thumbnail practice

It's been my dream to illustrate amazing and story driven illustrations. Just like the works of Pascal Campion, Pricilla Wong, Stevie Ray, Ryan Andrews, Maike Plenzke and a lot more artist I admire, I want to capture the amazing illustration. And to be able to do that, I learned I need to practice my values, composition, mood and of course digipainting.

On the past few weeks, thanks to a professor I am also working with named sir Patrick and tips from my co-workers like Sheila Lee, Kara Leonardia and a lot more (And yes, I have my outmost praise and thanks to them! :) Learned a tons from them!) I've learned few things to achieve my dream. :P hehe

In my first attempt, this is what've done:

Need to work on the blending thing and more :P hehe BTW, I used a beautiful photo reference for this, just to clarify! :P hehe not mine! :)

Then upon practicing some more, Sir Patrick told me to make thumbnails. Instead of working on the canvas in a large scale, I have to zoom it out and work on it. Use a huge brush and just get the essentials first then details later. :)

So here are some of thumbnailing and again, I used references on it. Usually I get shots from movies which have amazing cinematography. :)

upper left: Skyfall (2012),  lower left: Still Life (2006) and a photograph for the right one 

reference: from a photograph

Will keep practicing! :)

code: P.P. and P

I made this illustration for a personal project and of course for practice. :)

Tried to do Ellioli Sister's style which is to use solid colors and use brushes for texture and Pricilla Wong. I tried this because I was used to solid colors. Wasn't really good at painting it impromptu which some artists are more adapt. But I've got to try that. hehe

But, I still need to work on my values, digipaint and composition. :) Thanks to the past few weeks, I've been learning a lot. And I am very thankful and grateful for a lot of people because of that. :)

I'll try to scan the gesture drawings I've been working on. Let's see if I've improved. ;)

road to improvement: digipainting

Hello! :) It's been awhile since I've posted. Been busy finishing a project called Frere and it just finished this January. :)  It's a previledge to work on a project and meet incredible people. :) Now, I am back to practice becoming a better artist. hehe

Digipainting has been one of my challenges as an artist. I don't really know how to paint in photoshop. Usually I use pen tool, textures and brushes. I never did the blending thing. I didn't really know how to work on it.

Thanks to some people who've been encouraging me and gave me some tips and teach me, I've kept trying and trying. And here are some of things I've done.

I tried to make an illustration using one of the artist I admire the Elioli Sisters's tutorial and style. Here it is:

Still got to work on my values and composition. And because of that, I'm now studying values using black and white while working on my composition as well.

Another one of my practices:

Trying to get the hang of it. :P hehe

Biting Soon

Some teaser on something me and my friends are working on. :) 

click me to see

Back to Basics: Composition

While, waiting for my scenes to render in After Effects and using my spare time at work I did some composition exercises :) Tried some while watching Confessions or Kokohaku and Let the Right One In (The Swedish Version). 

Both, films are amazing and have great composition and visuals :) Not to mention awesome story! :)

You guys should watch them! :)

Yin and Yang

I made a farewell gift for my dear best friend! :) 

I conceptualized in a yin and yang way because we are both different but still we balance each other out. 

Will be missing you terribly. Thank you for everything! 

Hope to see you soon! :)

Back to Basics: Colored Pencils

Hey guys!!! :) So for the past few months, i've been trying to improve myself as an artist. And one way of doing that is going back to the basic. :) 

So one of the things I went back to are......

COLORED PENCILS! :D 

You've seen my fruits in my old post. 

Here are some pieces I did to practice. And to make it a bit challenging, I tried to do portraits. :) I have to practice once in a while in this medium, so i won't forget how to do it. :) 

This was the first one I tried. 


Actually, I've done colored pencils, but it was a long time ago...2 years ago in fact and it wasn't as challenging as the one I tried now and let's face it,


 I TOTALLY FORGOT HOW TO USE IT! haha 


sorry.... hehe.


 This time I tried small amount of colors. Just basic ones so I can learn to blend and not rely on the color that is there. :) 

Like, not using black colored pencils for black color but used purple, blue and green to make a black effect. :P hehe

Though I know I still lack in proportion, I will keep practicing that too! :)

Just keep swimming...swimming, swimming, swimming or rather...

drawing

drawing

drawing :)

And this won't be possible, without Sir Uy's help! :) Thank you soooo much for your patience, time and awesome guidance! :D

BTW, sorry for the poorly scanned photos of it. My scanner sucks! :P 

Will be posting some more! Stay Tuned! :)