Scroll down to October 14 entry under title "Notes on Composition" http://dantat.typepad.com/dantat/page/7/ Artist Dan Santat also went to Art Center as Feng, and he does illustrations for children's books. There's a downloadable pdf somewhere in his site where he broke down how did the art for one of his books.
You can also take a totally different approach and use Zbrush in order to remesh/reproject your object into a very uniform quad-based topology. Then send that to Mudbox and detail there. Its a very little known workflow, its a bit hard to explain. If you're fine with that I can make a vid illustrating that on one of your…
Update! -Divided art into Illustration and Concept Art sections. Gotta trim down the concept art section... -Shrunk the thumbnails to 90x250 from 150x420 (!!) -Linked to my LinkedIn page I kind of miss the large thumbnails though. What do you guys think? http://chrisdejoya.wordpress.com/concept-art/ Teck- See you soon…
alternative double you I'm targeting myself up a notch this summer. Basically I'm going to use my name as a service (instead of dadako), keep dadako as my blog and depository for illustration and works, but pimp myself as a Creative Director and seek out the juicy meats. I'm playing the regal card for the King name, but…
Really like this piece bud. Can't wait to see more progress especially with that illustration as your inspiration. I'd have to say that the folds on the torso and back are right on, and the gloves look very slick. His expression and overall facial proportions are excellent. The boots need the most refining. (f.y.i. ...this…
For some reason your sketches look great full of movement and variety but in the same time your colored version are boring and lacking this dynamic and playful vibe , you should definitely working on your rendering techniques and picking a good pose for your final illustration You could also consider working as storyboard…
You still definitely need to keep more things in shadow. Right now everything is full lit, and as a result is very boring to look at. It has no mood or atmosphere, despite the assets being pretty good overall. Here's a little paintover I did to show you what I mean. It's a little too extreme, but it does illustrate my…
There's apparently an executable version of waifu2x with a few more scaling options which is more convenient than using the online version: https://github.com/lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe/releases Topaz gigapixel is similar too, but it uses a different method to upscale images and is usually better for realistic photo stuff…
Did anyone post this article yet? I don't particularly like businessinsider.com but this one article illustrates pretty much exactly why people are protesting wall street. CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About... I like this one too. 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America
Here are some poses and set to base of the illustration. My idea is to portray the moment when Ekko realizes his ability and invention are linked and begins his path as a time traveler "sort". Maybe to help the viewer understand the moment I do it with ComicBook vignettes each try in different timelines. I´ll keep updating…