Fashion Sketches

I've been busy with work, and I've kinda neglected this thing blog for a bit, (I've mostly been using my tumblr and instagram these days.)  But I figured I'd post some sketches I've done.

I'm working on two fairly large projects now so I'll be post more progress of that in the coming weeks.

Mermaid Sketch

Here's another render doodle that I did today.  It started as a sketch in my sketchbook from Life Drawing, I just took the pose the model was in and turned her into a mermaid.

Just trying to brush up on my design skills!

Final Life Drawing Portfolio

Here's my final life drawing portfolio for my studies at Seneca!  These range from a few 1-2 minute gesutres, to 30 minute tonal studies.

More render doodles

Just a simple colour sketch for now, the rest of my life drawings will be posted later on this week but for now I just wanted to post something to go with my revamp in my layout.

3D Dragon Sculpt

A post for something 3D!!

For our modeling class we had to design and sculpt a dragon following Nico Marle's style.

Here's my little dragon, sculpted and textured in Mudbox, lit and rendered in Maya 2012 with mental ray with a bit of compositing in Photoshop. 

Anne of Green Gables

This week's render doodle is a little fan art of Anne of Green Gables for an old coworker of mine who's Mum was involved in a pretty serious car accident. She's going to make a full recovery but it's a long road ahead so he put out a request to fellow artists to make some Anne of Green Gables fan art to decorate her hospital room with.

Phantom of the Opera fan art

More rendering doodles!   This time a fan-art from The Phantom of the Opera, Christine Daae, because last week I was listening to it pretty much non-stop.  (The Canadian Cast recording though because to me Colm Wilkinson will always be the Phantom.)

Render-wait Paintings

I'm starting to do painting studies while I'm waiting for Maya to render so here's my most recent study from this gorgeous picture of the highlands of Scotland.

I wasn't going for complete accuracy this time around, it was more of an exploration of the colours in the image, combined with textures.

End of the Semester Life Drawing Post!

Here's the usual end of semester life drawing dump!  The first 10 were my used for my portfolio then the others were misc drawings that I liked but didn't think they were as strong as the previous.

Storyboard Project - Concept Art

Working on my storyboard project as a break from all the 3D computer work I did a little concept painting with my characters from my upcoming project.

It was really nice just to paint again!  (First time since this summer really.)

Storyboard Characters

Finally some drawing this year!  We're gearing up for a full colour leica reel/animatic for our Storyboarding class and we finally got a chance to be creative and draw.

So here are my main characters for my scene Charlie Mullen and Marlon the wood nymph.  With these two I'll be boarding a scene then colouring it and compositing it in After Effects.

So here's the first step, the designs!  I'm so excited I get to draw trees again!

First Major Lighting Render

For our lighting and rendering class we had to UV wrap, texture and light this kitchen provided by our teacher (from 3drenders.com).

I wanted to go for a warm, comforting feeling with my kitchen drawing colours from the back splash tiles I found from CG textures and colours in the 1950's.

Most textures are from CG Textures, my teacher's collection as well as Deviant Art.  Rendered in Mental Ray, Maya 2012.

Life Drawing - 3rd year!

So it's been a rusty start of life drawing this fall.  Tackling Maya was a bit of a challenge but it seems a bit easier now, which means I've had more time to draw!

Here's a selection of drawings from the beginning of the semester to reading week.