Tycho Brahe Visual Development

So this past semester I've had an independent study with prof. Daniel Krall, working on some pre production art for a hypothetical animation. I chose the story of Tycho Brahe, the 16th century Danish astronomer who lost his nose in a duel against a rival mathmetician. I wish we still settled feuds this way. When did that become out of vogue?







Character designs



An environment for the ballroom


Side characters. I wanted to emphasize how the female interest contrasts with the globular side characters.


Same with the rooster.


Samurai flair.

Arabian Market Place

This is an environment for my character design class (ironically) where my group is redesigning Aladdin for a live action film. This would be the market place. I absolutely love the sketches Shinji Kimura did for Tekkonkinkreet, so I tried to emulate some of those qualities.


graphite on bristol

Here are some color and atmosphere studies. I mostly took saved some photos and paintings I enjoyed and grabbed the color to get different results.

Depression's Upside

This is based on an article regarding how studies show clinically depressed people are typically more analytical thinkers, better problem solvers, creative, etc.
You can read the article here.

I've been trying to focus on a quick solution for images. Still trying to use photoshop textures.



Photoshop

Zodiac Assignment

We were assigned to make some spots for a magazine astrology column. I chose a Men's lifestyle magazine since my new years resolution has been to regularly work out (and I'm actually sticking to it!) Anyways, I feel like those things are usually cheesy as hell, but I kind of dove into the cheese factor by thinking up accompanying pieces of advice for each image depending on the sign's personality traits.


Sagittarius- You suffer from the mundane walls of the gym. You foster doing out doors and extreme sports. No one ever said you need to lift weights to get fit. However, don't tempt yourself with eats because when it comes to food, you can't resist.


Pisces- You feel swamped and intimidated from starting a new regiment, leaving you feeling stiff and tired. Don't fret, you don't need to start guns blazing. There's no shame in easing into it, increasing your commitment gradually.


Gemini- Don't get too bored while on the 'mill. Time doesn't have you be your enemy. Enjoying your favorite songs helps run the clock.


Ares- Calm down buddy, and don't burn yourself out. If you don't lay off the creatine soon people are going to think you're pumping 'roids.

Ink and photoshop

Empty pool (revised, now with a leaf!)

I've been chipping away at this for awhile, but I finally feel it's at a presentable stage. You can view the previous stage here.




All done in photoshop.
Blogger kind of messed up the color.

Speed paintish

Here I did a self portrait with a similar palette to what John Singer Sargent would have done. Or at least that's how I saw it. I always make myself look way too young.





About 2 hours in photoshop.

Self portrait

Here's the final (i think?) of a self-portait I've been working on for a while. I've seen a ton of artists who are blatantly inspired by Phil Hale, so I thought, Hey, why not me?
100% Photoshop.



And a detail.

Detail

Here's a detail of something I've been working on. I've had some fun painting in photoshop for the first time in a few months. I'm definitely going to experiment a lot more with textures. No, it's not for Bioshock, but yes I do like Bioshock.