackson.

So, we were split into groups of 3 and chose the worlds out of envelopes and ended up with Nightmare Before Christmas, Princess Mononoke, and Doctor Who (WHICH I ALMOST FLIPPED MY TABLE ABOUT). The three of us each chose a character from one of the worlds, and after we found common languages throughout the 3 worlds, created characters based on what we scratched out.
We ended up with elongated limbs, triangles and circles, big eyes, cool vs. warm colors (mostly blues vs. yellows), and saturated colors.

I GOT TO DRAW THE DOCTOR FOR CLASS. Sometimes...college, man. College.

Here's the end result:

Some silhouettes..

Learning different techniques for concept art, here's a slew of silhouettes for a story. A story about goldfish.

We had to study the environments and characters at first, and work on the assets a little later.

painting a Master's

I recently had the pleasure of Tintoretto's Penitent Magdalene grace my ocular...modules for the first time. Oh Lord...

I think it's inspired me to attempt to recreate a classic painting, on occasion, to better grasp anatomy, color, lighting, value, etc. I learned a little while I recreated this. A bit of a speedpaint I suppose.

I'm going to try to hold myself to doing this at least once a week.

Tinoretto, Penitent Magdalene (detail)

speedpaint recreation.

I know a lot is off, especially scale and anatomy wise, but it was still a really great challenge for me and more an exploration of the colors he used. I didn't want to get too in depth, but I loved her face. The bone structure is so subtle and so beautiful. 

Daily Los Angeles and some sketches.

My sister, on occasion, texts me descriptions of interesting characters she encounters in Los Angeles where she lives.

Whenever she sends me a description, I'm going to draw them. A few months ago, she told me Morgan Freeman had stopped to eat where she works. He was wearing flanel, a baseball cap and ate ribs. And that's all she told me.

Thus:

enjoying ribs = saucy fingers/face

this is how I saw him in my head. hahaha, so precious!

I'd posted these on my tumblr, but I'm working on some ideas for a comic with my sister. 

And I've been listening to a lot of Welcome to Night Vale...

3?

I've lost count and fallen behind! This is more than just....a day. But I like the color palette so much that I kept tinkering with it and everytime I did I saw something new. I'm finally at the point where I can't lookit it anymore.

TAKE IT AWAY.

I took this image from my folder of inspiration. I think it's an instagram photo from NY Fasion Week.

Crystallize filter, and I think another one on top of that.

What is it even...

I feel like sometimes I can see that Miyazaki is always running my brain..

2

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

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