My Art Challuunge from last week. It was a lot of fun but now that I’m looking at it again I’m starting to wonder how much my recent viewing of Tangled snuck its way in. Hmmmmmmm…
The Nevada Museum of Art has a great selection of classes and open studio sessions. We just finished a four week open studio focusing on the costumed figure. The models were great and all had a wealth of knowledge regarding the time periods and characters they were dressed as. I’m trying to get my traditional media legs back so I made an oil sketch each session. The first one was embarrassing enough to get turned upside-down and reused the second week (WWII German Medic). Each panel is 16” x 20” and was made in just under 3 hours.http://blog.andrewjohanson.com/images/Costume1.4.jpg
Another card from the same Warhammer set that I posted about earlier. Here's the other card. This armor already existed in the Warhammer universe so it was more my job to give the guy a pose and render the armor nicely enough to make it look attractive. I had a lot of fun doing it.
And the sketch. The green line shows where the card template cuts into the image.
Here's some Lord of the Rings card art from a while ago. This is the first time I really gave Corel Painter a solid go for an image. All in all Painter is a great program but I've found that Photoshop can do most of the same things and I can move around much more quickly there.
Here's the sketch they chose (before changes). They decided they didn't want the horse, staff, or Orthanc in the image. Without those elements we decided to crop in around the central figure.
I signed up for the illustration master class a couple weeks ago. Click the image above to check it out. It's like Summer Art-Camp for adults that's run by a whole gaggle of illustrators I really respect (and am looking forward to meeting). I've moved past "excited" and into the realm of "crazy excited."
