On Time: Book Illustration project

I took this class, Book Illustration, last year. This class was about making your own books or creating a book for your client, so you can publish it to sell. You can make a comic books, a picture book for children, and some others that focused on genre or audience. It's a mixture of graphic design and illustration.

My project was On Time. A concept of a illustrated book about John Milton's poem, On Time and used this poem to tell the visual story of a German U-boat.

Front page of On Time query letter.

Back page of On Time query letter

Graduation and the bad news.

The great news that I want to tell you all:

I graduated three weeks ago and I got the degree, Bachelor of Fine Arts. From now on, I got to find a job.


Anyway, for the bad news.

One of my hard drives just died and I lost all my documents, my photographs of my works, and even my resume for job hunting. I have to start over again.

A Leman Russ Battle Tank

Well, my pride of my work. (Not really.)

I finished painting the Imperial Guard Leman Russ battle tank by doing the overalls, adding details, weathering it, and touching it up.

More paintings in progress

Please forgive me for the long delay and not able to post more for a month. I've been busy at college because it's my last quarter before graduating with the BFA degree. Anyway, I would like to show my progress with my three paintings so far. Please excuse me with the quality of the images because I took it from my phone.

Progress with the oil painting on canvas

The progress of this painting is that I started it during the summer. I was focused on the color red, orange, and the hints of yellow.

During that progress last month, I decided to darken  the areas to focus contrast, with the suggestion by my teacher.

The beginning of the NCR ranger's portrait progress during summer.

Working on the details of the masks and the visor part with the glow.

Warhammer 40,000 model painting.

As you know that I'm the Warhammer 40,000 player and I do have Space Marines and Imperial Guard models. My painting skills with these models was hard, but not difficult. I've been improving my skills there.

Ultramarines Dreadnaught

Ultramarines Tactical Squad

Soldiers of 349th Cadian Panzergrenadiers 

Progress with painting faces 

Panzergrenadier Sniper

Sniper's camo cloak

NCR Ranger Portrait work in progress part 2

Here's the color comp for the NCR Ranger portrait. The reason for the color comp is to help me get the idea to see where the light come from and the shadows setting in before I start painting.

Color comp for the portraits

NCR Ranger portrait work in progress

I'm working on the fan art of NCR Ranger from Fallout: New Vegas and I'm showing the rough work.

Rough draft of NCR Ranger portrait.

Keep that in mind, I only use the references for direct observation and study. It was not intent to copy or trace it.

More sketches

Sketch of space marine/ chaos marine

Sketches for my Cosmos series

Two paintings for my ongoing series, Cosmos

Here's the first two of my works for my ongoing series, called Cosmos. I painted those two canvas during my Fine Arts Studio II: Painting by a teacher, Alan Singer. The materials I set up are the cotton canvas and the heavy duty wooden frame bars. I coated both of them with white gesso and then I painted them with the Golden acrylic paints.

Citylights
40" x 24"
Acrylic on stretched cotton canvas

Oblivion
26" x 40"
Acrylic on stretched cotton canvas

Entry for print exhibition

These are my prints for the entry of the Ink Shop's 17th Mini Print International Exhibition. The three prints are the combination of photogravure and destructive intaglio types.

Untitled

4" by 4"

Photo and destructive intaglio type

Atmospheric

There's the two of my works that I painted in winter. The theme of these paintings is space; as stars, planets, and the cosmic beyond. I chose this kind of theme because it was ideal for my experiment with colors. I want to create the atmospheric feeling with light, value, and colors. I want the viewers to feel what's really out there and want to explore.

Planet
Acrylic on canvas
2012

Nebula
Acrylic on hardboard
2012

First roll of my sketches.

 Here's my rough works from my sketchbook, starting the top of old sketches to the bottom of new ones.

Perspective sketch of the stalker

Sketch of a stalker and a quote phrase from Roadside Picnic

Figure study with light

Skull study

Rough sketch for a portrait

Observation study

Observation study #2

Cowboy

Observation study #3

U-boat captain

Soldiers of World War Two sketch

My first blog!

It's ALIVE!!!! This is my first blog to show off my artworks here and I'm still learning how to use it.