Trying to find a new look and feel for a recently revived project. I think the style and technique is heading in the right direction, but the mood isn’t quite there yet.
Usually I’ll have to do a bunch of these exploratory paintings before I can get even the slightest sense of which direction the art needs to go in. For this particular project the difference in mood during day and night is important and so the next step will probably be to do some night/day variations on some of the scenes.
Oh, and I remembered to grab some in-progress shots of this one.
Packing my bags and heading home to the middle of nowhere – the place where I was born and then raised by a pack of feral birds. Don’t really have the time to write anything pretentious and/or overly complicated.
Here, have a .JPG
I spent most of last week doing life drawing at school and in a bunch of other locations around town. Man, that stuff really takes it out of you. Before it becomes fun it just takes so much mental presence and self-correction. On top of having to concentrate constantly you’re actually standing upright for long stretches of time. Every day, by the time I got home from school I was so tuckered out I barely got anything done.
So, I dropped some of my sketches into the scanner and I’m putting them up here to fill the spot usually held by the weekend drop.
I have a huge stack of these one and three minute pencil and charcoal warm-ups. Good for learning, not so good for showing to other humans.
These are some quick ink and marker sketches from an excursion where we got to sit and draw a philharmonic orchestra rehearing for an upcoming show. Also, another naked lady – She’s from another life drawing session though, she wasn’t with the orchestra.
Here’s my second batch of moving images. Fresh off the grill. This one, like the last one, sprung from a school project but quickly spun off into it’s own thing, overstepping most of the project requirements along the way. They wanted ten to thirty seconds, and I could barely keep it below a minute.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t defy the law laid down by the local regents in such a blatant manner but they told me it was to keep us from working ourself to death. If there’s one thing I can’t abide it’s benevolent rulers. I need enough quietly smoldering rage against the man to be able to curse him/them while whittling away at the night and not feel like a total asshole. I think they assumed we’d have better things to do with our time, and most probably do, but not me. Because I’m severely damaged.
I also gathered some of the unnecessarily hi-res images I made for this thing and cobbled together a .JPEG
Last week was consumed by my first proper venture into After Effects. This thing I’m working on is a school project – it’s going to be about forty seconds long and it’ll be set to a piece of music. There’s not much to show at this point, at least not anything moving. I do have some process stuff, however.
The first page of the storyboard.
A style exploration piece.
These are some of the elements that’ll go into the final product.
