Photoshop studies

I'm trying to get better at Photoshop, so here are some studies of people I did today.

This one is of Alyssa (her art blog is on my links to the right, btw, so do visit). She was Photoshoppin' me too, so that's why she looks so serious.

And this is JP. He's playing Magic. Haha, I realize both of these are extremely stiff, but ah well. My main goal is just to practice painting in Photoshop, since my Viz Dev works look so muddy. :[

It scares me when you do that.

This was in the Spartan Daily today.

I had fun painting it~ :3

And this was a first pass with Viz Dev. It's based on "The Drowned Giant" by J. G. Ballard. I was hoping it would be a nice, finished, in-house picture but no... I must redo it because it still has problems. Ah well, I like drawing drowned giants.

Went sketchin'

...and this was the result (just looking at people around the mall).




...aaand some stuff outta my head (kinda oldish, but felt like uploading it).

Art dump

Here are some various Visual Development roughs. The first is the interior of a treehouse, and the second is a kitchen design based on Gary Soto's short stories. I'm going to redo these over break, so we'll see how they'll improve.




I also had to design a leprechaun for the Spartan Daily.


Some weird scribbles with a self portrait thrown in for good measure. Yeah~

Stupid dog

Fairly old... I keep thinking I will finish this, but truth be told, the more I fiddle with it the less complete it feels, so I'm just going to end it here.
More and more I keep leaning towards character design. But I think I'll keep practicing Viz Dev for now (which I'm finally taking this semester), and see where that takes me.

Flash art~

Here are some character designs and clean-up I did in Flash 8.0.


Also, we got a new kitten! We named him Canaan... mostly because he is a light golden tabby, and it reminded us of milk and honey, so we decided to name him after the land of milk and honey.
And I swear, at this moment, I am going to kill him, because he keeps jumping up on the dinner table and stealing food. No matter how many times I squirt him with water, he simply won't stop. >.<

Yeah, I decided to post up a bunch of my old pencil tests, as rough and beginner as they may be. I still don't know if I want to become a character animator or not. At any rate...

This is a sack pantomine from last year. Very simple, but decent considering this was my first semester ever truly animating.

The next assignment was to make a cat jump. Oh yes, the cat will jump, for that is what he'll do.



Finally, we had a weekend to put together a pencil test of whatever we wanted to animate. I never fully finished it, and the last half is just keys, but I still like the first half. It's pretty stupid, though.



At the moment of this post, I have ten more days to finish my final 30 second film (which is rapidly become 30+ seconds, but I digress... >.<). I'll post that up once it's "finished", although I plan on working on it over winter break so maybe I can have it finalized next semester. Wish me luck! :3