Snow Paintings

This is my first painting in quite a while! We had a bunch of snow fall today (although none of it stayed) and it put the inspiration in me to do a painting around that theme. I couldn't decide whether or not to add some wildlife into the shot, so I'll present to you both versions - one with a rabbit and one without! The merits and emphasis of the painting changes between them, so enjoy the one you like the most! All in all the background took about two and a half hours to do, and the rabbit took a little bit more! Enjoy!

Roo!

Here is a kangaroo character design I did the other day as practice. I intended on it just being a quick doodle but he ended coming out quite well, so I refined him some more and added color. The arm was very tricky to do, and I probably redrew it five times. A friend told me to widen it at the shoulder area, and that fixed it like magic. It's funny how a simple change like that can drastically make something better.

It's Been A While!

Last time I posted was back in September, right as I was starting my 2nd year of my course Digital Media Design. Phew, time flies by fast! I'm more or less graduated now from that course at Red River College! I've also since started my own website, which should be listed on the right side now. You can see my portfolio there too.

Going into this year I really thought it was going to be easier, because of the lesser amount of classes I had to worry about - but it turned out to be just as difficult. The projects while less in volume, were more demanding individually. It all felt a bit more competitive too. I may end up posting up some of the projects I did over the year, but they probably won't be in order. I'll just post whatever I get around to posting!

I should leave something nice here though. I ended up making a poster for Open House at Red River College, which is a get together of people in our industry from around the city to chit chat, have some good food and see the work of students. It was quite crowded, but it went great! There must have been 300+ people there, and the guest speaker was great as well.

In our room for Digital Media Design I had a poster up with a landscape I put together just for the poster. It had a link to my website and all that, but sadly the size difference between portrait-style posters and landscape-style posters was humongous. My poster ended up being 11x17, which is nothing to complain about, but if I had made something in portrait style, it would have been 34x22! I wish I had known that ahead of time - I could have fit a more diverse selection of work on it instead of just one thing. Ah well, so it goes.

Here is the poster I made. It had a link to my website on it as well for the final printout, but I haven't had anyone contact me about my work yet. Maybe we'll see what happens this summer?

Robot Silhouettes

Here are some robot character design silhouettes I did for the 3D major class I'm in. I haven't really drawn many robots, so I was quite happy when these started coming out believable and interesting. (To me anyway.) It's quite neat what a few scribbles can do.

I'm currently working on a model of the one with the red checkmark next to it. =)

Character Design

Here is a character design I did a while back that I neglected to post till now. He/she came out so fat! Would probably make for a good cuddly toy or something though, hehe. x)

Forest Background

Here is some forest scenery I made the other day, using brushes I made myself. I thought it came out pretty well! =D

Otter Design

This is the intro page to my children's book that I wrote and illustrated for one of my finals in college. He is the main character and I quite like how he came out. Sausagey! x)

Enjoy!