Photoshop Exercise: Boomerang Phone

Texting made easier with handlebars!!

Photoshop Assignment #3: StoryBook Illustration

Bear-Bat and Jeremy return in a final rendered illustration!!

Please Full View for clear details  :D

I completed this to the best of my Photoshop abilities and wow, it was an exciting and stressful process all together! Working with a Color layer REALLY helped out alot right on top my value shapes right under. I'm VERY proud of the way I laid down my brush strokes, giving this a nice painterly style it. I think the dark blue shading gives off a nice mood of uncertainty with this winged beast and the light unveils innocence of the boy kindly gesturing a cookie to match with Bear-Bat's milk carton.

I wanna thank my Professor Christian Hill, Jenna H., and Matthew B. for helping me with my initial composition ad moral support!!!  8D

Photoshop Exercise: Candle and Fruit

Lineart by Professor Christian Hill, I just colored!

More good practice with color study, blending, lighting, different brushes, and the cloning stamp which saved my butt near the end.

Photoshop Exercise: Spheres!

More Photoshop practice, painting spheres with techniques back from Art 363A (Traditional Illustration) but digitally!

Here's my first batch and that horrific first purple one... 

And then I got awesome with these next ones!

CAT BALL!!!!

Black/White and Color Studies for Storybook Illustration project

SO I picked the scene where Jeremy wants to make friends with this ominous beast by offering a chocolate chip cookie. Seemed to the more dramatic scene, story-wise and by my studies as shown.

Original Sketch

My preferred BW version

 

EEEEeeeeerie....

Light Study over a Cup of Coffee

While in a cave....or the mouth of a whale.....

Silly scribble while in class practicing light source digitally in Photoshop. My friend Jenna is on the left, sipping away at her beloved Starbucks and I'm on the right with my....squiggly octopus arms....

Prep work for Storybook assignment (In Digital Illustration)

So here's what my next assignment calls for! Have to make a storybook illustration based on a short story that we write ourselves. I would have to check with my Professor on how to insert a Word document in Blogger without taking so much of the page.....

But in summary, Jeremy, a little boy that's very enthusiastic over learning about animals, stumbles upon a massive new creature in his kitchen pilfering the icebox. An offering of cookies to the beast reveals a newfound friendship and  flying adventures ensue in the sky above Jeremy's hometown. 

Here's some idea development into character design for these 2. Still finding the right design for Jeremy so nothing's finalized yet. Bear-Bat is set though, in the bottom portion of the last page  :)

These templates were made my Professor, Christian Hill to help us find a composition for our one illustrated piece. I couldn't choose between the scene where Jeremy hands a cookie innocently to Bear-Bat, unafraid of it's massive demeanor OR the moment where Bear-Bat screeches outta defensive being spotted by Jeremy raiding the fridge, with the light only giving the creature form and appearance.

A possible word document of my short story will be up soon, if anyone is interested!!