Illustration: Concept Art Practice 10

concept art practice 10 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Concept art practice.


What I did different this time was to not use default round brush but customized it to square shaped brush for eraser and brush.


Result was... it was not much different from a round brush.


I also tried to use more layers this time than before so I could play with layer effects. I used blur for motion or movement(don't know the exact translation for this) to add some movement to the illustration. However, doing too much seemed a bit distracting.

Anyway... I saw some improvement from my last painting I did for fun:


after I got this from my relative (shitake) :p




I started off with white base color, and that made the illustration a bit blurry. As a result, I used black from the start for my recent illustration, and it showed some improvement. Hopefully, I could improve more on the way.



IllustStudio
Photoshop CS3
2-3days (actually worked on this for a few hours over those days)

Update

Once again, it's been more than a month since I last updated this blog. I have been busy lately so I wasn't able to update Japanese blog as well.

The latest illustration is up only in Pixiv since it was for a contest. As a result, I can only put a link to it:
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=14061391

It's viewable for members but non-members can view a thumbnail.


What's different between last and this month is that I got Vray for Cinema 4D. As a result, I could have better render for my 3D CG. However, it's taking longer than usual to get use to it :3



Anyway, other stuff I did besides it:

I used Vray for this as well:
Illustration/3D CG:

operation room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



space by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


A test using Vray:

model room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



city at night by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


It was just a joke:

42 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART




Photography:

rasberry 1 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



rasberry 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


rasberry 3 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Update again

Hmmm... it's been a while since I updated this blog ^^;


Ok... starting from illustrations:


cafe by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4.0
Illust Studio
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Textures: my clothes, Sozai Jiten Vol 3, 19, 24, Wafu Parts/Pattern
several weeks


library by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4
Photoshop CS3
Illust Studio
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Texture: Sozai Jiten Vol 19, 164 (commercial photo stocks)
a month~several months


Photos:

sky 14 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


sky 13 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



glass by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


firework 3 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


firework 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Canon Kiss X3 (S18-55 F3.5-5.6 IS)
Lumix Tz-7

Update

Oi... it's been close to two months since I last updated this blog.

However, these two months had been pretty hectic that there was not much development in art.


Anyway, here I go:

Illustration


Sorcerer by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4
IllustStudio
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Textures: Sozai Jiten Vol 19 & 24, Lace Sozai (Japanese commercial photo/texture stocks)
~a few days



water by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4
Photoshop CS2&3
Illust Studio
3 days

Photography

strawberry by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


orange by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Canon Kiss X3 (S18-55 F3.5-5.6 IS)

Hmmm...

forgot to update this blog in a while- three months to be exact since

1. I didn't have internet for a month since I moved to a new place
2. I was away on my wedding ceremony/honeymoon
3. away on another trip
4. sleeping and eating
5. Preparing for a big wedding party
6. busy with another big event of my life at the end of this year (secret since I don't know if it will work out). :D


Yeah... so my life has been a bit of hectic lately since it changed so much since Feb.


Anyway, since I can't put all stuff up since Feb, I will just put illust and photos that represent what I did since Feb.


Here I go from oldest to newest:

Illustration

Revolution by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


dive by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


botched illustration


3D CG

bug by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

3D CG models
LAMP and others

Photography


flower 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



flower 3 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART




sky 10 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


More are present in my deviantART gallery and folders.

Wallpaper + 3D CG model

I had cold at the end of last week and finally recovered.

Here's wallpaper (for personal usage only):

music 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Cinema 4D R11 studio

Photoshop CS2 (I did it in CMYK mode)

Comic Studio Ex 4

2 days


and 3D CG model that you can use without a credit for commercial/personal use if you have a software that can support .obj 3D file:

bucket-3D CG model by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Cinema 4D R11 studio

a few min

I have some simple 3D CG models uploaded in Clip Studio website (Japanese site for IllustStudio/Comic Studio users) under the username Vole36. I will change that in a month or two to my usual one though.

This was created from my usual doodle like 3D CG activity:

photos

sky 8 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART









神戸湾
Kobe Bay, Japan
Lumix TZ7
Photoshop CS3


I forgot to clean the lens before I shot these

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inspection by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART



I am usually inspired by photos, and this time it was silver mask by lost-sin. Thank you very much. :)

As a word of thanks, I give permission only to her to do whatever she wants with the graphic.


IllustStudio
Comic Studio Ex 4
Photoshop CS3
8-9 days (but I actually worked on it within last few nights)

and changed my deviantART ID:



Cinema 4D R11 studio
photos I put up earlier
a few min



and also... thank you very much everyone for 20,000 page views for my deviantART page!


Since I was a bit of late realizing this, I didn't prepare anything... will try to do it next time... perhaps...

Wallpaper: flowers

Before the wallpaper (for personal usage only), sunrise I took this morning with a mobile phone:



and wallpaper:

flowers by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

I combined the wire frame and render I made with global illumination in Photoshop.

This is the first time I created stuff from polygons and painted directly on 3D CG using the Body Paint function in Cinema 4D. Hopefully, I improved a bit in my 3D CG skills.


Cinema 4D R11 studio
Photoshop CS3
~3nights（1 hour of rendering(Global Illumination)）

A practice similar to this I did a few nights ago:


For this one, I didn't make from polygons but just changed the shape of a rectangular cube.

Abstract Wallpaper:

Wallpaper pack: Egg by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Cinema 4D R11 studio
Photoshop CS3
30min-1hour

botched 3D CG for background for SciFi themed wallpaper:


and... my attempt to try out blurry illustration:

Botanist by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Corel Painter X
Photoshop CS3
Illust Studio
a few days

BW illust/doodle

Group shot by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

The 3D CG I made and used in this illust:

(I finally figured out how to render the wireframe by doing Effect>>Cel Renderer (Outline, Edge)at Render Setting. I can't believe that it took this long to figure out such thing）

What I did differently this time was to draw more than one character in one BW drawing, and use a different rendering method for 3D CG.

I used to render in Cinema 4D and pasted it or traced it in another software. This time, I rendered using IllustStudio/Comic Studio since I finally found out that exporting Cinema 4D files in Wavefront format produced .obj format files, and that could be incorporated into those 2D CG drawing softwares.


It's been a year since I had Comic Studio Ex 4, and ugh... it took me more than a year to figure out wireframe render.


I used a camera's lens effect to change the shape of 3D CG render to have a movement in illustration.

Cinema 4D R11 studio
Comic Studio Ex 4
IllustStudio 1.1.0 (since I didn't have Comic Studio in another computer)
~ a week

2010

began with a lot of photography and sorting out old files.

I sorted out things from 2003-2009 to see its progress:

2003-2009 MEME by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

The last doodle of 2009:

I just used Photoshop to practice a technique I saw in a book earlier on that day. Of course, it didn't turn out the way I wanted but sort of got the idea of how to go about certain graphic.

and the first sunset of 2010:

1-1-2010 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Anyway, here I go with photos I took from 1/1/2010 to this weekend since I didn't update this blog.

Spec. info:
1/1/2010 photos:
Food:
Canon Kiss X3
Canon EF100mm F2.8 Macro USM
Photoshop CS3

rest：
Canon Kiss X3
S18-55 F3.5-5.6 IS
Photoshop CS3

Aquarium photos:
Lumix TZ7
Photoshop CS3

Otoso, sweet rice wine called mirin with herbs.

Ozoni with white miso:

Kuromame (sweetened black beans):

Kazunoko (herring eggs):

gomame (small sardines):

Nishikitamago (sweetened egg):

Kamaboko (fish cake):

Kobumaki (kelp roll) with salmon:

Forgot what this was but chicken thingmy:

Dog:

I eliminated some photos from 1/1 since it had sea cucumbers. I think many people are not used to seeing sea cucumbers as food so if interested, please look at:
http://daydreamingsky.blog94.fc2.com/blog-entry-1387.html#more
for sea cucumbers my family found on the beach to being on a dining table if interested.



Kaiyukan Aquarium shots (more photos are in my Japanese blog):

Dolphin playing with water:

Fish in a staring game w. me:

seals that are too fast to be in a photo:

but bothered to poop:

and play with a diver who is cleaning in middle of poop above:

Sunfish:

Whale shark:

Shot with a different screen mode:

School of sardines:

Jellyfish:

Jellyfish by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART