Frankenrina Part 3

More updates on Project Frankenrina.

Just finished up the 3d model, will be moving on towards texturing soon.
This was quite fun to model, reminds me of the days when modeling U92, only this time with a better understanding in anatomy, I made sure the wireframes flow according to the major muscle groups. :D

Here are the products, hehe.

Will really appreciate it if you drop a C&C.

Frankenrina Part 2

Hey guys,

Quite a huge update this time around, did quite a number of Frankenrina concept arts[could have done more, damn you minecraft!]. I'm gonna have fun modeling this guy, but I'm still gonna continue exploring on the styles.

Right now I'm revealing alot of muscles, wonder if it'll have the same effect if I made it more stylized and lessen the details of muscles?

Did not go too much into detailing as like adding the leg hair and all, xD. Was really speeding through this one, trying to get the right costume, and I still am trying!

Look forward to more updates on Frankenrina, and the 3D model soon! : D


Side tracking :
Mufizal Mokhtar, Art Director for Ubisoft came over Lasalle to give a masterclass on sculpting.
Check out his DeviantArt here : http://mufizal.deviantart.com/

The class was fun, and we got free clay! Weee. It's been about 2 years since I last sculpted something, pretty happy with how the head turned out. =)

Had LOADS of fun with the muscles and huge nose and wrinkles and stuff. Looking forward to it again if given the chance - of free Super Sculpey!

Frankenrina

Working on a short film project atm for Lasalle. Did some concept drawing for it. It is going to be about Frankenstein doing ballet. Haven't gotten into details yet. :D

Can you imagine it? I'm working late trying to finish life drawing. Totally feels like back in The One.

Anyway, here are the concept arts.

This is just the first stage, a very quick render of the idea of Frankenstein in a tutu. Will further refine and try other silhouettes to find the best fit.

C&C and suggestions are very much welcomed and appreciated! Thanks!

Back to College

Finally settled down in Singapore, and now I'm back in college once again! Oh god.

Good news is that, it is back to learning and leveling up. Bad news is, the schedule here is going to be quite hectic[I think?]. Hope I will have time to work on my personal project and work on concept art more.

I am really liking the classes where we think up of short stories, and adjust / improve it until it becomes something, it is quite impressive and the methods of teaching and  learning environment here in Lasalle is very different from The One Academy, but both colleges has its pros and cons.

Ah, 2 years to go. I will need to allocate my time here well, alot of money is going into my education. =(
Have to stay focused.

Anyway, my first digital painting in SG, lol. Did this for 2D sketch for 3D modelling as the head model wasn't going as planned. Back at the The One Academy, we worked on the same tutorial for head modelling, during then I modelled a guy's head, now I'm going to try for a female head.

Really really rusty with my figures drawing, this is very depressing. I'll have to refresh my anatomy again. So so so so depressing! Argh, so many things to do, so little time!

Update - Env Speed Paint

Been a while since I updated, did some speed painting + exploration, took 45min~90min a piece.

Going wild with colours, trying for acrylic feel.

Digital approach.

Trying for watercolour and lineart feel.

Digital free painting. Went crazy with this one.

A study, used a photo ref.

Colour + mood study.

Environment + texture study.

Intense Colour Study

I'm really cramping alot of information into my head this week, I guess judging from my own art, there are too many variety of colours everywhere, that most of the time my art piece becomes too chaotic.

So, knowing my weakness, I picked up James Gurney's Colour and Light and finished it, then I went ahead and spent RM200[damn pain] on Richard Robinson's tutorials on Mastering Colour and a few more stuff. Also gone through Gnomon's Color Theory: The Mechanics of Color with Richard Keyes and Practical Light and Color with Jeremy Vickery.

I picked up quite alot here and there, but going through James Gurney's Colour and Light and Richard Robinson's Mastering Colour, they both more or less cover the same topics. Pretty cool stuff, they more or less elaborate alot on the fundamentals[that we often forget/neglect ever so easily], most of their artworks, if not all are done traditionally.

The Mechanics of Colour, Richard Keyes more or less takes us on a joy ride of the many old master's paintings and explains the rationale behind the colours.

Practical Light and Color with Jeremy Vickery leans more towards the digital artists as he explains colour and light with knowledge in both 2D and 3D. Basically he'll be talking about materials, how light reacts, specularity, and etc. Pretty much the basic stuff we need to know.

I'm just itching to start working, I think I need the adrenalin. Feel so restless now.

Did another study / practice.

Mastering Color by Richard Robinson

I recently stumbled across Mastering Color by Richard Robinson in New Zealand, which is a great video painting course for any painting medium - oils, acrylic, watercolor etc - it's all about how to see color properly and translate it to canvas. It covers lots of in-depth material in a way that's really easy to understand. I totally recommend this for all painters who need better control of their color - and lets face it, most of us do! Here's the link to the website:

Mastering Color DVD

Oh, here's the chapter list too:

1. Color Theory
2. Seeing Color
3. Describing Color
4. Value
5. Mixing Color
6. Manipulating Color
7. Color Harmony
8. Light Effects

You can watch the first chapter for free on the site:

Mastering Color DVD