Week 1 thumbnails

Week 1: Basic Composition Thumbnails

I chose the French fairy tale Beauty & The Beast

The setting is Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.  This is a classic fantasy genre with a realistic art style.  I am focusing on three distinct locations in the story: a city where the Merchant visits, a modest country farm where the his family lives, and a hidden palace where The Beast lives.

Week 1     Basic composition and thumbnail for environment.  

HW: 2 full pages of thmbnails

Week 2     Shape languages and composition  

Hw: 2 full pages of marker and pen rendering

Week 3    exterior building callouts

HW: 1 page of thumbnail sketches and 1 page of different building exterior callouts

Week 4   interior shot of buildings

HW:   1 page of interior thumbnail sketches and 1 page of final interior shot

Week 5   exterior composition sketches

HW: 1 page of exterior thumbnail sketches and 1 page of final exterior shot


Week 6   Prop and vehicle thumbnails

HW:  2 full pages of prop and vehicle ideation sketches

Week 7    shape languages and idea sketches

HW: 1 page of defined prop sketch

Week 8     marker and pen application

HW: 1 page of defined vehicle sketch            

Week 9      applying props and vehicles to environment       (Photoshop sketching technique demo)

HW:  1 page of  your vehicle and prop in the environment

Week 10     finals due

Material list

- 11x 17 Hammermill brand , 30lbs heavy weight paper  recommended

You can buy it here   http://kellypaper.com/store/tustin


- Graphite hb, b, 2b    
-eraser , electric eraser(optional)
- ink pen set   ( these are set of ink pens, size 005, 01, 03,05 ,08)  any brand is fine
          I recommend prisma but steadler or micro are fine
- brushpen : pentel recommended (optional)
- high tech pens (optional)
- whiteout or white gel pen
- rolling ruler  
-copic marker set  either set of cool grey or warm grey
- small sketch book: Moleskine recommended

Student works from fall 2012 term

Hi,  Here are my thumbs for the city scene:

Also here is my interior with a bit more finish it still has a way to go:

Temple

Still need to work on speed, on cleanliness, and a lot on hierarchy, but I'm extremely happy on how much training this assignment has allowed me to practice on environments in general.

These have all been for a project I've been doing for fun called Project Rain.  The characters I'm doing for Chavez's class are part of this environment.

And here are some interior stuffs!

Found this scan.  It's a pretty good gist of the mood and direction I was going for, which is the feeling of an older brother going off to college or something, and the childhood that is left behind.