Art

Rising from the Ashes

by | Jul 24, 2010 | ,

One evening while I was at my apartment, I decided to have a chat with my sister on Skype, listening to her trying to write some fiction. Some villainous character of hers was supposed to make a resurgence but it was failing spectacularly. He was made akin to the “Phoenix”, as he was supposed to make such a comeback having been defeated.

 

As you can see my mind sometimes goes off in different directions. I visualized this occurrence as such, and sent the doodle over. I don’t recall how exactly it was received, but the effort was noted, nonetheless.

A Quick Suika for Anna

by | Jun 19, 2010 | ,

Random nonsense I did on my tablet one evening for Anna, someone I had met back from Animazement 2008. We were both Touhou fans at the time and I decided to indulge her over AIM one evening with my rendition of how Suika typically acted. Don’t think I was too far off.

WIP – Liara x Raine Crossover

by | Mar 25, 2010 | , ,

I may have not played Mass Effect, but I have a pretty good idea on what it’s about. And honestly, I love the storyline. But you know what’s even more better? Tales of Symphonia + Mass Effect.

 

With me getting into the swing of hopefully doing graphic arts or such this year at ETSU, I’ve upped doing art a whole lot more, in hopes to get more practice. As such, I decided to do an ambitious project; not only create a crossover fanart piece, but freehand it completely instead of draw on paper then transfer.

 

I’m using Corel PhotoPaint for the time being, as that’s what I’ve always used for all my digital art since 2007. But you get a good view of my layout for this project. Best of luck for me getting somewhere with this.

First Comics Test

by | Jan 5, 2010 | , ,

I’m still fooling around with the Wacom tablet. I came to the point to try this; I guess I wanted to try making some sort of comics after seeing some fan ones on deviantART float around. It took me ages to come up with this; I think I need a new computer that doesn’t lag when I draw.

Solaria Novus Fanart

by | Jan 1, 2010 | , ,

This was a fanart I churned out in the last week of December, hoping to give some sort of visual to go along with the Solaria Novus. I head teamed up with a bunch of people off of Youtube, and that’s what actually got me started to go down the path there to do things. Who knows? I can’t wait to see the final project done!

 

Either rate we have the main characters of the audio play; Ruri from the new Nadesico movie, Lloyd Nebulon from Lloyd in Space, Fillmore from his show’s sake. In the back is the old Normandy from the first Mass Effect game, given the Airport Mania treatment with the face for added effect.

 

One of these days I may color this. But for the time being, it’ll remain in its infamy the way it is; a sketch.

WSCC – Basic Design 1 – Midterm 2 – Shesha Naga

by | Mar 18, 2009 | ,

Didn’t have a WIP of this when I was working on it, but this was my other midterm work that I did while in Basic Design 1. We had to then create something from scratch with imagination, but use “building blocks” to create the work from real life references. In that, it couldn’t be completely conjured up in your mind.

The theme we were given was legendary/mythical creatures.

Definitely had to do a lot of research on cobras to make this piece, and had this collage of photos that I worked with until the end of the project. The teacher was super-strict on using real-life references, so it had to be around at all times.

This was a B-grade for me, if I recall correctly.

Originally done October 27, 2008.

WSCC – Basic Design 1 – Charcoal Studies

by | Mar 18, 2009 | ,

While I’m on the streak for getting photos from Basic Design 1, let me toss this into the ring.

Back in 2008 I took a quick snap of this while working in class; now you get the see the whole thing in proper glory, in addition to another page that the first photo didn’t show!

Nothing too much to be said about this; we had to use charcoal so we were discouraged to erase, and also add shading in addition to how we interpreted shapes.

I don’t remember the grade I got on this, but I believe I did pretty good and met the assignment’s expectations.

Original done September 29, 2008. The first snap can be seen here.

WSCC – Basic Design 1 – Midterm 1 Finished

by | Mar 18, 2009 | ,

I was behind with quite a few things. This includes actually updating you when this piece got done and what happened with it.

First, the piece I was trying to reinterpret. It’s called Ancestors of Tehamana by Paul Gaugin. I remember I wanted to go with a multitude of other pieces, but I was told to “stick with a Western style, and pick something with a prominent face.” So no animals, scenery, that sort of thing.

Alright then, that’s what I did.

Honestly I wasn’t too happy with the face, but I did the background pretty well at least. I was told to do a lot more definitive shading and learn how to copy realistic body features with my art technique. Both very valid things to work with, especially when working with traditional media like this.

I honestly was a bit spooked with the island motifs in the back; give me an Alien game any day over that. The eyes on the primary clay figure reminded me of the atypical aliens that’d show up in most UFO encounters.

I got a B on this, mainly for the points above.

This piece was completed September 2, 2008.

You can view a WIP here.

Who Am I?

Who Am I?

My name's Janeil.

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Moonlight game dev, creative writer, sharing my personal experiences.