Thesis/project Ochroia

Thesis/project Ochroia. I was influenced by conflict minerals and the dwindling resources of rare earths regarding production of electronics when coming up with an idea. A certain planet has a rumoured organic mineral called Xyarch that is based in myth.Mercenaries and mining corporations arrive on this planet to find and harvest this crystal tree, along with other minerals. Certain members of its population gain mysterious powers due to ingesting high concentration of this mineral in the water and food. The higher the contamination the better the chances, hence these often happen to be the peasants, though the rich have reprooduced these results in very controlled conditions. The catch is that members of the population regard the tree/crystals as objects of worship and attirbute these powers as being blessed, while researchers, the corporations and most of the upper crust suspect its due to an isolated factor. Three main factions are warring between letting the mining corps to continue their exacavation of the planet, reserving the use and sale of various minerals for themselves or to minimise and halt harvesting of the minerals. 

It was going to be medieval/sci fi genre, which really means steampunk, but it ran away with itself.

uploading more soon

final paintings

Some paintings taken to final for class.. I rushed one of them, sure you can tell.  :(

studies and comps

more comp practice, efficient thumbnailing is really kicking my butt.

film study

plus quick sketcher

more snowwwww

Still a struggle to find a workflow. Sometimes I think I know what to do, then I moogle around unsure of
what I should do next.  :I  With painting snow, in some areas it still feels the same, like I didn't shape it enough. Plus reflected light is shot in this one.

long update

Posting doodles and some in development pieces. I update my tumblr more often than this blog. D:

Summer went pretty great, learnt lots though I always wish I can learn and do more!

I'm at the point where I'm comfortable with drawing, as opposed to before where I feel like everything I put down is a bloody mistake.

Starting a creature a day thing to get better! I update most often at my tumblr! Check it out if you have the time. Also posting cool stuff by other people on it.. you know how tumblr is... a cesspool of awesome.

Warm up to get back into things. :D  

Cheers and work hard everyone!

enviros

Haven't actually done a cityscape before; I realised I leaned towards the more fantasy, hobbit land sort of thing. So here's to trying and painting different things! Though I do like mixing tech with greenery...

Matte painting? Or matte concept.... I'm confused. My piece of hobbit-inspired art.

experimenting with things.. sparth's custom shape method. It has A LOT of design potential, plus with whatever I picked up from graphic design. I want to see what I can do with it , and initially got the method wrong too lol. Starting with a sketch.

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. :(

experiments

going back to some super loose chicken scratching.. feels good!

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.

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

short

Got recommended a bunch of bird documentaries to watch for homework.  :D   I love this class.

Just a quick update of a short enviro study