Coloured layout

EDIT MARCH 12th: This should be my final version. I spread the lamplight a little bit but that was it.

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I might still change it - I didn't ask around for any feedback on this yet.


I learned so much during this colouring process though. I almost can't wait to tackle another one.

As curiosities, here are my first tonal doodle for the layout and the final tonal sketch I did after some awesome critiques from our teacher:

Rainbow canyon giant frogspawn

That's not frogspawn, just domes of some sort, that's why they don't look like real life frogspawn.

Long explanation: I had a school assignment earlier this year where I had to copy a certain photo in watercolour; it had a ton of gradients and even though I got the colours very close to the original eventually (on my third try - I'll post the assignment later, I don't have it on hand at the moment), I could never... get... the damn gradients! So I started this painting from an old layout sketch with the intention to try out gradients in watercolours. I don't know if I actually figured out much about those, but at least it adds a bit of colour to my sketch-heavy oeuvre.

I'm back home in Finland with no Photoshop no nothing, enjoying the snow, and stumbling a surprising amount over my Finnish. And Vancouver has made me a bit soft when it comes to enduring cold. It's all coming back to me little by little, though. I just love it here!

You know what I like

Here's my final layout assignment (hey, I did return this on time, I'm only posting it now because of busies).

And sketches of some little bird that I'll probably never use.

By the way, Avatar is a massive bore.
But it had its moment... (Not momentS.) When [spoiler] got [spoiler]ed, with that background music all I could think of was Tropic Thunder !

Hand of glory..?

First, a working sketch for my final layout. If you have any comments, they're very welcome, I've already had some good suggestions today.



HEY so I'm reading The Hundred Days right now and today in life drawing I fandoodled Stephen contemplating his infamous Hand In A Jar - before it went all bad from lack of spirits, of course. If I'm not mistaken, the lesson is do NOT leave spirits lying around in plain sight in a ship, not even in a jar containing a cut-off hand.
I want to make the character construction (what a noggin!) better and clean this up in Photari some day.

Nonsterdam and Modern City

Here are the other layout assignments from this semester, an old-timey city-type thing and a modern city-type thing. They're not spectacular but they ARE an obvious improvement from my layouts last year, so I'm happy! Final assignment is in the works. Must - get - back to drawing...

Don't jump into heartache

Dumping!
Here's my first layout of this semester, the house I used to live in (I moved a few of weeks ago when our "my street / my house / my room" assignment was still going on). Obviously I made some alterations for the sake of composition.



And what the heck, I'll post my Alice "acting" assignment too...



And this is a walk cycle with a panning (and loopable!) background. I don't know if it's possible to loop Vimeo vids, but you'll see it pretty well if you hit play right after the video clip ends..? You can go on forever!


Made in TVPaint and I enjoyed it ever so much! Well, I half-a**ed the character design, but you can see a heavy Janosch influence. And unintentionally Garfield.

Completed pan layout assignment

(STUPID Blogger keeps resizing my pictures down. It won't let me post a wider than 1600 px pic ARRGH)
Okay, I LOVED working on this. I feel weird after having finished this at last. As shoddy as it may look to an experienced colourist, I didn't think it was possible, and now my convictions of what's possible are in turmoil. (Being dramatic is fun!)

Black&white without overlay (repost):


Coloured (repost):


With overlay:


With overlay and "character poses."

^Actually, I didn't have a character for this layout yet, so I just drew some random male person for perspective reference. And they're really small because unfortunately I wasn't really thinking about characters when I sketched the layout. So I think this would be perfect for a harbour scene-setting, hustly-bustly, seen-from-afar crowd scene! Graah, have fun animating THAT!

Pan layout

B/w and one coloured version.


Coloring in Photoshop is great for the simple reason that you can start again how ever many times you want. The multitude of different coloring choices for one layout was driving me insane.

My layout was relatively detailed, so I thought I'd keep the colours very simple here.
The layout doesn't have any specific idea other than being on the waterfront. Still missing an overlay (a ship, inevitably!!) and supposedly some character poses, but I'm really not too sure...

"Future City" layout

It's crap, but it's mine. :]

With overlays:

A little layout

It's pretty cute, which is what I was going for. I don't set my sights too high at this point in my layout endeavours.
It's an igloo in a (rather Finnish-looking) winter forest, for a character that I'm trying to create.

I'm amused by inverted colours. :] God...