April 10th:
Ink.
Daily Art: Card #5
April 9th:
Ink and watercolor again.
Daily Art: Card #4
April 8th:
This card was washed with watercolor, then accented with ink.
Daily Art: Card #3
April 7th:
This card is all ink.
Daily Art: Card #2
April 6th:
This time I painted the back of the playing card with watercolor.
Daily Art: Dog
April 5th:
Today was a photo day.
Daily Art: Deck of Cards
April 4th:
I decided to make a little project of painting and drawing on a deck of cards. This is the first one.
Daily Art: Doll Furniture
April 3rd:
My niece's birthday present is going to be a couch that I'm making by hand for her 18" American Girl doll. This is the beginning of it. I built it using old books, a photo paper box, glue, tape, and foam. There are some wood blocks below it that I'm planning to attach as legs.
Daily Art: A Change of Scenery
April 2nd:
I went out to the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve today to take some photos. Most of the poppies were gone already, but I still managed to get a couple of good pictures.
Daily Art: Beauty Shots
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...
Daily Art: March
Daily Art: Video Editing
March 31st:
I spent some time today video editing my girl's turntables in After Effects for my demo reel.
Daily Art: Materials
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!
Daily Art: Texture Maps and Materials
March 29th:
Today I spent a lot of time working in both Photoshop and Modo. I painted material masks and tweaked texture maps to create new maps (like specular amount maps) in Photoshop, then tested the effects of those maps in Modo while I refined the materials applied to my girl's body.
Daily Art: Texture-Painted Accessories
March 28th:
One more step down. Mudbox texture-painting: DONE.
Daily Art: More Texture Painting
March 27th:
My girl's body color texture map is done and I painted preliminary colors on her clothing and accessories.
Daily Art: Mudbox
March 26th:
I started texture-painting in Mudbox today.
Daily Art: Back to Modeling
March 25th:
Back home: back to modeling. Spent my art time today testing and fixing abnormalities in all of those normal and displacement maps that I baked before I left.
Daily Art: Another Phoenix
March 24th:
Another quick iPad sketch.
Daily Art: Dinosaur
March 23rd:
A quick iPad sketch today using my nifty Wacom stylus.