Alchemy

So I recently came upon this pretty neat program called Alchemy. It allows you to lay down quick shapes without having to dilly dally around with selections or marquee tools. It's essentially a program just for brainstorming. It's not meant for finishing a project in any way it doesn't even allow you to ctrl-z, which at first was a bit annoying but now it's a fun challenge. This is a great program to use at the first stages of conceptualizing.

It's a very simple program. The tool bar only appears if you mouse over it which gives you plenty of space to draw. It's not a hard program to understand in fact as soon as you open it you can pretty much pick it up immediately. What's cool is that it incorporates a sound effect which you can hook your mic up to and experiment with. I haven't tried that one yet but I thought that was a pretty clever way of dealing with a concept.It also has a mirror effect which comes in super handy and is fun to mess around with. I love that fact that once you get in to it, it restricts you from doing your usual work and allows you to play with shapes and forces you to step outside of the box creativity wise.

Overall, if you're a big fan of just sketching and conceptualizing (which you should be if you're an artist) this is an excellent program to play with. Check out the website Al.chemy.org if you want to download it or just get more info and such.




Some stuff I did real quick in Alchemy.

Schoolwork

So here's a compilation of stuff I did this quarter for my background design and layout class.




These last two are the finished version of the pencils sketches I did for advanced life drawing. I'm a bit disappointed in the Cat vs. mouse one. I intend to go back and change it when I get the chance.

Final sketches

These are the pre-sketches of my two final pieces for my advanced life drawing class. I actually prefer the rough sketch over the finished polish versions. They have alot more life to them. The finished versions will be up in a couple days.

Mech madness

For an assignment, my class was given a mech model render and we were to paint a environment around it. So here's mine.

My instructor was kind enough to do a tutorial on his process. So here's that video. You can also check out his blog if you want the mech render jpg http://randolfs.blogspot.com/2010/03/digital-background-painting-mech-winter.html

Digital Background Painting: Mech Winter - Part I from Randolf Dimalanta on Vimeo.

Burning Avalon panels and some school work

Yo! There's a comic tournament I entered on DeviantArt, hopefully I'll make the cut for the roster. Anyway, here are some of my favorite panels from my audition without text.




Here's some work I did in my Background design layout class. We were only given about 10 minutes for each image and were only allowed to use a mouse (so no tablet!) and the polygonal lasso tool for the buildings and mountains.