Color Thumbnail Sketches

Assignment Week 3 for Fundamentals for Creative Environment Design

BW Thumbnail Sketches

Assignment Week 2 for Fundamentals for Creative Environment Design

Sacred Shadows

Based on a b&W thumbnail sketch I did back in 2011 for Environment Design I with James Paick. I believe these setting could exist in the same world as Deep Shadows posted last year.

The Ninth Gate Film Studies

Here are 6 more film studies I did, this time for "The Ninth Gate", another one of my favorite movies. It's a great exercise to get the colors right (no eyedropper) and to get the overall shapes/masses with
few brushstrokes. I'm posting the original screenshots, too, this time. I'll definitely be doing this more often as it's great practice.

The Keep

Taking an old painting one step further.

The Thief

Trying to apply what I learned from doing the Willow Film Studies of my previous post. Also trying to enrich the environment with a story.

Willow Film Studies

The Messenger

Lost Treasure

Coastal Thoughts

The Witch

The Last Fortress

Untitled

One of those projects you really like in the beginning but then along the way you lose interest and it finally ends up as "scrapmetal"...

Safe Haven

I love to imagine secluded monastery-like structures hidden deep in the mountains.

Deep Shadows

Morning Arrival

Inspired by the incredible environments of Fan Ming.

Blood Brothers

Leaving The Forest

Trying out different things. Inspired by the work of Paul Lasaine.

Fresh Meat III

his is heavily inspired by Sintra, a beautiful area near Lisbon (about 30min away from where I live). A lot of trips during my childhood to this real place certainly infused my love for fantasy. If you ever come to Portugal you have to visit it (Google it)...By the way, one of the settings in the (awesome) movie "The Ninth Gate" featuring Johnny Depp, plays in one of these chalets, very typical in Sintra...(again...google it...)

Cold March