Animal At Large

For my second Photoshop project in Computer Illustration 1 I had to create an illustration that featured a disproportionately large animal or creature in a city type environment.

I decided to design a creature for my environment. After some research I combined a Portuguese Man of War jellyfish for his colors and crest and a mosquito because mosquitos are nasty. Thus the jelly-squito!

Overall I am satisfied with the composition and colors, but I think going back into it with a detail pass and little atmosphere and value changes will help push this piece to be included into my portfolio.

The process and studies up to the final were also fun to work out before going to the final.

Speed Painting Studies

 1 hour studies of random objects from this semester.
 The second was of photo of a bird of paradise.
 The third one was done in 15 minutes.
 The last done today in 45 minutes.

Painting Study

Painting Study of a skull in Photoshop... normally I only do these studies for an hr. but I decided to go into it for a hr and a half this time around. I'm pretty happy with it especially a texture brush I made to draw with.

Surreal Self-Portrait

This is my first Photoshop project in Computer Illustration 1. We had to develop an image that illustrates a dream and had to contain a figurative self-portrait within the composition.

I decided to make myself into a weird creature. After doing some thumbnails and research I decided on a more alien face and was inspired by the work of Dave Rapoza.

My process started with thumbnails, to a line drawing, then after scanning my line work I did a couple value and color comps. I also did some quick painting studies of my face and then went onto a grayscale painting. The last bit was done with color overlays and some opaque painting.

So far I'm happy with the ways its turning out but I would consider it a work in progress. I want to do more detailing in the grayscale and then paint it again with overlays and and more attention to warm and cool variation.

Self Portrait Sketch

Self portrait sketch for a surreal self portrait done in brown color pencil.
Next step is to paint it in photoshop.

Environments

So these environments I finished not too long ago. I'm planning on doing some finalizing touch-ups on these for my portfolio this weekend and then onto the next 6...

Frog creature's environment:

First Round of touch-ups:

Wanderer poem environment:

Value & More Composition Studies

In an environmental design mood... I have to do some environments for two of my classes so I decided to do some more composition studies. This time I just did some value with texture and chalk brushes in photoshop. I think I'm actually going to take a few of them to finish.

These first few are actually for my frog character and creature.
The last six are just for an wanderer poem.