Sketching For Environment: Wk09

Another version that includes a Japanese style temple!

Sketching For Environment: Wk08

One of our project assignments was to reimagine a Disneyland ride. I selected the "Haunted Mansion" and pushed the environment thinking about if the ride was set in the actual environment.

Above is the first sketch I started with.

Cleaned.

WIP tone- added a few FG elements. 

Sketching For Environment: Wk4

This week's assignment is to add lighting on the sketch of Blu Jam I did last week. I started off in charcoal and ended up blocking my lighting in digitally.

Sketching For Environment: Wk3

This week was spent refining the Blu Jam Cafe sketch from last week. The first image is the perspective drawing (apologies for the not-so-great-quality scan) and the second image is the Victorian Art Deco flair I added to enhance Blu Jam's character.

Sketching For Environment: Wk2

This week includes a memory sketch of a restaurant we had been to during the week, a sketch of our neighborhood, a sketch of a modern restaurant and a sketch of a restaurant set in a more historical building. I ended up sketching Aeirloom from memory, going back to Aeirloom to sketch the interior, and then heading over to Akasha to sketch a more historical interior. (A few other sketches at the bottom include Old Pasadena and Blu Jam.)

Sketching For Environment: Wk1

I've just started a new term at Concept Design Academy in Pasadena taking the Sketching For Environment class. This week's assignment is to sketch around our neighborhood, refine our "what we did over winter break" assignment, refine our in class work, and all the while doing 3 quick thumbs before each sketch. We also should be keeping in mind the "deep, limited, and flat" spaces that we went over in class. I'm working on adding more to the second page, but below is what I've currently completed homework wise!

Redesigning: The Little Match Girl's World- WIP

Introducing more angles and viewpoints to her world! This airplane is having a fun little ride, escaping the confines of the town below. Below are a couple thumbs as well. WIP

Redesigning; The Little Match Girl's World

Lately I've been continuing to work on this redesign! This one focuses on the batteries that lie beneath the city. They power the electric lights that are slowly taking over and replacing the little match girl's matches and lamps.

Redesigning: The Little Match Girl's World

Building on what I worked out last time, I'm working on a more grounded view of the world trying to add in more fantastical elements. I tried to place the little match girl's house front and center with more emphasis on what she's selling and framing it with her competition, the electric signs that are taking over the city she lives in. My next goal is to figure out what creatures roam the streets and what vehicles are putt-putting about (potentially flying vehicles?).

Finishing Pieces

I'm not sure if its because of college where our department emphasized the process rather than the completion of projects or just because I'm afraid of completing things, but I haven't finished a piece in a long long while.  Someone told me that it really frustrated them when they saw me working on something and I ended up losing interest in the piece three quarters of the way through.  For me, finishing pieces is really terrifying.  Coloring, to me, is terrifying.  But I took that someone's advice and finally sat my butt down and "finished" a piece I drew a week or two ago.  (Albeit there are a few choices I have yet to make about it) it's a lot more completed than my other ones.  Goal: COMPLETE!!!!

Recent Progress

I've been working on really finishing the submarine interior piece for CTN, and here it is:

I'm just going to leave it for a bit.  Here's what it looked like previously.

Sub City Exploration: Redone

Reworked the city I worked on- the city the submarine was supposed to explore.  Here's the previous post of what the city looked like.  And here's what I've got so far.  I'm debating about coloring it with a limited color palette.

Ultimately I want to animate characters jumping off the roofs/ building walls in the foreground into the middle ground/ background.  

Progress: Scratch what I said before.  I'm being fickle and I'm changing my mind BACK to my original idea.  I want the sub to be exploring this underwater city.

Lately

Lately I've been working on another submarine piece.  This time it shows her bedroom!  I've been trying to get better at coloring digitally and this piece showcases the skills I've been learning from all the awesome artists from the place I've been interning at!  They're all helping me so much- I can't believe how much I'm learning in such a short amount of time.

I've also been trying to work on a character design for the girl character/ trying to get better at drawing digitally.  I am proud to say that this girl was drawn COMPLETELY DIGITALLY.  Booya.  I apologize for her awkward pose- she's supposed to be holding mini-submarines.  I just haven't inked them yet.  Excuses, excuses, hurgh.

Trying Out Accurate Perspective Business

I've also been trying to do super accurate perspective drawing.  I didn't save the tracing paper that had all of my crazy lines for the bookcase on the left side, but they were intense- I got way too hung up on this project, but it was a good way to get back into accurate perspective drawing.  I think this started out as an accurate perspective drawing of the tree house "royal" bedroom that I posted earlier, but became something more...  The bottom image is the cleaned up linework.  Still not sure what I want to do with this, but I think for now I'm just leaving it alone.  I'm sure something'll come to me.

Submarine: Personality

Feeling a lot better after getting back into the art groove.  I tried working on this after I came home from work and I'm feeling a lot more productive.  Yay!  Just gotta keep this up.  This is the interior of her bedroom in the submarine from my previous submarine post.  My goal with this piece is to show her personality through details in the room.  I think I'm going to add most of the poster and postcard/ photo details on the walls in Photoshop as well as the color.  I based this off of the upper left thumbnail sketch from  my post two days ago.  I'm so happy my girlfriend encouraged me to sketch digitally.  It's so much fun!  I actually just did a digital test animation as well.  Hopefully I'll upload that soon, but I remember telling her, "Oh my goodness- I LOVE animating digitally.  Why did I not start doing this earlier?!"  She sighed because she was the one who had suggested I start animating digitally earlier.  Haha, I guess I should listen more closely to her advice.

Back On Track

It's been awhile, but I finally got back to working on some portfolio business!  Lately I feel like things have been constantly changing and right when I feel like things are about to settle down, BAM they change again.  Apparently that's how things are when you first start out?  Or so I've been told.  Gotta love change.  It truly is for the better. As for these thumbnails, I was trying to fart out ideas of how to show the girl's character through her environment.  I'm going to have to put more detail into the environment, but this is some basic blocking out of my thoughts.  This has been really really helpful in helping me visualize them (my thoughts).  I'm not sure if it's because I've only been working my part time recently, but my brain felt like everything was all jumbled and these thumbnails have finally pieced together all those ideas and thoughts.  Now I feel rejuvenated, reinspired and back on track.  LETS DO THIS THING.

Cities and Such

This will be the city that the sub will explore.  I looked at Greek ruins and Agrabah from "Aladdin" although I think this came out to look a bit more like Russian architecture.

Tree Village: Large Treehouse Interior

Laid out the interior of the bigger treehouse in the tree village.  I had a great time problem solving how to put more than two rooms in one house!

I tried to show different personalities by the decorations in the room.  Also, here's some floor plans for the tree house!

Finished Submarine Room!

Adjusted more saturation in colors and here's what I've come out with!  Thank you so much to everyone who helped me with this color!

Submarine Interiors!

Here's the initial layout sketch of the inside of the submarine:

I'm trying color out!  I'm thinking that since the character is searching for her "perfect home" where she fits in she'll carry certain things from home to home.  For example, she loves baking and her bedroom is her safe haven which she populates with pictures of her ideal home, thus they have similar colorings [or will have similar colorings].  Here's my progress so far:

Please let me know about the colors and such!  [If they're working, etc]

Tried to change the saturation and such/ lighten some and darken others.  Please let me know what you think is working and what still needs some attention!