Skewl stuff 1: Character Design 1-- Female Assassin

This one is schoolwork. Our task was to create 2 designs from one original character design. I chose to create a female assassin, around mid 20s to early 30s, black hair, asian.

After doing some prelimary sketching, I finished up my lineart to make it ready for painting.

Then, I filled it out in grayscale first to distinguish the values and tones. Determining the source of light is very important here to help me create the shape of each form.

Afterwhich, I then now overlayed the colors and used complimentary colors similar to "asian dragon" colors or themes. I determined she should have black hair and kind of made it to blue black hair.

After being checked by our instructor (who's awesome by the way), he encouraged and advised me to reduce the outlines or make them thinner if possible to give it more solid look. He also advised me to use the entire range from black to white in my grayscale so that it would effectively give a 3d look rather than looking quite flat. He also taught that it is also important to know the kind of material fore each form so that it can help me determine the reflectivity or the glossiness of such form which is applicable to determining the tone transitions in my grayscale: such as the metals, leather, cloth, skin etc. each has its way of values.

Finally, I got the colors overlayed again and done some changes and cleaning.

Here's the summarized overview of what I have learned so far in digital painting. I had much fun in doing this, learned new things especially the tips from our instructors.

Maddy Portrait Process

This is the first portrait rendering I made entitled "Maddy" which I really credit first of all to my cousin Ed. My cousin is also an artist and in fact gave me a lot of tips in digital painting and stuff. He is also one of the great inspirations and supporters I had to carry on my ambition to become a great artist. Thank you Ed! ^__^

 This is the original sketch made by Eddi. 

A Tralala Birthday Wish List... (I actually have one?)

Hmmm... I always want a LOT of things... but I really don't covet to have 'em all. It just would be nice to have 'em. Mind you, these things that I want are mostly things that I also need! ^_^

Mutants

Do these girls look familiar to you?

Yes, I am featuring my sisters again! And what else have you noticed? (Aside from hey I'm there too!) 

Yup, you're guessing it right! X-men characters! ^__^

The sketches were actually drawn on paper...scanned...then colored in photoshop :)

Still noob at coloring, but practicing is real fun for me ^___^ weeeheeee!!!

Early Colored Sketches

I always will be a traditional artist...a pencil artist to be exact. But I wanted to color my works. Before, I was content of black and white and gray, until, I knew that I really want to add more life to my drawings. So, below are few of my attempts to color my traditional pencil sketches, coloring them in adobe photoshop. I'm still a noob at it and obviously most of them don't have a a background- just all white.

As you can see, obviously my drawings are very into anime style, which is my comfort zone. But as they say, an artist must move out from one's comfort zone-- explore more. And so I will. :)

 

Black and White Portraits

It's important to have fun when you are practicing your skills! ^_^ When I discover a technique or style, I really try it several times, and my sisters and bestfriends are the usual models. Like for example on the following drawings, they are sketched portraits of my sisters and two of my bestfriends. Doing this was challenging in a way, I wanted to simplify the drawing, without too much detail, in fact, their faces especially the eyes are not too realistic. I chose to experiment on a grayscale and a large contrast of black and white with a few midtones here and there for forms. :) I really did enjoy these exercises.

  

Doodley Doo!

There's this childish side of me that I wanted to project, things that I liked as a child that I still carry until now ^___^ The drawings below are drawn in half sheets of bondpaper when I got bored during classes back in 2009.

 

Lolli Hour

I like sweets...dang...I am candidate for diabetes. Hopefully I won't get it! Nuuu!

This is simply a doodle of some of the sweet things I like. 

I didn't include chocolate here. Chocolate is sacred!!!