Update!

I haven't been able to post anything in a while because I have been swamped like a crazy person. I started a new job and have been in training for 2 weeks while trying to not fall back in classes in school. Everything seems to be settling finally and next month should all fall in the right spots! 

I will download a video of a recent animatic I made for Storyboarding. It's my version of an action scene in a modern twist of a fairy tale. I chose Alice in Wonderland.

Digital Paint Masterpieces Continued!

After wrestling with this one for the longest time I was finally able to put away my tablet and announce it as finished! 

Media- Photoshop

Original artist of the reference piece- Emile Munier!

Some more artistic realeases!!!

This is just a quick little post! I just wanted to add some new and recent stuff I've done...personal and project based!!!

--Enjoy! 

*Irena!

*Yet another portrait of Jean Harlow!...You will definitely notice that I like to paint her a lot..what can I do, she is beautiful!
 

 

*Best Homework assignment yet! My teacher said "Kids, today we will be making ourselves into zombies!!!" Can you think of a cooler assignment? I don't know if it's possible! lol

*And this is just a little sneak peak into my beginner steps as a 3-D modeler! I'm still learning!

One by One!

I've been doing a lot of paintings and usually posting the final results. However, lately I decided to keep saving the painting along the way and kind of "take a picture" of the progress so you can see how it started, progressed, and came out in the end! I used a reference, a painting done by a great artist Alexei Harlamoff. Enjoy!

Digitial ART!

Lately I've been practicing drawing and painting using the computer and various software like Corel Painter and  Sketchbook Pro, but I've grown to love Photoshop quite a bit since I've started learning how to use it and I hope in a year or so I'll be a pro at it. For now I just enjoy working with it and discovering new tools every day! Those who have never worked with Photoshop may think that the software is only for fixing photos and putting animal heads on human bodies, that is definitely possible, but it's only a minuscule part of what Photoshop can do.

I'm including some examples of some design projects and paintings I did lately using Photoshop. The paintings are mostly drawn from other references, but the designs are all mine! Enjoy!

A Little Movie Session!

This post is dedicated to mostly the projects I've done for Animation and Storyboarding classes. I'm going to post some of the Quicktime movies. They are pretty short but the ideas are pretty basic. I'll be adding some more soon since I have a couple more projects to get done by the end of the quarter. 

 *This is a story of a guy heading to a meeting with a friend and running into some obstacles!

 

*And these are some of the little animation I did, they are each only a second or two long so when you open the Quicktime, go to View -> Loop, the video will be playing over and over again, it's easier to see that way!

New Possible Horizons coming my way...very excited!

So about a couple of weeks ago my best friend Lena (she lives in Moscow) asked me a favor to help her design a poster for an upcoming event sometime in the winter in Moscow. It is the first ever event of this kind so she wanted it to be special. I'm not exactly sure the official name for the event, all I know is it's an international meeting/convention of dentists from all over the world gathering in Moscow for the first time! Just a little insight, my best friend is a doctor and she is very much involved with the domestic as well as international medical affairs.
So i promised her I'd play around with some designs and photos and see what I could come up with. The idea was to incorporate some sort of familiar image/images of things that defines Moscow and Russia in general! So I chose to recreate an image of St. Basil cathedral. It's a pretty well recognized building and the best part is that I have visited there several times myself when I was younger. So I after a long evening of painting and editing I came up with this...

I sent it to Lena with hopes that she will tell me if she likes it or would have wanted it to be different in some way. A few hours later she wrote back and told me she Loved it, and what was left now was to get it approved by the official people that needed it.
The final decision was made. THEY LOVED IT!!! Of course they would need to add text and a logo on top of the image and I told Lena I'd help her with that as well.
This was basically my first assignment outside of school that will be put to good use! It was great practice for the future when I will actually be getting paid for it. I still got a long way to go but it's a definite start. And the best part is Lena told me that she may need me to help design tshirts, mugs, etc for the same event! I'm stoked!