Week 7 Red Engine - Studies - Happy Halloween!

Been studying and painting a lot of scary things, in the spirit of Halloween.  Enjoy!

Practicing stylized/anime female faces, trying to find a style for myself, also trying to come up with the main character for my project:

Studying AJ's style!

Some quick color variations:

Definitely a lot harder for me to replicate the female form:

Khang Le Study:

Jason Chan Study:

Study of Yolandi Visser:

My own designs:

Brainstorming some environments (medieval era) with pen and marker:

Some traditional works

Haven't done figures in over 3 weeks!  Felt good to do some again

First time painting with acrylics... actually, first time painting with traditional tools.  Its really hard for me :(

Some further work:

Left over paint:

First attempts:

trying to improve the painting a bit...

but

More Character Roughs - Red Engine Week 6

The Chairman

Red Engine Week 5 - Character Designs

Homework this week is to create many many character silhouettes, using loose reference to come up with interesting shapes and designs.  Will be adding more as I finish them:

Animal Anatomy - Horse Studies

Horse 5-point turnarounds, with skeletal structure:

Studying major shapes that make up a horse:

Red Engine - Week 4 - Environments

Learning how to thumbnail and sketch environment designs quickly, producing a large quantity of interesting concepts and architectures rapidly.

Applying some of the teacher's criticisms to improve my work: