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:

HW4 Drew Struzan Composition Study

This week, we were tasked with taking a piece from Drew Struzan's legendary collection and recreating it in our own style while taking note of the layout and composition.

I decided to choose his poster for Hellboy 2. Here's his original piece:

I loved this piece. I felt it was dynamic, powerful, and a strong

 example of multiple types of successful composition types.

Here's my recreation in my own style:

While recreating Struzan's masterpiece, I took note that it successfully 

shows 4 types of composition at once. 

The first is the cross composition. This leads the eye to the center of the poster, directed by the light and position of the robots.

It also has a triangular composition, from the hands of the main robot to Hellboy, as well as the background robots to other background robots.

Another way this piece is composed is with a radial frame, focusing in solely on Hellboy from all angles.

Finally, Struzan's piece also is set up with the Iconic style of layout. This has the strongest structure between Hellboy, the robots, the fore- and background, and the title.

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.