Dice Tsutsumi Study!

Dice Tsutsumi study - understanding colors and edges! No color picking this time. So proud of myself! :)

Long time, no post

Sorry for the lack of posting! I seem to be missing the "per diem" part of this blog, but that will change soon hopefully.  I've been trying to fix up a bunch of pieces from this past semester so that they can hopefully be portfolio ready. Anything else are mostly just café type sketches of people or hand studies.

I did this for my mom for mother's day.  I got it printed as a card and had the front flap as the "little boy" version of me—revealing the adult version of be upon opening it.  The idea is based on a photograph taken of my mom and me on my 1st day of grade school.

My Appologies

Hi everyone,

I'm sorry I've disappeared from this blog. I was busy with finals and my portfolio, and now I have to  deal with something really personal and important that I need to take care of first.  I'm still drawing, but need to concentrate on my problem.  Please forgive me, and don't let my absence get in the way of your guy's wonderful art.

Thanks,

Alex

Art of Tangled Mastercopy

whew! - 20 hours  - click here for progress

Finals

Hey'a guys/gals. Sorry I haven't posting here, I've been busy with finals and IOH. I'll try to post here more often. -Cheers!

Heres a screenshot of the illustrations I've been working on for the past few weeks. Reworking the environment from Senior Portfolio 1 because it didn't fit well with the universe that the story came to be. I thought I should upload something since I haven't really shown anything since the tonal values, so here are the work in progresses. Going to try and squeeze a couple of character designs for Industry Open House. I hope everyone is well! Remember to try to eat well and rest well. One more week seniors! LETSSS DO THIS!!

ALSO! Jane Choi, Charlene Chand, Amanda Vidad and the other Graphic Designers will be presenting their Capstone this coming monday (4/30/12) come in and watch Jane be shy! hahah

Myself, Anna Koan, Karsen Slater and all the other Illustration hybrids will be presenting with the animators! on May 7th! at 4pm. Come early! or you'll miss my presentation! I'm the first one -_-'

As Bob Dylan said it best, "Times they are a'changin"

Research Question

Hey everyone!

Thanks for the invite and I'll start posting stuff soon and commenting on people's stuff.

I have a question in people's research methods. How do you guys research? Is it different per assignment?

I use Google primarily for research but then I make a list of words on the characteristics of the assignment. For example if I have to do a character design of RoboCop, I would then not only look up the obvious: "robotics", "robotics parts", "modern robots", "military robots", etc. I look up those words on thesaurus.com and search on the synonyms on those words to spice up the search engine. Then go on a tangent with the searches and combine different words. Sometimes it works but just wanted to see if anyone else has any other good techniques.

For character reference I go to:


http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/
http://artsyposes.com/
and sometimeshttp://ffffound.com/

Bill Perkins study

yes! (here click for original)