Art
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The Long Voyage (Boulet)
I really enjoyed this scroll-form comic by Boulet. Give it a scroll 😉 (Click the images to begin)
Like the Wind
I tried pushing the level of abstraction in this piece. I like it, but it’s not yet landing where I want to go.
The Old Man and the Sea: Oil Painting Animation
This blew me away.
Every frame of this beautiful animated film is an oil painting (on glass). Published in 1999 the film took Aleksandr Petrov 2.5 years to make.
Tentacle
Having completed about 20 portraits in the Line and Color Academy, I will be moving on next to full-body characters. Here Mr. Octopus waves goodbye to our collection of portraits.
Line and Colour Portraits
As my next step in working through the Line and Colour Academy, I have been illustrating character portraits. Below are a select few. Click any of the following images to visit the complete art collection.
Borrowing a Colour Palette
Having impactful colours in your images can do so much for the interest, even if the quality is rough.
This is a rough illustration I did a while back.
It’s got some fun action, but the colours, contrast, and saturation are weak.
I decided to see how borrowing the colour palette from the following image by Tim McBurnie could improve my image. I paid attention to the saturation and values. I probably just used the colour picker.
This is the result of my application of that palette to the same composition.
I think it gave the impact a massive boost. I also tried to add motion blur and a bit more of a painterly quality. Now the image throbs with intensity! What happens next!?
Here’s a side-by-side comparison of the before and after:
Don’t worry, he’s okay in the end 😉
AlphaCon
AlphaCon (Alphabet of Concepts) is an abstract illustrated alphabet. Each letter visualizes an abstract concept.
These illustrations are my first steps in developing a new line and colour style of art with Tim McBurnie’s Line and Color Academy. I started with abstract letters because I really enjoy this sort of design, but it also meant I didn’t have to worry about realism yet or things like anatomy and perspective.
Click on the following image to go to the art collection.
Visual Like List
I recently purchased Tim McBurnie’s Line and Color Academy through which I will be developing a new line and colour illustration style. One assignment has been to draw my Like List (all the stuff I enjoy drawing). I think I managed to capture about 95% of my written list on this page. I’m very satisfied with the result; ’twas a fun challenge.
Gesture Drawings
As part of my going through Joumana Medlej’s Human Anatomy Fundamentals course, I’ve been doing daily gesture drawings from movies/shows for a few weeks. I’ve been getting some wonderfully distinct characters and expressive acting and posing from Buster Keaton and the Beverly Hillbillies. They both have a lot of full-body shots (or nearly full-body).
Here’s a selection of my favourite quick sketches from 100+ pages of gestures.
