Once more with feeling

Spent a little bit of time over the holidays working on Dune, but mostly did some armour studies and unrelated stuff to give things a rest. Stoked to start back up on Dune over the next three months though!

armour study

armour study

bird girl doodles

Chani

Harpy Concept and A Heck of a lot of Bird Anatomy

All the bird anatomy stuff has led up to this!

Final Harpy Concept

Head Detail

Initial Head Sketch & Inspiration

Front of Wing Details

Back of Wing Details

Skin Pass

Skeleton & Muscle Anatomy

I'm really stoked on the result, and learned so much in the process! It was a bit of a compromise attaching a human head to a bird body--since birds don't have sternocleidomastoids or a trapezius, which are fairly defining for human necks, I agonized a bit over adding them. Ultimately I felt it was important to blend the human head with the bird body (keeled sternum, rigid shoulder blades) so I needed just a bit of human anatomy to make that organic.

I feel like I've come away a lot more comfortable approaching bird and bird-hybrid anatomy :3

Birbs

Been digging into bird anatomy lately, here's some feather pattern studies & a comparison between arm anatomies

More Lighting & Colour Studies~

Did some more studies for Week 5 of Gurney Book Club:

Local Colour study (from The Sartorialist): still trying to nail down a skin colour that doesn't get too grey with the blue sky light, or too brown in the shadows

Notes from Sam Nielson's Schoolism class

felt like a bunch of things really got demystified! especially why there's a warm highlight above the cool specular highlight, and why white & very dark hair don't usually have this

still gotta take a swing at painting iridescence >.<

the first time I've studied anisotropic reflection!