Donatien Meeùs - Week 8 Homework

 Hi ! Here is a rework of an illustration I made exactly one year ago. I didn't begin to detail yet, I first have to work more on the lighting, values, and color. 

This is the original painting, made in august 2020. I was really proud of this one, and it was really the best I could do at this time. I wanted to see my progress in one year :

Here are some references I took for this rework :

This is how it looked like a few days ago : 

I also worked on this today. This isn't finished at all, but maybe I could put this character in my illustration.

Alexandra Bernier - Week 8 Homework

 Here is my design, I wanted to make an spirit imbued lady with snakes but I'm quite lost for what to do with the background haha.

Jason - week 8 - homework

 Hello, I still have no clue what I wanted to do. What I end up doing is drawing a demon lady in the middle of a forest... the forest will be a mix of both references I took down below. I am sorry if there isn't much to correct since there isn't much on this sketch.

If you are wondering what the right side of the face is, that is supposed to be smoke coming out of the body. I also don't have a reference for the chair right now, so this is just there so she isn't floating in the middle of nowhere. 

Hannah - Week #7 and #8

 Hi all! Here is my figure study from last week. I really loved this one!! I have done a few figure studies in the past, but only black and white - haven't been able to skin tones before.. so I feel like I learned a lot doing this. I can see a lot of areas to improve on and I probably should have spent longer working it, but over all I kind of surprised myself.

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Below is my rough plan for the final project. 

Don't ask me why I suddenly think I could do a face after I struggled in the last project with it.. I guess hope springs eternal. 

I'm excited for the idea I'm seeing in my head, but I feel like the concept needs to be taken further some how, and I'm not sure how - all suggestions welcome. I've put on the colours I'm keen for at the moment, but I'm going to test some others as well before starting. I want to try make the skin tone quite vibrant in areas, but without losing too much naturalism - I was wondering if a lighter or duller background might help emphasize the colours in the skin? In terms of focal point, I want to try be as detailed as I'm capable of on the birds and face to bring focus there, and gradually have a more painterly style on the rest of the image.

Arielle- Homework 8

Heres my reference board, my rough sketch and my current rough drawing (the rough sketch incluced so you can see my starter idea mostly)

As you can see, im not quite sure how to address the lighting, because i want the back to be dark and mysterious but the front to be bright and "atmosphere-y" like in the images i found?

Also, because I had a flash of inspiration, i started on my composition and values right away and did my inspiration board after, and i think this caused me some problems because i now find my illustration somewhat boring :/

alex week 8

 

this is as far as I got with it. I was really struggling for ideas, decided to do 3 pigs children's story for inspiration.

anyway, still struggle with landscapes/ environments. would be helpful if you could show me how I can separate it into more visual planes and get more props etc in to fill the space and make it more immersive.  I couldnt think of anything interesting off the top of my head and I was struggling to construct the scene without lifting the camera angle etc from other pictures. I guess I need to do more drawing.   

Andrea Maya - Week #8 Homework

Hi Nino, 

First time working on a full "creative" illustration. I haven't taken any illustration classes before, just a bunch of studies about fundamentals and techniques, so creating a composition is still new to me and I've been struggling with it.

I want to paint a first approach to what I imagine some characters I want to (properly) design in the future could look like. The characters are a girl that owns a repair café and her robot cat.

REF:

Some sketches:

This is what I have done so far, yet I'm not happy with the composition, I guess the last one from the picture above works better since (I think) adding space on the left and the smaller figures help with readability, so I might go back to fix that.

Another thing I would like you to help me with is the lighting, I got lost and I don't now how to boost the composition with it while keeping it believable.

Thanks,

Andrea

Jedrzej Nyka - week 8

 Hi Nino,

I decided to try to paint something that could potentially be seen as art for a Magic: The Gathering land card. I basically imagined I was briefed to paint a blue land with some sort of structure that could be home to water / weather manipulating mages. Perhaps a bit lame and vanilla fantasy, but I really want to push my landscape / environment work.

I first made a reference board with islands, waters, figures, clouds, rocks, mountains and structures I found myself adding to it as I went on.

Then I made a few small thumbnails just to see what could look cool, what layout I might use.

I picked one of them and started putting in some colour. Initially I struggled a lot but pushed through.

References:

Thumbails:

First colour sketch:

And finally where I'm at now:

I had this idea to sort of try to use the clouds and water to somehow bring the viewer's attention to the tower. This is also why the most saturated colours are around the water and on the island itself.

I haven't worked on the tower itself too much yet. I'm also not 100% about the staircase thing, maybe I'm making things hard for myself. Maybe I should scrap that area and just add on some rocky bits there instead...

Looking forward to feedback - I'd like to know how I could push it and what needs fixing.

Thank you

Jedrzej

Bruno W Week 8 homework

 Hi Nino!

I've attached my rough layout and thumb nail sketches and ref board so far. I just wanted to practise key framing and show a soldier from a helicopter as if  I was given a shot from a movie. Some key words I was working with were night time, snowy, secret.

I had trouble getting a composition I liked, so I just roughed out a bunch of shapes the leapt back and forth between my board and the thumbs to refine it into something. The super rough thumbs actually helped me a lot and made me keep adding things to the ref board that I could then draw from.

I'm just looking to push the composition this week and then get out a 3d base/render and (maybe/hopefully) an overpaint this week. 

I unfortunately cant make class due to work at 6am and I need to sleep before then :D 

Any comp / layout pointers would be great! thanks! 

Sofian - Week 8

 Hey Nino, I decided to make fan art of Mona, a water mage character from Genshin Impact.
I'm not sure if I've overdone the background or not, but I feel like I'm more or less done with this piece.
I'll try to make another piece for next class.

And here are some refs I used:

Aurélie Drapeau - Week 8

 I will work on a scene with Yura, a sci-fi character I designed last spring. I plan on painting her sneaking through an enemy base. Unfortunately I doubt I will be able to do the complete piece by the end of the term, so I will focus on the character / foreground to begin with. Since I've signed up for your Intro to Illustration class next term, can I post it to you there when it's done?

Here are the references I'm working with:

This is where I'm at this week. I figured out the basic composition and setting. It was fun "staging" my figure to give me an idea!

(Maybe I'll sketch the layout in Google Sketchup just to make sure the architecture's perspective is OK...)

Jedrzej Nyka - week 7

 Hi Nino,

I was away for over a week and have just come back - realised that I missed a pretty key class, but just finishing watching the recording. I don't have a lot of time left to get on with the next assignment, so I think I have to leave this one for now. I know it has many flaws but I hope I got the key shapes and tone in correctly.

Thanks!

Jedrzej

Gabby Keiran Week 8

Hi Nino, here’s the sketch for my week 8 assignment. I’m just making a little painting of like a character design of a water sorcerer or something hahah

week 7

 

Sofian - Week 7

 Hey Nino, I had a lot of trouble drawing the feet, and I ran out of time trying to finish them and the lower part of the body.  This was a really tough assignment.

Nell Zocly - week 6

 I’m late with my homework

Alexandra Bernier - Week 7 Homework

 For some reason I didn't do the necklace, don't know exactly why but I like it this way too and, I think it was a good exercise to try to imagine what that part of her looks like under the necklace.

Alex Curran-Rooke Week 7 hmwk

 

Hi Nino, Ive spent a couple hours on this. Such a strange colour range for skin in this guy, more on the yellow side of things and very grey. Had no idea what I was lookin at at first, so I colour picked a base colour and checked I was in the ball park a few times but once I got going my relative perception of colour took over and I started to find it much easier. I was concerned at first because my painting looked a bit like a dead body for ages but when the warmer shadows were getting more established and some of the colour variation it started to look correct. Should I be colour picking at all to check things or should I be grinding until its right? I know in real paints I would be mixing colour and closing one eye and holding it up on a piece of paper or something until the edge 'disappears' into the reference and because Id be starting with a limited palette it would be a process of 'bit more blue, bit more ochre, bit more red, oh no, bit more blue and ochre, bit more white' until it looks right. obviously there's nothing like that when doing digital though so you either know where it is on the wheel off the bat or you don't. any tips would be helpful (obviously I could always pull up the Zorn palette grid from the other week too). 

anyway, thanks in advance, hope you're keeping well and had a nice week mate, 

best, 

Alex   

Andrea Maya - Week #6 - #7 Homework

 

BRUNO WICKES WEEK 6 HOMEWORK

Hi Nino sorry I missed last week!

I've been pulling my hair out over this one, so I'm gonna leave it here so I have to move on haha. 

Looking forward to some feedback, really struggled defining the middle forest area. 

Thanks Nino!

Aurélie Drapeau - Week #7 Homework

 Sorry I missed last week's class, I had important family matters to attend to.

I watched the recording Thursday morning, right after finishing a female figure study for the Drawing the Human Form course with Donna Shvil. That homework took me about maybe 5 hours? I didn't really count. 

So I was like: "LOL I'm not doing this AGAIN" XD

I took my homework from Donna's course, in grayscale, and added colour using different layer styles and masks. I will DEFINITELY keep that technique in mind for when I do character work, I'm super proud of the result :)

Week 7 Human Figures