Matte Painting WIP

Our assignment is to work on a matte painting with any subject matter of our choosing. I got some feedback on this about warming up the colors of the dome and making it more transparant. Also to work on the icicle shape.

Illustration Assignment: Pastel

This was from an assignment to illustrate the following poem :

The Pretty Girl Who Rented Rooms 
by Charles Bukowski

Down in New Orleans
this young pretty girl
showed me a room for rent and
it was dark in there and we stood
very close
and as we stood there
she said,
"the room is $4.50 a week."
and I said,
"I usually pay $3.50."
as we stood there in the dark
I decided to pay her $4.50 because
maybe I'd see her in the hall once in a
while
and I could not understand then why
women had to be like she was
they always waited for you
to give a sign
or not to make the first move
and I said,
"I'll take the room," and I gave her
the money
although I could see that
the sheets were dirty and the bed
wasn't made
but I was young and a virgin,
frightened and
confused
and I gave her the money
and she closed the door behind her
and there was no toilet and no sink
and no window.
the room was damp with suicide and death
and I undressed and lay down on the bed
and I lived there a week
and I saw many other people in the hall
old drunks
people on relief
crazy people
good young people
dull old people
but I never saw her again.

finally
I moved around the corner
to a new place
for $3.50 a week
run but another female
a 75-year-old religious maniac
with bad eyes and a limp
and we didn't have any trouble
at all

and there was a sink
and a window
in the room.

I'll repost with revisions later.

Illustration Assignment: Ink

An illustration of the excerpt  :

Cynthia Rylant. The Islander. (DK, 1998.) 

I was a boy when I met the mermaid, and, of course, no one believed me. It didn’t matter. I was a solitary boy — lonely, actually — and had long given up on anyone understanding what I said or how I felt. I had lived with my grandfather for three years, and he was a kind and gentle man, but he could not see into a boy’s world and so could not do much more than love me.

I will be posting the revised version later.

Background for Collaborative Animation

Working on backgrounds again. The director gave me the shot in black and white and I painted it following her lighting and color scheme.  I need to change the corner walls to the purple curtain material.

Nurbs furniture for steampunk room

These are quick renders of the furniture I just made last night for my graphics class. We had to make three pieces of furniture from photo references for this project. Eventually these and the other two steam punk artworks I posted: the gears and the painting with Steampunk Lesbia - will be part of the final project for this class. The final is to have a themed room with two artworks and three pieces of furniture. For our next project I will texture these pieces and finish building my room. Last I will light it all. 

Pipe Organ
photo-reference: here

Curved Shelves
photo-reference: here

Spider Chair
photo-reference: here

Latest WIP

I'm working on a couple of teams for the seniors' projects. Here are the thumbnail/rough concepts I'm working on for a background for one of them. I want to take it further in the direction of it's perspective and get a better feel for the cave size. The top right squares are acrylic, the rest are in Photoshop.

WIP

Right now I'm working on a matte painting for Dart. The background style is kinda blue-Tarzan-esque.

 Photoshop, Cintiq and Genius Tablet

Small Oil

Oil
This started as an in-class assignment for an imaginary book cover. The title we had to illustrate was 'Lady of the Forest'. I wish I had just left it as the under painting in the translucent brown, because it really looked quite striking then. I will see if I still have the picture from then. However this version is growing on me.

I'm planning on neutralizing the bright green leaves and maybe adding a wash to the shadows to make them slightly less rust colored but still hold onto that neat translucent effect. This is on hold for now.

Marko

Acrylic
This is from an old photo of my father. I like to paint with exaggerated and/or unlikely skin colors. There are a few spots that gained some digital artifact and pixelation from the camera or the color correcting I did in Photoshop. This is still a WIP.