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The Making of “Cursed by the Cthaeh”
Click to enlarge Earlier this week I posted this painting “Cursed by the Cthaeh”, a portrait of Kvothe Kingkiller from Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle. Today I want to show you how I made it. If you think this painting came easy, it didn’t. It’s been a long time coming, and here’s the full story. Step 1: […]
Kvothe: Color Experiments
I’ve been developing the design of Kvothe, the main character in Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle, for my thesis project dedicated to visually developing the story for game pre-production. Above are my color experiments for Kvothe as an adult. It’s helpful to make quick study of color combinations in the process of visual development before creating the […]
What Makes a Good Silhouette?
The overall shape, the silhouette, is the primary and most powerful way to identify an object, type of person, or creature. The ability to quickly pick out meaning from silhouettes, such as whether the thing we saw would help, nourish, or hurt us. Shapes are a kind of language that we learned first to identify, […]
My Zombie Husband
Title: My Zombie Husband Year: 2011 Medium: Graphite & Colored Pencil Size: 8.5″ x 14″ Notes: This was originally a character design with a focus on rendering realistic folds from a collection of reference photos. In cases like this, I applied my understanding of fabric and folds in this to make an unnatural body with broken limbs look realistic […]
Aprodite: Color Turnaround
A 4-point turnaround of my Aphrodite character in Bruce Timm’s style. A turnaround is a series of front, 3/4, side, and rear view illustrations of a character designed so that all members of a production team will know what a character looks like from all points of view. Sometimes a 3/4 rear view is included […]
More Aphrodite Gestures!
I’ve continued my project of touching up illustrations from my Character Design Portfolio with these two gesture drawings of Aphrodite in Bruce Timm’s style. For more detailed notes, click here and here.
Recolor of Aphrodite: The Ultimate Bombshell
I originally created this design of Aphrodite in Bruce Timm’s style as a final project for my Character Design portfolio. Tonight I went back and touch it up and tried out an alternate color pallet for her dress. Below are the two new versions, I’m not sure which I like more. The lavender makes me […]
Concept Design for Mass Effect Alien Species
Follow this link to see three videos of Matt Rhodes, Associate Art Director for the Mass Effect games, as he discusses the creation of the Asari, Krogan, and Salarian races respectively. I find his discussion of how he and his artists used model and animal references as launching points for their designs particularly interesting. Designing […]
6 Quick Tips for Art Students
A-level work can be published in industry; so if you are consistently getting A’s then should be out working instead of taking out loans for school. Most students get C’s at AAU, with a few stars getting the infrequent A-. So feel good about getting high C’s and low B’s, especially before midterm. Grades are […]
Academy of Art University MFA Orientation
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011: New Graduate Student Orientation Orientation was a required event for all of the new graduate students. We were there to meet the president and vice president of the Academy of Art University, our admissions representatives, and heads of our respective schools. I’ve quickly learned that AAU is very focused on creating professionals […]
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Q: So what are you offering today? A: Original Characters and creatures Landscapes and cityscapes both real from photo reference and imagined Fanart Pets Book Covers Nudity you wouldn’t mind your mom seeing Your relatives and friends (not nude) I work mainly in digital realistic and painterly styles, but upon request I can work in […]