Background Reproduction Project

Wait, where's all the school work?  I'll get to that... this was my weekend project though :)

I was told I needed to make amends with my arch nemisis: gouache; so I thought I'd give some love to a small and lonely inbetween cel from Samurai Pizza Cats (that I got as a freebee ages ago) and paint a background for it!  Learning + Fun = Good Times

Screen Cap.  This is the ultimate goal for my lonely little A6 inbetween.  Not sure I want to do that yellow pipe overlay though...

Old scan of the cel (current scanner is unplugged).  Francine and the curtain are just sort of floating there.

Some print outs of the screen cap (to get the right size) and pencilwork later, I have a BG that lines up.  I referenced a few wider shots from the same scene to figure out what details were beyond the TV cutoff.

The watercolour paper was too wide to feed through my printer, so some transfer paper and tracing later, it's ready to go.

Some masking fluid used for lighter colour safety zones.  Wish I had an airbrush set.  Other than the sign, my original SPC BGs tend to be airbrushed in their wide colour spots.  It would have been less traumatizing than doing washes LOL.

Progress.  Changed the colour of the parlour counter. 

Progress.

And done :D

That blasted deep blue overhang was frustrating.  Kept having to wash over it to smooth it out (airbrush > wash).  Can't really notice the gradient too much anymore :/ oh well.  More or less happy with it :D

Victory shot.

I trimmed off some of the bottom so it would squeeze into the cel bag.  Package it all up and my lonely little cel isn't so lonely anymore :D

So other than developing a new arch nemisis (deep blue), I've learnt that I cannot drink coffee then paint details LOL.  My hand becomes too unsteady. 

Project completed.

Painting Assignment 2

Second painting assignment - interior study

Watercolour + Copic Multiliner + Gauche (to fix some oopses)

Whee Digital Painting

Our painting teacher let us paint digitally... I've never painted digitally before... like "painted". I colour and do line art digitally, painting is something else for me though. It turned out nicely ^^ I tried to see what would happen if I didn't use black lines anywhere.



Ohhh for many reasons I'm looking forward to the last painting assignment. Cel + BG = something I've always wanted to do! (says the former cel collector).

Painting - Master Copy

HAH, take that gouache.

Object of the assignment was to re-create a production background from a cartoon show. That made my inner child was very happy.

Once upon a time, when I was a young thing, I went to an animation art gallery in Kingsway Garden Mall (Edmonton, AB). The woman at the desk told me all about how to make an animation cel, and about the process of creating animation artwork (she had a Fred Flintstone cel bundle with her), plus backgrounds, etc. I took my new found knowledge, and all my money, stomped over to the stationary store across the street from my house, bought sheet protectors, watercolour and oil paints, the thinnest pen liner I could find, and WENT TO WORK stinking up my bedroom with oil paints for a good year. My favourite show at the time was Samurai Pizza Cats, so I sat in front of the TV and paused the VCR at all of my favourite scenes/images, and drew them all out, then tried to make cels and backgrounds and LOL *facepalm*

They were all pretty bad, but I got better!

This was my last one :) I was so happy with it I bought a frame for it LOL. Check out that hole punching!



Paint chipped on the cel :( sheet protector is so weak. I coloured the BG in watercolour on plain paper and for some reason I thought the woman had told me cel paint was like oil paint, so I painted that on the sheet protector (took eons to dry).

ANYWAYS, FAST FORWARD TO TODAY.

I still love Samurai Pizza Cats, and at some point in time in my life I picked up a few original production materials from the show. Painting task was to re-create it.


The original cel & hand painted BG - Polly, Francine, at the front counter of the restaurant.


The BG on it's own (I could pull it out from the cel bundle).


AND the replica! I put a lot of effort into that >____>. I also put in the counter and debris (my teacher's suggestion) to give the room volume.

I didn't notice at all on the original that there is a slight angle, I only caught it when I saw the scan, oh well!


Aaaand the mess. I sit at the back in painting class because I occupy two desks and two chairs somehow when I paint D:

Today, happy inner child is happy.

Painting - Still Life

iPad typing on a coach bus is harder than one might think...

Still life assignment in painting - first assignment of yr1 term 1





Nana wanted to be a still life too...

Painting - textures

My textures painting assignment from last term :) done in gouache. I'm quite proud of this because gouache is a rather frustrating medium for me ><

My cat thought she was being supportive by getting in the way while I worked on it.



And it got on the wall :D