My Journey

 

The title of my post and the image is the same. I did this back in 2015 for a school assignment. At the time my teacher thought Putin wasn't "stupid enough" to start a new cold war. I hope my teacher remembers me and my piece, lol.

 

Yup, this is still an ongoing thing, lol.

Yes, I haven't corrected the fur shading, or added highlights on the woman, or even cleaned up the crown, but here I am moving forward with the bird.

Painting this has been chaotic from the beginning. I wanted to abandon this, but I've determined to finish this no matter what, even if it takes me a gazillion years.

 

Yup, yups, calzephyr was spot on about the orange. It went well with the existing orange I was using for the "Geometric" branding title. The grey background in my previous post was just the Illustrator artboard. I limited the colors to white and dark blue, because I knew I wanted to either place the mockup logo on a cardboard like background or a solid color.

Been super busy with job searching, interviews (yes, more interviews!!!), health, and family stuffs.

This was one of the last things I needed to post my first product on Creative Market! I know it won't sell, but I'm ok with it. It honestly helps with my creativity and it's fun!

 

I'm going to start with these little guys. I have to clean up the illustrator file and create the presentation collateral. Then it'll go up on Creative Market :)

Will try to keep adding hummingbird species every weekend.

So exciting!

 

I want to try something different for my first Creative Market product. So, I've decided to make a series of minimalistic vector hummingbirds. I usually do the naturalistic thing, but for the sake of time and doing something different, geometric birds are the way to go.

I haven't decided if I want to add textures or leave as is. The look and feel is basically finished, I just need to adjust a few things. I can't wait to create the other five or so cute birds.

 

Memories. I found this infographic I created for my first attempt at freelancing. The image was suppose to explain to potential clients what to expect during the design process.

I had so much time back then. I creating all individual assets from scratch, yes even the credit card, lol. Illustrator has it's charms.




LOL

Yes, I'm still working on this.

I used Illustrator to clean up the crown. Once I finish the face/neck I will blend the crown better into the skin. I gotta clean up the bird by blending the front feathers better. Still need to add buckles and mirror the crown elements into it's leather shield.

Still a lot of work that needs to be done.

 

Finally got around to work on this. Yes, it still needs a ton of work, but at least I made some progress, lol.

I've been busy compositing for clients and for my portfolio. Apparently, presentation matters. I mean why tho? Actually, ok, I get it, but still. When it comes to presentation I'm fucking lazy. I'm like ok, it's done, drop the image on my site and volia--DONE! Admittedly, it does make my portfolio look better.



This is an example of one of my composites.

I didn't add a glare on the cover, because I wanted it to look matte.

Those castor beans were a fucking pain in the ass. THANK GOD for layer masks and my pen. 

Next is animating my website designs, because, well you know--PRESENTATION.

 Almost Finalized look of the character



It's so dark, because initially I was going to go straight to color. Since I was still figuring out design elements like crown, attire and even some armor for the bird I felt I should do a value study first. Everything is still sketchy and rough, but it gives me a good idea where I want to be. I'm leaning toward a round decorative shield in the background.

Shorter Hair


I always envisioned her to have short hair, but during the design process I fell in love with super short hair. Also, I didn't feel she should be in a traditional throne type setting. Each sketch was going toward a viking/norse type of look--and I liked it! 

The Beginning


The initial sketch was of a younger woman. I wasn't sure if I wanted her evil or just normal (lol). After the initial sketch, I felt the queen should be older/mature. I wasn't interested in drawing/painting an oversexualized 16-year old looking queen. There are a lot of art depicting that type of image, I just didn't want to go down that route.

 

Eh, at least it's done. Onward to the next project :)

 

This is progressing a lot sooner than my other ones.

For this one I changed the main brush I use.

I still need to fix a few things.

Now I need to do my daily sketch.