Saturday, April 23, 2011

And now for something completely different...


I do quite a bit of stained glass work in my summers, and completed a continuing education course at Conestoga for stained glass.  I enjoy working with the glass very much, any artwork is fun for me really.  Above is a pair of lampshades I sold to a lady in my hometown, and in the background is a window I made for a different customer.  The lampshades each had 49 pieces and the poppy window had 89.





DM[F]R

Friday, April 22, 2011

This oughtta make you wonder.

My final project for Photoshop class was the put together some images from around Toronto, my sister went to OCAD University, and I always liked the look of that big checkered box up on stilts.  Just down the street is the AGO, little do the people lined up there know, but they're under attack!


Hope you like spiders.







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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Animation


     Unfortunately, I don't have an AVI of my swimming lamp around, but this here is what we did for our midterm exam in our animation class.  It was a fun project, all we had to do was animate the lamp hitting the ball, but I had that done so fast I kept going on.  Looking back, my time probably would have been better spent refining the animation of it hitting that first ball, but what can I say?  It's just in me to break out of the constraints of most assignments; my disadvantage.  The teacher never much approved of my moving cameras, but I held onto them because I like the effect, something like looking out of a mirror, if that makes sense.

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If I find more AVIs around I'll upload them, but for now, that's it for animation.  I should upload some stained glass soon...





DM[F]R

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Freelance!

So, just a quick post of some older artwork that I did on my own time, this summer I plan to do a lot more.  I start with this post with some digital artwork that was fun,


In the style of my favourite webcomic 'The Order of the Stick' by Rick Burlew, I made this avatar for the giantitp.com forums.  He's an NPC I created for the main campaign that I run.  For those that understand, he's an Epic-Level Dwarf Binder.  He's not a happy dwarf.


Gregor here was done even longer ago, you could say he was the first thing I ever composed in Photoshop, he started out as a doodled faee, and when I applied to George Brown for Game Development, my girlfriend taught me to colour and I filled him out.

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And as always, more to come.






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Monday, April 18, 2011

Bookends

To finish up posting on Photoshop 2 I'll post the my first and last project in that course,



As I've said before, I'm not much of a cartoonist, and I often put much to much detail into my creations.  In this cell-shading exercise, I can't say I was too successful.


Now this is a project that I was much more satisfied with.  I just finished it last night, we were to make a spaceship or land vehicle basically.  We have to model it in 3D, and then compose it in Photoshop.  I was moderately pleased with the outcome of mine.  It looks like a helmet that would land on your head so the tiny alien inside could control you...   Mhm.  It goes without saying I think that I based the design off a ladybeetle.

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I think in the next post I'll put up some work I've done on my own time.  Also, I'll have to do a movie review at some point I do think.





DM[F]R


Sunday, April 17, 2011

Second Semester

There was one more 3D model from last semester that I could have posted, but I never made a render of it, it was a cool scythe I designed and modelled before we were taught how to render.  Perhaps one day I'll get around to that.

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However, now we can get into second semester, I will begin with some pieces of digital art that I put together for my second semester Photoshop Class


This character came to me one night when I was laying down for bed, the next day I drew him up in a couple different poses, developed the concept, and then coloured him in Photoshop.  I was pretty happy with him at the time, looking at it now however...  Well, it's an artistic cliche to dislike your own work, so, I'll let the viewer be the judge.


This was one project that I was very pleased with when I finished it.  We were given a brief on a story about space pirates and a multiplying monster, we could illustrate either of them, and I chose the monsters, here's what I came up with.  The picture was very challenging for me as it had a great many number of surfaces in it, including metal, skin, marble, membrane, lips, eyes, and water, many of which I had no experience with in Photoshop.  But I worked on this piece for several days and I think it turned out pretty good.

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I wish I had blogged more through the months, however, I am happy to look nostalgically over all my own work and see how I've improved.





Flynn

Quick Post

I did some Flash last semester as well, and although there isn't really much to say of my ineptitude in coding, I did do a small bit of art for the class.  By that I mean I made one horrible atrocity.

Say hello to Turbo Shark-Dragon,


The stars were added just for blogs.  Haha.

I have to say that coding was not my forte, if only you could see the awful controls on this thing.  But I still love him.





DM[F]R