The Art of Jon Torres

An illustration for my digital illustration course at the Academy of Art.

I’ve been wanting to make some cool MTG token card art. I have plans for making a deck of completely custom cards like this.

So it is now week 10 of the spring semester. Man am I tired and I have felt like the quality of my work has slipped just a bit due to the tiredness. But I'm trying to rally my strength and finish the next 5 weeks as strong as I possibly can. Let's start with my figure drawing class. Here is one study I did for my anatomy class focusing on the back of the figure and the intricacies there.

We also attempted to study and learn about the back of the legs and the calves area.

In my perspective class, I worked on two point perspective again, but looking at a more extreme angle, in this case, a downward one. First I started with the following thumbnails. There was no real requirements on a specific theme or subject so I thumbnailed out whatever ideas popped into my head that I thought would be interesting.

I was trying to make those weird pointy hats many Egyptians are wearing in statues but it was just not working. So in the final image, I changed the head all together to be that of Anubis. This made more sense story wise as Anubis is the god of the dead and I wanted to add that mummy on a table there as well. Like the mummy is being prepared in one of Anubis' temples.

I'm still not 100% satisfied with the image, but I feel better making these changes than I did when I started the image. For how much of a fight the drawing was, I'm happy it turned out acceptable at all. Sometimes you just get one of those drawings that is just really frustrating.

Lastly, here are some clothed figure drawings I did. I took some photos of myself for reference and tried to draw them. I like the first two here while the last two are kind of bad, but I'll share them anyways.

Here are some 5 minute clothed studies:

10 minute clothed studies:

And finally, a 20 minute study:

A collection of clothed figure drawing studies from my schooling.

Some more pieces of work from my perspective class.

I have started classes back up at the Academy of Art University. So far I’m learning a lot and being challenged in ways I wasn’t challenging myself. One of those was was using ink and markers for isometric drawings.

An environment design created in Blender and painted over in Photoshop.

Here is a process video of this image:

Just a quick practice from today.

Spent today studying some human anatomy.

So I have been putting a bit of time in here and there to make some art for the Polycount/Riot Games contest. Here is where I am currently at. I’m pretty much there, it’s just a matter of refining everything now.

Here is a sketch of the entrance into Moria. Painted in about 90 minutes in Adobe Photoshop.

Check out my youtube channel later for a tutorial on this image. I’ll be posting that soon.

I’m a huge Tolkien nerd and fan and it has been a while since I did some Lord of the Rings Art. So I made this last night in about an hour or so.

Some more mood work for a personal project I’m working on.