More art updates!

The newest image for my portfolio. I really like doing all the organic shapes in this, as you can see - the trees are my favorite.

Concept art process

So! I'm working on my portfolio to apply to concept art/game art/movie art related internships and jobs. Here's a piece I just finished:

This piece definitely helped me work on my digital painting skills! I also documented my process with this piece, because at least one of the internships requires process images. Here you go!

These were my original sketches for the character. Basically, I just wanted to create someone who was totally badass. Then I did some color tests for the final piece:

Ended up going with the bottom right.

Then I just went in and painted! During the process, I made a few modifications - basically, I realized that the rifle wasn't working out in that angled position (it seemed super awkward), so I straightened it out some. I also reworked her left arm using a reference picture, since I realized that hand position wasn't very realistic. I also used a lot of other references throughout to make things accurate looking:

Boot - corbis.com. Photobucket pictures - me (the weird collar one is to see what the fabric would look like backlit). Desert - this site.

And that's about it! Here's a close up of her face:

Singer

Observational drawings are my favorite. Case in point:

 

Painted in Photoshop, 2012. It was my mom's high school graduation present, which is pretty neat, but I use it now (she has a new one). 

Here are the steps I went through to get this, if you're curious.

1. Relatively careful sketch

2. Lay in local values/colors

3. Render, keeping in mind shadows and reflections

4. Render more (add/fix reflection on base).

I might still go in and do some subtle color correction, but it's good for now.

New ink works

Hi. So I am apparently not great at keeping more long-form blogs... oops. But in other and better news I have been doing a lot of work with ink/ink wash and digital color over the past few days. I think it's really cool to combine traditional and digital media in exciting ways. Here are some of my favorites:

- Carrie

More summer drawings

I'm trying to work on my drawing-from-the-tablet skills, so these are all geared towards more specific things within that.

 

speedpaint of the sunporch at my parent's house. 45 minutes

color study of my friend Whitney

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Drawing-a-day

Hi all!

So I'm trying to do this thing where I do a drawing a day this summer, just to get reacquainted with all the good stuff about drawing that I've forgotten about (OH HAI ANATOMY.) Here are some of my favorites so far:

1. today

2. a few days ago (used a photo of myself for reference-ish)

3. the second day of the project

We'll see how this pans out for the rest of the summer - I'm starting an internship in a completely unrelated field (classical music radio production!) in a week, but I should still have time for all this. You should nag me if I forget. (Thanks Sam for demonstrating this :D )

Happy summer!

Carrie

oh hi there.

Hi, and welcome! Here's a Photoshop sketch of mustachioed dude wearing a bandana with symbols taken from playing cards on his face. I know, I don't get it either, especially because I strongly dislike card games since I have zero attention span for them.

Moving on. I started this blog because I want to be more accountable and make sure I'm doing illustration and drawing work on my own. I'm a music history major at a small liberal arts college (which doesn't offer any illustration or graphic design classes), but I've always been really interested in art and illustration. Sometimes I wish I'd gone to art school, but then I remember everything that I love about being here and it's okay.

So, I think this will be a space in which I will post sketches, drawings, ideas, inspirational artists/works, and other fun things. We'll see how this goes!