The Monster

In this assignment, we were supposed to design a creature with a full body view, texture, minimal lines, and details including: skins, scales, hair, and face.

I started off by looking up references on dragons, and dinosaurs. Some particular inspirations may have included: Monster Hunter, and Pokemon monsters. When I have finally come through a final design of my creature, I did the usual gray scale procedure, by adding gray tones and highlights to it.

Then I came up with the theme of an Ice Dragon, and decided to use all cool colours. 

However, this painting incorporates mostly variations of blue colours. 

I was quite happy with the results. The cleanliness was there, silhouette was convincing, and leg armors were well rendered. In addition, I think this painting could've been furthermore developed, if I've added the scales on the skin. 

Hands and Head

Hands and head was mainly a character painting assignment. We were supposed to design a character with a dynamic pose. I first thought of doing bow and arrow, and it turned out to be a real challenge, especially getting everything into an effective angle.

As how the process goes, I first begin with gesturing a sketch, which also included human anatomy.

Then I roughly did a grey scale tonal over the sketch , just to get an idea of how the light source would work.

Thereafter, I went straight to colour painting, and rendering.

The assignment was rather fun to do, but I would’ve appreciated my work more, if I had putted a bit more time and effort in the rendering the colours and adding darker tones, so it would’ve had more significant dimension to the subject.

Layout Tonal Painting

This is a Background painting assignment. The main focus and subject was the lighting. Although, the light source I choose was from the window, it took me a few times to experiment it, to get it as close as accurate. The theme is Day Time. As for my process, I think the forms of the objects painted are well shown, but it could be stronger by having more contrast. My favourite part of this painting is the mood; it seems to have captured a good essence of emotion. Furthermore, I look forward to using more new techniques in approaching better refinements in my paintings.

Gorgizu Fish

A new Semester has begun! Our very assignment is doing a painting of a fish in Tonal value.
The progress of my painting works like this: 1. Sketch the design of the fish. 2. Establish a simple background and the tones (dark, mid tone, light, and reflective) accordingly. 3. Start rendering the tones, and smoothing it out by selecting the mid tones. 4. Then, working out the details, which includes refining the scales and the fins. 5. Finally, putting in any effects which may be necessary, such as bubbles. In addition, zooming out frequently is helpful to seeing the forms, as well as determining if there are any other problems that’s easily spotted by the eyes.