Oldie Layouts

I stumbled across a couple layouts today from last semester, one of which, was turned into a digital painting.

Final Paintings

are now complete for the end of my 1st semester of my 2nd year in animation.
Not exactly 100% content with my "realistic" version but time isn't on my side thus it'll do. As for my inked / stylized version i'm 100% content with it and only takes all of 10 minutes to do! well the painting portion of it at least. Inking it took much longer then that and was rather annoying seeing how I had to apply the ink onto rough water color paper. But even though painting it was quick and painless I enjoyed approaching it in this manner. Even though we're only supposed to do 2 versions of this painting, I'm going to attempt a 3rd over the holidays with a more Samurai Jack type approach seeing how I love the art work for the backgrounds in that show.

More Fortress Madness

These are a bunch of color studies that I've been working on today which will then be shown to my painting teacher tomorrow. Once I've seen him I will also do some touch ups on one of the versions I've already completed with the air brush aaaand I will then proceed to start / finish the following painting as well.

copic markers are GODLY!

So I sold my soul for 7 copic markers today and it was well worth the price. I've been having fun with them all night. ANywho here's a doodle i did of myself. I've also added a quick color study for my fortress layout. I spent a good bit of time today screwing around with the sky and getting it mold itself into the rest of the layout. Regardless of the struggle I had with it today though I really like the "mellow" sorta feel thats going on with it now.

Tonal Studies

Here is a couple tonal studies done for my layout so now it's time to get some color on this bad boy.

Side note. I'll be going with the one on the right side.

Rough Fortress

This is a more developed version of my fortress drawing that was done for layout class since it now has to be used in painting; and since I love our panting class I have put a lot more time into it now. (the fortress is still the same but the foreground has had a huge makeover) On that note there will be some refinements on the fortress itself too. Again this is rough and I'll be working on a much cleaner version tonight and hopefully have some tonal studies done as well. So hopefully there will be more to come of this real soon.

This post has now been updated with a newer version. tonals can finally commence!

Moutain Home

A painting / layout I came up with at the beginning of the school year. How exciting.
ps. the painting was done with watercolors and cleaned up with an air brush.

Home Sweet Home

Here's my latest layout assignment. I decided to make a couple characters and throw them in there too. This will hopefully be in the flipbook. :S