The Foosh

It's back to the drawing board once more and the first assignment of the semester is done.  We were told to paint a fish, any ol' fish as long as it was in grey-scale.  Since this was the first project of the semester, I wanted to start of  not biting off more than I could chew, taking a more simple approach to warm up to digital painting.  I did a little bit of painting over the summer but not as much as I had hoped.

So I picked a simple little goldfish and kept the view fairly simple as well.  By choosing a side-on view I had a chance to have a lot of fun with his scales.  I started off with a sketch in photoshop then separated his eye, fin, tail and body onto all separate layers.  After my base tones were laid out then I started with the details of the eyes, scales and fins.  I realized that I didn't like the dorsal fin in my sketch so I looked to more goldfish reference on the internet to get a better feeling as to how frilly it should be.  I got some tips from my Professor, about half way through which helped me get to his final stage.

Simple background, simple fishy but a lot of fun painting.  I really missed it.

Yearbook Pages

Yep, jumping on the bandwagon.  

I'm not a huge fan of my pages, I would have loved to have been more creative with them but I just couldn't think of anything with the time constraints. 

Demo Reel 2011

Here's a quick little Demo Reel we had to do to finish up our digital class this semester.  It features mostly what's already on the blog plus some of my animation assingments.

Demo Reel 2010-2011 from Meg Simmons on Vimeo.

Jekyll to Hyde

Final character assignment for the semester, Jekyll to Hyde.

Story was, we had to create a character in which some form of dire circumstances had brought them to the point of using an experimental drug on themselves.  At first it seems alright then all hell breaks loose.

I'm pretty satisfied with out this turned out but I'd like to revisit it this summer, add a few more poses and maybe shift a few poses around. 

I'll fill in my characters story later, here's the art for now!

Historic Pan and Digital Painting

For my Layout class we were instructed to design a pan of at least a Twelve and a half field in length and it had to be based off of something historic.  I chose the Urnes Stave Church in Norway and did a little grassy field. 

 

Then for Digital Tools we had to take a part of that original drawing and do a complete painting of it without keeping the line work.  I wanted to keep my tree so from my original I just shifted it over into the foreground more. This painting took me for ever to complete and I probably put far too much time into it.

Oh well, onto the next assignments!

Character Design/Skeleton Assignment

This took forever. We had to design a creature/character and render it as beautifully as possible.

It's done, thank goodness.
((Re-post with fixes after critiques))

Life Drawing Dump (Jan 2011-Feb 2011).

It's reading week so I figured now's a good time to dump of more my more recent Life Drawing from second semester:

 Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 6

Still lots of room for improvement but I feel like I'm starting to get a better understanding of what I'm seeing with the model in terms of anatomy, what exactly I'm looking at, the muscles and the landmarks as opposed to just a figure in a pose.