Art Styles Assignment: Marek Okon

Marek Okon is a digital artist who specializes in extremely realistic scenes and characters with an incredible level of detail. For the character i created (Murasaki) i had to create a bust in the style of Mareks work. Having never even attempted anything like this before i was extremely apprehensive and wassnt sure whether or not i would be able to achieve a certain level of realism in my piece.

I started off by sketching the rough proportions of the face and once i was happy with that, began to block some of the colours such as the skin tones, highlights and hair. Once that was completed i then began adding finer details such as shadows, blending the skin and the eyes and hair.

Overall i am extremely happy with how this piece turned out, with a little bit more work on skin tones and details such as highlights and shadows i think the would be my favourite piece i have done in this 1st year of university.

Art Styles Assignment: Sean Galloway

For the next couple of weeks we have been tasked with designing a character and then creating said character in the styles of 3 digital artists, the three artists we have been givens styles are very different but are all really well done and very interesting. The following are the 3 digital artists we have been tasked with mimicking;

Sean Galloway- An artist with a very comic book esque style who has remade a number of super heroes and other popular characters.

Ashley Wood - Ashley wood is a digital artist best known for creating alot of art for the Metal Gear Solid franchise. Out of the three artists, his work i admire the most.

Marek Okon- Marek creates very realistic digital art and his work is incredibly detailed and insanely good.

I began by making a start on the Sean Galloway style piece. The main features of his work consist of very exaggerated propotions very cartoon esque features. After several attempts i came up with the picture below which i was happy with but didnt fully represent his style;

After looking more closely at Sean Galloways work, i noticed the extreme proportions and detailed faces, so after a lot of feedback from Mark and a few tips i went back on PS and came up with this brand new design which i feel represents Sean Galloways art style a lot more effectively than the previous piece i did.