Spring Break

So, spring break is over and it breaks my heart cause I don't wanna go to school! I want to keep lazing about and staying up until crazy hours of the morning with little consequeeence! Anyway, I was somewhat productive this week. Here's what I have to show for it!

Concept Art....Robin Hood! I've got two of three characters, Marion and Robin...and then I'll do Little John...by Wed. Heh.

 

Theeeen I did a decorative assignment for my Illustration 3 class. I based it heavily off Klimt's work...I don't know how I feel about it but I do like it. I learned a lot and may do more in the future. Who knows? Hope it doesn't kill your eyes on your monitor. Heeeh.

Lastly, I was screwing around with my new favorite chalk brush and a new way of painting faces. Starting with the eyes first and flipping the canvas. I have known about this way of drawing before but never implemented it. Maybe I just didn't fully understand it until now?

Anywho, that's that. See you later, *begrudgingly goes to bed*

Poop.

I felt like this all weekend. Didn't get much done. I also have instagram and a brushd account. They're all under this alias, Ringaroundcapozzi.

The End.

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Is it Spring Break yeeeet?

I feel like this has been the longest two weeks of my life! It hasn't, but...I want a break! It's the week after next, so I still have to wait!

Anyway, I've been up to a whole lotta stuff, finishing my animation and doing paper craft(something I may never, ever do again) So, enough with the talking. Here is some art (if you wanna call it that).

PAPERCRAFT FROM HELL. Here is Derpina the Fairy

I used two different patterns, hand painted it, glued it, yelled at it, nearly broke it several times, glued it the wrong way a few times, and almost forgot the arms. DERP. It's like, 5-6 inches tall. I can't say I'll be doing one of these again....ever.

Jekyll and Hyde hasn't been completely put on the back burner, I did fix up the sketch in the last post and worked on a lighting study for another scene. I'll be finishing up what I'm showing you now tonight and tomorrow.

I'll be fixing up the girl in the shadows, putting in a crack to let you know he's leaning against a fridge, fix up his hand, and adjust his reflection and expression.

This lighting study was going to be the preliminary drawing for another scene (if I ever get to it) of the detective/lawyer finding out that Jekyll knows Hyde.

aaaaaaaaand now some sketches.

fantasy sketch

sketch of a new character, Avora

fantasy sketch

fairy sketch

sketches for stardust

*sigh* Midterm

And, here it is. Week 8. I can't believe how fast it's going! I so far haven't died and I've kept up on all my school work! Hopefully spring break will be nice and relaxing so I can kick the second half of the semester's ass!

So, here are a few things I've been working on. If you guys have noticed, I updated my pages, now giving an illustration portfolio page (unfinished heh...) and I'll be putting up a concept art portfolio page here real soon. I was looking through my progress steps on some of my work from last semester and realized I hated doing all the work but they came out great in the end.

Enough blabbering. Here!

Book cover illustration for Stardust. It wraps around the book so the face would be the cover, hair the back cover.

Here is a tee-shirt design I came up with. So far I'm pretty happy with it and could see a series coming of it.

And yes, those are the Threadless Tee shirt templates. They're all so dorky. Done with pen and ink, then scanned into Photoshop and tweaked! I think neither of them goes over 2 or 3 colors.

Now, a small update on my Jekyll and Hyde concept. I did a few more sketches to further experss some vulgarity in Hyde. My class had said, and I agree, that he was much too tame and didn't nearly read dangerous enough. So, here are some quick sketches and the composition I'm working on for a critical scene. I kind of made one up, where the detective is coming in looking for Jekyll who is trying to hide while Hyde is showing in the reflection.

 

This is still a WIP but I got pretty far in the few hours I worked on it. Most of the time was spent figuring out how to use the space.

So yea, thanks for lookin' and I'll hopefully have some personal stuff to add...some...time? Maybe? I don't know.

Oh god, 2 weeks to midterm.

Alrighty then! Twice in a week, I know it's crazy talk. However, I have some drawings I wanna share with you guys and if you have some feed back to please, please give it! All of the images are low resolution so if you want to see something up close, let me know. I might just submit some detail shots because I'm actually quite proud of myself!

Firstly, here are some line drawings :D

This was the preliminary drawing that I used for a promotional piece I did. I will probably be using parts of it for business cards/postcards/stickers/what have you. I like the way it came out.

 This was me fucking around with pen and ink again. I really like how these are turning out but I'm struggling with a way to make them a bit more unique. I feel like I'm on to something but I'm not really getting enough feedback to know where to go from here.  These flowers are "Arab's Eye Lilies"

And this one was a drawing I did right after the one above it. I got a little curious about what flowers mean what and according to the Victorian era, flowers meant a lot! From secretive love to I'm sorry we're through, I found it a very interesting read. These here are white clovers. They were kind of hard to draw, but not really. I don't know how to categorize them. Anyway, they mean "I Promise" and I thought it was interesting to juxtapose that with crossed fingers. "We can't always keep our promises." Perhaps it's something I'll delve into more, putting more meaning into my work will make it more successful.

Lastly! I finished my character designs for Jekyll and Hyde and colored them! Enjoy!

 

Thanks for looking!

Week 5

Well, I realize It's been a good 10 days since I posted....okay okay...15, but I've been so busy I just couldn't find the time to sit down for a good thirty minutes and come up with a post (pffft, no body reads this anyway...right?) So, I've only got a few things to show you...by a few things I mean the finished piece from Little Red Ridinghood (which I hate) and the next few sketches for my new Project...Futuristic Jekyll and Hyde. So, yea.

Ugh, this is just awful. I still don't like it. I took out the patterned wallpaper that I had in because it just made everything too busy....and now it looks too plain. I really need to just work looser. This tightness isn't going to help me with these short deadlines. this is about twenty hours of work. I think the only thing I like about it is the clock haha. It was fun to paint and actually came out looking pretty good.

This is our new project. I chose Futuristic Jekyll and Hyde cause I thought that'd be kind of fun. So far it is proving to be very fun, even if I don't have a lot of sketches I have a ton of research. Jekyll is going to have been so old that he wanted to transfer himself into an android and in the process of doing so, a glitch happens and thus Hyde comes out. I'm changing the detective into a girl because I want a girl. :D I've got more sketching to do tonight. I am in love with the chalk brush right now, it's making me draw better somehow. I'm going to be changing some of the design to include glowing things on his face and other parts...think of Tron meeting Aeon Flux.

The prototype for my website is all good and done. I actually like the way it came out. Here are some pages. All the buttons are hand written and then scanned into Photoshop. I decided to use the octopus lady as my banner cause I like her so much! Anyway, this is what some of it looks like....

 

I've also been doing some modelling in 3D design but I don't have all the files with me. Next time! I'll try to not go 15 days without posting...but I can't guarantee it. It's been one crazy semester. I also think I'm going to bind my portfolio myself, create my own book. I'm trying to think about how to not make it crafty looking...I think the front and back pages are the hardest to figure out. Eh, I'll find something.

Anyway, See ya later.

Whew. Weekend. Done.

Daaaang. So much drawing this weekend! So, what I had to do was at least 3 sketches of my Illustrations for my Little Red Ridinghood, at least 3 sketches of our proposal for our webpages, and 3 sketches for my Illustration based off of an article( eh-heh the only one I haven't done yet...I still have time). So, I was feeling a bit down on my luck on Thursday because I really didn't feel I did well on that butterfly piece (yea, see blog post before this) but now I'm feeling a little better about myself. I think I was just in a bad mood. So, without further adeiu, here are sketchesss! (Oh yea! And some test animations that I said I'd put in my last post but decided agaiiiinst.)

Little Red Ridinghood

So, these are all shots of the interior of Grandmother Gang Leader's House. Old fashioned, antique, a little colonial, a little Victorian( Gothic and Baroque), and still not quite highly decorated enough. Hey, I'm only one girl with one weekend that has to be split about five ways. I think it's a good start, anyway. ONWARD!

Webdesign. These are not the final designs, just sketches for the layout. I feel that the boarder I want to create will be very crisp, clean, and somewhat faded into the background. I really want a personalized site that invites and welcomes my viewers. I'm all about making connections and portraying myself as a very easy going (and easy to get along with) person!

 

It's a little hard to see, but that's okay. You'll all see it when it's nice and tidy :D

Introduction to 3D Animation. So we're using Maya to do our animations and so far we've done a few very, very simple animations. Oh my gosh, Maya is so confusing. Menus for your Menus for your Menus. seriously. I don't think I could have gotten any sort of hold on this program without help from a teacher. Seriously. Interface is so confusing. However, I think I'll get the hang of it. I can't wait until we do rendering and props...I think I'll like that more than animating! Here are a few of my very, very short and crappy Playblasts.

   

   

   

Last but not least I did try my hand at a little cell shading, took a few hours (I was watching all the starwars things on Adult Swim last night) and finally, finally drew Errandis. The owner of the character is quite happy with the outcome as am I. I had fun with the little shapes of light and shadow in the clothing and hair. I have some improvement to be made on the hands but whatever!

So, that was about the biggest freakin' post I've ever made and probably will ever make. Well, maybe for the next two weeks. I appreciate your views and even your comments (if you guys ever made any!). I did make a tumblr, so if you are tired of all my talking, I just post images on there. ringaroundcapozzi.tumblr.com. Ta-ta!