Journey To The West

Alrighty!  A bit back, another project for class required me to come up with a book cover for digital illustration.  Since the only recent book I'd read was Journey To The West, and that book is awesome, that was the one I chose to do.  I did kind of double my workload a little bit--this became not only a book cover project, but also a run in character design, which ended up being a lot more fun and cool in the long run.  Designing Monkey made the whole project worth it.

Looking back though as far as the cover goes, I'd probably pick something different.  Not enough people had read or even heard of Journey To The West to realize that yes, the fan was a kind of weapon, albeit only because it was magical.  I got a lot of feedback about it not being very menacing because of that.  Too funny!


So, here we go: some WIP stuff and the final result.

BTW, the Maya Mudbox app thing...yeah, I was taking a 3D class at that time...and it was...yeah...

Initial composition roughs and ideas taken from different things in the book.

 

Initial character designing.  Some very different stuff, the settled design on the left.

Start of a render for the character.  Didn't go very far...but still, fun.

Final color design for the character, with the final again being on the left.

Journey To The West The final result.  Photoshop CS5.

--Audrey Greenhalgh

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http://audgreen.deviantart.com
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Zom-bay!

Okay, so for an assignment, we had to do something horror, and I'm pretty sure that specifically, we were instructed to do up some zombies.  Why?  Because zombies have been THE thing for horror for two years now it seems.  Any who, here's my zombie picture.  I had so much fun with this one!  Nothing like dead gut spray.

Oh, and for those curious, my dear friend/model for this image has hers and our other classmates put up on her blog here:

Oh My Sketch!

So you know, check it out. ;3

--Audrey Greenhalgh

http://audgreen.deviantart.com/
http://audreygreenhalgh.deviantart.com/

This Is Halloween

...okay, not really, it's April.  But when I did these images it was Halloween.  There's nothing more inspiring than a holiday to get you drawing (well, there is, but not in the context of this post), and no holiday is cooler than Halloween.  I was wanting to strengthen my portfolio with some environments, and I also wanted to do some witches, as well as test out some new brushes.  So, here they are!

Witch Digital Paint, Photoshop CS4

Pumpkin City Digital Paint, Photoshop CS5

Mermaid Sushi is good for you!

Alrighty, today I have a good evolution of imagery for you!  This started as a painting in a painting class I took in college my Junior year--we were supposed to do something that imitated another painter, and I chose my all time favorite, Alphonse Mucha.  He's just too awesome not to!  So after deciding on that, I settled on a Mermaid made into sushi.  That was the easy part.  Let's just say that my painting skills were terrible that year.

Well, a year and a half later, I remade the image for a digital illustration class, with much more satisfying results.  Below is the WIP for the painting and the final result in digital illustration.

And who knows? I may touch it up again sometime--I personally want a t-shirt of it. :3

Original WIP for Mermaid sushi.  Rough, rough with color.  I then drew out the details and projected it onto a canvas, resulting in the painting on the end there.  It looks terrible.

Second pass prep for Mermaid sushi.  Image was scanned in and outlined.  Color corrections were made to be better matched to Alphonse Mucha's style.

Final product:  Digital Illustration made in Photoshop CS5.