Major Project: Canto XIII Further Environment Developement

Even though our project is already handed in there is still a lot to do to finish it. We had to fix a lot of issues and bring everything back to maya. New environment actually starts looking pretty good now.

Harpy Concept 2

This time I tried hard to make our Harpy as grotesque as possible. I made the head more beak-like, but at the same time since I didn't wanted to keep it in a very generic shape added some abstract shapes. Similar patterns are repeating throughout the whole body to keep it consistant. If this concept works I still have some ideas where I could push it further.

Harpie Concept

This concept was inspired by Gustav Klimt's paintings. I tried to combine Sam's sketches with something more stylised. Just like in Klimt's paintings I've been thinking to leave completely flat textures in some areas. It would help to integrate our charackters into highly stylised environment. This work still feels a bit unfinished, but it should be enough to explain what I have in my head.

Harpy Nests (Part I)

I took one of the developed thumbnails and started adding some more detail connected to the text, but still kept everything very loose and suggestive. I might continue on this piece tomorrow.

Major Project: Thumbnails Developement (Part II)

At this point some paintings are starting to look more like a forest. I'm not too concerned about detail until I'll be done with the compositions of each painting. First and second thumbnails seems to be finished compared to the others and they are ready to go to the next stage.

Major Project: Thumbnail Developement (Part I)

After last conversation with Phil we decided to make as many rough thumbnails as possible to help us out. In these thumbnails I started throwing random ideas that could visualise the forest from the 13th Canto. It is a mix of my own painting and random pictures from the internet. This should help us to decided on color scheme and will create further designs as happy accidents, because there is a minimal amount of description of what we want to show. Later on I will try to push these forward and see how it works.

Major Project: Beginning

During my Major Project I will be collaborating with my friend Sam. Our idea is to create interactive e-book chapter from Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" "Inferno" part. Currently we are still developing our idea and doing research. While listening to Dante's Audio book version I've been doing some sketching, I've drawn a very generic Dante's concept and it serves only warming up purpose since there is a lot of authenticity and meaning in every scene that we might take on and a lot more research is needed to start the actual sketching. We will  create a new branded blog for this project as soon as we can.

Christmas present to my friend

Here's a present to my friend Kate. Hopefully this will warm her up during cold winter evening.

Christmas internship

Today as I was working as an Intern in Santas secret base I accidentally pulled the wrong lever and terrible things happened... This is definitely not a speed paint, because I just wanted to push it further after making quick initial sketch. I decided to make this painting while I am simulating or rendering some of my tests. I will continue when I will get another long render started.

Audri Totu

One hour sketch in which I wasn't really trying to copy the picture, but use it as a reference and paint something believable. I might continue this next day.

Quick Sketch

While waiting for the tutorial with Alan I decided to sketch something really quickly.



4-hour Environment Sketching Session

Following Feng Zhu's 56'th tutorial I decided to try to do something similar. I knew that I can't make finished painings in such limited period of time, but i decided to make as many as possible second stage thumbnails with mood and temperature described by colors in four hours. After fourth painting I felt that the time is running out and I just stopped thinking, everything just stopped working out. This exercise is seriously intensive and tiring, but it really teaches you to think and act quicker - be more productive.

Baseball girl

Another sketch with a bit more stylised character made from random words meshed together.

Anatomical Painting From Memory and Light Rendering

That took quite a while to do. I sketched out an interesting pose and tried to push it as much as I can. I used simple background to define the lighting and create consistent atmosphere.

Process:

Aunt Dale's Portrait

Since there is another birthday coming soon I was sure what I was going to be asked for and here is another portrait of my aunt Dale.

Uncle Arvydas' portrait

So here is my uncle's birthday and I was asked to paint his portrait just like for my sister. I used his picture as a reference, so it was nothing special, but it was fun to play around with different colours and either way I think this is also a pretty good exercise.

Few Characters

I remembered few Justin's exercises with silhouettes and sketched few characters again, just for fun. I'm feeling a lot quicker after the whole year of practice and my characters are becoming more and more stylised. Making these kind of characters now is really easy I'll try to make few more sheets like that with more elaborated versions of the same guys and do some modelling, rigging and other technical stuff. Since they are not as detailed as my last characters it might be a lot easier to get through the whole workflow pipeline.

Bugs in Mountains

Here is another concept for fun this time. I wanted to make a very fresh a bit scandinavian environment with a little bit of sci-fi elements. It didn't took too much time, because I used lots of pictures as a reference which gave me a very nice color palette and volumes instantly although I feel that the final composition is a bit off, but it would really take some time to fix it.

Meet Victor

It has been a while since the last post, but this summer was incredibly busy and there is a lot of things coming up soon. Today I took a break and made something just for fun and here comes Victor - a catman antimessenger. Whenever he is not chasing down pigeons he likes to play with the bell on his scarf.

Horrific Ox + Sea Urchin

Another hour and a half sketch. This time I combined Ox and Urchin