Shrimp and noodles

Yo! Pre-christmas update and will probably not post again until after christmas :(
anyways, here's a few things

portrait of my best friend Rob

 Some form of self-portrait

value study based on a picture found on James Gurney's blog

Creeper from minecraft - probably gunna bring this one into color over the break

Merry Christmas everyone and have a happy new year! :)

I hope my teacher won't mind this

oh god I'm a horrible person haha

Who put pyros in my mouth?

end of semester killss but it's almost done so the laziness(physically) can begin!

here's a panel from the marker project we had to work on. it's my favorite, but ironically it's the one I put the least amount of time on. Kind of disappointed with the other ones. I mean russia was pretty cool. I might as well put that one on too.

But yep, markers are really really hard to use, and I applaud the work I've seen done on Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for their absolutely gorgeous character illustrations done in marker. Honestly, I really don't understand how to properly use markers, and I think I'll put use to these 100+$ markers sometime soon to get a better understanding of them.

 

random sketch based off someone's character sketch :)

annd here's what I handed in for my photoshop project,

i'd like to fix a few things during the break, like some sort of action between the city and travelers. a crashed spaceship, and the foreigners look yonder to discover some sign of highly intelligent beings. But for now I think I'll leave it alone for a bit; been staring at rocks for too long. Also, there's a few surfaces that aren't exactly clear nor does the perspective make a shred of sense, but I tried :P

health update: pretty much healed, except for Monday morning where I almost puked on a woman next to me, but at this rate that seems pretty normal. Gotta watch what I'm gunna eat this holiday, yo.

White hair dye for grizzly bears

my initial rendering for the Martian Matte painting photoshop project. thanks to xin for helping out a lot, though i still need some fixing to do, that's what I'll stick with for tonight

Feeling quite a bit better from yesterday, as a hot shower relieved me of that excruciating headache. Dizziness remains!

Also, I've been reading "Eye of the World" part of the Wheel of Time saga... and I'm enjoying the heck out of it. Though I can't say I'm the strongest reader out of my bunch of friends, I'm taking my dear sweet time absorbing the world that Robert Jordan is creating in front of me. I recommend it for any fantasy genre fan.

My body is not ready

worked a bit more on the bust.

I recently caught some sort of illness on saturday evening and it's been chopping away at my motivation to do work.. so you can kind of imagine how hard it was to show you this. Anyway, tomorrow i'll post my progress on my photoshop project and whatnot, i'll let you know how i'm feeling too :(

In fact, you don't even exist.

A quick acrylic painting, vehicle in marker rendering and a model sketch, quite happy with all of them.

Starting to feel the end of semester crunch, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't enjoying it. I've been working on my flash animation final all day; might as well post my story board along with this post.

Pardon the incompleteness, but the punchline is supposed to be the smaller fish eating the character after he escapes. :) It's a really fun project, and although I have worked on animation projects before (and they were a bit longer than what this one will last) I believe doing this project contained a lot of interesting planning and organization to successfully get through it. Hope there's more in this field for me in the future.

Recently, I've been painting a lot.. But after attending an exposition, my friend Xin suggested I work on my values, as most of my paintings are not within a reasonable value range. He sent me a marble bust picture and I've been working on it on and off all week, and here's what I got so far.

Some shapes are off, but I was actually pretty impressed with myself in understanding the form and where the light falls. Will update further...

Good Morning, Starshine.

Hey, Andrew here. I'm an illustration student and Dawson College in montreal.

 Just wanted to share my artwork since it felt lonely all clustered in my computer. I'd like to share my thoughts on certain things from time to time and hopefully get to meet some new people.

Lets get this show on the road, shall we?

 

Most of the stuff I'll be posting will be of this semester, some for school and others as studies and learning.

I'm always open to critiques, and willing to give my own opinion and thoughts on your own work, so just hit me up or e-mail me if you're ever in any need.

Pet Robot Project - Design inspired by Jonathan Kim's animation The Happiest Monster

Sure, the design is simple, but I just couldn't resist drawing that adorable face. I tried to get a really moody atmosphere and... I think I did alright with colors. Values are a bit everywhere but I tried to get something good.

 

 Sketch of my sister doing homework, was really satisfied with this one but something about the left eye bugs me.

I'd like to further expand on Xin's blog post here about distractions. These past years I've been constantly seeking refuge to my beloved land of video games and unfortunately, television in times of stress and anxiety. Ideally, this break period should be an hour or two a day. However, my imagined self-control often lands short when I need it and my time is ultimately wasted. Just today, I played an hour and a half of TF2. For no real purpose even, as the main purpose for playing TF2 is to have fun with friends, and I wasn't. A fearful look at my recorded time played is around 590 hours of play since 2007. Damn, and that's TF2 alone.

My aspiration is to become an efficient concept artist in the entertainment industry, and I decided this long ago. Naturally, I would go to video games as a resource for inspiration. Without a critical eye, it is easy to get absorbed into the realm of lucid creativity. I've been victim to this several times, but I cannot say I didn't enjoy playing them. I lament the times I could have spent doing studies or work on projects. My elite nerdiness has proven itself useful in many situations but honestly, I'd rather just have work done.  

Anyway, here's something else to keep you awake at night:

Also if you're a Dawson student reading this, go to Conrods anytime after 11:30 to buy Christmas Cards, Pillows and Shirts to help out our program's fundraiser.