Painter Portraits

Painter still feels super clunky to me, but between my first portrait and my second I think I'm making some progess!

Pixel test of my FFXIV character because I have priorities, woop.

I couldn't get it up on Flickr for some reason, so I'm using Imgur until I figure that out!

Photobashing

1st touchup, 2nd touchup, speedpaint WIP, speedpaint final respectively! For the touchups I mostly used the Transform -> Warp tool to correct proportions, Lasso tool, and Spot Healing Brush to fix dark spots in the texture. I also did some color correcting via Hue/Saturation and Color Balance using Adjustment layers to push for some of colors I was originally going for. For the speedpaint I used the brushes I already had (Kyle's Masterpack - Pencil Soft for linework, some solid brush for colorblocking, Add Grain 2 for depth) and worked with clipping masks to manipulate the lineart. The final layer of color was made using a gradient and Overlay setting. I fidgeted with the Levels towards the end - honestly every time I look at a finished piece work, I'll want to nudge the levels up or a down a notch or two, but since it was a speedpaint I had to keep myself from doing so, haha.

Illustrator Landscape

Here are the landscapes from last week and the one for this week! I actually severely misunderstood the assignment and didn't realize that we had to make a whole new landscape with the new theme rather than doing a theme for one we did previously, so I managed what I could this morning!

Weapon Pattern

I couldn't decide on a particular season, so I went with summer! I was heavily inspired by concept art I was going through last class and decided to focus on weapon creation. I felt like choosing multiple types of weapons could have made it too busy, so I stuck with making swords.

I decided to recreate a movie poster for Spirited Away. Unfortunately there are a lot of minimalistic renditions of the poster already, so I decided to work with some uncommon imagery since most of the poster depicted characters instead of symbols. From left to right, the symbols are: gold, Zeniba's shikigami, and the gift from the River Spirit. I used both the pen tool and the blob tool, and also warping effects and selections tools to manipulate the shapes. I used a clipping mask for the shikigami and for the background, and looking at it again I think it would also ground the smaller symbols if I added some subtle textures to them too. For those two, I cut out a piece of a pattern I made for the texture project. I had some trouble finding a slug that was high enough quality to stick on the poster and aligning the text, but I've been looking at it for so long it doesn't jump out immediately to me. I may make a few minor changes later!

Patty Rodriguez 6x6 Monster

I mainly used the Polygon tool and Effect > Warp to achieve the shapes in this piece. Later in the project I ran into some issues with the clipping mask in conjunction with the warped shapes. After all the objects were all laid down, I realized that the clipping mask had to be placed before the object was warped, otherwise it would convert back to its original shape. It ended up being a time consuming issue backtracking all of the warp settings, but hopefully I find a way to resolve the issue by tonight! Until then, I will post the textures I intended to use and edit this post when it's resolved.

EDIT: Final product uploaded!

I recreated a piece I originally made in Photoshop in Illustrator. It was actually the first time I've made anything in Illustrator, and although the pen tool was a little janky at first I ended up using it the most. After a while, it just became more natural to use (thank god) and it replicated the original shapes in the first image pretty well. I'm still not sure how to get soft or brushy qualities in Illustrator, but hopefully I'll find out soon!

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