Through the Looking Glass : Taffetas Image Step by Step

Here is the leading image I did for Taffetas post on Theme and taking a stance on your story. It was alot of fun to create something a bit different from my normal line-less style!

I thought it would be cool to see some of the process as well since .... I like how they came out XD

Sketch > Clothes > Rough idea > Lines > Flats > Shading > Background 

What I have been up to

Well its been quite some time since I wrote in here. I guess I have to face the truth that I am definitely not the most consistent blogger out there. However that being said, I am happy to be once again writing in this little journal of mine.

Veil and Gemini of The Taffetas by Tracy

So much has been going on lately I almost don't know where to begin. Tracy and I have been reworking our sketch muscles as well as continuing our animation pitch project The Taffetas. For those unfamiliar, The Taffetas has been an ongoing project between myself, Tracy, and a slew of wonderful volunteers. The latest info can be found on our production blog : theTaffetas.blogspot.com but some of my part included cleaning up and vectoring Tracy's wonderful sketches

Tracy's wonderful new banner sketch

After some small edits, and some long hours vectoring

I try to help out in the sketching stage, but sometimes I have a bit too much fun. 

All in all I have been super excited about the direction of the project, which includes the art and writing and the re-finessing of the pitch.

new facebook XD

http://www.facebook.com/taffetas

Hey! Long time since I last Posted,
but I'm excited toshow off the newly redesigned facebook group. I have never done facebook pages like this before, but after hitting the books and figuring things out I was able to make a nice welcome tab from a static fbml app. It rather took me a bit to figure things out though it was worth it. It's now a more professional, easier to understand, mini-site.

If you haven't liked us yet on Facebook, do it!
You will receive updates from the blog on your wall, a mere visit to the page will directly take you to our main page, if you already like us you will have to click "The Taffetas" link on our side links, or just click here!

What's exciting, too, is this is also a bit of a sneak peek at our upcoming website specifically for interested sponsors, distributors and supporters to plainly state who we are, what we're doing, and what our show is all about!

So stay tuned, everyone. Big things are in store!




Just for kicks I wanted to show the other design choice I was thinking prior to the completed thing. Below is the screen shot of it. Not too different admittedly, but I fixed some things up. Other choices I had made before was a lime green/grey color scheme, a dark red/gold one and an all white set-up. For obvious reasons I did not go with those.


Anyhow, you should check out the facebook group. I'm rather proud of it.

Something Beautiful

Here it is completed :D

Taffetas Poster

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This is a poster I created for the pitch The Taffetas, an online drama series. It is to be featured in today's Senior Soiree at the Savannah College of Art and Design campus. If the pose looks familiar, its because it is referencing Botticelli's, The Birth of Venus. Hopefully people find them as humorous as last quarter and we get a nice turn out.



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The image above does not do it justice. The original printed poster will be done in a 3 layer cut out format where Gemini pops out from the poster just ever so slightly, and Veil is jumping in from the left, blushing (though his blush doesn't show in this one), and trying to cover up his wife.



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The characters themselves were sketched out by Tracy MacLauchlan and then vectored by myself.

The Taffetas

A movie clip I did in Flash. I had approx. a week to do it, and it was a hard thing to accomplish in a week, but because of the help of my amazing friends Tracy MacLauchlan and Dana Corrigan, I was able to finish rendering it in time. The end result came out much better than if I had worked on it on my own.

Ladies....

WIP

Man I feel like I will never get this done D:








LOL i made Seiron a cow. I think its fitting.

I just love being a Nerd

So here's the image finally finished. I'm pretty proud of myself. I think it's one of my better ones lately. With all this social drawing, I've noticed that I am gettering a bit better. LOL Really, I just love being able to nerd like this. On that note: lol Really, this is what Veil comes home to. It's a wonder why he ever comes back.

Below are my ever present WIP's. I get so excited about my drawing I end up bothering my friends about them before they are done. But atleast after I can show everyone my process. LOL That's something right!?

Cat Fight

A lovely little fight between Gemini and Larkspur (An OC of Dana's) at a restaurant. This is the part where Gemini is winning lol, but Larkspur does get her good. Anyhow, I'm seriously debating whether to keep editing it or just leaving it alone. So I figure I'll leave it be for now... and fix it up later... when I have more time.



EDIT: Okay well here is it edited lol as you can see <.< I thought to fix a few things. New background, and tore up Larkspur's dress.


I figured Gemini's wardrobe would be a little more showy because she comes from wealth, So she has on pink pearls (rare and freaking expensive lol) and a pretty but other wise ornate dress that does her skin tone justice lol (Since Veil picked it out, he would have thought this over) I also put her in lace rather than jewels and made the cut of her dress less risque since I think while she'd be put in fashionable clothing.....it would still be something that makes her look soft and cute rather than sexy. Larkspur on the other hand is dressed in a plain cocktail dress. Classy, and elegant, but not extremely fancy since she's of moderate wealth. I made it orange since that's the color of her normal wardrobe, and black would have made her look like the villian LOL