Portrait Practice

I've been spending a lot of time drawing recently, but it has been more general boring (to other people) practice stuff that isn't very exciting and I didn't feel like it should be shared. However I have these pictures!

I decided that I really wanted to do some good face (and partial torso) studies of humans, and I wanted to pay particular attention to making them recognisable to the actors (hopefully I have achieved that!). I have never felt comfortable with drawing  real people before as I was never confident but I finally decided to just go for it!

I will probably be doing quite a few more of these in the near future as they are good practice, fun and I am learning a lot from them too!

 And I find it is good to pick people that a number of people would know because it forces me to make sure that they resemble them- rather than just picking a complete stranger that no one else would recognise! :) Soon I will do females as well!

Well, that is all from me for now. Until next time!

Thanks for reading! :)

Paula

3D Models For 'Hunt'

Fox and Hound modelled by Isabelle Dela Torre, gun modelled by Cameron Hunt. All of the textures were done by me.

Just thought I would do a quick update on all the stuff that has been going on. The rigs on both characters have been completed (though there aren't many picture of the Fox rig at the moment, I'm sure I can get a few in the next week or so!).

I am going to continue on doing some matte paintings for the backgrounds and try to make the style really come together nicely with the characters and everything, so it should be a lot of fun!

Well, that's all for now! :)
Thanks a lot for reading,

Paula

'Hunt' Project Model Pack

 This is the model pack that I created for our group project 'Hunt'. I submitted it yesterday and I was thoroughly excited when one of my tutors told me that I was really "raising the bar" with what I had done! And our other tutor told me that he really liked it and said that it was awesome, so I was over the moon!

I have tried to put as much effort into this as I can, and go above and beyond what is just in the brief specifications because I believe it's worth doing something to the best of your abilities! :)

The characters and gun have been modelled and rigged (by one of my awesome team mates- Isabelle Dela Torre) and I have completed the textures (some minor tweaks still are needed but they are about 98% done I would say).
Those should be popping up some time soon as well, so keep an eye out! :)

Thanks a lot for reading!

Paula :)

'Hunt' Project Concept Work

I got permisson to post a whole heap of things so I thought I would show the world a little bit of what I have been doing this term for our third year project.

 We have created our own story, characters and everything! It is super exciting to be doing this project and it means I've been allowed to draw every day (which makes me an extremely happy person!) and let my creativity flow.

The team that I am in is really good and I think that we all work well together, our strengths are all slightly different so it makes for a very well balanced team! I'm beginning to feel incredibly excited, and I can't wait to see our final result. We still have five weeks to go on the project, but things are starting to come together very nicely and we are on track for completion!

So all in all, it has been an incredibly successful year so far. I'm loving the whole process and I can't wait to see what else is in store! :)

Rock Gollum

Done entirely on Photoshop CS5 (as most of my images are these days), this guy was started with a silhouette. I then added varying tonal values, then added colour layers on top. I spent quite a while fiddling around with his colours to get them how I liked, but I don't think the end result is too bad. :)

There should be posters available at the Animation College NZ stall this Labour weekend of him- so if you're interested and going this weekend you should pop around and say 'hi' to all students that are working there! I will be going on the Saturday so if anyone is floating around then it would be awesome to hear from you guys!

Anyway, that's all for now!

Thanks for reading and I hope to see you again soon :)

Four Planets

My last picture from the concept design workshop a set of four different 'planets' or environments. I drew this picture when Robh Ruppel was speaking to us about the way he paints environments and I feel that I gained a lot from listening to him speak and show the way that he worked.

Overall, I found the workshop a really useful thing for me to go to (for those that haven't read any of my previous posts, I was fortunate enough to attend a Concept Design Workshop in Wellington in September) and I felt that I learned a lot, and it gave me the confidence to find my own way of doings things without worrying too much about linear paths in order to get to the job that I want.

It showed me that everyone had a different way of getting into the industry, but the thing that everyone had in common was that they all worked damn hard, and so I am trying to push myself even more now- trying to learn new programmes, techniques and different ways of approaching things in order to further myself as an artist.

So, it was a very good time for me I feel. And even though self doubt is always there, I feel like it's a natural part of it now- so it's not something to be afraid of. It helps me to push myself more and keep striving to be better!

Well, that's all for now!

Thanks for reading,

Hope to see you back soon! :)

Day Five

So this was the last official picture I did for the workshop :) I did another picture on the following day with Robh Ruppel but I didn't finish it, so I didn't think there was much point putting it up here.
I will write up about it soon- including some awesome advice that I picked up from the various artists at the workshop. Very exciting stuff! :)

Day three and four!

Day three and four of the workshop- and here is what I've been up to!

Stomp the Uni

A picture of a friends Neopet design that she asked for. I don't play Neopets anymore but when I was younger I used to be completely obsessed with it. It was rather unhealthy of me...

BUT I digress! It's good when I complete drawings. I just need to start putting more backgrounds into things.

Done in Photoshop over several hours.

It's Friday!!

It's Friday! And I've been sick most of this week. Silly winter bugs... But anyway!
Did this guy today. I spent ages working on another piece but I didn't really plan it very well to begin with so it ended up looking pretty bad.

SO I decided I would start on this one instead. I now realise there are a lot of mistakes with perspective and such. (And he looks like he has a wonky leg...)

 But I will try and get it right next time. I now also realise I need to do weapon studies, and I am terrible and have no clue what weapons actually look like. So, it's been a good learning day all around for me! Despite all this, I still kinda like this guy with his dreads.

That's all for now!

Catch you later, and thanks for reading :)

Leopard Study

Just another photo study- this time of a super cute little feline! Not much else to say apart from that :)

Wolf Study

My tonal version and colour of a wolf study that I did today. From a photo reference :). I haven't really done this using this technique before so it was all a bit of a learning curve. I really enjoy doing this sort of thing and I like feeling as if I've learnt something when I finish a drawing.

Life Drawing

Just a quick update with some life drawing sketches that I've done recently (the ones that I am happiest with). The top was done with charcoal the others are done with a standard pencil. And all the drawings had different lengths of time, though I can't remember exactly what was what.

Creature Creation

We had to create our own Alien creatures with a cybernetic suit and that had elements from several different animals. So I begun with some basic sketches to generate some ideas and I also did some animal studies (below).

And some gun studies above (just drawn from pictures of already existing guns for reference and ideas as I actually don't have a clue about what guns, of any sort of variation, look like).

Better put together concept page. I like this better than the last one I did and there are more this time. Hoorah!

 My two favourite designs, but I eventually decided to go with the design on the right because I felt it worked better than Mr. Goat Man.

Just a turn around of my design! I have drawn his arms in the side view, but I haven't put that in in this version. But they do exist!

And I have just about completed modelling this guy, and I have begun to texture him in Mudbox (although I've been finding that it seems a bit of a fickle programme sometimes...) but still, it is good fun to use and hopefully I can get a nice model which looks like my design completed soon!

Coloured Drawings and Art Blocks

Just the black and white concepts from before but now with colour! Hooray!
Hmm... I like them individually, but the colours don't really work together all that well. I may have to change this later because it's kinda bugging me :I

I've been having a bit of an art block recently (which is frustrating because now I actually have some free time my brain/ hand is making all my drawings look poo). So hopefully I will come out the other side soon and make some good looking pictures. I want to do some full scenes because they're a lot more rewarding (and usually interesting to look at). And challenging. Good old challenges!

Well, that's all for now!

[deviantart account- www.eliket.deviantart.com] 

And finally pictures!

 Ok, these are some silhouettes that I have done over the last couple of weeks (some more detailed than others) including some mecha-design and some instant recognition silhouettes (like the smoking/ sheriff dude up the top).

This is all the sort of stuff that I have been learning at the concept art workshop on Wednesday nights, and now I have a large enough collection to put up on here. And I stuck the three concepts of the girl in again because I felt like it fit in with everything else (as I did this on the course as well!). Huzah!

If you click on the picture you should be able to make it the actual size which is quite a bit larger. So do that if you're craving more details!

And these are my perspective drawings. I've really been trying to practice this skill a lot because I'm not especially good at it, so it has been challenging, but a whole heap of fun (especially when the picture actually turns out how you were expecting/ wanting!).

So I've got to keep practicing and trucking on with all my drawings. I also have a bunch of hand drawings that I will scan in sometime and stick up on here as well.

Ok! That's all for now! Thanks for stopping by :)

Female Concepts

Every Wednesday after class I've been going to these awesome Photoshop courses run by two different awesome concept artists. It does make a rather long day (13 hours usually as I'm in at 8am and the course finishes at pm) but I think it's totally worth it. And it means that I actually get some time on Photoshop, rather than getting distracted at home. Silly home. :P

And back on topic! Well, this is what I made during the second course. I still haven't finished some of the drawings from my first lesson thing... But I am working on them slowly, so I'll stick them up here once I'm done as well (I say that so often it's crazy- but I do actually intend to).

I was trying out some new things with the colours so the girl on the right looks a little funky. But it's all good fun experimenting with Photoshop! And two updates in as many days? What is this madness!?

Just a casual Tuesday evening

Just something a bit different for a change. What began as a doodle and spawned into something much more. I really enjoyed doing this though, got to play around with a lot of things and let my frustration out onto digital canvas. What can be better than that?

And so many layers. Which makes a change form my single layered speed-paints. Hooray for mixing things up!