A Song of Ice and Fire Commissions

I got to do a couple of commissions for the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin!

Across the Bridge

Finally finished this one! It was originally a sketch in my sketchbook that I did during a class... yes I was bored in class. I really like the bottom left part of the image but the upper right area is kind of... too shiny? I'm not really sure what is wrong but I guess I'll fix it sometime later. I'm just really glad I got to draw this since the past couple of months all I've done was 3D in Maya or something and if it was photoshop it was all flat textures that I later used in Maya. I should probably not do lineart for the backgrounds. It worked better like that with my previous drawings. Anyhow, this is Maiya, a character from a story I'm working on. She is a bug hunter/collector. She catches bugs and sells them to various people. She also lives in a space city.. although you can't tell by the background since the city is falling apart.

Spaceballs Poster Watercolors WIP

I'm taking an Advanced Drawing and Painting class now and I have to make a watercolor poster of a movie. Of course I picked Spaceballs, since it's one of my favorite movies ever... also its so much fun making fun of it... hence the industrial hairdryer in the guy's hands haha.

I'm gonna be done with this in about a week or so, and then I'll be working on a Game of Thrones book cover. Water color again of course. Hopefully I'll actually get into this by the time I'm done with the course so I'm thinking of painting a cerenti comic book cover!

Digital Lighting and Texturing Final Project

As the title says, this is my final project for the digital lighting and texturing class... I almost didn't make it in time rendering this but then I realized that I accidentally messed up some of the render setting so 1/5th of it took 17 hours to render. There was good reason to panic for me that day... but then I fixed it so it rendered on time and I got it printed and everything. Seems like I always do these things to myself the day before projects are due... too much stress but this is so much fun to do! I have a bunch of new projects in mind that I could do now that I know proper lighting and texturing techniques! =D Definitely one of the best classes I've taken so far.

A couple more Projects from my DLT class

Digital Lighting and Texturing Projects part 3

Here's some more...

More Digital Lighting and Texturing Projects

And here's more stuff

Digital Lighting and Texturing Projects

For those who don't know (or don't know me) I'm now a Graduate Student studying Visual Effects. I definitely got more things done during the past month and a half then I did during an entire semester last year. Here's some stuff I did during that time. It was allcreated in Maya 2010 and then composited in Photoshop CS5.

Flying Bike WIP

Had the urge to do some digital painting in SAI a couple of days ago. It's not finished yet at all but I'm quite proud of how its turning out. Could have been more dynamic but when I started it I didn't know what I was doing at all so I had to make lots of adjustment for this to fit my final idea. Next time I'll do something more crazy, that might be fun. I still need to finish this one before I lose interest but maybe some other day. I'm getting a bit frustrated with anything I do lately..

Electron Scatter on the Proton Animation WIP

Kai attacks Ithid

Was working on this the other day. Was using Photoshop because there is no Paint Tool SAI for mac. Will have to wait until I get back to the apartment to finish it there on the other computer. It's the first real picture I've started after I graduated college! wooo! It took me a while to get back into it especially since I haven't drawn anything in months! ;_; *sob*

Anyhow, it's Kai attacking Ithid. This is supposed to happen after the time skip so Kai's hair is much longer now. It was supposed to be much longer than that (at least in my previous sketches) but then I realized that would be very unrealistic.

Apfelstrudel 2.0

Hi everyone! This is the Siana and it's my second attempt to start an blog. An Art Blog to be more specific. I just graduated college a week ago so I think I'll have a whole lot more time to draw things now. Also I'll post my senior projects and whatnot. I got a BS in Studio Art with a concentration in 3D Animation. Wooo... So I'm applying to gradschools for the same thing. I'm honestly kind of scared to apply anywhere at all right now, especially jobs. I just never feel like I'm ready for stuff. Oh well I'll post some pics here soon. This is all. The End.