One of the subjects I had in college was Tradicional painting. One of the things I liked the most was to play with colours. We started with simple pencil drawings to mixing colors with gouache.
At the time the teacher told us to draw game or animation characters we admired, so I started based on my horoscope sign. I found one day an illustrator that inspired me a lot, she took all horoscore signs and made a small illustration of what it could be if the horoscope signs were a women. I was amazed with the drawing and I copied the capricorn one just trying to use pencil colors.
Then I got to cartoons. I was in love with Marceline from Adventure Time and nothing fairer than drawing her. I thought it funnier to take a picture when I finished drawing, which was 5 am .. It was a complete mess.
This drawing bellow was the first attempt to play with colors using gouache. The study was basically to show how the colors contrasted with each other without mixing colors or using dark or light colors
However, I did not just keep on animatons, I had a dog named Trinity (named after the matrix movie) and for those who said pitbulls were dangerous animals, she was the cutest and sweetest thing. She was very old, luckily I had very fondly saved one of the photos in which she emanated happiness. In this work we needed to make shadow and light, preferably using the same paint. Too bad a beginner artist always makes mistakes when two things need to be identical ... if you know what I mean.
Back to Adventure Time, I decided to paint Princess Bonnie. I really like this cartoon, it inspires me in different ways beucase it has unusual characters with different shapes, personalities, etc. So I started learning how to execute a successul painting, because in the real world we do not have ctrl + z.
Last but not least, this cat should be on every possible social network, its colors inspired me and it was a big challenge. In the end of the course, I decided it was time to use everything that I learned. And that's what happened, I think it was one of the brightest designs I have ever made.
Studying traditional painting in Digital Games seems a bit misleading, but it is interesting to see closely how colors are different from screen viewing to paper. This gives you a little more insight into how things work and you learn not to be frustrated when there is no ctrl z in real life.
