Final Comments

Your Final Course Score: A

Effort: Excellent

Technical: Good

Creative: Excellent

me happy :)

+ diploma

from pencil and paper to digital painting this was truly an awesome kickstarter course ! 

for me a true stepping stone, to polish my work :)

Photoshop has officially become a well known playground for me now, as well as getting used to my wacom tablet, in such a way that it now feels kinda natural to sketch with as well :)

I can truly recommend this, it is very thorough and you get a lot of professional tips and tricks to take with you :)

until next time ;)

Lesson 8

Combination

final assignment DONE :)

this was fun

trying out all the tips and tricks.

playing around with different unusual layer blend modes as well.

I could have gone on for ever with this one, but you've got to stop somewhere... besides deadline is on friday, and I have never been this close to a schoolism deadline :) hehe

the initial idea was having a strong contrast in character moods, as well as size relations and apperance.

I wanted a sense of incongruity in the contrast, to spin of some fun ;)

Personally I think I have made quite some progress, considering my experience with digital painting :)

ENJOY

Amphibian BFF (final piece)

Lights /character texture + more clean up

Color/shading + clean up (WIP 02)

Initial Sketch (WIP 01)

Lesson 7

Background, Scene and Mood

This was a difficult task

Creating the character was easy enough, but when it came to adding tons of layers, my old faithful Macbook Pro 17" couldn't keep up :/

so I struggled for a week or two, making my strokes as carefully as possible because of lag.

Now, as deadline is approaching, I decided to spend some money on a new computer, 

a new Macbook Pro with 15" retina display :D and I am loving it !!! :D

finished the rest in two days :) that is fast, considering that I have kids :)

kept it pretty rough, to speed things up. One could always go back and refine things.

Ramboman

so yes, very original... :P not Rambo ... Ramboman!

Ramboman with touch!

 I like the effect here.

Ramboman Jungle Approach - Rough

Ramboman Snow Encounter - Rough

Ramboman Dessert Wander - Rough

These next thumbnails where just to try out a quicker compositional approach

they are a bit more energetic

Ramboman Lost Village Night - Rough Thumb

Ramboman Gladiator - Rough

Ramboman Mountain Climbing - Rough