Thursday, April 24, 2014

Final

Our final assignment was to pick a word or theme from a list and to create a character/scene based on the word. I took the phrase "broken tooth" and ran with it, discovering in my research on the tooth fairy that "In medieval Europe, it was thought that if a witch were to get hold of one of your teeth, you could be in big trouble – possession of this part of your body might give them total power over you." So I made this evil witch/tooth fairy cross over who controls people by taking their teeth. She sits atop a disturbing throne of teeth and there's a variety of teeth in her pile - baby teeth, teeth that might not be human, and some teeth with the root attached still - teeth taken by force.








Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Monster Selfies !!


This assignment was great for many reasons. Mostly because Selfie Culture is great, MONSTER PEOPLE are great, and self representation is great. I started with taking a poll of my friends for what kind of monster person I would be (you know of tumblr's love for monster people yeah?) and got a few different responses. Then I remembered how I've always loved the idea of being a shape shifter because of how many different aesthetics I'm into. How else to depict a shape shifter but in a gif? I started by taking some selfies of my own that exaggerated the characters I was going for.


I picked the best ones and did a loose trace over them to speed up the process. Then I drew directly over those (opting out of the multiple passes of tracing paper I might normally go for), got my scans, and just went for it.


Final Images:





Final Gif:



Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Turning Point

Prompt: Two creatures in a race, depicting the turning point of the race.
Idea: Two mermaids racing towards a piece of gold (mermaids love shiney things) which is, unfortunately, mermaid hunting bait.

Process Gif


Final B&W

Final Color