Speed painting - Whale child

In this weeks session I learnt how to create form using 'Opacity' and 'Flow' in Photoshop. The technique I learnt involved changing the opacity of the brush to 30 and the flow to 20. By selecting these numbers I could build up areas of dark or light where I needed to in my drawing to create depth to the character.

Sci-Fi Ship Concept Part 1

I have been set the task of designing a military spaceship for my visual design workshop. We were shown the film Elysium which helped me understand the task a bit better. I googled images of different styles of spaceships. I focused on angular concepts as I felt they appeal to more of a Sci-Fi genre. I then began to sketch out ideas which are shown above.

I then looked into possible texture I could use for my 3D concept. As it is a military spaceship I would imagine it to be rather worn and damaged especially around the bottom half of the ship.

Modelling statue head

I've decided to go for a stylistic statue for my battle arena so I want this to be reflected in my modelling. First of all I got two reference images up in Maya to help me model a standard female head. I focused on the bottom, right half of the face first and then proceeded to work my way up by extruding the faces.

I kept flicking through different views of the model to make sure I was staying true to the reference images I was using.

I did begin to find it harder the more I extruded the faces as they were not all connected. I then mirrored the the right side of the face to create a full head. 

However,  I was not 100% pleased with my final outcome so I exported and opened it up in Z brush where I smoothed out the surface and added cracks.

Composition - Speed paint

This weeks classwork involved speed painting and understanding the rule of thirds. We were given this image to speed paint.

However, we had the task of recomposing the image into a landscape format. I started by cropping out the main shapes of the canvas and copying their shape into another canvas, this helped me give a better judgement of where the elements should go. I then added in some background detail.

Here is my final rough speed paint.