Light studies

Here's a few studies on light and the time of day. I learned very quickly that we all take light for granted because I thought these were going to be easy to whip out but it took far longer than I anticipated.

Anywho, enjoy.

VIKINGS IN SPAAAAACE

Here's some sketches for Joe's midterm.

The theme was take our first vinyl toy design (in my case it was a space man) and redesign it with viking influence. It was a lot of fun, to research real vikings and try to incorporate it into an existing design.

I wanted to make some cool celtic designs with the American flag in the ax/flag (because, you know, they inlaid metal into their axes in the form of celtic designs) but it just stood apart from the overall simple streamlined design I was going for.

Someday I want to go back and develop these little guys further.

It's been a while since I posted anything and its because I was busy all semester working on this:



It doesn't seem like much but it took forever to get the glasses, plates, forks, and table cloth to play nicely. There is still some tearing going on in the table cloth that's due to the high hand whip. But all in all I learned a ton about nCloth. Pretty cool stuff.

I eventually want to make the plates and glasses shatter when they hit the ground.

Painting final

Originally I wanted to do a scene with a little boy atop of city building roof that was contemplating how easy it would be for him to end all his troubles (he's an abused orphan) by taking that final step. But, that was too complicated and depressing to spend a lot of time creating. The inspiration for this came from a Boxcar Racer song - Elevator.

Maybe down the road I'll return to this concept.

But the above piece was way fun to plan, design, and paint.

Crickey

This is far from being done but I had to submit something. Actually, this isn't the final image I submitted. The final image had a background but I wasn't pleased with it. In fact I'm beginning to think that adding anymore will just weaken the emotion and isolation of "Crickey."

Anyway, enjoy.

This was an alternative pose I had for Crickey early on. I really like the narrow depth of field, makes Crickey seem really really small, with his teeny tiny perfectly crafted violin (is that possible?)

Final Teapot

So I decided to post my final teapot that I came up with for Brent's class. After many passes and a serendipitous accident this is the result.

I apologize if the image is a bit grainy. I blame it on Blogger.

**Original background photograph by ConceptFurniture.net***

Future cities on ancient mountains

So ready or not here's my enviroment I did for Sam's class.

Some how it didn't exactly turn out like I saw in my head. I really want to work more on this, because I feel there is so much more potential in this piece.

P.S. Oh by the way, I finished my teapot and I wanted to post it but since I used a commercial photo for my background I'm kinda reluctant because I don't want to get sued. We'll see.