Cubisized Masterpieces

I also put this on my Cafe Sketch class blog. Our first homework assignment was to take three master works and re-draw them with simplified figures. I chose pieces by Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Gericault.

The Rembrandt.

The Caravaggio

The Gericault.

Meet Crowseph!

This little guy is for our first project in Character Design:

His description:

Crowseph lives in the field next to the Korean Seventh Day Adventist Church and makes his 

nest out of fortune slips from cookies from a nearby Chinese food restaurant. He also collects 

other "lost" things.

Week 00 Project Hiroshi

With a goal of completing a short animation piece by the end of the semester I plan on using my Hiroshi-inspired project as a basis for my final character designs.

My piece actually includes four characters (kismet...) so I am hoping to feature one in each of the four panels. The idea, as it currently stands, would be to marry the pieces through setting, style, texture and color scheme. (For example, I hope to give the final piece a sort of 'paper cut out' look but with a cartoon-ish and chromatic vibrance.)

I intend to have a running "set" as a continuous background while each of the characters will be featured in a way that possibly (hopefully...) previews their role in the short piece.

And a late addition... incomprehensible notes about what Im doing from my sketchbook:

Further amendments/super additions:

I didn't really write much above about the origin of the short or the actual plot. The piece will consist of a pair of inexperienced hunters sitting beneath some sort of rocky overhang (it was originally going to be raining) in a state of utter misery while waiting for their first chance to shoot an epic buck. The two ultimately take a series of wild pot shots at an unfortunate squirrel, annihilate a large section of forest (a la the original Predator) only to find that they've mistaken their target and missed just about everything they were aiming at anyway. The piece ends with a pan above their heads (to the top of the overhang) where a trophy buck has been watching their missteps the whole way. 

The piece is based off a story my dad told me about himself and his best friend the first time they went hunting some 30 or more years ago. I have taken a GREAT deal of liberties with the original tale. 

Here are some concept sketches for the characters, I like where I've taken the "fat guy", but still have some work to do on ol' slim:

This last one is a sketch of how I envision the first project for this class, the landscape broken down into four panels each featuring a character:

Ogre-man

I guess I'm on a fantasy creature kick right now...

Half a Dragon

I haven't posted anything in a while so I figured I'd share a sketch I did a few nights ago. I mean, half a dragon is better than no dragon, right?

I apologize for the quality, I am still scannerless.

Felurian

This is another piece from the Patrick Rothfuss series. It is the scene where the main character, Kvothe, and his crew come across Felurian. (It is in the second book and I will spoil it no further, though it says in the jacket notes that he has an encounter with the fairie.) Anyway... the scene stuck out to me as particularly vivid and I chose it for the subject matter of yet another Photoshop painting. Enjoy please!

Sick Farmer

This was a character generator assignment - "sickly farmer".