bits and pieces

dropping off studies and wips
just trying to simplify shapes, that sort of thing.  The composition by Gerome is sooo good, wish I'd looked at it more while in school.

playing around with magical underpainting type things.. top one was inspired by fog of war mechanics and ... the lovely weather.  bottom one is a wip. Trying to get more mood into it, it's not doing it yet. 

BOUGUEGUEREAUUF

Short study of bouguereau's dante and virgil.. so missed a lot of things in the actual painting.  I can't ever pronounce this guy's name properly.

experimenting/ rehashing old paintings.  There's always something you can use in them!

wip. I really want to finish this. Hobbit inspired, but there's quite a bit of things on the plate lately. :(

sketches for today

some time machine monster prompted by my friend. Its eyes are the portals.

Sketches tend to be characters or creatures.,,. they're easier to do than landscapes  ;_;

hoodie

decided to detail a sketch i did earlier this week.  My feels when I'm the only person using acrylic in the painting room. And then someone goes and smears oil paint on my hoodie.

dino ride thing

Trying out an attempt at The Line Art, which I've always wanted to do but sadly failed.  Looking at too much Akihiko Yoshida!

About 1 hr?  Tried starting from colour first, and need a better grip on edges/lighting. Too reliant on epic lighting is no good.  Time to polish it tmrw!

sketch

Shall attempt doing a small painting each day, except for work days. During this, I have realised I am horrible at painting rocks/cliffs/anything that is a by product of earth's self mutilation sessions.

Merchant of Duvii

alien theme.  Got lazy and based it on the assassin bug which I did research for before.. but decided to switch up the proportions a bit.

"When dealing with the merchants of Duvii, one must always wear an impenetrable helmet, for they have an unfortunate tendency to use their protrusions to inject a deadly poison into the foreheads of opposing merchants, whenever they encounter a deal in which they disagree. Which is to say, fairly often...but as they are the only known dealers of the rare drug phenatine, this leaves buyers little choice."

I have been watching too much Breaking Bad, hence the choice of temperamental/homicidal drug dealers. Until the next theme!

sort of hiatus?

Haven't been posting things, but I guess I will upload the end of term stuff that I did before going on a self induced learning break. So there aren't going to be as much uploads as before.  Man I really dislike living at home. There is just no sense of personal space/studio that I can do work all day in.  So I'm actually heading to the library instead of staying at home. If it wasn't for the part time job... I'd say that I'd still be in Oakville. :C

Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend! Woot.

Also extremely frustrated about the hiking tuition cost for no damn apparent reason. It's higher than animation's, but we get half of the resources, or even less. ( an estimation).  Please send emails to the student president/deans/mps to whatever parties you can if you fellow students do not want to pay this extremely unreasonable cost.


half hour warm ups, studies from mag

This week's theme. I still need to finish detailing it ugggggg, but it's good enough for the theme.

http://www.amazinglosers.tumblr.com

And so an umbrella in the face

Close up

Done for theme city slicker.  Realllllly need to do more like whoa, realised I don't have enough things for a decent anything.  On another note, I have never coded anything in my entire life and found it a mass of confusion until I sort of understood it a few hours ago....  /brianhurt