Environment design course week #7
After submitting on last week’s Thursday my illustration taking one of the thumbnails from the previous weeks and getting the review by the instructor, I spent today 9 extra hours to refine it. As you can see the differences are not as noticeable as the “City attack” illustration but they are there.
Painting for Japan + This week’s studies
Today I was painting for 14 hours on livestream for Japan as I said yesterday. Well, actually I said 12 hours but I painted for 2 more because I had some issues with my internet connection.
I painted this illustration in the 14 hours, from the very first sketches, to the final result, looking for references and talking with my viewers.
At first I thought about an illustration showing the disaster occurred in Japan last year, but I looked at some pictures of those places now and they look calm, so I worked on a different idea. Here you can see a woman with her children, building their new house (the father died) and she’s begging the sea and the radioactivity (represented by those monsters) to stay calmed down.
Painting for Japan
It’s been a year since the disaster in Japan. Maybe some of you don’t know, but Japan helped me a lot in the past in some way, and I have some good japanese friends so I decided to be painting tomorrow on livestream for 12 hours to remember what happened there. I’d like to be able to do more for them, but right now, this is the only way I can send them my support.
I don’t know what I’ll be painting yet, studies related to Japan, continue with my unfinished Princess Mononoke illustration or maybe a totally new illustration.
I know tomorrow’s Sunday and most people will be out, but natural disasters don’t distinguish between working days or holidays.
3 new life drawings
Just posting some new life drawings. I drew the first one today with charcoal in 1h30min on a 50cmx70cm canvas. The other two, with pencil, in 2 hours on a A3 size paper. I still feel more comfortable with pencil, but I like the results I can achieve with charcoal 🙂
Environment design course Week #6: a new piece for my portfolio
Last week’s assignment for the environment design course was to choose one of the thumbnails from the previous week and take to final illustration. It took me far longer than expected but I’m glad with the result and all I learned. I don’t know how many hours I worked on it, but it’s been a whole week…..Too much in my opinion but basically for the amount of mistakes and lack of experience. Here you have the “step by step”, and the final illustration, which is now included in my portfolio 🙂
Studies on livestream Week #4
After today’s Livestream and dinner, I wanted to finish an illustration I’m working on before posting this and other stuff. But I only slept 1 hour in the last 42 hours so….I’m almost dead and I’ve been for two hours in front of the computer without painting that much…..so I’m going to finish it tomorrow…..I’m human after all
There are onlu 5 studies but I worked on the medieval bag in two different days and same thing for the princess.
And now, time to sleep
The Royal Fellas – Dwarf yourself
Today’s topic was taking ourselves as reference and draw a dwarf. Here’s mine, done in photoshop in 3 hours. The design is pretty common, and it doesn’t really look like me, but, anyway, good exercise so far. Hope you like it 🙂
Studies on livestream Week #3 + Life drawing
Here are the studies of this week. I continue doing the studies every day but there are only 5 because 2 of them (the city and the bike) took me two days. The bike was specially complex since I drew it with lines trying to practice the perspective and understan the shapes.
Remember you can watch all the studies on my livestream channel on demand.
Wind creature – The Royal Fellas
I joined today the livestream of The Royal Fellas (MArius Bota, John Silva, Sycra Yasin and Cristian Chihaia “Sickbrush”) in which they proposed a subject to paint, this time an elemental creature. Each one chose a different element: fire, wind, water and earth. We were free to paint the element we wanted, and I tried to do something with wind.
The livestream was about 3 hours but I spent about 4h in total. I got some feedback showing my wips to the people on the chat that helped to improve my piece 🙂
Environment design course week #5
This week we had to paint some thumbnails all with the same concept but different designs.
Books: Living AFRICA
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Fantastic book. I love all the pictures in it and the stories Steve tells us through its pages. It’s a great reference book with so many things related to the people, animals and places in Africa. I didn’t know most of them. It’s curious how beautiful are some pictures showing how dangerous can this continent be.
I’d like to quote Steve with a couple of paragraphs you can read in the book:
“My new book, Living Africa, is a fleeting glimpse of the Africa I love. It is not intended to be an encyclopaedic or comprehensive study of its inhabitants. The continent is so vast that such a goal is unattainable. This is a personal impression, an attempt to capture something of the heartbeat that throbs across the continent. I hope that you will find flashes of that spark of life connecting us all, celebrating moments of joy, moments of sadness and some of the magic in between.”
“Our human ancestors came from Africa. HEre the earliest fossils were found. Here is where our very humanity developed: our capacity for war and violence, compassion and courage. Africa has it all”
Most of the images are full-page shown, but you can find a good explanation for each one at the end of the book.
DEATHLINE
I knew some Crimson Daggers were doing something called “Deathline” but I didn’t know what exactly it was till today, when I read the inspiring post on Dan Warren’s blog about the Deathline Challenge.
Since I came back from San Francisco I’ve been working harder than ever but still a bit disorganized. I even made a schedule a couple of weeks ago and, while things like livestreams started working better, others not.
I got some good advices in San Francisco to keep working on what I like and improve my work. But it’s like, while knowing what I want to do in the future, I didn’t define my goals very well for a concrete time.
Here’s where the Deathline challenge comes. My 3 goals for the next 365 days
1. At least an hour study every day. Maybe some days I paint more studies or spend more time on them, but that’s the minimun requeriment. I’ll try to record all my studies on livestream, but in case I can’t, I’ll upload them here later anyway.
2. Get a job related to what I’m doing and I like. Concept art, design or illustration. A graphic novel is another work I’m interested in, specially after getting some tips by Aleksi Briclot last year, but it maybe can wait a little more. This point involves having a professional portfolio, with impressive pieces in it.
3. Do some excercise, running a couple of days a week or whatever. I’m only 26 and my legs hurt as hell because I’m almost all the day sitting. I always feel like losing my time because I could be drawing in the time spent for excercise, but it’s healthy and refresh my mind, just have to be less lazy in that sense.
There are a lot of things I have to work on, but they could be included in the 2nd point. Let’s see next year, same day, taking a look at this post, if I was able to accomplish my goals, and see how I improved my self in “just” a year.
Studies on livestream Week #2
Here is the compilation of the studies from this week. This time I spent a bit more time in some of the studies. Some require more time to do a decent study because of the difficulty of the picture used as reference.
Remember that I usually stream at 9AM CET everyday but some days I can’t stream at that time and I do it later. Those times I notify my delay by twitter and facebook.
You can find all the videos in my livestream channel
Hope you like it.
Studies on livestream Week #1
Here is the result of the first week doing livestreams everyday. Some of the studies are not as finished as others because I spent a bit time on the chat with my viewers….I should use the mic but it’s difficult to talk at 9AM in the morning. Well, in fact, for me is difficult to talk to a mic at any time XD
Remember you can see the painting progress on my Livestream Channel
Still life, env. design w3 and schedule not working perfectly yet
Well, I had 4 submissions for today but again it’s like they were too much to my still “bad” time management so:
– Assignment for the environment design course done but I could do it better in rendering with more time.
– Crimson Daggers Bloodsports imposssible to finish in time with a result I like. But I will be working on it till the last minute (I don’t easily give up), then I’ll rest (only slept 90 minutes in the last 30 hours) and continue again because I’m really excited with that illustration and want to get a good result from it.
– WipNation challenge: Still in progress and no time to finish it.
– Challenge on CGHUB: I didn’t even start with it.
So after this reflection, here are:
– The assignment of this week for the env. course
HUGE update
Some important notes before showing the new stuff from the last days.
I’m more motivated than ever but I feel like sometimes I get easily distracted or my time management is not as good as it could be so I finally made my schedule. The other day I wrote a post about my new livestream channel and now I stablished a time to do it everyday at the same time.
I will be ON for an hour on livestream everyday at 9AM CET starting at February 6th. The livestreams will be focused mostly for studies and they will be available on demand later.
Now you can follow me on twitter. I’ll try to keep my account active at least to notify updates and livestream sessions.
I also made a facebook page so you can “like” me and follow me there as well.
Now a look to my latest works. I continue taking part in CGHUB challenges but I noticed I need to be selective because I don’t have time for all of them. I could finish in time this Conan tribute for a Drawing Jam in a few hours but I couldn’t finish another work for the Anatomicae challenge. I’m going to finish the illustration I started as soon as possible anyway.
Environment design 01
I started this week an online course on CGMA about Environment Design with James Paick as instructor.
It’s really curious how just half a year ago I painted my first environment design (floating castle) and I felt so lazy for the amount of details, the difficulty of the perspective and it took me weeks to finish it. But now I totally love it, that’s why I joined the course.
My classmates are great and I’m so excited about learning from James so I’m going to put my best effort to don’t fall behind.
Here are some studies I painted taking movie shots as reference or painting from imagination.
Livestream
I started a livestream channel in which I record my process of painting. There is no schedule yet (so I can’t say a specific time for the specific days) and the subjects go from challenges for sites like CGHUB or CRIMSON DAGGERS to studies of anything.
It helps me to not get distracted and to get feedback from other people. Maybe someone can find my streams helpful as well.
Hope you enjoy it 🙂
http://www.livestream.com/isrartistic
Life drawing + Wizard’s Familiar challenge
My entry for the CGHUB – Creature FORGE – Wizard’s Familiar
Jungle giant challenge + Fan arts
Two fan arts I made last week.
The first one for a contest, based on White Knight Chronicles II, a video game for PS3.
Smile Mr. Yeti
Another work for a CGHUB Challenge. This time the creature FORGE #51: Abominable Snowman
My first pin-up! (or kind of)
This is my entry for the Character FORGE #21: Pin-up Mermaid on CGHUB.
Isra Carrion 