Digital Painting Class - A7 - Summer a.k.a. El Finiale AND The Dreaded Lazer Horse

The end of a micro-era. This was my last assignment of the Don's Digital Painting class. I feel like crying. Wait, no, I am crying. These are not tears of joy, these are big fatty fat fat alligator tears of woe. Or maybe whoa ... not, that is horses. Anyways, here is a thing.

That is the final version. In four-hour retrospect the tower the bat/dragon thing is on looks like an erroneous line, the bird-lizard-llama of justice's belly shield looks like an egg sack, and the composition was against me from the start (as I was well warned by my superiors). Other then that ... I like it. At least I forced myself to work on the goals I set. Next time ... MORE DRAMATIC and ONE FOCAL POINT.

This is a more the older version of the thing.

And here is another Heckert tribute because I would like to think I made a friend in this class ... and I could think of no better way to pay my respects than by shamelessly copying celebrating his sketches ... again.

Here is cool --> Mind Dump

The Last Week of Don's Digital Painting class

The end of Block A summer classes is here, this is the last week ... this is the end. The word of the week is 'Summer' and that is lame so I am choosing to go with option B - anything else.

This is what I have so far, after two days

Digital Painting Class - A6 - Mask

Another week, another painting in which I have gotten better but not by half the rate I wished to do so ... My goals for next week, after seeing this done, are 1) Daylight painting 2) Epic landscape 3) Be better / do better.

The finished (as far as turning it in goes) version

The halfway mark

Something Old and Something Just Beginning ...

So this Mistborn picture is straight up fan art ... but I printed a copy and had the man himself (Brandon Sanderson) sign a copy ... and that make me feel slightly more legit :) I drew this in between classes one day when I found out he would be at a local game store. Seize the day! Anyways, this is the older drawing.

This is the start of my assignment for the week. It is suppose to be about a 'Mask' so I am choosing the plague masks from back in the day ... it still needs a lot of work and the theme of the picture could be really played up I think. I am liking the start of it and hope it goes somewhere good!

Digital Painting Class - A5 - Contraption

This week's Assignment was 'Contraption'. I really had to work this one around a lot to make it read okay but I am decently happy with the end result. I think I want to work on making a more dynamic composition next time and really focus on having larges light and dark areas in it.

The finished version

The half-way mark

A one hour doodle that was fun to do but leaves a lot to be desired ...

Digital Painting Class - A4 - Temptation

Well ... this is a strange drawing for me. I love some aspects of it and I am greatly disappointed by others ... Having really like my composition in 'Mr Universe' this leaves me rather sad at myself. I wish I had an excuse. I do like the armor and learned a bit about blending in this ... I am just going to call it a step in what I hope is the right direction ... a step towards awesome. I need to refocus on composition and plan more contrast!

This is the final version ... I don't think the idea of temptation came across very strong ...

About halfway in when I had a different face, no woman, and colors that were not quite working.

Digital Painting Class - A3 - Universe

This is my favorite School Assignment so far. I like the colors, I like the composition, and I like the concept. Mr Universe as the governing power of the universe! With composition being my prime goal in this I see it as a success and became eager to see if I could have equal success with a flesh tone and earth bound figures. I also feel I could make my characters a little more recognizable.

Mr Universe in all his cosmic glory!

This is at about the halfway mark

Digital Painting Class - A2 - Retro

I felt this drawing was a bit weaker than the last ... though I kinda like the city-scape and the engine lightning stuff! It was suppose to be something retro which evolved in my mind to mean retro flying cars having a mobster shoot-out. After turning this in I really felt I should focus on composition in the next drawing.

The finished scene

An early screenshot

Digital Painting Class - A1 - Voyage

The topic for my first week of class was Voyage. I really like the tone of this picture and I like how the two guards turned out. I wanted to do something of a space airport scene and decided some not-so-subtle propaganda posters would go well with it. There are quite a few jokes hidden in the flight names and numbers ... that was fun to do.

The final version

An earlier in-progress shot

Past School Assignments (Part 1 - 2D Design )

So ... I wasn't going to do this but I decided what the heck ... why not?  Here are some of my collage

class assignments that I didn't overly dislike.  I have a couple others but they still need to be scanned so I'll throw them up later.

So these two drawings are very different.  The top one with the fat barbarian (I named him Quinn) was my final project and the blue-to-red line art one below was assignment #2 for the class and focused on perspective (The title of the drawing is "Wizard Gone Fishing").  There are actually some rather annoying mistakes in the second one but it is so busy you might not be able to notice.