Saturday, October 24, 2015

Project 03- Painting a Character Design

Assignment Guidelines- Be able to take a character from your sketchbook, scan it, adjust the line color to match the paint, apply local color, shadows, textures, gradients, high lights.

-Please choose from one of the images below to paint.-


Steps in Class and grading process..
1. Local Color to a Color Change
2. Blending transitions
3.Texture
4.Direction of Light- (Creating change of form and shadows)
5. Line Adjustment- ( We changed the color of the line and erased parts of the line enhance the painting.)
6. Gray Scale Value Overlay- a layer in black, place layer on Hue to see if your value transitions are working correctly. Values should be changing according to form of object.)  

Character Designs Sources: 




Character Design References:




Character Design Paint-Ins:


Breakdown of Layer Example:






Character Design by Devin Platts

Other Character Designs for Practice:


Character Designs by Tom Bandcroft


Robot Designs by Unknown


Character Design by Steve Prescott


Saturday, October 10, 2015

Project 02- 20 Material Orb Studies

1. Chrome
2. Glossy Plastic
3. Rock
4. Stone
5. Glass (Clear)

6. Wood
7. Rusted Metal
8. Short Hair Fur
9. Tree Bark
10. Soap Bubble

11. Polished White Marble
12. Glass (Red)
13. Polished Gold
14. Brown Leather
15. Magma & Lava

16. Light Skin
17. Rope Ball
18. Ice
19. Frosted Donut
20. Scaled Reptile


Examples: