PROCESS/MATERIALS:

ASUS N53s / Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet / Photoshop CS5

Las Virgenes off of Stunt Road in Malibu / 3 hours in the fields, 2 hours at home.

OTIS HOMEWORK – FINISH YOUR PAINTING, DO ANOTHER

Pick something ORGANIC… a small building here and there is ok but 90% of the canvas should be organic things with shapes that can be styled. Here is Sylvia’s from last week as an example of what I want in terms of shape styling. She took was there and pushed it farther focusing on making the shapes sexy. It’s not an overly complicated composition which is what makes it work so try to do the same. Pick something simple and organic to make your life easier!

ACCD-Location

2805 North Windsor Avenue, California, United States

OTIS-Location

8317 Vista Del Mar, Los Angeles, California, United States

MY CELL

720-933-0557

ACCD STUDENTS, finish the 2 paintings, the one from outside today and another from another local. Please make sure it has NO manmade elements. All mountains, trees or sky… a tiny house or building is ok but it must be tiny. I want you to focus on natural shapes and picking a shot that ALREADY has nice shadow and light shapes. Don’t change it too much, find something that’s already good and tweak the shapes, but don’t add a big ‘ol tree or some element that isn’t there.

Also here is my shot at the Arch painting. I got tired of just taking about what I WOULD do for 8 hours, and I discovered one important truth about artmaking… Shit be hard! so nice work everybody. I think we’re making good progress. (And I have more brushes but I tried to stay fair and only use the ones I gave you thus far:)

ARTCENTER BLOG: http://digitallandscapesp12.blogspot.com/?zx=884a93742f799c75

Otis Homework for week 3

Otis Classwork from week 3

Thanks Kelly for sending me your stuff for the first official reeming:) So I want to post here for both classes so everyone can see what I want. You are using the photo to look at the shape BUT THEN you are stylizing the shapes based on what the picture “needs” 1. You decide on your focal point 2. You design every shape as simply as possible while keeping the focal point as the main attention-getter. You have to be RUTHLESS in omitting unnecessary details. Also don’t just paint in with Daniels, ERASE OUT with Daniels, that’s how you get sexy shapes. Also homework is supposed to be in color, this is just an example of a correction on the black and white.

paint this

Worked for a year of Pre-Production on Naughty Dog’s new game changing (literally;) franchise!

http://kotaku.com/5868306/the-first-art-from-the-last-of-us/gallery/1

PROCESS/MATERIALS:

Dell Inspiron 1525 / Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet / Photoshop CS5

Arroyo Seco Creek in Pasadena. Picked this composition based on only on the fact that I wanted to sit next to a creek for 2 hours:)

PROCESS/MATERIALS:

Dell Inspiron 1525 / Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet / Photoshop CS5

The second painting of the day of Sella Pass in the Italian Alps. 2 hours in the field, 2 hours at home adding details and working on edges.

PROCESS/MATERIALS:

Dell Inspiron 1525 / Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet / Photoshop CS5

One of those mindnumbingly pleasant locations that you only see in movies and retrospect didn’t really sink in at the time. Tried to focus on not adding too much detail but at the same time indicating all the Ivy. Noticed from looking at Richard Schmidt paintings that he makes each window a visually different shape and size to break them up, tried to copy that. Also removed some boats in the foreground to simplify on Eytan’s recommendation:) 2 hours in the field