Three years / One century

It's been three years since I graduated from CG school and I haven't even posted a link to my graduation film yet. So here it is in all its glory (lol) : Violeta Parra, El Corazón de Chile !

(spoiler alert : it's bad)

I wrote and conducted the 30 minute interview (which had to be cut down to a mere minute and a half for obvious reasons) with Paula, Violeta Parra's granddaughter, storyboarded the thing from A to Z, designed the characters, made some textures, matte paintings, and yet... I still feel like I half assed my work through the whole process.

It could have been much, much better, even back then, with my poor skillset.

Today is also Violeta Parra's birthday. She would have been a hundred years old had she not committed suicide on that unfortunate day, february 5th, at the age of forty nine...

(the very first sketch I made of her. Found it buried in a pile of sketches)

Le Requiem de Bill

Ptit dessin/fanart pour mon ami Jean-Balthazar de Gornaud (signé sous mon pseudo de fanzineux : Boniface)

 

En hommage à son Lonesome Cowboy Bill.

Justine sketch

Just a quick sketch from memory.

Portrait of a Girl

It started as a little drawing. I haven't been drawing at all these days and it really shows.

Then, I thought : "I mainly do line drawing. That's so lazy, I'm not even trying... Heck ! I'ma put some colours !"

It doesn't look pretty, but it has a lot more substance than the sloppy drawing above. Up to this point, I still have no idea what I'm doing. I feel so uncomfortable when I have to do color. So I proceeded to do some blending.

Her face seemed kind of flat. So I changed the lighting (it's also more consistent with the shadows).

Some touches here and there. And that's about it.

There are parts of her face that don't read clearly, I squashed the back of her head (something I don't normally do), the lighting is erratic... It's not polished at all and it's full of mistakes. I'm SO out of practice.

I'll do better next time.