red - Gee whiz, thank you very much, red! You’re a master at “over-complimentation”. (snigger)
Ha-ha. Perhaps I will.
Hannahmation - Thank you, Hannah!
It’s ridiculously hard; at least, for me it is. I really need to get into a creditable art school so as I can be “broken” as far as over-doing it on detail goes.
thedriveintheatre - Ha-ha. Cool! I’m glad I’m not the only one who liked those batteries.
Cha, I agree, although the only reason why I did that is because I would never say the word *ss, whereas I will say the word “arse”. It just sounds more… “proper”, for some reason. I’m weird. (snigger)
Thanks, dude!
My dad really appreciates all the compliments you guys have been giving him, by the way. I haven’t showed him your actual comments yet, but I did tell him that you like his work. He was very touched.
All right. Now for something a little more sophisticated…
Campfire Tales - Unfinished:
Campfire Tales - Finished:
Yeah!! Detail! Normally, I don’t dive this far into a composition, but I was so captivated by this one image of Russell that I absolutely had to draw it.
Here are further comments on this piece, which I copied and pasted from my deviantArt account:
"Concerning this particular piece: My sister bought the official Up game before the film came out, so we played around with it and discovered that, if you earn enough points, you can “purchase” such delectable trinkets as original concept art and high-resolution images. The sixth resolution image you can “buy” is one of Russell glancing at Mr. Fredricksen during the campfire sequence. I thought that it was the cutest thing, but I loved it even more after I saw the film, for this particular moment happens to be one of my favorites in Up. So, naturally, I drew it. The expression here is one that Russell makes right after he says, [spoil]“Phyllis isn’t my mom,”[/spoil] if I’m not much mistaken.
Heh. You know what’s funny? I spent most of my time rendering the face… before kind of rushing through the shading on the sash, and yet… it’s the sash that now looks the best to me. Also, the flag and the sleeve on which it’s sown isn’t nearly rendered enough, and the badges look like Oreo cookies…"
Despite the flaws, I had so much fun rendering this that it’s not even funny. I swear, I can’t wait to do something like this again, so much so that I’ll probably whip up a similar composition in the near future – tonight, if I can help it.
See, this is why I have to be a technical lighter or something of the sort when I get to Pixar. I love it too much! I absolutely love to render.
By the way, for those of you who are wondering… I posted up the unfinished version of the composition along with the fully-rendered result because I kind of like how it looked as an incomplete piece.
– Mitch