Sketch of the day

Randomness.  Listening to Ludovico Einaudi, freaking awesome music, and mellow enough to be in the background without being distracting.

Final Project

Starting with the environment sketches from the last project.  I built on these and widened the theme a little bit, moving on to the human society that inhabits this world as well as a bit of the local flora and fauna.

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Inspiration: Nivbed

NIVBED
Livejournal
Website
Aja actually showed me this site during the last critique, this guy's art is amazing!  And I am really jealous of his website.  I wish my ideas were that awesome :P  Anyway.  On to the good stuff!  I suggest you check it out on his site though, to see the full versions and the background and all that.  And make sure your monitor isn't too dark or contrasty, or you'll miss out on a lot of great detail and texture. I really like how he gets some of these lighting effects, if it's mixed painting and photography or what I'm not exactly sure, but it looks really interesting, especially the iridescent dreamlike quality a lot of it has.

Some other interesting artists I'll write about later, check it out if you happen to find this.

Brian Froud

Jan Brett

Sketch - Flowers

Interesting flowers on these trees around campus.  No reference so it probably looks nothing like them really, but oh well.  I liked the color scheme.  Could use more contrast though.  Might pick it back up later, might not.

Edit: since I can't just complain without trying to do something, tried livening up the flowers a little.  Meh.

Resource: Illustration Friday

Love this site! :) Every Friday they come up with a new theme to illusrate, along with a little quote for inspiration. I get their emails every week, they also have a facebook group, and they don't spam. Definitely made of awesome.

Illustration Friday