Dragon in Color

In the spring semester I did a pencil sketch of this guy, today I felt like taking him into photoshop for some color! :D

The Genie is out of the lamp

Coloring with Photoshop...

Vinyl Toys!

Here's my first attempt at painting vinyl figures! This little monkey glows in the dark and was bought from Toy2R at comic-con a few years ago. You can buy your own BabyQee here for $10:
http://store.qeeworld.com/baby_qee/babyqee_3.5angelmonGID
First a sketch was drawn of course...
...then, the parts I wanted to glow were covered with stickers. I used a spray on primer & then painted the rest by hand with acrylic paints. As a last step, I sprayed on a glossy finish.

Next, I painted a vinyl figure I bought at Urban Outfitters made by Munny world. Mini Foomi was a the perfect shape for Marco P. the main character in my thesis project, so of course I couldn't resist making a mini-Marco! You can buy your own Munny here for $9.95:
http://www.kidrobot.com/Toys/DoItYourselfToys/MUNNYWORLDMiniFOOMI4InchWhiteEdition.html

Horse sketch

Our Amish neighbors were over the other day doing some work for us & I had fun doing this quick sketch of their horses.

Fundamentals of Texturing & Lighting

We had two major projects during the course of the summer semester which is just about over now. The first was the alley way project where we were given a black set model in Maya to texture using real photos, combining them in for the UV maps in photoshop.

For our final project we were given a photo and a blank model for a pumpkin, which we had to texture, light, and then composite so that the 3D pumpkin would become indistinguishable from the rest. I think I was getting close, but there is still more I could do with it.