One last picture

I've been working my socks off this weekend making this one picture, i really have to get to art school so i'll make this quick. Every other painting i developped more, made a painting based on a painting, except for Perspective-ville and the room i made. Well this one is based on the band in that picture, which were quite low res, so i re envisioned the band and made this painting of them to include them more as a character design and not as something to fill the foreground of an environment.
Just had to include it, i've spend nearly all weekend on it

Just got a deviant art

Yep, i'm now amongst the throngs of the emos and/or anime fanatics, but i got it for a reason, to get my work out there on the internet, i don't have time to make myself a whole website, so this was the next best thing. I'm just a little worried about copyright now.
http://robitee.deviantart.com/

CV

Recently i have been doing a lot of work into my CV, i have also consulted the Careers adviser at the art school who i found very helpful. Today i had a two hour lecture on interview practice which i found helpful. It told me how i should conduct myself in an interview, using body language and how to get around difficult questions which may be asked of me by sadistic employers.

I have also showed him a copy of my CV which i have had feedback on to help me improve it.

Alterations2

I have been continuing going through my files to improve my concept pieces. Here i have my 'Swoosh' Painting after i have come back to it.
There is a mist making the background more out of focus and concentrating the viewer's attention on the foreground and on the airship. I have also made the smoke look a bit better and expanded the right and left sides a bit, i have made the airship more lighter in shade, using a yellow glow to reflect the light of the setting sun behind the viewer. Finally i re sized it to the format requested for the exhibition by the course leader.
Again i have resized this image to fit the requirements and i have made the background a lot more out of focus. I have also used the blend tool a lot on the sky to give it a more 'evening haze' kind of a look.
And finally here i have also given the background a slight blur (Getting more blurred towards the center) to bring out the character in the foreground. I have also made the shadows a bit more realistic, getting less sharp the further from the light source they get.

Alterations.

Lately i have been going through the paintings i have already done and have been trying to lok for errors and/or ways to improve upon what i have already done, and i have found many finishing touches i can add.I have changed a great deal of this piece. I have made some of the buildings seem less uniform for starters, as well and making a smoke trail where the airship is going.
Here i made a simple blue background for the outside world through the backdoor as well as redoing all the faces on all the characters (Which you can't see in this picture with this resolution) I also put two more fans above the band to help with composition.
And finally i finished this orthographic of my boat, including annotations about how the ship works to make it look more like a set of plans for the building of the ship and thus makes it look a lot more professional. The font however may be a little bit difficult to read, so i should include a translated version.

Portraiture

Okay, so i have my character design ready, now it is just a case of painting him into my previous concept art piece . I am not using a model to paint over the top this time, i think i know the shape i want him to take, it will feel more natural also to paint him into the scene instead of placing a model on top of the scene as i feel it will blend in to the perspective a lot more. I had to choose a pose for him, one that showed his character, so i painted him drinking a bottle of wine.
I am a little concerned about some of the shadows in the background and hope to get some help with that soon.

Swoosh!

After the sunset, i decided to make another painting showing the airship coming in to land. It flies in over the city below and hits a tower. I have called it 'Swoosh' as an onomatopoeia word describing the ship flying past. I made a simple model on silo of the city where you can see the harbor in the distance. It is supposed to take place a couple of minutes after the sunset picture and should be considered an extension of that one.
As you can see it carries on a few of the themes of the previous painting such as the colour scheme and the light source, despite being from another angle. I have also made the sky slightly less colourful as the sun would have gone down a bit more since the previous image which was a few minutes earlier. I have allways liked the idea of making my own comic book and so if i had a little more time i would have maybe made a few more like this one to show what happens next.