Illustration: Battle

Battle by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Concept Art+digital painting practice+procrastination.

I first tried to make the image dimension equal to golden ratio but decided to use one third rule. I made the sky as white since it was interesting to have a high contrast image.




SAI
Photoshop CS3

~1.5 wks though I didn't work on this most of the time.


Progress in a nutshell(stuff in the end's missing)*crazier than usual:

It started with a basic background... tower with a person sitting on a rock?


Since it was sort of boring, I changed the shape.

Still boring... expanded horizontally + more people

The angle was boring so I did transform a bit on each

Added a person, deleted a person

Getting slightly finer details...

started shading... arm is funny... fix that and change the person pointing finger to archer

More shading... and erase that person being chased by a dragon since no one looks desperate

This guy needs an armor

More details+ shading

Ugh... only guys are boring

Lady added but she's too naked

She's wearing something now but bald...

Adding hair gives more movement

Highlight gave more interesting image+ starts coloring in whatever color I can find ( it doesn't matter what since I will change it anyway)

Changed the staff size

added hair color to the guy

More coloring...

and added details +colors-sky+more vertical space since she's too crammed+magic like effects -> ta- dah!


I used out of the norm steps for this digital painting since I was just allowing my imagination to do the work. So... no composition, not much planning, and in the end- interesting experience.


I will work properly from now...

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Found the Concept Art Tutorial concerning composition at last!!

Environment Concept Art: Composition by Philip Straub


I will try to study this and use it on my future illustrations! Yay!

Photography

I'm still working on the next manga page and illustration at the moment.

Anyway, here's photos I took over the weekend:

sky 5 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


sky 6 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


sky 7 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


and my dog:


id 3 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART





It's the same dog that found Chimaki on floor and just spread rice all over the floor last night... Tisk Tisk

Music that I want to get

WIRE 09 COMPILATION I heard on radio.

I think it's perfect for my illustrations...




Since I got proper headphones a couple of months ago, I think it works well.

3D CG: summer

Room modeling practice+my manga character :D

summer by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Photoshop CS2/3
Comic Studio Ex 4
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Panasonic DMC Tz7

2 days

update

I went to a book signing event today. It was for the illustrator who draws Ajikan CD jacket art. I got the illustration book since I'm a fan of that music band... and well... I was interested in learning how to draw in this artist's style so I got it last week- which came luckily with a book signing deal :p



He wrote my name on the book but I hid it with a mouse pad in this photo :p

This is a magazine (architecture) I got today to study lighting for 3D CG. :)

I think I want to explore using different materials for lighting and texture in future.

3D CG practice

I decided to practice Cinema 4D since I didn't handle it for a while.

The topic was to build a room.


External view:




I combined two renders of a room with different lighting in Photoshop. I used GI/ambient light for Image 1 and another (Image 2) without.

Image 1:


Image 2:




What I did differently this time:
1. I used Boole
2. Incorporated DSLR technique of using wide angled lens. I used this idea from the tutorial + catalogue for DSLR lens I was studying recently.


I think I want to build more rooms in future to play with lighting and what not.


Cinema 4D R11 studio
Photoshop CS2

30 min modeling, 8min 30 sec for each rendering, <10 min of editing in Photoshop

Doodle: Room (Sci-fi themed)

Finished the doodle at day IV.


Room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


It's progress in nutshell:

Room- Progress by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


SAI
Photoshop CS2
commercial stock photos (marble, rust) (Sozai Jiten)

DAY 2

I added slightly more details today:

After I went out drinking with friends and came back (slightly tipsy but... decided to paint slightly more):

I added more colors to skin with water color and added more details and etc. with acrylic. I'm working mostly in that acrylic brush with this piece of work.


Anyway... sleepy now so off to sleep.

to be continued...

Doodle: ROOM - SF styled painting (DAY 1)

This is the latest doodle I'm doing in an attempt to do SF style since it didn't work the last time :p

This is the DAY 1 steps I made- from a basic sketch to simple coloring yesterday. I will do more later.

Ok... so I will use SAI this time since I'm on Windows Vista. This could be done in Photoshop or Painter but... since I need to practice SAI I got last week, I will use this.

Brushes I used in this:

Pencil

Eraser

Acrylic (for thick ones)

Water color (for light shade)

Blur (? I'm not sure what it is exactly called in English version since mine is original Japanese one)

I did a basic sketch of the scene and made rough outline with acrylic brush. During these processes, I am constantly changing the brush settings- mainly thickness of the color (opacity?), how much water there is in the brush, and sometimes, brush tips to default to 丸筆 or round brush. Every single time there's image in this entry, please think that I created a new layer.

Now... shading. I used mainly water color brush + blur
More details and shadows with acrylic brush, with thicker black color:

slightly more detail with acrylic brush, white this time:

Now, start the coloring. First, skin with water color:

Now some hair and shirt...

More colors

And... this is where I passed out last night. Off to sleep

will be continued... perhaps on Sun since I will be drinking out Fri and Sat nights with friends :p

SAI

a few hours

Illustrations

suzuran by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

鈴蘭 (Lily) from my TLOF manga.

I still have a hard time with lines. It seems as it's in a vector mode or something... It's harder to control the lines as much as Comic Studio.... I think I will work on that with CS rather than SAI next time.

SAI
Photoshop CS3
~1 day

and...

Commission from a real life best friend:

Commission: Mr...er ... right? by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4.0
Photoshop CS3
a few hours


It's Colin Firth from Bridget Jones's Diary. She specifically requested to have a reindeer jumper.

Beetle

beetle by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


SAI
40 min