Sunday, February 25, 2024

Hand Drawn Assignment for Rendering Class

 

For some reason, part of our first assignment in rendering class included making a hand drawn colored image based on a photorealistic image from the internet. I chose the famous shot from the Avatar: Way of Water trailer. I haven't bothered to actually see the film yet, but this shot was interesting. For those unaware, it sparked a discussion as to whether or not the hands were CGI. Many guessed the water was real and the hands were CGI. In fact, the hands were real human skin painted to have subsurface scattering while the water and surrounding environment were completely simulated. 

I gave myself an hour to copy the image as best as possible. Then I called it and turned it in. 

God be with me. Lord help me this year and always. I need you. I love you. Amen.

Vin from Mistborn

 

Some copy paper came out of the printer blank with ink marks all over it at my workplace, and I was told to recycle them. It seemed like a waste of good paper, so I drew on them. These are some drawings I did of the character Vin from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Saga. Her hair is honestly a little long in these, unless these are supposed to be from the second book. In the first book, her hair barely gets long enough to where it looks like a choice rather than having grown out from being cut short.

Vin captivated my imagination because she's itty-bitty small, but she has the powers of a superhero.

The above picture was also drawn on letter paper in church, and is an older drawing. You can see one of my notes above it, "action of cape is wrong". In this first drawing, I forgot the Mistborn are often described as going barefoot. She could also have more tension in her expression. In official art, the cloaks are shown as having a scarf around their neck as well.

God bless everyone. God's will be done. I commit all of these to you. Amen.

Sketches from Church


 These are some of the sketches I've done while I'm at church. What can I say? Services are long.

Here's a version of Lauren!


Apologies for the drawings behind the sketches. There's a reason I don't often use these composition journals for sketching anymore. 

God bless everyone. God save us all. God's will be done.

Card of Sennaar

 

This is a card I made for my dad based on the amazing game, Chants of Sennar. For anyone not familiar, the game is about decoding languages based on context. It's extremely well executed. I wish more games were like it. 

I had the opportunity to watch my dad play this game. It was a very special experience for me. 

God bless you all. I love you. God's will be done for me.

Friday, November 17, 2023

Bastille vs. Birthdays

 


It's that time again! That magical time of year that's somebody's birthday. For this year, I drew the character Bastille from the Brandon Sanderson series Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians. Specially, this is an image of her from the final book in the series, based on one of the covers. To anyone who hasn't read it, I can highly recommend the whole series. I did some exploration of what I wanted the drawing to look like before I tried the final product. It took some doing, and I could have made it even better, but I'm proud of how it turned out. 

God's will be done. God bless you. Yes, you specifically.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Better Spider-Man Drawings

 
Today I drew a lot of Spider-Man drawings. So in this post, I'm going to do something different where a few of the newer drawings come before the older ones, mostly because they look nicer. So in class this morning I was drawing Spider-Man just because I realized I hadn't really drawn much of him in a while. I was recently looking over some of my old sketches back when I had no idea how to do foreshortening, and it was very obvious. So I wanted to draw him more now that I'm much better. 

So in class, obviously I didn't have anything to go off of, but when I drew the pictures immediately above and below I used references. Strange, I know. Obviously it helped. I discovered most of Spider-Man's legs are blue, which is genius in a way. It makes his design a lot better and is much easier to draw.

I had a hard time deciding how to draw Peter. Originally he was bigger than this. I wanted his shirt to be loose enough that he could realistically hide his muscles underneath, but I still wanted him to look skinnier than he is.

So the drawings above and below were the ones I did in class this morning. Obviously, they have much better form than a lot of the Spider-Man drawings I've done in the past. They do, however, have patterned pants rather than the classic and simple blue from the actual design.

Poor Octavius looks terrible in this drawing. Still, it's better than some of the drawings I've done of him in the past. I like Spider-Man's expressiveness here.

I really wanted to draw Mary Jane. She's really fantastic in the comics I read as a kid. You can clearly see the inspiration from the Into the Spider-Verse design, which I think is a great design.
 


Overall, I like the picture above. I like the motion lines on Spidey and the idea behind the drawing. Somehow I managed to make both swinging drawings of Spider-Man have the wrong foot/arm correspondence, so they look awkward. The wrong leg is swinging forward in both of them. Ugh. It still looks pretty cool.

I was worried when I drew Black Cat that she would look to much like MJ, but as I was exploring her shape language, she just came together on her own. I'm actually really happy with this design. She really looks like she's up to something. I was going to draw another drawing of her and Spidey swinging through the city, but I wanted to make sure I had enough time to post this tonight. 

I realized halfway through drawing these that I should switch off of lined paper because I wasn't going off of references anymore. Also, apparently this is my 200th post? So that's fun. 

God bless everyone. Stay safe out there. I love you God. Thank you for everything. God's will be done for all of this. Amen.

Inspired by Sweet Carole


There's a new game coming out called Bye Sweet Carole by Chris Darril with an art style inspired by Disney's Silver Age. Anyway, I really like the look of the game and the aesthetic/premise. So I drew some art with screenshots of the game as references. Then I drew the two drawings you see above taking what I learned from that exercise. I still have a lot to learn, but this was fun. I'm slowly being able to draw lips without them looking weird and gross.

God be with me. I love you. God save me. Amen.