Vacuum Tube Night Fighter

Made a basic model of the dieselpunk night fighter in 3ds Max, threw mental ray clay and glass materials on it, composed it the way I wanted it and gave it the photoshop treatment until I reached that point where I'm not sure what more I can do with it, so I called it done. Need to go back to my Silverhawks.

I always started something unrelated to portfolio work on the side, more of a color theory and animation exercise, working on it off and on.

Seems the external HD where I stored all my photos has failed, or is close to it. Maybe I can manage to run it for just a bit longer and save as much of it as possible. Damn shame.

Reworked a speed paint... but despite the positive comments on facebook, I don't think it's quite up to standard.

Speeds:

Almost done

Last class is tomorrow, Friday the 17th at 3:30 pm.

There will be one more post following this one with work from Fall semeter 2010. Anything after will be from Israel, (and I'm planning to be productive,) until I return on the 14th.

It wasn't an easy semester, and I have some mixed feelings about how much I learned, and the grades I'm expecting.

Landscape painting was awesome, I enjoyed anthropology. Comic book was pretty good, but a lot of busy work. It was fun to mess around with Sculpey, and I might use it again to make little models as reference, but I don't think I can turn sculpting into a career.
Children's market illustration was ok, but not great, as was illustration methods.
Heard a lot of good information during professional practice, but I'm not super happy with any of the projects I did, even though they were self-assigned.
Web Design II was fun, seems like I put more effort into it than anyone else :)
(reminds me I need to work on the overhaul of my site)

Art!

Caripeta angustiora - Brown Pine Looper:
Gouache painting for illustration methods, done from photo ref

Page 2 for comic book class. We never got to the 3rd planned page.

Mighty mouse cover redesign, done in Painter and Photoshop.
Pro practice class.
Original

Heightened drawing self portrait, charcoal and white pastel.
Photo ref.