Sketch Corner 8

Hello People!! =D

Today I bring you 5 pages from my sketchbook, 

I've been drawing more than reading in the train, I'll possibly upload 5 more next week, so

Have a nice week and Enjoy! =D

Some random drawings and practicing some skeleton's skulls for 

artistic drawing class... 

some more skull practice and a random face =) 

 The little kid is a sketch for a triptych

 I actually had been working on the past 2 hours, unfortunately I used

Other illustration, even though I like this one =/

The skeleton practice and a random sketch =)

 First you can see some quick sketches for a game for iPad

I'm working along with other three illustators =)

And some test for a Red Riding Hood story.

And some faces I do when I'm boring on the train.

Very proud of Nosferatu's cousin =D

Hope u liked it!

Remember that you can also visit my DArt profile if you wish to see some

done artwork =)

See you next week People!!!! =D

Testing snimation skills

Hey there guys!!

Wanted to bring something new to this place, and since I have some 

animation tests, I wanted to bring them little by little.

What you see here is one of the animation test I made two years ago for a project I had in mind. The technique, for those who don't know it, is called Rotoscoping.

I found this explanation on Wikipedia (oddly):

Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. Originally, recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator. This projection equipment is called a rotoscope, although this device has been replaced by computers in recent years. In the visual effects industry, the term rotoscoping refers to the technique of manually creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another background.

You can find a lot of ways to make it, the one I used is the one I discovered, I know that is very sure some else did it this way before me, but, by the time I did it, I didn't even knew the name of the technique, so, yeah, I'm kinda slow...

it's very simple, I recorded myself doing this movement, then I uploaded all the 46 frames to Photoshop, in order as layers, then i just had to draw every frame, eliminate the video frames and then save as Gif. document, then you just have to adjust some stuff about the speed of every frame and some basics, save and Here you go!

And for those who wonder how do I take all the flesh leaving my hand bones outside...

I just didn't, yeah, I haven't learned how to do that... yet, I managed to create every bone from the form of the hand and having some refferences from anatomy books, I'm very proud of the result =)

Hope u like it people!! =D

More of this soon...

Sketch Corner 7

Sorry would be the word?

I know I'm a little late, just one or two days, but I just had this

lazy weekend when doing school stuff wasn't on my plans, just

sitting around, chilling, playing videogames, mostly playing, well... I think I just did that =D

BUT!, lucky me, I dont have to work on mondays, so I have this little freetime where

I can do my things, and here you are, some of my recent pages, just for you xD

Enjoy people!! =)

Although this one is not full as I like, I was pretty inspired when I did all

the sketches you see on this page.

 Can't say the same when I did this one xD

 The one in the bottom is an Idea 

for an Illustration we gotta make.

Finally but not less importat, wanted to test some expressions,

I'm proud of this one =D

Ok, here you had it, the weekly dose of sketches.

Hope u liked it!!

See you next week! 

Hooded and Ready!

Ok, I know that's a little too late for posting this, but I just recieved my ACIII Join or Die Edition

and I wanted to do something to celebrate this after more or less 3 years waiting for

a game this big, so, I took the sketch that you can find on my Sketch Corner 5 post and

made some changes on SAI very quick so it could look like this =D

Hope u like it!

Also, I leave you this amazing cinematic trailer, my favorite one =D

Hope u liked it, if not, you're definitely a Templar.

Watercolor and Graphite WIP of my dear sleeping Cat (Kenshu)

Hey Guys! 

Here is another WIP just for your eyes, made on watercolor 

and then the final touches with a 4B pencil =D

Enjoy!!

Well, first of all, I took as a refference a sketch I made before looking at my cat

that was sleeping on his little bed 

I made it with an 8B graphite Bar

After doing a tracing of the drawing on a Basik DinA4 plus paper, I began painting, 

placing the colors and controling the light, shadows and the volumes...

 At this point I had all the watercolor work almost done, but I wasn't 

aware that to continue I was going to use a Graphite Pencil, I was sure 

it needed something else to be entirely finished.

The next day it was completly clear that it needed something darker, just to give a more 

realisting touch to the scene, the solution, as I said, was a 4B Graphite Pencil, mainly on the cat, had some problems on the back leg and the tail, but they were eventually fixed =)

Here is the final well scanned result...

Well, this is all the WIP, hope u liked it

Next time I'll bring you a Gouache WIP, It doesn't have as many photos to explain but I'll

manage to tell you every detail so you know well the behind the scenes...

See you people =D

Sketch Corner 6

Hello everyone!

4 more pages as promised =D

Enjoy!!

 Here at the top you can see some tests for 

some skeletons I gotta do on class

 Not really inspired that day actually, but I managed 

to fill the page =)

 The top middle one was an idea for something

I'm going to post later, but I came with something better, but I still

like it anyways. Also some random sketches.

Here you can see from left to right and then down:

Drawing made from a scrawl; a little red riding hood character test; and a random

sketch that has something, but I still don't know it yet, I'll find it out =D

Well, nice and gentle people, this is all the sketch corner for this week

Hope u Liked it!!! 

See you soon!

Watercolor WIP of a Post-Apocalyptic Illustration

HI!

I decided to bring you this "work in progress" of a Watercolor I made last year, I have other two WIP's that i'll be posting for the next week, in each one (including this) I'll explain step by step, helping  with some pics, the process I went through =)

Hope u like it!

For this illustration I was thinking on a Post-Apocalyptic scene, so, I took as a refference the game I AM ALIVE, a short game set on this ambience I wanted to create. Saw some concept art and also played the Demo for PS3.

So, after I got all the refferences needed I did this sketch:

Some collapsed buildings and this character risking his life 

in the middle of the composition...

So, I started painting, first layer to know colors and position of 

every object and get rid off all those white spaces...

 At the same time I started to try to control the perspective 

and the change of planes...

 In here I already had all the objects with its respective color 

so I coul start focusing just on the change of planes and the little details, 

like reflections and some pipes and cables that are hanging...

  To bring some of the building to the foregound I added some shadows and darker colors

 was pretty difficult cuz it's a backlighting scene and almost everything should be dark...

 Then sended to the background the brown 

building at the right by taking out some pigment and Finally I added a very 

watery ocher to the whole composition...

And this is the final Result =)

Everything made on a 23x16,5cm Fine grained watercolor paper of 370gr

If you have any question about the process, don't hesitate to asking =D

Hope u Liked it!