Christy Wallace FIEA Art Blog

This week's artist was Jim Henson, known for his puppet work in the Muppets, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Sesame Street and others. His characters are always filled with life and very creative, and there's no one aesthetic to them all. God, I love Labyrinth . My Pinterest: My reference sheet:

For this week we were building a high resolution version of our model, adding details in Zbrush and UV mapping. My high resolution model in Maya: After exporting it out, my sculpted details in Zbrush: And my decimation process before I exported the model out as an OBJ: Finally, my UV Layout for the model, which I found to be the toughest part:

Because of Hurricane Irma we were unable to finish the Lego Assignment. Therefore, Nick had us build something in one class. I made a rocket ship:

For this assignment we had to do a black and white illustration of one, two or three point perspective and include buildings. I chose a Japanese street for my one point perspective. I decided to free hand and paint because it has more personality to it. With lineart:

This weeks illustrator was Frank Frazetta who works mostly in comics and book illustrations. Unfortunately, I really gotta say I didn't like this artist and compiled these sheets out of obligation. There's just something about his art that makes me uncomfortable; like it's a strange perversion or I'm looking at his fetishes. There's all these beautiful naked women running around with beasts or weapons like they're strong but they have the bodies of swimsuit models more than warriors. Then you've got the images where women are being held down or about to be hurt or even killed and they're just... beautiful and vulnerable. I feel like I'm looking at those pulp fiction novels that got pumped out in the past, where all the covers were beautiful women about to be murdered. It just... gives me a bad vibe. So I picked as much art of his that had nothing to do with women, and mostly sketches. My pinterest: My reference sheet:

This week's artist was Drew Struzan, an illustrator known for creating movie poster and album cover images. When it comes to this artist, his images are so iconic that even if you don't know his name you recognize his work. For me I prefer his sketches, mostly just because there's something more raw and unrefined about them. Seeing his process and work mindset was more fascinating to me. My pinterest: My reference sheet:

For this week's assignment we had to model a simple prop. Because of how little experience I have with modeling, I decided to model the cannon whose reference was given to us. Setting up my scale in Maya: My reference scale to the mannequin: And then I modeled my cannon following the instructional videos, keeping it under 900 tris: My finished model in Unreal:

This weeks artist was John Berky, an illustrator that mainly created sci fi illustrations in the 1970s. My pinterest: And my reference sheet:

For this assignment we had to shade another artists lineart. The artist was Matt Rhodes. His original lineart: Black and white shading I added:

For this weeks assignment we had to make silhouettes of either characters, creatures, weapons, transport or environments. I chose creatures and created 8 silhouettes of sea serpents. I tried to differentiate them in overall shape, from rounder to thinner, but while keeping sea serpent qualities (the long neck, some kind of fin or tail)

This weeks artist was Brian Froud, an illustrator and concept artist that worked on movies like Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal . Something about his work makes me think of the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman. I think he would have been perfect for that series. My Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/robotnoire/brian-froud/ As well as a reference file: I adore the knight on his horse, I'm not sure why but that one is my favorite.

For this assignment I decided to try making a Mayan Temple. My cubes in Maya: My textures in Photoshop, I had five total: My material set up: And my finished product: