We call it Happy Time

For the past few days a coworker and I have been taking 20 minutes out of the afternoon to do some paintings, we call it happy time. We can choose to do whatever we like as long as it's for the sake of increasing our creative knowledge and understanding. The first one is from the art book of Spirited Away and the rest are referenced from photos. 

Trees Everywhere

Been practicing different ways to make trees, found some really helpful tutorials on polycount. I settled on making a thin tall tree using references from south american jungles. Brought one of the trees into UDK and made a small scene full of them. Overall great experience. 

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Purple Canyons

Quick painting I did while thinking of a place I would want to go and get lost in deep thought. 

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Continued work on my values. Not sure what it is... just found it while painting swatches.

Painted Texture Exercise

Did some quick painted textures to improve my ability to hand paint different material types.

Working On My Digital Brush Mileage

Some more paint studies, I like keeping the brush strokes loose but have to think about refining the forms in the future.

Light and Color Study

Just a few quick paintings I felt like doing, both are more of a light and color study. I referenced a photo from Yosemite National Park for the first one and painted the second one from scratch. I may complete them at some point but most likely I'll move on to another painting. I'm digging the more dynamic lit environments so I think I'll do more of those in the future. 

16th Century Cannon

Been taking some time off from other projects this week to make this 16th century cannon. It was originally built for a weekly challenge for one of the forums I visit, the theme was pirate props. Looking up references, I ran into one called the Tsar Cannon which is the largest of its caliber. It would be fun to make that one, I'll have to put it on my list of things to model.

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On to the New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone! I've been pretty busy with family events and holidays, will be getting back to finishing up some work this coming weekday.

Look forward to the next update

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