Seaside Sorceress Tower Keep

I'm taking another Environmental Design class with a new teacher. He has a different way if thinking of design that I think is beneficial. He makes me think of story, and culture, and "specificity" ( his word that's why in quotation). The other day we had to design a tower for a seaside sorceress, I had to figure out if she was good, bad, or neutral. Was the tower is it? Inviting? Or lonely? After the tower, was a bridge and then a keep. I used the form of the tower to help me design the keep. You can see my process here. Color is later this week. Maybe I'll finish it on my own.

Midnight skull

Playing with markers again. Enjoy.

Marker Environments

Having fun with shapes, shadows, and colors. Keep working it.

Stone walls

So I've been doing a lot more painting for the show and I needed to take foam carved walls and make them look like ancient temple stone walls. After priming them white, I have them a base layer of warm grey. After that it was just a matter of dirtying then up and throw on some highlights. I had loads of fun doing it. Hope you enjoy.

Environmental Design

Through my studio in able to take 2 courses I would otherwise be unable to attend. One is environmental design. It's mostly photoshop shortcuts in the use of concept drawings, but it's still very helpful. I'm enjoying myself. On my first day we all used the same reference photo to learn said techniques and this is what came out of it for me. He's making us work exclusively in values and not color to help us focus on silhouette and composition. I think that's very smart. I do love how creepy it came out. I guess I'm just that kind of girl.

Another case of the midnight sketch

It always happens. I come home full of desire to be artistic but life gets in the way (and currently Star Trek TNG marathons) and so I head to bed and pull out my night stand sketchbook and draw. Right before bed. Right around midnight. I want to remember that incessant desire to draw I had back in HS. Did too many years of art schools wipe that desire out? Or is it because I've learned other techniques and realized that three dimensionality is my prefered medium, drawing feels cumbersome and to flat? No matter what you always start with a sketch so I must suck it up and continue drawing.

Always learning. Always improving (one hopes). You keep trucking away. Enjoy.

What I've been up to: RC7!

I've been busy. Busy both artistically and professionally. Thankfully they overlap. I've become the art department coordinator of season 7 of Robot Chicken. And besides crunching numbers and filling out forms I've been able to paint for the show. Here are some examples of the work I've been producing.