ya-ha!

things have been going good on my end, past week has been brutal but i tried to get through it the best i could -

one great thing though is i was chosen along with some other great people to represent my school, Ringling College of Art and Design at the 2010 Megacon Convention in Orlando, woo!! not sure of the details yet, but i'll be sure to update in the coming months - be on the lookout for some more comic inspired art also ;)

heres some of what ive been up to the past week



oil on masonite

heres a quick phone camera grab of things im still tweaking



the left is another painting from life, and the right is an illustration thats almost but not quite finished - a lot of the values are still being adjusted so be on the lookout for a final version of it to be posted monday

and lastly, an ink drawing for a comic that will be uploaded soon, just trying to find the time to scan everything in - most likely a hefty update on the rest of the stuff ive been up to during my holiday break



till then,
cheers

tyler

character designs

these were fun! heres the final character designs for a story im doing pre-pro concept work for in class

ill start with some ideation process on where i wanted these to go as far as looks went



the little shape scribbles next to each face is what i start out with, i find putting down the overall shape down on paper instead winging it from my head helped alot here - kind of acting as a map on this little trip

from there i went straight to final line art and jumped straight into the finals

i proudly would like to introduce to you;

Brock



Brunsen


and Bingo


these are 3 cavemen brothers out to find out why their food is mysteriously being stolen!

maybe Beefy has something to do with it?!


its a side-take on the story of the 3 little pigs, as assigned from my instructor.

ive still got some other things to do - character turn arounds and a few emotion tests - which ill have updated by monday!

hope you enjoy,

till then!

cheers,
tyler

another oil portrait and a doodle

as the title says!








cheers,
tyler

portrait and a mastercopy!

ive been flipping out over the work of Eduard Thony for about a year now - everytime i look at his illustrations i get all googly eyed and just lose any previous thoughts i once had

my instructor, george pratt, brought in one of his books of his work that have photographs of all his original work in them and thought jeez, maybe its time i do a mastercopy or two of this guys work

heres the end result of that thought



what ive learned was priceless, im looking and approaching drawing differently now, the power of negative space and the strength of a strong shape(powershapes!) are things im realizing and is so abundant in all of his old illustrations. i've since realized that a lot of those key ideas, i feel, have been missing in my work all across the board and am going to try and fix that with the next assignments i give myself

for some examples of his, and the other great great simplicissimus guys hit up this link for some quality stuff (click the images on the left for gallery)

also included is a portrait from class a few weeks ago that i later fooled around and experimented with



oil, pastel, wax on masonite

drawing is a little hokey, but i had fun!

ill have another oil painting uploaded in the next day or so - a couple globs of paint are still wet

till then,
cheers

tyler

early mornin art again

found some time to scan some sketching / doodling before class







got some more stuff coming!


cheers,
tyler