Color Palette Challenge!

So I saw a challenge going around some artist friends, where they presented a list of color palettes to other people, asked them to pick a number and a character, and make art. I thought it looked like a good bit of fun and an interesting color challenge, so I gave it a shot! Not too many, but here are the results:

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Queen Elsa of Arendelle (Frozen)

Prince Hans of the Southern Isles (Frozen)

Hiro Hamada (Big Hero 6)

Kristoff Bjorgman (Frozen)

Inktober 2014

It's been a while since October came and went, and I realized I ought to share the results of a month's work.

I tried to challenge myself by picking different subject matter for each day and did my best not to repeat. There are exceptions, though. One of which being Spider-Man, as I did both the Spider-Man drawings on the same day to make up for missing the first day of the month. The other is using myself and my roommate as drawing subjects several times, but I tried to keep the styles of each of those drawings very different.

So without further ado, here it is. Inktober 2014!

 

Back to Boarding

So I guess 2 years is a pretty long time to go without blogging. Whoops? But I come bearing fruits of labor!

I've been trying to get back into storyboarding, and as an exercise, I tried making boards for songs from broadway. I chose to go with Rent, because... Well, I have a little bit of history with it. I had heard the entire soundtrack a million times over before I ever went to see it performed on stage. In fact, I think I only got to see it on stage just a little bit before the movie came out. As a result, I had formed images and movies in my head that were affected only by the song's lyrics. And of course, they were quite a bit different from what actually ended up on screen or on stage.

So I took one of the songs that I felt was most impactful to me. One of the ones that I had the strongest vision for. And that was Goodbye Love. Here are some of the boards I started:

And thumbnails for the next sections:

Not the greatest, but practice makes perfect, right?