Ocean Crown

Our first assignment in the Zbrush class was to make a simple object so we'd get used to the software. I made a seashell crown which might be slightly familiar if you've been through my portfolio. It changed just a bit, but I like this new color scheme more. For my final project in this class, I'll be modeling the character who wears it. Anyway here is the crown:

I modeled the base mesh in Maya, sculpted in Zbrush, and textured with Photoshop.

Alien Thing

So as I had mentioned earlier, I'm taking a class that emphasizes Zbrush this quarter. Since it is my first time using this program I thought I'd look up a tutorial and just follow it step by step. This way, I can familiarize myself with it, and try to find an efficient workflow. In this case I used the Starting guide in the Documentation folder. It was a pretty nice and simple to follow tutorial.
Anyway, this is my end result:

It's interesting I suppose. Well at least I can only go up from here, and I have a better understanding of the interface. More (and better) work to come soon!

Color Scheme

I haven't posted much in a while, because this quarter has been pretty hectic for the first two weeks. It doesn't seem like that will stop anytime soon, but hey, at least I stay busy.
Anyway, in the meantime I thought I would post an older piece to prove I'm still alive. This one was another quick painting I did for practice. I used a photo I took of a sunset for reference, and a randomly provided color scheme from the internet.

This is the scheme I used. Tetradic Color Scheme. The site is pretty cool too, check it out if you are having problems coming up with one, or are looking for a color challenge.

Spring Quarter

This is shaping up to be one of my favorite quarters at SCAD so far, and it is just starting. There are two classes in particular I'm very excited for, Sculptural Texturing for Games and Conceptual Illustration.

Sculptural Texturing for Games is basically a Zbrush class, which I'm thrilled beyond words to finally start working with it. I've seen the gorgeous sculptures and models other artists have done with it in ZbrushCentral, and just about everywhere, so to be finally able to work in 3d with this level of detail makes me very happy. I'll definitely be posting works in progress here as the quarter moves on.

Conceptual Illustration, the other class, is going to be amazing. Basically we'll develop a character and their environment and story throughout the quarter. What's most important though, is that we will actually go out, and experience things like wearing armor or wielding weapons, so we can get the experience and the feel of it, and know how to better portray it in our concepts. It will be a very hands-on class which I know I'll be very grateful for.


Not to sound like a broken record, but I'm very excited about this quarter, and hopefully I'll get some really nice work out of it.

Red Sky

This is a speed paint I did earlier today, when I did not feel like working on another project. So this is basically how I procastinate. Sometimes.

Now that I see it again, the sky and the reflection on the water don't really match, so it looks like the water is a magic barrier or something. Hmm...

Done in Photoshop in about 2 hours.

Alexis

This is the side project I was mentioning in the previous post.
Her name is Alexis, and she is a character that I've had in the back off my mind for quite a while now, and thanks to a little challenge me and a friend came up with, I finally made some concept art for her.
Alexis is a bit of a tomboy. She enjoys having a toned body and doesn't mind flaunting it a bit. She has control of the fire element, and her favorite color is sky blue.

Hope you like her!

Thumbnails

Right now I'm working on a little side project, so in the meantime I decided to update with some older stuff.

These are some thumbnails I did for a portrait piece I submitted to Exposé. I still don't know if my work will make it in the book, but even if it doesn't I'm pretty happy with the finished piece (which you can see in my porfolio).

Anyway as I was saying, these are thumbnails I did to study and figure out different mask styles, compositions, and overall design of the piece.

Oh, those are indeed two strips of masking tape in there, not because the paper tore, but because I was drawing with a pen and needed to erase somehow.