Neverland and Watercolor

Seems like it's about time to post some art again!  Here, have some Peter Pan:

 
I kind of liked the colors on this one :)

In an effort to make my artwork look more natural, I've started using watercolor on most of my assignments and taking it into Photoshop afterwards to touch it up.  The Peter Pan assignment was my first attempt at this, and though I liked doing it a lot, I decided to push it further.

This was my second attempt:

This is just a portion of an unfinished assignment, but I really loved the effect I got with this one.

I've been drawing a lot of inspiration from Justin Gerard and Jon Foster this semester, so definitely check them out if you want to see some awesome art.  Also, because I'm kind of excited about it and I haven't posted much recently, here's a color study of my current project:

This is a very rough stage of my process where I'm working out the basics of composition and color problems.  The final will probably end up looking a lot like this, but details still might change.  This assignment is due this week, so I should be able to post the final in a few days.  I also have some character design work that I'll post as soon as it's colored.  Until then, see ya!

Final Projects

Yeah, it's a bit weird to be posting my final projects from last semester on the first day of the new semester, but with so much coming up this semester (and hopefully a more frequent posting schedule), I figured I'd better get this out of the way. ;)

Without further ado, this was my final project for my concept design class:

Digital Illustration

A story moment from the Uglies!  I have a little more work to do on it, especially if I decide to enter it into any competitions, but I figure it's fit enough to show.  I've actually had a few people recognize this scene from the book without even being told that it was an Uglies illustration, so that was kind of gratifying. :)

And this was my poster for Richard III that I did for Narrative:

Oil painting, 18"x24"

This one also needs some work, but I'm so done with it right now that I don't know if I'll bother.  I learned a bit painting it, though, so that's always nice.

Finally, there's this piece from Narrative 1, which is definitely a fixer-upper:

Mixed media

My teacher really liked the composition, so I'm considering redoing it and painting a sort of border around it.  Funny story about this piece--it used to be twice as wide, with a whole other segment to the painting, and my teacher didn't like it so much.  When I went in to ask her how I could fix it, she looked at it for a minute, took a pair of scissors, and cut it in half.

"There," she said.  "Now it's an A."

No arguing with that.

Prop Design

 In my concept design class this semester, we're pretty much entirely focused on making artwork for Uglies, a book by Scott Westerfeld which is amazing and everyone should read it and ... ahem.

We started out designing props, and these are my final renderings.  I might rework the hot air balloon at some point, but I liked how the hover board and wrist cuffs came out.  So did my teacher, actually.  It's always a nice feeling to get positive critiques XD