No Rapunzel...

Speed painted tonight on a whim.

Character design process for 'Gisthorn the Magician' Part 1

Character Sketch 'Gisthorn' Part 1 from Ciro Correia on Vimeo.

Speed painting - World Revisited part 2

Speed painting from Ciro Correia on Vimeo.

more speed painting...

Here is another speed painting from the experiment I mentioned in my previous post. I decided to do this one in color for variation. I'm enjoying the quick and dirty instant gratification of speed painting. I wanted to add a few fish and spawn more jellies but its just a speed painting sketch so I didn't get round to it.

Speed painting - World Revisited

Speed painting, I only recently began to seriously look at speed painting as a means to sharpen skills and to create concepts faster. This is one of my first 'serious' attempts and I'm hooked. Still forming my visual language in this method but I know where I'm going with it. Feels good. I've been applying some of the amazing principles that Marcos Mateu-Mestre teaches in his mind-blowingly awesome book 'Framed Ink'. As a start I drew out a thumb of the composition with only the dark and lights as blocked out shapes with the focus (this is where I'm applying what I've learnt, I do thumbs normally but this adds edge) on conveying the emotion of the piece as the main overall message. I used this basic thumb to design other thumbnails, I think I did about 6 or 7 but changing the details and elements or subject matter. This was an experiment first of all to show that these emotional/basic compositional thumbs could be applied to anything. The second was to see how effective the target emotion could be conveyed. This was the idea and composition of one of the thumbs that I took and speed painted. I'll probably post up the other ones as well. I screen captured the speed painting process and hope to post that up later as well once I've complied it, etc.

I'm working on a color and finely rendered version of this.

Concept Art - Docking bay planet side

I've been reading 'The Dispossessed' by Ursula K. Le Guin and I was reminded why I love Science Fiction so much. I remember reading C.S. Lewis' 'Out of the Silent Planet', the first few pages were really amazing. I remember thinking that Lewis' description of the unknown plant as pure magic, it was a place unlike our own. The gravity, plant forms and how things interacted on the planet were completely different to other Science fiction I had read. It was conceptual, creative and original. Another book that gave me that same sensation of consciousness outside myself was 'Dune' by Frank Herbert. He created outside the norm and established a solid and believable place with almost everything so different from our own reality. 'The Dispossessed' is taking me to that same happy place, familiar yet strange.

This concept art is a quick delve into some thumbnails I had done previously. I wanted the ships to be unconventional, just exploring things visually really, this will form part of the library for the project and be part of my ideation process.