MattD - ArtSchool Assignments

systemsoperator 2020-07-17 19:34:32 UTC #21

Did you start with the skeletons and draw these animals from memory? Or the opposite — work backwards from photo ref and determine the skeletons? Just curious.

ghostmonster 2020-07-18 06:15:03 UTC #22

Its great to see the line of action very clearly on these animal studies

MattD 2020-07-27 17:46:01 UTC #23

@systemsoperator For these drawings, I worked backward from photos. I'm going to try doing some from memory in the future, the skeleton is something that I'm really having trouble wrapping my head around so it might be a while

@ghostmonst3r Thank you!

Some draw overs with the skeletons and muscles. I tried to do as much as possible without looking at my notes. I'm going to have to do a lot more of these before I get really comfortable with animal anatomy.

systemsoperator 2020-07-29 01:47:11 UTC #24

Those drawings are great!

MattD 2020-07-30 18:00:48 UTC #25

@systemsoperator Thanks

My hybrid animal. I picked a couple of animals at random and got a cheetah and a hippo, it took me a while to get something that made sense because the only traits they really have in common is that they're mammals. I ended up looking at boars and wolves a bit to help me along, and because I imagined this animal filling a similar ecological niche. I'm going to draw it from a few different angles and really polish the one that works the best

MattD 2020-08-12 17:04:40 UTC #26

A couple more images of my creature. I think I'll do a few more chimeras before moving onto a finished one. Animal anatomy is defiantly something that I need to work on

A couple of character designs that I did. My idea for the one on the left was to combine Josef Mengele and the Wicked Witch. Someone who does horrible, unethical, and cruel experiments on people but with magic. I wanted her to look like she's really gone off the deep end and in the process of abandoning her military life.
On the right, I wanted to do a showgirl assassin. Her main inspiration was Lili von Shtupp, Madeline Kahn's character from Blazing Saddles. I will probably do a few more and then color a couple.

ghostmonster 2020-08-13 02:04:27 UTC #27

the new chimera picture are coming along well. the structure is clear, and reads excellent that it can move and articulate properly .... oh and Lili von Shtupp

MattD 2020-08-13 17:26:32 UTC #28

That so great to hear, I wasn't sure if my chimera would read as well to other people. My showgirl character isn't the first that I've based on Lili von Shtupp. I saw Blazing Saddles when I was a teenager and she sort of left an impression on me

alrooke64 2020-08-18 15:58:13 UTC #29

animal studies look awesome, Im enjoying this feed man, keep going

MattD 2020-08-18 18:27:16 UTC #30

@alrooke64 Thanks I'm glad you're enjoying my work, that's always so great to hear!

I really liked my two characters from before so I decided to color them and do a third character. I pictured him being one the Witch Mengele's experiments, one that she uses as an attack dog. Definitely going to do some more of these after I do some more animal chimeras, I enjoy doing both so much that it'll be a while before I move onto the ZBrush portion of the term.

WeirdOwl 2020-08-18 19:30:52 UTC #31

I really like this lineup. You should definitely keep these and model them later in Zbrush when you get to that part. I think texturing the monster will be awesome.

chiara.arcidiaco 2020-08-19 21:17:13 UTC #32

Matt this is crazy, unbelievable that this comes from the sketchy stage, super well rendered. I love the monster color palette and his brush stroke, also the skin of the girl is super incredible Do you have any advice for this kind of super polished rendering stage?

MattD 2020-08-20 18:10:52 UTC #33

@WeirdOwl Thanks, I'll definitely try to sculpt the monster in ZBrush. After I do the first two, the textures on him will take a bit more experience than I have right now

@chiara.arcidiaco Thank you! With my painting, I'll start with five colors for all the major parts (skin and clothes on the first two figures, skin and tentacles on the monster) and two or three for everything else. Once I've done that I'll usually do an ambient occlusion pass with a dark blue and then start playing with adjustment layers. I tend to use a gradient map to bring some more color to the shadowed areas and add a rim light. It's easiest to see on the showgirl's leg. After that its just little touch-ups and adding those sharp highlights.

My next creature hybrid a mix between a manta ray and a flamingo. I decided to color this one since the flamingos color is one of its most iconic features

Just some figure studies and painting practice. Not really for any part of ArtSchool but this seemed like a good place to post it.

lip3chi 2020-08-21 21:35:37 UTC #34

Wow, i really like the details in the tentacles. Also, very clean work

MattD 2020-09-08 18:44:19 UTC #35

Been doing some anatomy studies. I'm watching all the videos for term 6 so I'll probably start working on those assignments later this week

BadRooster 2020-09-09 02:16:14 UTC #36

All of this is great work. I am especially captivated by your figure drawings. They have a wonder comic vibe to them. Figure drawing was always difficult for me in school.

chiara.arcidiaco 2020-09-09 07:00:17 UTC #37

I love the green one are you following a particular tutorial online maybe? this are great

ghostmonster 2020-09-09 09:57:39 UTC #38

Matt your work is getting so very good. Your rendering technique is very reminiscent of Sinix . The tonal shifts on the hand holding the spoon, and the woman with the excellent rim light (above green pelvis) I feel are the 2 I like most. But all of your gestures are just wonderful to look at <3

WeirdOwl 2020-09-10 01:14:30 UTC #39

Daang, love the skin tones and how you're framing the volumes with light. I'm jealous. Also, those a very deliciously unrealistic proportions. Perfect!

MattD 2020-09-11 18:20:35 UTC #40

@BadRooster Thank you, Years of reading comics and studying various comic artists has sort of left an impression. Figure drawing was a struggle for me too (still is sometimes), it took me a long time to get to this point. I've gone through so many video tutorials, anatomy books, and life drawing classes to get to this level.

@chiara.arcidiaco Thanks, I was reading some she-hulk comics at the time so I just decided to make that one green. I'm kinda following Sinix's tutorials, he's doing them from imagination and I'm working from photos, I really like the way he renders stuff so I tend to just watch the last part of the videos where he's painting.

@ghostmonst3r Thanks, I've been watching a lot of Sinix's videos lately. The one with the rim light is my favorite too, the trick now is to be able to do that on command.

@WeirdOwl Thank you, skin tones are something I've been trying to improve on so that's awesome to hear. I've never heard of my proportions described as deliciously unrealistic before but I like it.