Layout Pans

Considering this was done in the span of a (hurried) day, I'm not satisfied with the results. That being said, I had quite a bit of fun with the pan + designing the characters. On the left we have a frumpy, grumpy pipe-man who is overprotective of his pipe-filled train station. On the right we have a wide-eyed girl who steals pipes from the closed station to sell and gain prrrrrofit. Copper makes a pretty penny!

Looking back at the beginning of the semester, I remember being too afraid to lift a pencil in layout class. It's a silly fear that I still have - that whatever I create will be gaudy and filled with mistakes. But mistakes are great, mistakes are things that I can learn from. With every failure, I'll fail better and more spectacularly and I'll learn even more. All I have to do is keep drawing and scrutinizing, and drawing some more. Wahoo!

Skeleton Drawings

It's crunch time! (If this is first year crunch time, I worry to think what fourth year crunch time will be.) Bone drawings for Thurman:

I learned a confoundingly large amount from this project. I didn't expect bones to be so helpful in figure drawing  - I knew they'd be helpful, but I didn't expect them to be help that much. I was pleasantly surprised.

Also I learned to never leave printing to the last minute - yikes, that's a mistake I'll never make again. Though on a positive note, I learned that the school's Grenville printshop does fantastic colour prints on card paper. Not so much on laser paper, but the card colours make me excited and giddy.

Master Copy: Giles Beloeil

The master copy assignment in which we copy from a master and marvel at our own inequities. The best part of this assignment was probably choosing a painting. I could stare at backgrounds all day.

Original: Giles Beloeil's concept art for Assassin's Creed: Revelations

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B&W Study

Colour Study

If there was one thing I could fix, I'd add a yellow glaze on the colour study. Alas this isn't something I know how without smudging the entire painting.

2012 Fall Semester Demo Reel

This was a fun one; it's nice to see the semester's work at one go.

Character Expressions

She'll smite you with her giant hair + lips, beware!

Royal Winter Fair

The next day I ate a hamburger and a strange feeling washed over me. 

(I'm sorry animals.)

Texture Studies

References on the left, paintings on the right. Ironically the lizard eye took me the longest but turned out flat and lifeless. I do like the nail though, so you lose some and gain some.