Personal Work: Update

After looking back at my blog, there is a clear lack of digital paintings and drawings in recent posts, so I thought I'd upload some of my latest personal work. There is still a lot more room for improvement, but I am still happy with the progress that I have made over the past two years and so hope this year will see a bigger boost in quality.

I have organised these into the order in which I made them (Old to New).

 

 BB-8 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - Digital painting - (Made 12th January)

House of Cards is one of the my favourite TV series', and Kevin Spacey is my favourite actor in general - his performances in Se7en (1995), American Beauty (1999) and The Usual Suspects (1995) are partcular favourites. I went into this drawing unsure as to whether I should do the usual, take a line drawing and then add to it in Photoshop, but as it progressed, I felt that using my line art style would work well - which I think it has.

Frank Underwood (Played by Kevin Spacey in House of Cards - Pen Drawing - (Made 12th March)

Although I do have a certain drawing style and way of using Photoshop, I feel that it could benefit from a further style choice. For this drawing of The Bride from Kill Bill, I drew this out on paper first, like I usually do, but I left in some shading in from the pencil. I think it looks quite effecttive in the arms and demonstrates creases in the clothes, but overall, it looks a bit too dirty and needs "brightening up" in places. I, also, tried to incorporate the anime influences from the film into this, but that is not at all clear.

 Beatrix Kiddo (Played by Uma Thurman) in Kill Bill (2003) - Digital Painting - (Made 5th July)

Recently, I have got into the habit of taking things and turning them into tattoo designs. I did also make a Drive (2011) and Trainspotting (1996) design, but they didn't look quite as good and look like I've just put a load of random things from each film into one image. Before I made those though, I turned one of my favourite film quotes into a design. The famous Joker quote from Batman (1989) is something that I've always liked, and so I looked at ballroom dancing images and used one of them as a starter for this design. I think the colours look good as they stand out and combine with each other well, although I think certain tones could have been improved, especially in the dress.

Tattoo design inspired by Batman (1989) - (Made 17th July)

Like many people, I saw Suicide Squad recently,and perhaps unlike many people, I really liked it, despite it's clear flaws. One undeniable strength of the film lies in it's character performances, especially Margot Robbie's portrayal of Harley Quinn. It seemed look a good fit to make a tattoo design based on her. It's quite simple, but the overall composition is what works best. I definitely think that my drawing of people faces is improving, as not only this but my Frank Underwood drawing both look like their respective actors.

Harley Quinn (Played by Margot Robbie) - Tattoo Design - (Made 9th August)

 In case you were wondering what the Drive (2011) and Trainspotting (1996) designs looked like, here they are (before doing further work in Photoshop):

Trainspotting (1996) - Tattoo Design

Drive (2011) - Tattoo Design

Personal Work: Nightmare Before Christmas

 

I know I should be focusing on other work, but I have done this digital painting of one of my favourite scenes from one of my favourite films, which just so happens to be a Christmas film. As the game that I'll be designing for the character project is set in a world that is covered in snow, this has helped me when painting snow. I'm really pleased with this as it looks very similar to the scene of the film.

- Merry Christmas everyone ! -

Personal Work: Walter White from "Breaking Bad" - Digital Painting

As most people know, I'm a big fan of "Breaking Bad" and so I drew a pen drawing of Walter White. Once I finished the pen drawing, that I did on paper first, I decided to take it into photshop and work on it from there, instead of using pencils, pens etc. or just leaving it as it was. Using some of the techniques that I learned from last year's sessions with Jordan, I reached a final result that I'm very pleased with. It matches the original's colours quite well, and I found the right colours myself instead of using the necessary tool on Photoshop to get the correct colour/shade. 

Digital Painting

Pen drawing in Photoshop

Original pen drawing

Personal Work: Mad Max Line drawing

I actually did this drawing some time ago and I was really happy with it, due to it being well detailed and quite accurate. I tried using water colour pencils to add colour to the drawing, but it didn't quite work. As there is still a lot more room for improvement in my digital painting skills, I think I'll take it into photoshop and continue working on it from there.

Personal work: Jared Leto's Joker from Suicide Squad

Now that I have finished off the re-submission of the What If? Metropolis project and have completed the Fantastic Voyage animation, I'm going to keep myself busy by continuing to practice my drawing skills both on paper or digitally.

I have started a few, but the first one that I have finished is a pen drawing of Jared Leto's interpretation of the Joker from "Suicide Squad" (2016). In life drawing last year, I developed a line art style using pen and wanted to improve on that. The Joker doesn't have much colour but I tried to make the greens/purples/reds stand out. It took a fair amount of time to complete this, but I am really rather pleased with it as it is recognisable and there are no glaring mistakes.

Maya - Parked Car

During the end of last Autodesk Maya lesson, I decided to make another random thing. At first, I started to make a car because while Simon was explaining more of Maya's tools he mentioned something about making a car, so I decided to make one myself. It's not too bad considering y lack of knowledge of all the features that Maya has and I don't really know how to use them properly yet. I made the car using just the polygon primitives and just resized, moved and rotated them. After I finished the car, I thought I'd do a bit more, so I made a path with a parking meter, double yellow lines and I finished with a house. I actually quite like this, but I do need to start using more of the tools that Maya has to offer. 

Maya - City

I decided before jumping into the tutorials, I would make something using my little knowledge of how to use it properly. For this city, I only created polygon primitives to make things and didn't try to edit them further. I experimented with a few things and tried to add colour here and there, but it didn't always work. I made standard skyscrapers, a petrol station, a stadium and a weird dome thing - I'll leave it up to you to figure out which is which. Considering I've never used Maya before, I'm quite pleased with this, despite the lack of detail and it not being to scale and that you can see all the shapes continue underneath.

Pen drawing of the Manarola coast in Italy

My pen drawing of the Manarola coast in Italy.