I need to finish....

Progress for my Matte Painting Final - it started out with the intention of being a train station with some dude and a red umbrella, and then it turned into a sort of futurisitic thing with a bridge and people racing flying cars and the like. I dunno. Ironically this is my first matte painting(I haven't turned in the midterm one quite yet...) but here ya go. The perspective is still kind of whack. Crap I have to hurry, this lab closes at 10pm.

Finishing up

Here's the character concepts I posted a while back- fine-tuned the color palette and started blocking in the colors for the penguin. Experimenting with some new photoshop brushes. Impartial about whether to leave the line drawing in or to render the colors a lot more and remove the outline. Meh

The Standard

Super quick 20 min speed coloring of Superhero 'The Standard' based off a script assigned by the instructor. Outline was done in 30 min. earlier today. Hi-tops with pumps in the tongues reminiscent of those early 90's Reeboks and a sweet hairdo with an "S" carved into it to match the uniform. The script/character description will be posted another time. Finals to do! *dash*

Inspirational

Link to a great photo by my good friend Sean Lai - http://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pid=15438163&group_id=&ua= shot very recently. Inspired by Rihanna's "Wait Your Turn" music video. Really like the composition of this image.

I'm excited for him to put up some other images from his last shoot, which I'll link you to as well in about a week.

Bada bing

planning on a new domain name/blog name that's easier to remember. This page will be here for a while, but a 'new' (and hopefully the last change) name is in order. Not for awhile though. maybe another 4-6 months from now. Stay tuned.

Waiting

waiting for the 4th floor classroom to be done with so I can go in and work on some stuff. In the meantime I've been coloring this

Updates

Here are scans of 5 characters almost completed, they're gonna have to be photoshopped to clean up the lines and stuff, etc etc. I'll color them when I can, but for now they're just line drawings.

Emotional Teapot Assignment

The lines are kind of rough, which the teacher talked to the class about after everyone turned in their stuff. Meh, it was the 1st assignment.

It's been awhile

I signed up for this experiment special topics class called Digital Visual Development. It's listed under gaming, and focuses on concept art. It's basically all the drawing classes I was planning on taking rolled up into one. AWESOME. We're doing 6 completed character design by next Monday. Which is a hell of a lot more exciting than the previous assignment, which was creating emotions with teapots via facial expressions and the like. Apparently they have to be consistent enough design-wise to be able to co-exist amongst each other in whatever world they live in.

Student in class: "so...what exactly do you mean by 'completed?'"

Instructor: "well, that's entirely up to you. If it looks completed enough(good) then you can move on to the next character."

Class: "........"

.....this is going to take a while.

Matte painting has been a little bit more challenging, one reason being that it's online only. I'll begin the routing of posting things up near the beginning of the week starting monday.

Damn, and I have to move too. Ugh.

About the name...

I dunno if the title of the blog leaves you puzzled or not(most likely not since you are quite intelligent people) but for the sake of providing you with a clear idea for the reasoning behind the name: It started out with the intention of being a blog about a secret project(to be unveiled later).) It kind of turned into a miscellaneous project/art show review blog, which is cool too(but I'm afraid the blog will slowly steer further from its original purpose...)


The theme revolving around this project will portray situations that wouldn't occur in real life- hence the name to emphasis the lack of logic in the situation, and also the hidden logic behind it the idea. So basically it might not look like it makes sense, but it really does if you think about it(you know what I mean?) The idea is that while reality is supposed to make the most sense, sometimes fantasy provides more concrete truth and reason than its counterpart. I don't want to reveal too much, but it'll make sense eventually, lol. This whole thing is taking a lot of investments to various degrees, but hopefully it'll start to pedal a little bit, ideally at the same rate a kid can pedal a big wheel.

Thanks for putting up with an irrelevant(sorta) post. And to whoever reads the stuff I babble on about, thank you too

Cheers!