Greek gods and goddesses revisiting designs

Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to try and update over here with stuff I’ve been working on over the last couple of years.  Tonight’s post is Greek mythology themed.  I revisited my pantheon designs, and then upon finishing one pass through went about refining them: fixing poses and proportions, updating costumes, and refining palettes.

Psyche

Eros

Greek Mythology Illustrations

Here are some of the illustrations I worked on during my 6 month absence from here.  Most of the stuff I've worked on is not on here or not ready for posting yet.  If you came by my table at CTN these were two of the prints I was selling.

 

Artemis Takes Aim

Psyche Enters the Underworld

Art from January and February

It's been another busy couple of months!  I've been to McCall, Idaho and Portland, Oregon with a birthday in between.  Last weekend was the annual Doctor Who convention, Gallifrey One, where I got to hug Captain Jack Harkness himself, John Barrowman.  I also managed to get quite a bit of art done as well.  I'm working on some sketchbook ideas to sell at CTN next year.

I've worked my way through Doctor number 5 and all of his companions since my last post and will be moving on to the 4th Doctor soon!

I've finished my design for Psyche's father.  I've realized that I've missed a few of the gods and goddesses, so they'll be coming up soon.

This last image is one that I am extremely proud of.  It's probably one of the most challenging illustrations I've worked on.

See you next time!

Hera, Artemis, and Apollo Designs

I've been busy the past couple of weeks with my sister's wedding, but here is some of what I've been working on.

I didn't really have a concrete design in place for Hera when I started working on her design, but I knew i wanted her to be regal.  I really like her final design, but it looks like I might have drawn her about a head height too short.

I've always seen Apollo as being a bit of a jock.  He's kind of the perfect guy, smart and athletic.  I also picture him being ridiculously tall.  I tried to make him as "square" as possible design-wise since he is the stable one compared to Cupid.

Artemis is athletic and confident.  I finished Apollo's design before hers, so referenced his design when tightening hers up.  I might still be changing her hairstyle a bit, as I've realized that she looks a lot like the Artemis from Young Justice.

What I've been up to for the last month and a half.

Sorry for the radio (blog?) silence guys.  It's been crazy for the last month or so.  I had a death in the family, my sister just had her bridal shower (which my other sisters and I planned), and we're about a month out to the wedding so it's not going to get any less busy.  So here's a large-ish post of what I've been working on since I posted here last.

Lets start with my Cupid and Psyche Project.  I've pretty much finalized the look of my Zeus and am narrowing down a number of the other gods and goddesses we'll be seeing.

I've also been making Doctor Who stickers for my Redbubble.  I'm working my way down the Doctors and their companions.  I'm going to be starting the 9th Doctor and War Doctor soon.

Lastly, in honor of Sailor Moon having a new anime and the original anime being re-liscensed and re-dubbed, I've drawn up the scouts (or senshi in the original Japanese)

Hopefully I'll get back over here again soon.  If you want more frequent updates or a faster way of getting in touch with me check out my Tumblr.   Link is at the top of the page! 

Psyche Dialog Test

I've been working on a dialog test for Psyche over the last few weekends to test out her design.  I'm pretty satisfied with it.  This is the furthest I've taken my animation in a while (where I've made an attempt at cleaning it up).  I also voiced Psyche for this one as I have not been able to find sound clips I like from the actresses who I've mentally cast as Psyche (mainly Amanda Seyfried and Emma Stone). 

I'm trying to figure out how to work my newish Storyboard Pro program so that I can start seriously storyboarding out parts of my script.  I'm also working through the script editing it.  I'm also going to try and get one of my sisters to look it over during their spring break, fresh eyes and all.

See you next time.

More gods and goddesses and a Portfolio update.

I'm attending CTN this week, so I've updated my portfolio website.   You can reach it by clicking the portfolio link above.  I've updated my demo reel on the animation page and have added some newish illustrations and character designs (mostly stuff that I've already shown here)

Now onto my Greek Pantheon designs.  I've been working on designs for Apollo, Artemis, and Persephone this week.

Aphrodite and Ares

I've put together some model sheets for Aphrodite (like the ones I made for Cupid and Psyche).  I've also finally reached the half-way point in writing the script, so yay for that!

I'm working up some designs for the rest of the Greek pantheon and for the other characters for the project.  The first one I've finished is Ares.

Cupid and Psyche character sheets

When I get bored or art blocked I like working on character sheet for stuff I'm working on.  Here are some character sheets for Cupid and Psyche.  I'm working on ones for Aphrodite right now.

I've had these character sheets finished for a bit now, but no time to do up a blog post.  I'm going to try and get better about being more regular on here.  I don't know if there will be a post on Sunday as I my cintiq is coming in at the end of the week and I'll probably be getting it set up.

Psyche Discovers Cupid

I've been working on this piece on and off for the last couple of weeks.   I thought I'd put up a breakdown of how I worked on it.

I had a rougher sketch before this.  I refined it, figuring out better posing and started figuring out the lighting.  I also broke down Cupid's pose to get a grasp of how everything worked together.

 I created a gradient background to get a better idea of the overall lighting in the piece.  I also started a rough clean up of Cupid.

Laying down flat colors to get some idea of the local color and overall idea of what I was going for.

I started refining and getting a rough clean up of the drawing.  I moved Cupid's lower wing to a more comfortable looking position.

I did a final clean up line freehand so that it would have some variation in line.  I also put down a neutral background to lay the flat color on.

 I put down the final flat color and set what color the shadow and light would be (the two color blobs next to Psyche)

Here's the final piece.  I laid down the shadow and light and set their layers to different modes.

Have some sketches and storyboards

I'm still trying to figure out digital landscape painting which also means practicing perspective.  I'm using Cupid and Psyche to work on pre-production skills, so did some sketches of key scenes. 

Here's a sketch of Psyche sneaking up on a sleeping Cupid.

Here's another one from just a few moments later in the shot where he leaves her.

Both sketches need more work before I can go in further, but they get what I want across so they're alright.

I also have some storyboards of the opening of the film.  There will be narration over it, but I'm still working out what it will be exactly. 

I now have to figure out how I'm going to get the next boards to explain what I want to happen next, which means research time.