Head and Hands

Had to draw an image of a person and include both the head and the hands. First colour assignment of the semester.
I tried a different technique with this one and blocked out the form in grey scale first, then added in the colour afterwards. I've heard good things about doing it this way, but I really do not like the way it turned out. I feel like it made the overall image look desaturated and lifeless. I most likely will not do any future paintings this way.
I focused a lot of my attention on the hands and I like how they turned out.
I realize it looks like me, mainly because I was using photo ref, and couldn't find the pose I needed so I posed myself.
If I had more time, I feel like I could have done a better job. But I'm satisfied with it.

Black and White Background

Had to paint line are that was given to us in grey scale using one light source of our choice.
I chose the desk lamp. First added an overall grey to the image and erased back for highlights. Fine tuned the gradients. Then duplicated and made a multiply layer to add darker shadows.
It was fun playing with light, but it's tricky and I still have a whole lot to learn.

Fishy!

Process of digitally painting a grey scale(no pun intended) fish for class.
Started with a rough drawing then painted in the basic form with shadows and mid tones.
Detailed in the eye and fins, roughed in the scales, then started detailing the whole thing.
Decided to change the overall shape of the bottom fin to make it flow more towards the back.
Finished it off with more shading, defining the form, and adding highlights.

Dawn

This is the character I am doing for my character design assignment this semester. We will eventually be making maquettes out of our designs. Can't wait!

Steve Buscemi

Finally finished my Buscemi caricature...I've been putting it off for forever, but since my ArtBook submission goes in tonight, I needed to finally finish it.
Total time was 9 and a half hours.

If I have time this week I'll put up my process shots, I took a different approach than when I did Bill Murray, I think I prefer my previous method, saved time. But it was neat building this one piece by piece.

I don't think I pushed the caricature enough, so he just looks creepy and Gollum-like. But I'm OK with it.

Critiques are welcome.

breaking down...

Marks!

Holy cow!

Just checked my marks, I did a lot better than I thought I did apparently!
I'm so super happy!
I really thought by the end of the semester everything I was producing was garbage, but I guess I wasn't doing too bad.
I cant believe how well I did in life drawing, which is the one I was most worried about even passing.
I can now rest easy this summer knowing that I more than survived this last semester.

Bring on the sun!