Painterly

I've been coloring the monster. After restarting multiple times, I've was persuaded to go with a sponge brush for the moss. I have the moss finished.

Digital!

A monster I drew for our senior project!

Painty

I am in a class on color theory. It's more of an independent study, but I'm asking a lot of questions and fortunately near a professor that is more than willing to show me how to improve, as well as be patient with my little color blindness.

Here are two pieces I've done.

Lighthouse in the forest

So the final theme we decided upon was a "lighthouse in a forest" I bought a new ink pen so decided I'd try my hand at a lighthouse in a swampish area.

Lonely

This was a drawing I did for our senior project. The theme was "lonely" this is what I cooked up!

Dolls

Recently, I finished a project in which I was to design and model (in Maya) a set of Russian Nesting Dolls. The theme for my family was Polka Platypus Family. Here are the sketches that I decided on. (Unfortunately my others aren't scanned/lost)My original drawings.

I threw some colors on them to see what would work and what wouldn't. I liked the idea of the monochrome colors at the bottom of this list.
This is actually an ambient occlusion render pass, but I wanted to show off my models.
I started creating my actual textures in Adobe Illustrator. This is the large doll. The accordion player in the polka band!
This is the middle doll. A bass player

And this is the smallest doll. A clarinet player.
After making an HDR (Radiance) image, I rendered out my dolls. It didn't quite capture what I wanted.
After uploading it into the picture of my room, it really didn't fit. Shadows were too dark, as well as an overall flatness of the images.
After tweaking my shadows, lights and materials, the dolls look much better!

If there's anything I'm learning, it's that being an illustrator is tough work! Also, how to UV map.

Cleaned Up

I was interested in pushing the character I made earlier and wanted to make a muppet babies version. So off I went!

I first blocked out the basic shape of my drawing. After which I did a rough sketch in blue where I forced my character into the triangular shape. I then did a cleaned it up more with a black line over the blue. The shape and the pose were nice, but I didn't enjoy the lines. They were...kind of jagged.
What a perfect time to try out Adobe Illustrator and the wonderful Pen tool! I traced over my photoshop file with the now smooth and vectorized pen lines. I thought it looked very much so like a coloring book picture..

and colored it as such! This was fun!