Atmospheric Light

The Magic Box, Instructor: Chris Oatley

Homework Assignment # 1: Color Comps

Hi everyone, this is my first assignment and it was a great learning experience for me. In fact, I believe that I will make a few more of these exercise for the rest of the month to get the hang of it, as I especially need to learn to work with the brushes, well, everything really.

The Call

In these two inspiration images, I was drawn to the cool and warm colors, especially as the light of the sunset bounced inside the interior wall and furniture.

Here I was drawn to the defused glow, and even though  it was taken during sunset, it actually reminds me of   sunrise.

My subject

adding a background

I chose a teal for my background layer, because I knew that I wanted to illustrate a cold day, while still adding an opposite warm color such as orange.

My first try...

reworked my first layer adding textures to clothing and rock and painted the face.

I added this layer to the first color comp as multiply in the blending mode (25%)

The final illustration.  I think that I can live with this one, I like the edges and the contrast better, and it still have defused lights.

  

House of Straw

Illustration Friday

This week's word is Future

House of Straw

The future is largely what we make of it.
When planing ahead, I'm always reminded to first set my priorities straight.

Found

My Daily Fix

Found

Just love a happy ending.  

Lost

My Daily Fix

Lost

Just a  fun picture.  I guess I was going for the black embellishment as a repetitive element .

Hands

My Daily Fix

Remembering Einstein

Single hand

Fingers together

My father was a bird lover, and surrounded himself with bird throughout his life.  He also instilled in me a love for birds. 

This is the time of year when I used to find many young birds blown out of their nest, and while my children were young, we used to rescued them, before the cat got to them.

Einstein was such a bird.  We called him Einstein because of a halo of fine down that covered his head when we first found him.

TRIBUTE

Illustration Friday

This week's word is TRIBUTE

Tribute to the Maker

I made two more version of this illustration where each time the drawing of the bird became tighter and tighter and the colors more controlled.  The focus became more about his plumage  and less about his gift of song as a tribute to God.
As a result I decided to keep this looser rendering with his accentuate  beak, and tight grip to the branch, and let him be.

 (This is an add-on to my earlier post, as I felt that I needed to include the other drawing since I had mention them above)

Second drawing

Third drawing

Tribute to the Maker #2

Tribute to the Maker  #3

Tribute to the Maker  #4

Hmmm...

My Daily Fix

Hmmm...

The main reason for this drawing was to draw a face from a lower perceptive, meaning looking up.

Chicken Little

My Daily Fix

I need to draw as much as I need my caffeine, in fact, I find drawing so therapeutic that it has become my daily fix.  The drawings don't necessarily have to be good or polished, just as long as they are fun to make.

Here my daily fix for the day.

Chicken Little

I love playing with different apps,  and though some are weaker then others, I still find use for them by switching back and forth and experimenting and see what comes out.  

I drew this little chick yesterday, using my favorite app: ASKetch ,  and colored it with Sketch Guru .  This morning I transferred it yet an other app, this time, Brushes, and had fun with it.

FAREWELL

Illustration Friday

This week's word is FAREWELL

The idea for this painting first began with the doodling of a flower which I used in several layers.  

I liked the concept idea, but I wanted to push it further by using a figures, and Like the flower, I reused the figure in several layers, aiming for the same concept.

For the final painting I chose sepia to suggest a memory and and  pink glows to suggest  "farewell" blessings. 

Drawing Hands

I've being wanting to  learn to draw hand for the last few months now.  here are my first efforts.  Hopefully with much observation and practice, I will become more and more familiar with the hand anatomy, how fingers fold on each other, and drawing hands will become more of an intuitive process.

I've looked at several tutorials on line that I found helpful, here are two examples of many good ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB7ab61Xu3Q     

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB7ab61Xu3Q