Final - Hannah

Hi Nino! Not sure if you'll see this but I'm hoping you will - here is my completed work. I really loved what you showed me in the last lesson!! especially with adding the bigger cracks and going across her shoulder and face! Thank you so much for helping me push this idea and find something I'm really happy with. 

I wanted to the lighter blue in the end, and I personally felt like the bit of yellow "paint" behind her tied something together - I was worried it may detract for her eyes being a focus, but I feel like it worked?

I do feel like I didn't quite practice the examples of composition and directional lines and circles, so I'm going to really practice that in my next piece.

Thank you so much again, I've gained a lot of confidence through your lessons, and I'm hoping to join another class early next year.. Hopefully it will work out for me to be online for the sessions :)  
 

Alexandra Bernier - Homework Week 9

 I'm really sad submitting an unfinished painting but I had to replace my graphic tablet since it stopped working and it slowed me down so much but I will definitely keep working on it now that I have a working tablet XD

Hannah: Week 9 - Final

 Hi! I apologize for submitting unfinished work. I tried so many ideas for the background after the last session, I only really settled on this one yesterday! I have every intention of seeing this project through, so I figured I would share where I'm currently at instead of not at all.. 

I'm really proud of the progression of my idea, particularly the background after everything. I still need to add detail to the woman and the birds (the one on the right in particular.) 

I would really love if you have tips for me for the glowing eyes? For example, do I leave out irises and pupils entirely to really get that effect? I am struggling there..

I also reuploaded the image of where I was last week for reference of what I've done this week, and the references had decided on that I did not include in my upload last week.

Thank you so much for your feedback over the course. It's been an incredibly inspiring experience :) 

Sofian- Week 9

 Hey Nino, this isn't really complete yet, but I'd like to have as much feedback as you can give.
 I'm also wondering what I can do to make this character more grounded and any tips to draw simple environments for character focused illustrations next time.
Thank you.

Donatien Meeùs - Final homework

Hi, here is my final illustration. There is still a lot of room for improvement, but it's already far better than 1 year ago. Thanks for those 10 weeks Nino, it helped me so much!  

As a reminder, here is what I did last year 

 

Jason Liu - week 10 - final work

I still need a lot to finish as i rushed on a lot of places, but I have a hard time finding the shadows and lights for the skin colour. i don't know how to find the right tone of colour and it ends up looking dirty. I wanted to add the effect of a mirror in front of the image, but i have no clue how to do it. 

In the end, I changed my drawing to a completely new one because i keep hesitating on what to do for 4-5 days straight, so I made something much simpler to do. 

I also find that the background colour is too similar to the drawings i did but i don't know which selection of colour to match with it. 

Arielle- Final homework

 theres many things i want to nitpick at, and add more jewelry to the antlers, but finished is better than perfect, so here is my piece

I kept tweaking until i thought it was interesting enough, and by then i had added 2 extra light sources to my troubles, so this was definitely way harder than i initially wanted!

And i struggled with the right contrasts/values while keeping the focus on her head and sorta gave up toward the end...because such is life

But this was very fun, and if it wasnt for your class i wouldnt have pushed myself this hard so thank you Nino!

Andrea Maya - Final Homework

Hi Nino,

Here's the final illustration. I started over since I didn't like what I had last week. There are things I still want to finish or fix, for example, the plants look very flat right now and I'm not completely happy with some shadows.

This illustration gave me lots of trouble but I really enjoyed it.

Thank you for your class, looking forward to take your "Intro to illustration" class in the winter term.

Jedrzej Nyka - final assignment

 Hi Nino,

Thanks for your feedback last week, it was great. I think I applied what you mentioned there, tried to clean up the foreground a bit, and the sky/clouds, and tried to bring as much focus to the island as possible. Got rid of the wizard too. I got rid of the tower as well and decided to add a few ruins/ruined watchtowers etc. instead. 

I hope this is an improvement - I'm quite happy with it! Looking forward to see how I could improve it further.

Also, I realised that you've recently started working on MTG illustrations, I had no idea earlier. Congrats! If you could share some tips as to how I could eventually have a shot at joining the Wizards of the Coast roster I would be super greatful. I know it's a long, complicated road, and I want to develop to be as versatile as possible (I think this course with you has been a major catalyst for me), but, coming back to my point, I think painting a Magic card one day would be an amazing achievement. 

I've signed up for Environment Design with Elton Lo starting in October, I hope I'll manage!

Thank you for the last 10 weeks!

ps. also, I just remembered - would you be able to talk about the filters you mentioned you use to give your work the final touches? I was thinking of using some filters to bring some movement/variety to some parts of the illustration, and I swear you demonstrated this before, but I can't find it anywhere! Was it Filter > Stylize? All the filters in the PS gallery just seem a bit off, or I just can't utilise them. A quick recap would be great. 

Best,

Jedrzej

Massive nerd, so I actually turned it into a card as well lol

Alex wip

 

still just a work in progress really this is where Im at with it, hope youre having a good day nino. Thanks for all your help over these past months :) 

BRUNO W FINAL HOMEWORK IMAGE

 Hey Nino!

Thanks for the feedback last week. I worked on the image comp in 3D and then painted and photobashed over the image. I had real difficulty getting it to feel dark enough without actually making the image super dark!

I feel like its missing something but I don't know what...it just seems a bit bland. Like ice cream without any flavour. Help! 

Thanks Nino

Drake Gomez--Week 7 homework

Well, here's my figure painting from week 7, still unfinished, but I've learned a lot from this one. For one thing, I finally figured out how use the Liquify tool, and this was the first painting where I also used the Smudge and Burn tools.

I think the figure's back, hips, arm, and thighs are finished. The things that aren't finished should be obvious. I know it's going to take a while to paint those features, and I didn't want to rush it.

The photo I worked from was a little different than the one you see here--her back was not as washed out as this one, and the background gray matched my background almost exactly. I used this photo because I had done some drawing on top of the one I worked from, and some of the figure was covered up with my lines.

Gabby

Here’s the final piece, I may go back in and touch it up after.

Aurélie - Week 9

Final Piece: Evolution through week 9

Sketch:

Background:

I had real fun with the background! Usually I struggle with environment but I'm proud
of the result this time :)

Sept. 5, 2021

I was able to block in the base colours for my character. When she'll be done I will have to correct the pose a bit so that her arm is actually placed against the wall.

Thank you so much Nino for this term, I learned a lot! I'm looking forward to next term in Intro to Illustration :)

Hi Nino

 Hope you are well, 

Unfortunately I think you left me out of the review last week. I had submitted on time but must have accidently been missed? Not sure if its to late to get some feedback?

Thanks! 

Bruno