Tonal Studies

Power leveling my digi painting skills by trying out Shaddy Safadi's brush set http://www.shaddyconceptart.com/download .

Digi Paint Study - Back

Yesterday I did my first digi paint study in months. I used to do a lot of these studies back in the day, but with school and learning 3D animation I didn't have time to study painting as much. But now I feel like getting back in the groove.

1.5 hour study using Marcus Ranum's stock photo as reference (http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com and www.ranum.com)

Steps:

Caricatures from Video

In character design class we learned to study character types from real people and apply them to our designs. This is a collection of some of the caricature studies I did from Youtube videos.

Painting Interior

The painted version of a layout I did a while ago. I love the simplicity of traditional Japanese architecture, so it was fun researching for this assignment.

Drawing Exercises

Drawing practice in layout class. The composition was created by the teacher and I had to take the drawing to a higher level of finish.

Much better than the previous 3 layout exercises because my teacher showed a good technique for painting values.