Tribute

Finished Piece, after many many hours of work:

The Dragons and the Mermaids coexist and help each other. The dragon goes to the surface and sinks ships for the mermaids, and the mermaids pay tribute to the dragon by providing pearls that nourish it. A nice, happy collaboration =)
Except for the sailors I suppose.

I changed my mind a lot of times on what I wanted to do with the linework. Ended up going with colored lines. The past two years working with lines on my day jobs have made me a lot more comfortable with them, and trying to eliminate them felt strange, so I went with them. Still rendering everything else a lot though.

IMC 2014

Hello everyone!

So yet another few months of silence on my part... But I am back to posting for now =)
After working for the past year on 'Chozen' at Floyd County, the show has been cancelled and I am back adrift. Which doesn't stop me from doing amazing things.

Last week I went to the Illustration Master Class... and it has been one of the most amazing experiences in my life.
It's a week-long class where students get to spend a week creating an illustration with help and advice from some of the top sci-fi and fantasy illustrators in the industry.

Meeting the faculty was incredible. This year it included Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Donato Giancola, Greg Manchess, Rebecca Guay, Dan DosSantos, Scott Fischer, Ian McCaig, Brian and Wendy Froud, Irene Gallo, Mike Mignola and James Gurney
But for me, more than that, meeting fellow students was even more rewarding. The faculty was incredibly helpful with the feedback they gave me on the illustration I was working on, but being slightly shy and intimidated, I don't feel like I was able to make the most of it. On the other hand, I absolutely loved meeting all my fellow students, meeting people that are in the same space as I'm in, talking about art and other passions we have in common, and partying together at night. We even got to play a few rounds of Magic =)
Not everyone there has the same goals, as there are fully fledged professionals, aspiring illustrators, other artists diversifying their skills and amateurs, but we all share a passion for the faculty's work and fantasy and sci-fi art in general.

And here is what I worked on during the week. I chose the topic 'Dragon Rider' from the ones available, and here are the thumbnails I came up with, as well as my final sketch:

I am still working on the final painting... Hopefully I'll be able to post it later this week.

It has been almost a week since I came back, and I'm still processing all the information that was crammed into my brain at the IMC. It was a slightly surreal experience, and a lot happened in very little time.

I will do everything I can to go back next year, but it's a pretty pricey experience. Incredibly amazing though, and if any of you artist readers have the funds and the time, I would highly recommend it.

I just hope I'll succeed in keeping in contact with all my new IMC friends, and hopefully see many of them again next year!

Ooh Garrus

 So there's this fanart piece I have been working on for MONTHS. I think it might have started about a year ago when I started playing Mass Effect. And finished it very shortly after. In any case, I fell in love with one particular character, and sketched him a bit in my sketchbook. Got a thumbnail I wanted to work on at some point.

Left it alone, did other things, didn't come back to it until weeks or months later. Which pretty much defines the whole process of this particular illustration. Working on it a bit/a lot, forgetting it, coming back to it. Eventually, many months later, it got finished though =) I am just happy I pushed through. Here are a few steps:

 

It changed somewhat along the way. And the final. I hope you like it:

Ganga

An old illustration recently reworked and published for the first time:

 

It's a personification of the Indian river Ganga, who's mount is a crocodile. I kind of like it, but I think no one else really cares for it... It's somewhat weird how artists respond differently to their own work than other people, and makes judging our own work so hard.

Graduation and lots of stuff

Hello!

So a lot of things have been happening to me lately. I finished my finals, graduated from SCAD, got addicted to League of Legends and will be going to Hawaii for holidays shortly. I have also been applying to a lot of jobs, and while I wait to get a positive responds (which might take months, hopefully not years ;p ) I will be looking for freelance work.

Anyway, pictures:

The Orc Shaman I promised quite some time ago

 

A random study

 Life Drawing

 Last quarter's final

I want to do a lot of studies soon. I love doing them =)
And I have lots of time right now.

So, here is the final of the Morgana drawing, and a few comps for my next one... Those are only some of the colors comps I did. I can't help it, I have to try absolutely everything before deciding.

Also, feel free to visit my revamped website: http://annickhuber.com

Shapeshifter

Work in Progress

 Thumbnails:

Illustration in progress:

Atlanta Cupcake Factory

Part of an imaginary advertising campaign done for the Atlanta Cupcake Factory (which is a real cupcake shop here in Atlanta). I like to add my personal interests (here fantasy) to make projects interesting to me. Here you can see a poster and a postcard.

Just a few sketchbook pages to share today:

and a finished illustration, which I am not too happy with:

Still trying to figure out which materials I like to use. I mixed Graphite and digital for this one.

Illustrator work

My poor blog has been half abandoned lately. We have finished moving into a new apartment but sadly don't have internet yet, and it can be annoying having to go to school in order to post.

I haven't been idle though, and do have some things to show. I have been taking summer classes, one of them electronic illustration. Here is one of the projects, done in Illustrator. It's vector art, but it feels a little awkward medium to me. I like raster graphics much more.



Hopefully, I'll be posting more often once I get internet at home again. 5 days to go.

LucasFilm

Haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd share an illustration done for one of my classes.



This one was made for Electronic Illustration. We created illustrations for a competition held by Lucasfilm. Each school was to send some of the best results over to LucasFilm. Mine was selected among others (although I was never told which others), so they'll get to see it, even if nothing else comes from it.

Book Illustration process

So, here are some process shots for some of the illustrations I made for my Book Illustration class.





I must say, I am pretty dissatisfied with the final result. The black and white point wasn't bad, but the colors weren't so good... Part of the reason is because I used a process I wasn't satisfied with, which is adding the colors after doing the complete black and white drawing. It's not easy to deal with the different layer modes to get exactly the color you want. I don't think I'll be using that again...

I'd love to get into more traditional art, but I'm afraid to struggle to much with the medium and having a hard time achieving the result I want. It would be because of lack of practice with it, but as it is I'm never practicing with it, and will never get better at using traditional paints. I guess I just need to work the courage to really start.

The Dragon's Nest

Another sketch for my book illustration class.



Yes, confusing. Color should help though.

King Bowser Kong

Did this one for a competition at school (Generate).
Got me 4th place, and a stylus for wacom intuos 4 =)
Here are the other entries, if anyone's interested: http://scad-atl-illu.blogspot.com/
(sorry, I seem to be unsuccessful in making this a link)