Oils!

So we started using oils this year!  We had two much smaller oils to do just to try out the medium before this painting, so in many respects this is my first oil overall i do like the medium, even though everything i hear about stuff from our teacher has come with the tag "this is probably toxic" This was a limited color palette still life with just black, white, and yellow ochre.

"Masquerade Project" Frost Giant

My first Illustration I project.  The project was called "masquerade" but he basically let us do anything with 2 or more characters since he wanted to just get to know our art style and what we like to do.  Below are the thumbnails/sketches that I did.  Who knows I might go into this again in photoshop and do a color piece.

Fish Ink Piece

Well, it's good to back at Ringling!  This was my first project for Illustration media, a class where we experiment with different kinds of media.  This project our assignment was to make a drawing of any kind of fish with pen and ink.

The Eternal Prisoner

Funny thing about this character is that I had actually come up with this idea for a prisoner chain oriented champ before Thresh came out, probably back when I was in high school, but since I did this piece after Thresh came out, I thought it would be cool to mix lore a bit.  He's basically an ancient mage that was imprisoned by thresh,  and his soul is trapped in the lantern, so while Thresh is fighting in the League he breaks out of his prison to free not only his body, but his soul.

The Eternal Prisoner (AP Mage)

Thresh interactions

Skin: Undying Warrior - Hecarim Interacions?

Passive: every time champion hits an ability 1/x shackles is removed, giving champion ms/defensive stats, shackles will start to chain champion again after x seconds

q - parallel (or triangle?) line skill shot

w - automatically release x shackles

e - after brief delay chains rise from the ground in a circle, snaring enemies inside

r - chains erupt from champion, dealing damage and shackling all enemies in a certain range.  enemies caught in the shackle cannot move away from champion past the distance of the original shackle length, during this time champ has reduced move speed

Character Concept (edit: now redesigned)

So here's another LoL concept, here one of my own.  I've been having a lot of trouble with my completely original ideas, so I've been looking a lot at different techniques.  First thing I did was watch a lot of the art spotlights from Riot (so sad they stopped doing those T.T ) since I figured it would be my ideal place to get a job.  From there I came up with a champ concept both for art and actually gameplay!  For those LoL players that wanna check it out, just look below. 

The Piltover Thief (AD Assassin)

if caitlyn and vi are on the enemy team, champion loses 1 health

katarina interactions (sister)

skin - noxian thief

passive: when having a gun champion does more dmg the higher health the enemey is, dagger does more dmg the lower the enemy is

q - empowered next auto attack (both forms)

w - switch offhand weapon (can be cast while disabled)

passive: grapling gun - ranged auto attacks (defensive stats? lower ad?)

passive: second dagger - gains bonus ad/armor pen

e - gun: fires grapling gun pulling towards enemy minion or champion

  - dagger: does aoe damage around champion, does more damage the less targets it hits

r - throws a smoke bomb in an area, briefly blinding and silencing targets inside while increasing movement speed dramatically

League of Legends, Piltover, Caitlyn, Vi, Katarina all belong to Riot Games, this piece and this character belongs to me

Just some sketch

An idea I had, really this is just a idea sketch, I probably won't end up really going anywhere with it, just thought I might as well post it.

Some Figure

Some really quick figure stuff that I did on Photoshop.  artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/  pretty great if you don't mind working from photos and dont wanna pay/go to figure sessions