2D Figure Drawing

For our final 2D grade we had to choose our best three figure drawings. I decided to take my best three from figure drawing class and redo them digitally for a cleaner and more polished look

These were all originally drawn with pencil and paper and then taken into Paint Tool Sai to redo the linework and shading and to add color

2D Class Week 15

To continue with our work on our 2D project, this week I had the task of taking the witch's throne and making it bigger and "grander".

Here is a before and after image. Beyond making the size larger, I added larger, bramble-like decorations and spread our the armrests.

We also wanted the witch to have a cauldron near the center of her scene, so I created that.

I also went back to the arches once more to make them larger, thicken the bases, and work on removing the hard edges

Then I took the layout from last week and added example images to it for evaluation of the template design.

2D Class Week 14 Concept Round 04 (Final Color)

This week, I pushed on with the concepts for the Witch. Last week we decided on design number 3, so this week I took that design and redrew it with three different color palette concepts

Then I took the notes we received about our template for our concept sheets and redid the design.

I removed the monkey silhouettes and instead created a scene with tombstones in the foreground, and a hill and pathway, the witch's castle, and the moon in the background. I also cut off the border at the top to make room for two skulls and the page title.

In addition, I took the arches I created and made them thicker

2D Class Week 12 Concept Round (Value Pass 02)

For this week with the VR Oz project, we continued to iterate on our levels as always. Along with that, our assignments were to continue with the character and environment concepts with another value pass.

For my part, I did the new concepts for the witch

Along with that, I also redid the layout for our team's template pages

Then for the 3D Scene, I created new arches for inside the castle along with some sconces for set dressing

2D Class Week 12 Concept Round (Value Pass 01)

This week, for our Wizard of Oz project, I took the concepts for the Witch from last week and iterated upon them to get six new images. Then I added grayscale values to the images.

2D Class Week 10 Concept Discovery With 3D

This week we had to try out different concepting techniques while also moving forward with our Wizard of Oz project overall.

For my part of the project, I took the proxy model of the Witch from last week, took the comments I got about her from the last critique, and reworked her design to both look better and better fit our theme.

Old model:

 New model: 

And here is her with some dramatic lighting, for kicks:

As for the concepting techniques, I decided to try the toon shader techniques within Maya for the Witch's broom

Normal mesh:

With Toon Shader and Outlines

With dramatic lighting, again for kicks

2D Class Week 08 Artist Discovery

This week was the beginning of a longer group project. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be combining a character from The Wizard of Oz with the art style of Tim Burton and creating and image together as a group.

Our team's character is The Wicked Witch of the West and her Flying Monkeys. We began by pooling images in a group Pinterest board. From there we each selected images we thought could go towards creating our redesigned characters and used them to make our individual mood boards.

Our group's pinterest can be found here

Here are some examples of a few of the images I found:

Here are my mood boards for the Witch and for the environment.

2D Tim Burton-style Wizard of Oz Team

Team Witch (feat. The Flying Monkeys):

Tiffany Brodie

Hezekiah Olopade

Melissa Almirall

Chelsea Ziu

Samuel Moss

Francisco Romero

2D Class Week 07 Basic Lighting

This week, we had to take a photograph of an object that utilizes a three point lighting setup and recreate it as a drawing in Photoshop. For my object, I chose a toy Princess Peach.

My first step was to convert this image to black and white whithin Photoshop to more easily see the black and white values.

Then I made a quick sketch to get the basic shapes down before making a clean lineart layer.

Then I put down my base colors.

Then I added shading and highlights.

Once the object was finished, I moved on to making a background and a cast shadow.

Finally I cleaned up the image and added some finishing touches.

After that, I went ahead and added some colors on top as a layer set to Color.

Total work time: about 6 hours

2D Class Week 06 Value

For this assignment, we were expected to explore value for shading and depth. We were given a piece of linework and expected to use black and white values to create shading and highlights

Original artwork

My finished piece

Total work time: about 6 hours

2D Class Week 05 Silhouettes

This week, we were expected to create some silhouettes and choose our best nine to display. I decided to choose characters for my silhouettes.

I tried to keep them all within a similar cartoon-ish art style to ensure they all looked as if they belonged to the same universe.

Total work time: 4 1/2 hours

2D Class Week 04 Composition and Layout

This week, we had to choose one of the layouts presented during class to demonstrate in an illustration. 

I did quite a few different concept sketches before deciding on the one below. The idea was "disco" mixed with a bit of inspiration from Roy Lichtenstein-style pop art. While I chose to demonstrate radii composition in this piece, rule of thirds naturally found its way in as well.

Original sketch

Sketch with radial lines

Line work

Final completed image

2D Class Week 03 (One,Two, Three Perspective)

I started by choosing an image as my reference for my three point perspective drawing

And here's my drawing

Total work time: about 3 hours