Decided to make this piece about my favorite Jaeger from the film, Cherno Alpha. I've been wanting to do a piece about it for a while, and figured, why the Hell not.

The critique I received was to finalize the background, resolve some anatomy issues with Cherno, and make the characters interact more. People commented that they seemed distant within the same frame image, so some more monstery bits attacking Cherno while it recoils might be what fixes it.

Another project, more indecision. This is a movie poster to potentially tie in with a short animation with CCAD's animation department. It's going to be a Pacific Rim fan art piece, with hopefully more of the armor being sorted out later on. The Jaeger with be of my own design while the Kaiju will be based heavily off of a bear. After producing a few quick thumbnails and a half-hearted line and value study I eventually scraped the whole thing for an entirely new composition. I also decided to try a non black and white value study.

The original composition, I didn't like how little it described both characters, and the view was uncomfortable to work with.

The second composition, much better I think, but the foreground is still bothering me, I'll ask for help on it tomorrow in class.

Indecision

Well the new semester's been underway for a while now and I've been neglecting this site for quite a bit. One of the things I really want to improve on this semester is my ability to produce quality work and keep a log of my progress.

This piece is for a project given to my Digital Design and Concepts class, the project was to make a split reciprocal design using a word we drew in class, my word was 'fire' and so I eventually settled on a witch-burning scene. We've had this project since basically the first day classes resumed, but I loathed every other idea I came up with until this one, and that was only this last Sunday I settled on this one and started work.

I plan to finish a complete value study and then add overlays of color. I've seen this technique done before and I'm a fan of the results, so hopefully mine will turn out well.