Final surfaces

Cats and Dogs

So this is my very FIRST post on Oondu! Yay my names Darian Artis Shepherd and I'm a senior illustration major. I'm thinking about submitting this piece for SOI, I still wanna work on some lighting and reflective issues but any crits would be appreciated:)

Been A While

Hey guys, I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd go ahead and share a few pieces I reworked into finals recently. Hope everyone had a great break. :)

AOI/SOI Piece: Partition

Here is a piece I started before last semester and decided to finish up for AOI/SOI. Any criticisms would be great as I expect there to be many things my tired eyes have missed. XD

Candy Cuppycakes

Rico Jackson presents to you, a slight retelling of the fairytale, Hansel & Gretel!

This is my final from my Children's Illustration class. We had to do a retelling of a classic story, poem or fairytale. Naturally, I did fairytale. As I sat and contemplated the many possibilities of the project, I ended up sketching a really sassy looking Gretel, and ran with it. So there you have it. I would really appreciate some critique! As of now, I'm not a big fan of:

* The Witch's shoes- They're so boring! I gotta jazz them up.

* Hansel's hands - Not very flattering shaping or stylization.

* The grass - Couldn't settle on a style or certain way to do the grass, any suggestions, hints, or tips?

* The background - The colors may be too chromatic? Is the green in the windows a little weird? And are those minty lollipops competing too much with the rest of the image?

All things I'll be attending to, but wanted to see if anyone had any ideas?

New Projects, New Members, New Year

Hey everyone. Happy New Year from the Oondu Staff! Which for the time being is just me. I haven't really been posting on here due to the heavy schedule of job hunting and a part time job. BUT since I have had a bit of time with the holiday I got to start something fun. This is just something I am doing to give me a chance to play with texture and traditional painting cues that I want to try to introduce into my work. The face is still a hot mess, but the "unfinished" quality of it I think is going pretty well.

Dead ahead Captain! A new Oondu blogger!

Hey Oondu community! This is Drew, a new blogger. Im really happy to be joining you guys and hope I can make some positive contributions to the blog!

Last summer I attended the Pre College program for Illustration and really got interested in the 3D Illustration department.

This is a Super Sculpey creature that I finished a while ago, and have been making a lot of these. I'm working towards getting them to respond to some sort of environment, but this guy is really more of a creature/character study.

I would really like your thoughts on this project, as well as on other projects that I post in the future!

-Drew

FLATPOST

HOWDY! Not much today. Just messing around in illustrator. Pictured is the main villian from my children's story (I should come up with a name for this soon..) and 4 of the 5 knight masks. the far right one is the black knight's mask and is likely to change the most. I didn't include the yellow knight because his helmet's mask is somewhat hard to abstract and I didnt feel like makin it. Love how the villian turned out though.

Hephaestus surfaces

I've been working with a group on a short film this semester (http://hfilm.wordpress.com/) and I finally have some stuff to share.

I did the texture painting, made the shaders and grew the hair. Rendered in mental ray.

Models by Jeff Horal and design by Alex Curtis.

Watch at 720P

Athena's Rage

8" x 10" Graphite on illustration board

My take on Medusa.

Reginald Edwin Godrick Finished

I've been neglecting the blog lately, so I plan on trying to post more of my work up again on a regular basis. Anywho, here is my alien bust that I finished up a little while back. I think I learned a lot while sculpting this piece and really pushed the level of detail with my work to the next level.

Cú Chulainn

Long time, no post!

I'm fixing up this older piece, trying to make it contest worthy. I've stared at it too long... the anatomy is way wonky... yea? ugh bugh

This is my take on Cu Chulainn, a figure from Irish mythology. Seven fingers, seven toes, eight pupils...

bubblegum and headphones wip

this is a work in progress of my electronic ill project. I don't usually digitally paint, so it's taking awhile. I need to change a few things still (the hands, and the tangency of the foot) other than that its just not done yet.

xmas project

okay, so I did this for a poster for the aoi show, but I plan on revisiting the concept and refining it over xmas break as a project. I plan on fixing the pose of the guy on the snake, as well as the scales and the bird on the bottom. I'm also going to add a background. If there's anything else u guys notice lemme know!!! thanks!!