BA Final Project Work

So I recently finish my BA(hons) in digital arts with a 2.1 and here is the work that I produced for the final project. I'm proud to say that I think I made a massive improvement over last year and hopefully will continue create better work.

Also I have now created a Facebook that you can get to here. Please Like and share if you want to keep up to date with what I'm doing.

FdA Final Project

Today is the last day of my FdA course in Art of Games Design which I am pleased to say I passed.

Also during last week and this week I had my end of year exhibit displaying my final project work, which was a series of digital paintings.

If you did not get the chance to come down and visit heres the work I had on display.

This is my second post of the day so if have not read the first here it is the link:

http://calvin-og.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/i-draw-dead-people-2.html

"I Draw Dead People" 2

So a couple of weeks back I visited the Medical Science Department at Newcastle University for the second year in a row with my course where we did studies of the bodies donated to science. This was in the hopes that this would improve our understanding of human anatomy.

Once again this was a worth while experience that I would recommend to any budding artist if they are given the chance.

If you did not see last years post then heres a link to it:

http://calvin-og.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/i-draw-dead-people.html

Final Project Feedback #1

Hey all, these are the designs for a series of four digital paints that I am doing as part of my final project.

If you could give some time to look them over and answer the three quick questions at the bottom I would be very grateful.

What do you like about about the designs?

What is wrong with them?

How could I improve on them?

Thank you for your time.

Uni Work #2

Renders of my weapon from the first project in the advance 3D class.

I used 3ds max for modelling and rendering, Zbrush for creating the normal map and Photoshop for the textures.

Wireframe

Uni work #1

Here's some more uni work from my concept drawing class.

It was drawn in rought with pencil then totally inked by brush and then finally coloured in with water colour paints.

Here in the before and after of the colour.

I'm hoping this is to be the start of me posting things at a near weekly rate.

Self Portraites from Uni.

Just a look at some of the drawing work done for uni.



Ink brush and wash

Chalk on black card

2012 Summer Catch Up!

So it is nearly the end of summer and the begining of a new term of uni for me and I felt like showing something I've been working on during the summer in my little free time.

One of the things I have been doing a lot of recenlty are different studies of Frank Frazetta's work, so much so it is has become an influence for a painting I'm currently working on. Here is on of the pencil studies on bristal board currently in the works.

"I Draw Dead People"

Yesterday myself and few others from my course visited the Medical Science Department at Newcastle University where we drew studies of people who had donated their bodies to medical science.

Getting past the point that I spent just under 5 hours around the dead, I really enjoyed this exercise as it was something that the old masters pioneered, and I would recommend it who can keep a level head (don't worry nothing is slimy).

As per the rules none of these drawing include eyes as respect to living relatives.

3D Environment Project

I've been meaning to put this up for a few weeks now.

 This was for my second 3d texturing project with 3ds Max in which I had to create an environment. I chose to design a hit-man's lair.

Early 2012 Catch Up

Hi all, Uni has been a bit crazy for the last few months, but I felt like throwing up some of the stuff I've done done on the course till I can get my head in order and show some personal work.



Self Portrait: Ink (Brush)

Haven't done much personal work recently, but I had been started this self portrait last week with the intention of going old school and ink it with a brush. unfortunately I needed new inks and didn't get round to buying some more till today.

The image is one of those common sights of how I look in the later hours of most nights.

I've made the the odd mistake here and there but I forgot how much I love inking with a brush (its been over 6 months).

Everything has been done by brush, even the signing and date, and it just feels really nice to work with.

Hope you enjoyed it, more to come later.

Digital: Photoshop DVD Cover

So as promised here is the second half of my DVD project, now showing the Photoshop cover.

Its not bad really, and I got to use some of CS5's new features like realistic brushes(which I used for the title).

I wanted to see what effect I could get from mainly painting compared with the sharp crispness of Illustrator, which is also the reason I didn't scan in an inked drawing and coloured it digitally like a comic book.

Also I updated the back of the Illustrator cover, so the back of the cover looks more pro now.

And as always the sketches that I did before hand.

Digital: Illustrator DVD Cover

So I finished my first week of uni doing real work on Friday, and I thought I'll show the product of that work.

My current project is to my two DVD video game covers, one in Illustrator, the other in Photoshop and both must have a car and character in them.

This is the Illustrator cover. It came out better than I hoped, since everything you make is a path or shape. Its kind of  like a over complicated paper collage at times, which is why I normally only use it for logos and graphics.

Anyhow next week is the Photoshop cover and we've got wacoms so it should be a bit more epic(...ish).

Below are the sketchs I did for the design above.



Portrait: Jenny

(AKA the sequel)

So why is this also called 'the sequel'?

To make a long story short, I used the reference that I used when first metting her during our first drawing class in college, 2 years ago.

I wanted to see how much I had improved and was paranoid that I was going to make the same mistakes, which I nearly did all too often.

Any way like last time here are the stages of the drawing.

NOTE: Blogger has a new of viewing images where if you click on one you can scroll through the ones in the post in fullsceen.