Yannick's Concepts and Illustrations
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Currently more illustrations than concepts, but I'll fix that.
http://yannicksart.blogspot.ca/
Comments and critiques are implored!
http://yannicksart.blogspot.ca/
Comments and critiques are implored!
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I have recently been getting into speedpainting since I've graduated from animation school. Throughout my three years, I found myself gravitating more towards the concept side of how animation and studio pipelines work. I really loved animation as a whole, but telling a story through how things work really spoke to me.
It's been a long few years, but I'm hoping to reach that goal.
Among speedpaints, I have a number of different things to work on: first is refining my knowledge of the fundamentals!
Critiques are the best way to learn a new perspective and I would love to hear some thoughts from others on my work!
Some more work I've been doing. And now onto some concepts!
More for an original story that never came to be:
Here's another creature concept Ive been working on. Gotta pick the best one before I can move on!
Masquerade themed and ready to go into my portfolio (hopefully)
Here's another creature. Something of a redo to one of my old ones!
Reformatting an older concept with some new art!
Hope this looks a little more professional now!
Got another one done yesterday!
Looking for a faster approach o painting things, or at least one that's more organized!
Got another one done! This one was for a friend as per requested!
I've been really busy between studying and my part time job, but I have been drawing plenty!!
Here is a new goober I'm working on!
I also stumbled across some Sonic Generations mods a person was doing and threw in some colours and whatnot to try and make it look fuller:
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Thanks so much! I'm finding that paintovers help me gain a sense of atmospheric perspective because I have to be consistent with what's already there.
Got another one done today actually. This one had a lot less in it to work with.
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Here is a master study of Sir Frank Dicksee for Day one:
And for Day two I did an environmental study for colours. Picked out a beach photo I liked:
Day three! Master study of John Signer Sargent's "A Gust of Wind"
I'm hoping to do some more concept work that I can show off here too soon, but these studies will be here for the next little while!
I'm really liking how much faster I can block things in now.
Can't wait to see how you look on day 21.
On that note, here is today's! I was rather busy today, but excuses don't get a painting done.
I was on vacation for just under a week and now I'm getting back into the speed of things.
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And a little something extra because it's late over here and I had the idea come to mind:
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Day 14!! I can't wait to line all of these up at the end!!
I'm almost done!
15's focus was to paint something, but do it with everything upside down!
16's focus was on something simple to block as fast as possible
17 was for buildings because I rarely draw or paint them.
and 18's was simply because I wanted cake today~
I'm so glad I finished them all!
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21, a self-portrait, though I didn't get my own features right..... XD
Thank you so much!! I really learned a lot about colour, especially from the backgrounds I did.
I have a new project in mind that I'm really hoping to apply these lessons to!
Worked on a map of an age old IP I've had cooked up for 9 years or so that will probably never see the light of day.
2014:
2015:
Expect some new work here soon!!
A fun thing I came into doing a little more was adding 3D elements to my drawings, so I opened Maya the other day and started blocking out things, then adding them to photoshop and seeing how much farther I could push shapes.
It needs some more work, but for the most part I think I'm okay with this being unfinished because I want to take what I learned and apply it to a new piece.
I'm working on finishing as many pieces as I can this month. Normally, I'd rush through a bunch, but I'm really trying to slow down so that I can take all I can from each one. I've been working on this environment paintover for a few hours now and I could really use some fresh eyes.
I don't think it's anywhere near done, so I'd like to get some pointers on the lighting in particular.
Jungles are weird ;;
I never get tired of these~
I was really trying to focus on where things were in perspective in the ground work of the pose, then I turned my focus to the lighting when I began to colour.
Here's another recent character painting of mine. Kept in mind the shadow this time! I really like how much better it pulls the piece together!!! @ralphosn thanks for that little tip!
What's funny is that I drew the above character to be a very buff girl... so clearly that didn't come off as such, haha!
I'll be updating her for future reference~
In the meantime, I'm going to try and post more art!
Thanks so much!! I'm really hammering away at this one!
Here's an update. I've changed the colours quite a bit on it and went for a sunset. I really like warm colours~
Not too happy with the body of the character right now. If anyone's got any critique, I would love to hear it!