Here is a video turn around of the low poly 3D outfit that I’ve been working on. It is still untextured; the colors are simply temporary placeholders to give an idea of the final color scheme. There are also no normal maps applied to the mesh to indicate high poly details. Those improvements will be added soon.
May 4th:
More progress on the Mother Nature's body textures. I suppose I should start showing these views of her more closely since I'm no longer working so much on the whole spread of images as I am focusing on one angle at a time...
May 3rd:
I started adding some textures to Mother Nature's front-facing body.
May 2nd:
Mother Nature has hair now. I'm still just playing around with my ideas for her a lot...
May 1st:
Back to Mother Nature for May Day. Not a whole lot of progress today: just some side-view dress outlines and layer adjustments.
April 25th:
I put down some basic color on the character and her clothing. I'm not working very quickly on this character because I'm planning to make her quite complex and I still have a few too many ideas bouncing around in my head to nail down all of the details yet.
April 24th:
I started the digital work on my Mother Nature character today, but I didn't get very far. I was kind of having an off-day where nothing felt like it was working right...
April 1st:
Today I set up and rendered a few beauty shots of my model. Then I realized that I should probably pose my model before getting too crazy with the beauty shots...
March 30th:
I made the extra maps, masks, and materials needed for my girl's clothing and accessories. Then I fixed her skin material so that it appeared less rubbery. I'm quite pleased with the final outcome.
On to rendering!
March 24th:
Another quick iPad sketch.
March 23rd:
A quick iPad sketch today using my nifty Wacom stylus.
March 21st:
I unofficially finished page 25 of the Cut-Up Sketchbook.
Then I colored this scene in a Disney coloring app on my sister's iPad:
I unfortunately do not remember the title of the app in which I created this image, but it was one of those officially licensed Disney products. They provided the outlines and pattern design: I just colored it in and told the pattern brush where to go.
February 10th:
I got a week or two behind on posting my Daily Art, so I spent some time on the tenth of February organizing my artwork for 2015. I created a calendar set-up for the year in InDesign with the intention of posting images of my Daily Art in the corresponding cell for each day. I may even turn it into a real calendar for next year: images of my previous year's work to motivate me to create something every day next year.
Unfortunately, within an hour of finishing this - before I even got a chance to catch up on posting the images that I organized - I came down with the worst stomach flu I've had since I was a child and, consequently, didn't produce a single piece of artwork for the next two days.
"Calendar" image of Daily Art created in January.
(Note: This image was actually created in February, but since I'm posting late I'm putting it here at the end of the month where it should go anyway.)
January 27th:
I stood my addict up from his crouched position and rendered him to show off the hidden elements of his texturing.
January 18th:
Today I tested out the Adobe Illustrator Line app for my daily art quota. It's just a fun, crazy little sketch.
January 14th:
Super-quick little sketch that I completed between note-taking at a meeting about jewelry.
