Happy (albeit belated) Holidays!

So over the holidays, I decided to make a very special gift for someone in particular. Quite the fan of BioShock, I decided that perhaps I would create a piece of fan art to help celebrate the holidays as well as preparing for the release of BioShock: Infinite! I'm quite excited for it, anyway. This is just a fun piece that I painted (except for the city backdrop, those details will follow) that I enjoyed doing.

As noted in the last sentence I do need to add that the city background is not my original work. It belongs to Tim Warnock, check out his website: http://www.thenextside.com/index.html it's a great website and he's a great artist!

(This image was taken from the BioShock video game series or from websites created and owned by 2K Games, the copyright of which is held by Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. All trademarks and registered trademarks present in the image are proprietary Take-Two Interactive and its subsidiaries.)

The learning process

It seems to me that part of the learning process is accepting your failures along the way and realizing what you did wrong and how to succeed the next time you try. That statement is not saying that you should throw in the towel or just give up by any means. However, there is still the phrase that you can't polish a turd. If it's bad in the initial stages, then it's best to get the feedback to recognize that early on and start over fresh. With that said, I recently worked on an interior scene for a class. I learned a lot, which is the best thing I could have asked to get from this. It's not what I would have hoped to produce as an end result but since doing this I've improved in technique, methodology, and overall process. Pull out the positives that you can!

(2 versions, the first one is lower res, but includes smaller edge details that the high res cropped out)

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New year, new goals!

Well it seems I still have yet to break my bad habit of not updating frequently. However, it's a new year! So here's to hoping for that frequency to increase! I think I'll start off with a throw back to an animation background I did for an animation project class last year. The animation was a traditional 2D project that ran for 30 seconds. Looking back there are plenty of improvements that could have been made, but hey that's all part of the learning process, right?

Back to it.

Well, it's been quite awhile. The last several months have been crazy busy and I haven't posted in what seems like forever. No better time than the present to update! With that, here's a concept I did for a desert scene. It took about 2-3 hours. I tried applying some things I had observed and learned from other artists, just gotta keep practicing!

Old Piece

This is actually an older study (from about a year ago) that I wanted to do after I found this awesome picture online:

http://www.thoughtsonbluesandreds.com/2011/11/hashtag-hits-twitter-tuesdays-on-friday.html

It's not finished, and I hate to upload it unfinished, but maybe I can use this as motivation to work on it a bit more. As for right now I'm working on some original pieces, though. Hopefully they'll turn out well. Here's hoping!

Environment Study Annapurna

Another environment study and another mountain. This was a study I did a few days ago before working on other personal projects, I'm planning on switching up subject matters for my studies soon. Diversify!

Photo Source: http://beautifulplacestovisit.com/mountains/annapurna-nepal/

Environment Study K2

This was a quick environment study (the mountain is K2) I did before working on some other personal work I had to do. I got caught up in some detail work, so it ended up being an hour worth of work. Slower than I would have liked, but with practice comes growth! Onward!

Photo Source: http://world-visits.blogspot.com/2012/02/k2-wallpaper-second-highest-mountain-in.html