30 Dec 2011

Creature Design Week 04

Finally found some time to really get into it and catch up some work on this course.
This was really cool to do and taught me allot.
Practice makes perfect they say :).
Enjoy!



29 Dec 2011

Creature design week 03

Christmas drawings! week 3 it is.
I hope everybody had a good time, I did! :D Always enjoy life.
[awkward silence goes here]
So... week 3: make 5 sketches from thumbs 
I wasn't very fond of my previous thumbs so made a bunch more :) 
Here are mine:
first ones are terrible haha








It was fun :) although, I prefer my thumbs. The sketches aren't exactly what I saw in the thumbs except for C , I like C :) 
More coming up!

Don't forget to check out my Portfolio site!
and don't worry it'll open in a new tab :)

20 Dec 2011

Creature design week 02

Soo its week 2 
Study time :) I love panthers from when I was little and saw a challenge in the spec and subtle 'grays' so I went crazy on this one hehe.

Whoehoew everything looking ok :) this took me about 4-5 hours

This one was a lot harder especially the face proportions, I'm still not very happy with the result but this is what I made so enjoy it :P
It's hard to do this and have breakfast at the same time, without messing up my keyboard with yam :P
Exams are coming! Stress time :P no exams are great, it's the period right before them that teachers decide to give final assignments etc. I wish I had a double or just double the time so I could paint more :)

Same for this one, crits are very welcome!

Check out my Site for more!

7 Dec 2011

Schoolism Creature design

So I signed in for the online course with Anthony Jones at Schoolism.com.
The first week has passed by and I've already learned a thing or two.
Here is what I entered:
These were little thumbs to warm up and get the ideas flowing.

After that it was time to get the creative juices flowing and broadening your mind.

Finally sketching and trying to make something everyone reads the same way.
So what do you think? Please give crits and comments I'm open for all advice!

Ill post every week what I did for it so you can see the progress.
Enjoy!

Grtz
Elie

btw my portfolio site is online! Give it a go: www.ElieVerbrugge.com

9 Sept 2011

London Tube Matte Painting


This is a school assignment:
We had to make a matte painting for our character (in my case Takdo) to 'walk in'.
"Baker Street Tube station keeps a little piece of paradise hidden in the darkness."

This is the result:
Enjoy!

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Final Product
(contact me for full resolution 3.5k x 17.4k)

Close-up of the right side

Close-up of the left side

Concept drawing

9 Aug 2011

Takdo Abate

Finally the London fellar is done.
London has had some serious damage, floods, pollution, etc.
The year is 2111 and survivors are looking for fresh air in the underground network that's been isolated thanks to the flood. They need these places to grow plants and food, to become self-sufficient.
He's the guys looking for those new areas, the Explorer.

It's a school assignment so this is my first next-gen Character.
Less than 15k tris props included and skinned on a biped.
4x 2K maps (Normals,spec,gloss,diff+alpha)
Shaded with Xoliul-Shader 1.5 (Laurens Corijn shader)


Stereoscopic Photo (Crossed-eyes technique) cross your eyes until the ghost images meet in the center and focus on that new image to see it in '3D'. No glasses needed.

8 Jul 2011

Day 12 - 19

Yay starting to learn allot each time I draw! It's not only that but once you are doing a drawing everyday you start to think about it all the time and start looking at the world differently. I'm starting to paint in my dreams already haha but its fun!
My portrait skills need some more love so that's whats going to be the subject for a couple of days.


day 19 Portrait training II
day 18 Portrait training I

day 17 SkintoneStudy

day 16 light and shadow

day 15 Volume 

day 14 Mushrooms!

day 13 Festival 

day 12 tree
See you in a couple of days...

27 Jun 2011

88 days to go!

I had some fun already! Man this was the best idea in months exactly what I needed :) Thank you Dimi and Brett for supporting me by painting along! ;)

Day 11 Landscape

Day 10 Elve's dream

Day 09 Breast spaceship

Day 08 Scotch

Day 07 Savannah

Day 06 Bear

Day 05 Duvel! (its a beer)