V-LAAAAAAABS!

wow look at dem teeth

 

Aside from V-Labs, I also learned more about canvasser and how we will be using it to make the interactives for the labs. It was a little confusing, but I think I’ll get the hang of it.

That’s all for this shift 🙂

V-LABS!!!! 

Today I was given an assignment by Tate. I was tasked to draw some books on top of a stool for the bathroom scene.

In order to start, I had to reinstall brushes in Photoshop for one of the computers in the development lab. I wasn’t sure why it was lacking so many brushes, but I took the liberty to install the necessary brushes for the Russian animations. It took some time to get the right brushes because I forgot which pack they came from. Regardless of the time suck of installation, I finished the assignment! Here’s the progress of it:

When a stool isn’t enough, some books will suffice!

 

I used the reference books that Tate provide in the .psd file and then turned down the opacity on them. Then I lined the books in #1e1d1c1 with Kyle’s Amazing Cartoonist Nib 2 and painted some white behind the line art layer so that when I use watercolor to color the books, the color will show up better (like priming it I guess?). I made a separate group for each book with four layers each. After lining and priming, I added colors using a Watercolor Big Round brush. Once I painted the books, I created a clipping mask for all the colored layers. And then I turned it into Tate! Yeah!

I was taking my time for past assignments, but I think I should start working more quickly and more efficiently. I did this in one day in order to save everyone involved a some time.

That’s all I did for this shift!

Today we had our STA meeting and shared what everyone had done in the past week. It was another fine and dandy meeting. However, it was glaringly apparent during this meeting that I had not given the Online Anthropology Virtual Labs enough (or any) attention. It had been, as a fellow co-worker would say, a hot minute.

So in order to remedy the lack of content on my end, I dedicated my entire shift (and then some) to v-labs!

 

I have a lot to catch up on!

 

That’s all for this shift! 🙂

Hello!! Here are some updates!

This is the progress of a COLA ID I edited:

 

Progresso!

 

I think I made the 200×300 image a little too harsh in terms of lighting. I might tone that down a bit. I’ve also noticed that a lot of the photo IDs  I’ve worked on have usually pulled very warm tones. They’re often very yellow and I usually have to go in and change the color balance to make the image cooler.

 

I also fixed up the illustration for Tate! Here are the shampoo/conditioner bottles I drew!

 

Wew. Look at them just chilling.

 

This is how they looked before:

 

Meh.

 

Here’s the whole process of them changing in the duration that I’ve worked with them.

Progressssssoooo

 

I adjusted the bottles so that they’re more upright (left-most image), I added a shadow using the line art black (#1e1d1c) and put the opacity to 30%, and finally brought the opacity from 30% to 15% for a less harsh shadow.

 

Non-work related, but I designed a T-shirt for an organization I have been with for a long time! Here they are!

There are 4 designs!

 

And here’s what my co-chairs ended up liking:

Final draft??? :0

And that’s all I have for 2day!!!!