Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah Staying Awake

[Vicianus]

HEY GUYS!
Long time no see. My first semester of sophomore year is coming to a close tomorrow, I'm still working on texturing a 3D prop for my last class tomorrow, but here's a huge dump of (some of) the 2D work that I did this semester.

Paintings:
(original from the beginning of the semester)













Sketches:




These are more or less in relative order of completion. I really learned a lot this semester! Last year, I thought I was going to try to major in 3D art, but this semester I had a lot of concept oriented classes, and I have had endless amounts of fun drawing and designing for them. I think I am going to gear my studies towards 2D avenues instead; at the beginning of the semester, I knew absolutely nothing about how to design any object or character, and I still have a lot to learn, but I'm beginning to get the ideas of it!

Everything from the red/green set of designs (my take on A Princess of Mars) is done from imagination, referencing only for various kinds of textures.
The paintings of hip hop/street/ghetto characters are done from heavy referencing.

Over the semester, I was focusing a lot on characterization, design, and painting/colors. I want to infuse a lot more character and personality into character designs and renders, as well as solid and interesting shape language! I've been trying to explore it in different ways, and will continue to do so.

Over winter break, I'm working on tightening up my anatomy (studying Goldfinger -- which I started this semester as well, but I want to finish memorizing all the muscles and their forms while also doing life drawing. I found that I could memorize the individual muscles, but it wasn't particularly useful for my drawings from imagination until I've really drawn a lot more from life), studying clothing, and environment drawing since I still can't make a competent one for the life of me.

Comments and crits are appreciated, as always!