Deftones New Album: Koi No Yokan

I remember my first listen to the Deftones. I was laying on my bed, not exactly paying attention to the vomit pouring out from the T.V. I was about to turn it off when the song 'Bored' came on. I watched for a few seconds as Chino and the band jumped about in the grunge style band room. My head fell back onto my pillow and my eyelids shut. Even as a 13 year old, I could tell what a beautiful expression of emotion this was. I'm sure I speak for all Deftones fans when I say this, "The pieces this band produces are absolutely gorgeous". They're delicate yet rough. I truly believe one can do ANYTHING while listening to the music of the Deftones. This band is one of the many reasons I'm proud to be a 90's Kid. Their new installment, 'Koi No Yokan' which will be their 7th record, is coming out in 5 days! Run, grab, kill! It's worth it! Ok, maybe not kill...

Digital Painting Assignment 4: Seasons

 Unlike the other projects, this one was not done from photo reference. We were given line art which would be painted over with the expression of a particular season. As shown above, I chose to paint a winter scene at a later time in the day. Painting trees is quite complex, especially when they're affected by rain or snow. I definitely found it challenging trying not to make the snow look like icing or cotton candy.

Dragons, dragons, dragons

Generally, my life drawing sessions end up with many of these. "I can't help it if I'm looking at a model and all I see are horns and scales!" All bad jokes aside, I enjoy drawing creatures. At times I find drawing a few over grown reptiles is quite relaxing. I do feel bad for letting my life drawing time go to waste though...ah well, gotta stick to your guns right?

Traditional to 3D

One of our Lighting/ Texturing assignments required us to render a kitchen model in a creative way. A few lights, textures, an ambient occlusion and here we are.

Weapon Collection

Trench Knives

Curved Shirasya

Dynasty Warriors Dragon Blade

Curved Bushido Katana

Bushido Demigod Katana

My brother and I like collecting weapons of all sorts. Compared to his collection, mine is a smaller and simpler set, reserved only for the zombie apocalypse. Note: These are not authentic models.

Digital Painting Assignment 3: Cars

I'm a Lamborghini kinda guy so I pulled up a photo of the Aventador. Cars have an excellent supply of shadows, highlights and particular textures so they make for a formidable challenge. I blocked in almost every single colour shape to make the piece as realistic as possible. With a bit more time, I could have feathered some of the very sharp tonal shapes, producing a better end result. Despite the nit-picking, I'm still quite happy with the way it turned out.

Digital Painting Assignment 2: Head And Hands

It's Denzel Washington! This week's assignment requires the study of head and hands. I snagged a pic of Denzel after he ate all the cookies in the cookie jar. This assignment in my honest opinion was a tremendous amount of fun. Although I did manage to get frustrated and storm off screaming swear words in different languages, I pulled through and finished it in the end. The face could still use a bit of work however, I'm rather pleased with the hands. With this project, my greatest challenge was trying to make him look like Denzel and not Obama.