Assignment 7 + Love Handles

Heya all,
I haven't posted here in a while. My submission for Lesson 8 looks pretty ordinary, so I won't be posting that here. Here's my Assignment 7 and an extra piece!


Assignment 7 - Vectors and Layer Styles


Love Handles.
(I've got to get rid of my love handles.)

Love Handles (definition from Wikipedia):
Love handles, in colloquial or slang speech, are a layer of fat that is deposited around a person's midsection. They are called "love handles" because they can serve as places to hold on while copulating. Love handles are also colloquially called a spare tire.

So many people want to be thinner and thinner and thinner these days; it's insane.


As always, a gif to show you my painting process.

Hope you dig.

Assignment 5 + Extra

Here's my assignment for Lesson 5. I used the techniques taught in the video tutorial but did not strictly follow the order of the steps as demonstrated by Bobby. Painting this was a little frustrating but I found the smudge tool to be really really nice to use for smoothing out hair. Ummm, ignore the halo around him! >< The textures of his clothing were added with the technique taught in Lesson 4.


This is something I did extra. (A photo-reference was used.) Here, I didn't use the smudge tool to paint. The painting was mostly done using a basic hard edged brush in Photoshop. I then imported it into Painter and used the "Dry Palette Knife" to smudge the "paint" around, just to create that painterly effect. The brush works almost the same way as Photoshop's smudge tool, but resembles traditional paint a little more.

Where are all my classmates?! D: (Mariann! You removed all your posts! D:)

Emotion No.26: CURIOSITY

How are my fellow classmates doing?
I did another painting using the techniques taught in our class so far, as an extra assignment for Lesson 4 and also as an entry for the Liquid City Giveaway Draw-A-Robot Contest.


Emotion No.26: CURIOSITY
Very experimental. This is the first painting I did without starting off with lines. I blocked in a dark value pretty roughly, and then started to visualize and build on top of that. Slapped on some random textures + filters on some areas when I ran out of motifs and worked from there. Liquify is my new favourite Photoshop tool.

Random fact: Painting a bowl is harder than painting a cat.
Random tip: When in doubt, slap on some textures. (Doesn't work all the time.)


Fish-cyborg painting progress.
(A grossly simplified portrayal of my grueling 20+ hours on the fish)
I hope the animation isn't too fast. There were some steps missing because everything was kinda random at the beginning and I only started saving more often when something that looked pretty solid was emerging. The fish itself took maybe 20 hours or more to paint.

P/S: Bobby! Where are the critiques? D:

First 3 Assignments + Armless Midgets

Hi everyone!

I'm so glad that Bobby created a blog for us. Was kinda bummed at first when I saw that there wasn't really a place for the students to interact. Thanks Bobby! I found some of our classmates on deviantART through their blogger profiles and got to see some of your personal artworks; it seems that we've got a lot of people from different backgrounds and countries and quite a variety of different styles. Which is awesome. :D Talked to Jon-Troy [Hazardous] on MSN so far, and hopefully more will join in. (I'm using the e-mail on my profile for my MSN account, so if you're on MSN add me up!)

Back to what's relevant, here are my first 3 assignments. Muscly (Metalic ><) Guy, The Stand and the, um, creature.


And here's my extra assignment for Lesson 2:





Gif animation to show painting progress.
Wanted to try out different skin tones. Did this with the techniques learned in Lesson 1 and 2. If anyone wants to try colorizing skin tones for practice, here's a larger version of my painting before adding color and before cleaning up. [link] If you post it anywhere else, please credit me.

Feel free to critique or even totally stomp on my work if you see anything wrong, because I really want to improve. Thanks in advance!

P/s: I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Ciaee, 22 this year, Malaysian Chinese, just graduated from art school, currently working (sort of) as a freelance illustrator, and love drawing and painting a lot... but prefer sleeping.