Just a few more weeks left.

Just having a few weeks left of school, and my second year here will soon be over! I've been learning so much, and it's unfortunate but great at the same time that I'll be switching majors into Web Design and New Media. Hopefully I can use learning interactive design and web building to make things a lot better for myself. I'm hoping to be able to make more graphic illustrations too..



It's been real busy for me. I've been trying to find a new job while looking for a place to live in that just works out for me personally, all the while trying to maintain a social life and homework. I'm just hoping all's well that ends well.


In the meantime, here's a usual update from my digital imaging class; we had to make a creature and fully render it in two weeks. This one is kinda sloppy but...eh. I like the turnout much more than I thought I would.

Back from the dead

After a long amount of days and spring break kicking me in the face, I've returned. Still under lots of stress but pulling through! My digital imaging assignment over the past 3 weeks was to make a composition based off of fantasy, sci-fi, or pirates. I chose a hansel and gretel theme, and with that, decided to attempt cell shading. Now, I would have had no problem with it to begin with, but doing long term projects like this kills me, and at the end I just don't care anymore.

The style ended up being kind of sloppy, but I do enjoy cell shading like that. Idk guys. I'm about as over it as I am when I eel like waking up to exercise.

But yeah. That's what's been annoying me the past three weeks. Also, I did some drawing on sight last week. Very fun! I'll have to do it more often now that the weather is getting nicer for it.

Hnnnnng

So it's already tuesday and it's kind of already been hellish for me. I pulled two all nighters in a row last week and the result got me sick with a sinus infection. Now I'm suffering swollen tonsils and ended up skipping my anatomy and digital imaging class yesterday to go to the doctor's, to get a doctor's note for today and possibly tomorrow. It's kind of nice but stressful at the same time with the amount of work I have to do.

However, I managed to do a portrait for my digital imaging class, which was a first for me. I realize I would like to add more tones to the skin to help darken the shadows a bit, and the hair is a bit meh for me. But it was fun to do, I wish I had saved older copies of the picture because it definitely went through different transformations.

Also I've been considering switching majors from animation to New Media. I'm going to be talking to the department head about it and see if it's really what I want. Even if I do change though, I won't stop doing what I've been doing!

As a continuation from last week..

The assignment we had to do with various character thumbnails was brought to an end tonight, as I reworked kinks and bits of detail for my witch doctor character and colored it in photoshop. It had been AGES since I used photoshop to color things, let alone with a tablet. Unfortunately I used the dodge and burn tool more than I wanted, but hopefully next assignment I'll gear away from that. Here's some work in progress:

 And the final!

I appreciate Andre showing me the fun of textured backgrounds.

Augh

So this semester has been kicking me square in the ass, with good reason too. I'm realizing that my study habits are quite under par to what I should be doing considering the work I have to do over the week. Usually 30+ drawings of something, some digital work, and long term projects. Not only that but social life and work have definitely been impacting that. I need to find time to work through my priorities.

In the meantime, here's some work I'm doing right now for my Digital Imaging class.

 

I had spent the most time on the bottom one, so I'll probably work on that one for continuation.I am very sleep deprived now, so the top two were a result of that progress. I need four hours of sleep now

Hooray digital imaging!

I just started a digital imaging class last week. It's pretty fun, along with the rest of my classes. But I can already feel like I'm going to be quite busy this semester

Just filling up some air!

Figured I'd just add various things I do for now until school starts. Here's a quick trace-over I did from a picture in Illustrator.