david duong and andrew wyeth

david duong is a fairly unknown artist but has some great structural drawings. andrew wyeth is an amazing watercolourist. his stuff is some of the best watercolours i've seen (previous 3 pictures). he gets such great tones and colours out of them. I'd like to be as good as him some day! Even if i wouldnt paint the same subject matter, its his technique and skill that are awesome and make the pictures amazing.

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I don't really know what to post about but the tutorials and using color pallets were all really awesome. I'd like to learn more about that stuff. I am going to try and do a painting with a limited pallet like the dude in the video did. It's really cool..!!!!!!! Yeah! I'm still waiting for my intuos 3 pen, though. Never buy anything from harvey norman!


I have been doing some concept sketches for this concept art thing and it's coming along kinda acceptably. I've been researching world war 1 for costume and weapon ideas, since its based around the early 1930s. Heres some awesome pics!

radical machine gun used to unradically mow down radical soldiers :(

body armor

this armor was used to protect the troops from snipers.

destruction of some bridge.

soldier and his horse in gas masks.

french poison gas launcher.
a great fortress. really cool.

great machine gun for reference.

improvement

heres a couple old pics i did.

i'd improve this first one by defining the form more and adjusting features to fit the caricature more. also i'd probably do good linework and more solid blacks.i like these images... i just need to learn how to paint better :D texters are great.

how i'd impr

some sketches i did in the city ! it's really hard to find somewhere to draw people where they're not making pigs of themselves or staring nervously at you as you try to sketch them inconspicuously

awesome

Hello blog babies
Pre-prod was really cool this week. We decided on a grimm bros fairytale; Iron John. pretty awesome. It's going to be in a wasteland setting with a cool background. We came up with the idea of there could be something wrong with the water, causing everything to look weird and stuff due to its dependency on the water (organic matter needs water yo) whichn includes plants and people and stuff.

I thought of the 3 kingdoms within the fairytale and one could be unreachable by foot or any creature except these giant worms they breed in theri cool little kingdom. Around the kingdom could be like a barren desert too hot and dry for people to cross on, so they need to get towed in these little pods behind giant earth worms which used to inhabit the land around the kingdom, but the kingdom killed them off and selectively bred them so no one could reach them or leave except by the kings permission. I designed a crazy little worm car thing and like it but i wanna do more wit h it.

I understand all the colour theory stuff (i dont know everything but i get the basic relations between colors and what they can signify within different contexts and stuff.)

http://ironbrimley.blogspot.com/ is the blog for all our pre prod work. YAY!

Alphonse Mucha. Everything about him is awesome. Colours, lines, tones, composition. It's all traditional too. It looks 1000x better than all digital vector art in the same style i've seen. It's amazingly deliciouso

some cool animals n stuff!

Values

The information on values was very informative. I have been trying different techniques to convey form and volume and stuff but this let me experiment with a few different techniques. I really like the will eisner book and think his use of cast and form shadow to be really effective. Eric Powell also has some really nice art and good use of form and cast shadow.


I'm quite interested in color theory as i do not usually use colors in my pieces of work. I'll post some experiments on this blog later.

monkey drawings

here are some monkeys that i sketched up real quick like!

On classes

I have been having a good time doing the storyboards but have had a hard time with some shots. I think its really cool as it has opened more doors for me within cinema like shot relationships with eachother, balance, composition for storytelling purposes, etc etc.

I'll post some storyboards when they're done. I've only got real rough ones at the moment. I think i'll redo some shots as they suck compositionally as well as pointless woo

baboon research

I've been researching baboons for a project. There are many types of baboons. I chose the african savanna-type baboon as i think its looks would most suit the project setting and style. This is due to the baboon's having to blend in with the fictional environment for survival and also i think they have a better emotional range of expression due to their ability to be less creepy than other baboons. When they're mad they look quite creepy though.













i thought this picture was hilarious for some reason