Thursday 28 August 2014

Photoshop paintings, Storybook gifs and stainglass warriors.




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Having an incredibly long holiday is so uninspiring.

It almost feels as if what I've been doing for the past month has been wasting time.

But maybe I've just lost touch with what it is i used to do.
I think its time for some back to basic project-making-go-nuts-period that I tell others to do whenever they're down or uninspired.

So expect a lot of paint….
A lot!
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For now though, I've done all sorts of pencil drawings for my E-book development and photoshop colour work because i forgot how to photoshop last month-

\\\ See last blog post, below this one ///

A succulent looking apple painted using new brushes in photoshop.


Fairly rough but quick painting of a tower. The clouds particularly remind me of a turner painting
Shiny bubbles i made following a tutorial on Pinterest/Deviant art.

I wanted to remind myself how overlapping blues would cool the underside of the gem shape.
A painting i produced late last night. the colours are beautiful. Now i just got to work on the compositions and producing solid shapes.

About a month ago, i said i was producing an E-book for uni. I have some characters set-up but now i just need a story. We have a bored king who craves adventure, a cunning apple headed chap who craves sweets, and a air commander girl who says some funny mature lines that she herself doesn't understand. Theres also a Lilith cameo, just to see how to style would affect her.

Geometric designs, My first thoughts were going to be focused just on lilith's story in a geometric stain-glass style 3D wonderland.  I've had some trouble with being inspired by it.

Astro-naught swordsman, cookery knight, and victorian gentlemen. Just some combination imagery drawing.



Friday 8 August 2014

This Week; I forgot how to Photoshop.

Okay…. let me elaborate.
 For the past few weeks I've been researching into the methods of in-app development, which links in to the research project I'm undertaking for my University.

Potentially, my end result is making a successful prototype E-Book in which i report my findings. So Ive been all over the internet trying to find the best software to use, all the while finding software that uses;
- the least amount of coding,
- is free and…
 - gives me open possibilities/fun when it comes to making my Book.

Turns out the best solution is Xcode, and even then that involves knowing your way around c++ scripts and coding to make even the easiest apps.

So my brain completely forgot how to photoshop. anything.

So whenever i forget, I start from the basics and before I knew it, I'm riding bicycles.
{I think that allegory's right}
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So I've made two {3} images from sketchbooks drawings or spur of the moment randomness.
/. ENJOY.\



Hip Hop Pop, REDUX!!!
The intention was to see how the black outlines change the visual style of the piece.
It gives it a sense of weight and existence.
This was taken from a line doodle in one of my sketchbooks
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Reminds me of the new smash brothers game coming to 3DS.
Hot Coffee Guy. Could Be A New Coffee Logo? Shirtless COFFEE! For the morning person
In comparison to the black outline {REDUX} version, Hip Hop Pop!!! definitely has a lighter feeling when its missing that weight.






Friday 1 August 2014

Lilith and the E-book of Short space of Time.

UPDATE COMING SOON.
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I'm currently undertaking a research project where i have to produce my own e-book to understand the creative process behind the production of making one. I think this is the perfect time to try making a story with the character I've been drawing for almost a year now.

-What I've been focusing on recently is the style. Should i go for realsitic serious, or cartooned storytelling?
- Should i produce a simple style, in turn a simple book for a lower age group, or can i make something deeply badass that serious?
Like bastion, or zelda?




This is what happens when you don't have any references. Big chins and similar faces.


The Stone was held by an evil looking eye. OHHH!!!!

Conscience appears.

The story of conscience has been half made up in my mind but i don't want to give anything away, Just a powerful spiritual entity that gives Lilith power, nothing special.


This is a disney looking style. But I cannot recreate it again. 

I was thinking a stain glass window effect with this page. Its definitely worth looking into.


On the far left is drawing i made that reflected the very first drawings i produced for Lilith.
Then i remembered why i made the character. It was for an animation i did almost a year ago.

And its online on VIMEO;
https://vimeo.com/66417898

Sort of a samurai, raincoat, knight trying to battle her way through the deep abyss that his her own subconscious.  
Im thinking about capturing some emotions. This is sad. Ill do angry sometime.

Completely different. Hip Hop Pop Bubblegum.

version 2.Im imagining block colours and green highlights