Monday this week I took the final for my Graphic Tools class. I am officially free for the summer, which I am devoting it to learning watercolor painting. I managed to get through an art minor without ever taking a painting class and I decided now was the time to learn. Since I didn’t have… Continue reading Orc? Goblin? Ogre? You Decide
Soapbox: Female Fighters
Okay, I know this is an art showcase, but every once in a while I’m going to air my opinions on some issues about art and the video game industry (or SF/F industry) at large. I’ll label these “Soapbox” in the title so you can skip them if you need to. Fellow artists–please, please, please… Continue reading Soapbox: Female Fighters
Welcome to the Pub
I have to say this is one of the best pieces I’ve done this term. And one of the pieces I’ve had the most fun doing. The assignment was to create an orthographic map of a JRPG-style level. As you can see, I did one of a pub. And since it is a pub, it… Continue reading Welcome to the Pub
Postcards: Day 5
Here it is, the last of the postcards. As you can imagine from it being last, this is my least favorite one of the lot. I tried to put a displacement map on the “carving”, but it just made a mess of the text to the point where it was illegible. So this was my… Continue reading Postcards: Day 5
A House, But Not a Home
Last week’s assignment was to texture a house. At least we got a good model to start with. I didn’t want to do just any house. A picture should tell a story; not all of mine do, but that’s something I’m trying to fix. I wracked my brain trying to come up with an idea… Continue reading A House, But Not a Home
Introducing Kitty Hawk
Since I’m still working on this week’s project, I thought I’d post an assignment from last term. This is the rough pencil sketch of a turnaround for a creature I created by merging two different creatures together. In this case, a cat and an American Kestrel. If you’re thinking “griffon”, yes, there’s some similarity. Only… Continue reading Introducing Kitty Hawk
Postcards: Day 4
For those three or four people left who don’t know Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (or have only seen the movie), Milliways is just what the postcard says, the restaurant and the end of the universe. As in end-of-time end. It offers dinner and a show, the show being the end of time… Continue reading Postcards: Day 4
Postcards: Day 3
This is the third of the five postcards I created earlier this term in Photoshop. Though I now live in Triangle area of North Carolina, I grew up in Silverton, Oregon. So I decided to do a postcard about one of Oregon’s towns that usually tops the list of “Amusing Oregon City Names”: Boring. Boring,… Continue reading Postcards: Day 3
Well-Loved Bear
I think I’ll call him Edward. A few weeks ago, we were given a bear model to texture. It was my very first model in Substance Painter and I was still trying to get the interface figured out and had quite a bit of trouble just figuring out how to even the very basics. Consequently,… Continue reading Well-Loved Bear
It’s Not a Feature, It’s a Bug
So this is my most recent assignment. Again, we were given the model and we had to texture it. This was supposed to be photorealistic, but I don’t think I quite managed it. The problem I have is that while I can see all of the various color shifts, I don’t yet know how to… Continue reading It’s Not a Feature, It’s a Bug