Week 07 Lighting and Jim Henson

Week 06 John Berkey and Perspective

This week we studied perspective through analyzing John Berkey's artwork.

I decided to take this opportunity to try a new art style as well 

to help myself loosen up when drawing.

Berkey's Original Piece:

My model to tackle perspective:

Sketching line-work in the new style:

Final Render:

HW3 Frank Frazetta Value Study

This week, we looked at the work of Frank Frazetta. 

His work is incredible and definitely worth looking into for value studies.

Here is a mood board with some of my favorite Frazetta pieces. 

Here's the piece I decided to add value to for the study:

And here is the same piece with values added:

HW2 Brian Froud

This week we took reference from Brian Froud. 

Here's a compilation of his illustrations that inspired me for this assignment.

I personally liked the little character on the bottom right the most, and 

saw a great opportunity to formulate some designs based off of its silhouette. Here they are:

HW1 Basic Shapes Syd Mead

Our first homework assignment was to study a piece from Syd Mead 

and push ourselves to analyze it's structure in basic shapes, 

as well as try to understand the lighting behind the work.

This is the original piece I chose to study. 

It has a strong composition, lighting setup, and foundation in shapes 

and I feel as though it would be a great piece to challenge myself in this study.

Started with rough linework to block out the initial shapes that I saw.

Committed to the linework a little more to lay 

the groundwork for the rest of the study.

Solid color to start the base before adding shadows and highlights.

Initial shadows to help with depth and sense of light.

Highlights added to emphasize lighting.

2nd pass of highlights and shadows to clean it up some.

Final touches on the shadows and highlights as well as added 

background colors to help the vehicle pop a little more.

Process gif:

2D Class Week 01 Art of Syd Mead

This week we were assigned to look into Syd Mead's art. I found a lot of it pretty cool and inspiring. Here are some of my favorite pieces.