May 4th:
More progress on the Mother Nature's body textures. I suppose I should start showing these views of her more closely since I'm no longer working so much on the whole spread of images as I am focusing on one angle at a time...
Mother Nature: Body Textures
May 3rd:
I started adding some textures to Mother Nature's front-facing body.
Daily Art: Nature Hair
May 2nd:
Mother Nature has hair now. I'm still just playing around with my ideas for her a lot...
Daily Art: Getting Back to Nature
May 1st:
Back to Mother Nature for May Day. Not a whole lot of progress today: just some side-view dress outlines and layer adjustments.
Daily Art: April
Daily Art: Silhouettes
April 25th:
I put down some basic color on the character and her clothing. I'm not working very quickly on this character because I'm planning to make her quite complex and I still have a few too many ideas bouncing around in my head to nail down all of the details yet.
Daily Art: Mother Nature Begins
April 24th:
I started the digital work on my Mother Nature character today, but I didn't get very far. I was kind of having an off-day where nothing felt like it was working right...
Daily Art: Mother Earth Character
April 23rd:
My only real work today was a little bit of photo adjustment and layout. I drew these basic turn-around outlines of a character that I've been working on designing for awhile last summer, and now I'm feeling like I want to get back to it.
Daily Art: Cut-Outs and Character Sheets
Day 104:
Ok, so it's not really a character sheet yet, but I began sketching to create one. Unfortunately the sketching was slow because I was doing a bit of a redesign during it, but I feel like I'm going in the right direction. The subject of my character sheet will be the Mother Nature character that I posted on this blog in earlier Daily Art entries. I decided to change the "cloak" to something detachable. It's now connected to a bunch of birds that land on Mother Nature when she wants to wear it and fly away when she doesn't.
The bottom two images were sketched when I was considering that the character may be able to transform according to her environment, reflecting the flora and fauna of the location. I realize that there's not much to them, but they were just a couple of sketches while I was brainstorming...
Day 103:
I cut out some pieces of my cut-up sketchbook. They are difficult to see in this image without knowing where to look, but they're there:
Daily Art # 16
I have begun the digital painted version of Mother Nature.
Day 45:
The first stage of the wind turbine on which Mother Nature is frolicking.
Day 44:
The sketch depicting the general layout of the digital image.
Update on 2014-02-24 05:26 by Amber Nicole
A Little More Artwork That I Did Today:
I started painting textures for my Gecko model in Mudbox.
Then I cleaned up the textures a bit in Photoshop:
Daily Art # 15
Days 37 - 43:
I've had a lot going on in the past week, but I managed to make a tiny bit of progress each day on my Mother Nature design. Unfortunately I failed to document her each day as I've done in this past, but whatever is in the folowing image that wasn't present on last week's post is the cumulative total of this week's progress:
This image of her is now complete. Next up is a full-color view of her in a posed position.
Daily Art #14
I've made more progress on the Mother Nature design over the last few days:
Day 36:
Day 35:
Day 34:
Daily Art #13
Day 33:
Just some quick concept sketching today:
I'm planning a piece of digital artwork depicting a character design for a sculpture and 3D model of a Mother Nature figure. I'm trying to improve upon the design and execution of a sculpture that I completed many years ago. The basic concept for the character's design will be the same, but I hope that the character will benefit from my additional years of study by attaining a new sophistication and depth this time around. I've had many new ideas for her costume elements over the years, and I plan to improve upon the generic pose of the original by giving her a sliver of environment to interact with so that she will portray a bit of a narrative as well as an interesting design in her new incarnation.
I also did another random little concept sketch:
I have no immediate plans to transform this concept into a full artwork. It was just something that popped into my head after my sister saw the Red Riding Hood sketch and suggested that I create a whole series of Fairy Tale twists. This image doesn't really speak to me the way that Red Riding Hood did. I like it, but it just doesn't seem quite as poetic as a tiny Red leading the huge wolf along by a leash made of her cloak...