Game of thrones studies

Hello there.

Happy CNY to everyone. I am happy to finally have some free time for myself since its holiday!

My teacher in FZD, Kingston Chan (http://kingstonart.blogspot.sg/) recently created a group in FB for concept art.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/243316732513105/248758778635567/?notif_t=group_activity

And the upcoming theme would be Game of thrones studies. I am not a big fan of the tv series, I actually gave up after season 1 :p but it really has a very beautiful color/lights/design imho!

Here is my take on it,

please feel free to point out any mistakes or to share tips on doing such studies!

The photo references are from:
http://www.homeofthenutty.com/gameofthrones/screencaps/index.php
http://screencapped.net/tv/gameofthrones/

Really great ref website for GOT fans!

Still life studies completed

Finished it!

Didn't follow the value exactly cause I didnt want it to be too dark... What do you guys think? Please feel free to feedback :)

Still life studies WIP

I decided to study on color and how it affect the surrounding and found a very beautiful image
http://www.wallpapersshop.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Wine-Bottle-Fruit-Still-Life.jpg

Still need to work a lot on it.

Potrait

A very cultured friend was telling me about this book she read called desert dawn by Waris Dirie... and I googled it which lead me to the book cover..

I thought she has a nice smile and I really wanted to capture that while trying to learn color (wanted to learn about limited color pallete) so here is my feeble attempt at human portrait after many months. Really feel there is something wrong w the eyes/mouth placement but I cant put my fingers around it.

Green mountain

Recently I went to taiwan for holiday and really missed their beautiful mountains there.

and then I found this beautiful image
http://www.hdpaperwall.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/mountains-wallpaper-01.jpg

and decided to study it in between of my freelance. Its been fun and relaxing time.

Food Adventure - Herbtle

I always feel my work is a bit dark so for this time around I tried to avoid total black in value.

Done pre-new year but received some awesome feedback.

 Here is the fixed version. Feel free to give me feedback :)

Tale of Ichi

I had a really cool experience in a 3 day masterclass with Arthur Fong and Tom zhao last year. I really want to learn from them but it was unfortunate that we only had that short amount of time. In the masterclass, we are supposed to do a mini project on a character that is out to take a revenge on a monster that kill his master/father etc. 

I decided to take on japanese influence on this project and from there on, Ichi the samurai boy was born. I imagined him as a naive serious boy who wear his deceased master's helmet (thus the size) who swung his wooden sword around, "training"to one day take revenge on the monstrous Yamata No Orochi.

Reinassance interior

Last year, I was studying some architecture design from Alex Ruiz at CGMA, he is an awesomely nice teacher.

http://2d.cgmasteracademy.com/alex-ruiz.html

Here is a piece I did for renaissance subject.

Food Adventure - Walker

This was actually done around last year but I totally forgotten to upload it in here.

Forgotten sketch

This is one of series of sketches I did that I totally forgotten about, buried deep in my laptop. Its a mini project I did for a friend. I had some sketches for the character.. I hope I can find it and post it up.

Beat em Up BG Sketch

Growing up playing those beat em up games. I dreamt to one day have the pleasure of doing such game. Here is a rough sketch on such ruins. I hope to finish this once I am done with freelance.