Digital Illustration

Week 1 

Basic Form Practice

In this task we learnt how to create a 3D looks shapes with different colour tones.

I used the colour and switch between their opacity to bring out 3D effects.

Week 2 

Digital Painting

 In this task I learnt how to paint a human face expression with complementary colour. Since it is first time get in touch with Digital Painting, Complementary colour is more challenging and difficult,     depend with normal skin colour.

I chose a human portrait with angry emotion based on assignment requirement to complete my Digital Painting 

First of all we need to sketch out the outline of the human portrait using Wacom tablet , basically start with face, then eyes, mouth and other parts, categorised into own layer to avoid mistakes when touch up with colour.

Outline trace progress :-

Outline of eyes and eyebrows

Part of outlines.

 

I put the original image layer into 50 % of opacity to make my outlines trace process more smooth and accurate.

Base colour touch up:-

                                                                            

 In this progress I chose the middle purple colour from the colour I painted before start my base colour. Darker purple for shadows and lighter purple for highlight and reflect of light. And again I put my human portrait into 50% opacity to accurately colour up my base colour with the image.

I colored the base of hair with darker purple, normally is darker than face base colour to make it more shadow after apply the hair with paintbrush.

Overview and completion of colour base layer.

Shadow and reflection touch up.

Shadow touch up with darker purple and reflection with light purple colour. In this process, I adjust the size of paintbrush to colour it smoothly.

Paintbrush used:- Soft Round Brush

Others layer touch up ;-
Eyebrows

Eyes

I coloured the eye ball with white colour as base, add some grey around the corner to make it realistic as possible.

Next I apply black at eye with dark purple at the middle.

And again I apply black at the dark purple position.

Finally I apply the white colour as reflection to complete the eye part.

The overview of eyes with shadow , reflection and highlight.


Teeth :-

Teeth outlines...

I apply dark purple at corner of the teeth as shadow, light purple as base and lighter purple as reflection. For the highlight, I use white colour to draw out the white line to strengthen the texture and shape of teeth.




Moustache and beard :-

Apply dark purple colour onto the part of beard and moustache and beard.

 

Apply some lines onto the part moustache and beard with ''Dune Grass'' brush tool.

 Apply with different size, opacity and flow to make it realistic as possible.


Fist and Hand part :-

Outlines of fist

Apply the colours with same methods and steps. For me, its important to play among Opacity, Flow and Size of paintbrush. It help me to complete those layer more easily.

Clothes :-

Outlines touch up as guidelines.

Apply the dark purple , light purple and white colour to create the fold texture of clothes on human body. I also apply some effect on the layer of clothes. I changed the layer from ''normal'' to ''Linear Dodge(Add).''


Final part :-
Highlight touch up
I hide the layers of outlines after complete my artwork to make it tidy and good looking.

Forehead

Nose and eyeball

Teeth

Cheek

Neck, Fist and Clothes

Final Artwork

Final Artwork Background touch up

         
                                               Noise                                        

Explosion

Week 4

Matte Painting

Matte painting, a painted representation of a landscape, or location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that does not exist in real life.

Matte painting is a huge creative field that can add wonder and excitement to static film shots.

In this task I combine some images from web to bring out my matte painting theme. 

 ''Foggy City''

I found some images such as wrecked ship, highway bridge, sea wallpapers, and a fog city wallpaper to complete my task.

Process :

   

Final Outcome :

Fog City

Final Assignment

Character Design

In this task we use the technique we learnt in Digital Portrait painting to color our character designed by ourself .

    

    References and ideas :

    

    Draft on sketchbook :- 

   

    Photoshop Outlines :-

Base Color Test and Fill :-

    

         Zipped mouth :-

    

     Axe and hook process :-

        

           

       Cloth:-

     Axe 

Final Touch Up - Bloodstains

Overview:-

    Background

    

    Combined

 The concept of my character is a man combined with zombies and butcher. I changed the cleaver to an axe that i drew myself to make the feel of horror and terrified.

I also changed the left hand of my character with a hook. Since he is a zombie-butcher, I imagined he is tortured and killed by someone or something that made him became disabled.

For the skin colour, I use darker skin tone to bring out the feel of corpse. 

For the eye of my character, I draw with big eyeball in shape. For the eyes I coloured it with red color and black. The eyes are small in shape. I hope can bring out the feel of barbaric and anger. The expressions of his eye is felt like looking for something to kill, torture or revenge.

I also apply some bloodstain on the hook, axe and on the part of his body to add the feel of bloody and horror. The blood splash and blood stain all around the hook and axe.