"Hotel Hallway" - WIPs

 

rough line drawing

 Addition of color and textures

 

Painting over, edits, getting rid of the line.

Not anywhere close to done... Dome Bridge (WIP)

I've been running through various amounts of thumbnails to figure out what camera and perspective would be best. Even this work in progress is likely to change, haha. The idea originally was an explorer getting grabbed by spirits lurking around some ruins but it kept changing.

Two projects, busy two (or so) weeks!

 Character design around a family aspect, but anchored in elemental powers (water, fire earth and air (clouds/sky)) and Japanese culture. To be specific, the idea was based on the Godai /Five Elements (Japanese philosophy) but without the void part of the elements.

The temple in the background a real life temple in Okinawa (Gokoku-ji , which means "Protection of the Nation Temple). The reason I chose this temple, aside from the shape, was because of the family's last name, Gushiken, meaning "strong willed", comes from Okinawa origin.

Similarly, the names of the characters are based off their element in Japanese. Some are more direct while others are a bit loosely based.
"Mizu", meaning water, became Mizuki.
"Ka", or "hi meaning fire, and "Kaen", meaning blaze, stayed the same.
"Chi" or "Tsuchi" meaning Earth became Daichi (which could be literally translated as 'big earth' )
"Sora" mean sky, stayed the same. (Cloud in Japanese is 'kumo' but making a female name from that didn't work out.)

The other project I've been working on!

The idea, after various thumb nails , was to either have the vehicle on a racetrack, or in a workshop. I ended up picking the workshop idea for better dramatic lighting. 

 I posted the character and vehicle design parts on the previous post I made. Eventually these will be posted onto my dA and/or website.  for a bigger view of those pieces, but parts have been posted onto my Instagram.

Oh it's been a while and so much to post!

By "so much" I mean weeks (months?) of paintings and drawings I haven't been posting here [on this blog] but I've been mostly posting on my site or Instagram , or queued up on my deviantART. Speaking of my site, I've recently discovered how much better, in my opinion, Wix is to Weebly. While there's still that free url name with the unavoidable extra /<name> , and lack of a file upload widget , excluding third party widgets, Wix has more presentation ("gallery") options for the images than Weebly does and social media links, excluding any third party plugins/widgets.

But I digress.  Basically,  I've been going around my social media and website and updating everywhere, well, ones that I already had. Since I've got too many images to upload here to catch up to the rest of my social medias and my site, I'll just post the more recent works and what I'm working on now project wise.

 

Futuristic vehicle design

 

Futuristic character designs

Both of these designs are working towards an environment piece:

Live drawing along the Embarcadero

A few dorm mates and I made a sketching on location trip along the Embarcadero in San Francisco.
The trip ended up being 3 hours due to the stops we made for sketching and/or reference photo taking and activities around the city; a Farmer's Market event at one of the piers and the Chinese Lunar New Year parade along Market Street.
There were a few pages of sketches but mainly it became a reference gathering trip as we made less pauses during our walk. 

A new year, another step forward

    After my previous post, things got busy with finals and final projects. Most of those projects, I believe, if not all, have been posted to my Behance  but not quite yet on my deviantArt. I have several pieces still in queue in my dA stash but I'm slowly getting there.

   On the other hand, a few classmates/friends and I are doing a drawing/painting challenge on Instagram. Our plan is to draw/paint a character/prop/environment each day and post it on Instagram. Anyone on Instagram should check out #aauinstaeveryday. I personally missed the past 2 days trying to get something in, but I definitely plan on getting myself back on track!

Part of the reason why I missed the past two days was...