Tree House Project

Right after the kitchen project we started our Tree Houses. We were required to do interior and exterior views of our tree house, set to fit in the same "film" as our kitchens.

In between thumbnailing and refining ideas we did two practice paints. A close up on a tree, and the whole tree.


Variations based on my better thumbnails.
The final sketches under a quick color and lighting study.
And the final paints! There's some compositional, lighting and color problems but I am significantly more satisfied with my treehouses than I was with my kitchens. I think I'm starting to get the hang of digital painting.

Gary Soto Kitchen Project

For my beginning visual development class we were asked to design a kitchen based on the writings of Gary Soto, as he grew up in a lower to middle class family in the 1950's.
Much of the class had never painted digitally before, so to warm up we chose an object from our own kitchen to break in our photoshop shoes. I chose my electric kettle.

After many thumbnails, careful planning and revisions we sketched the line drawings of two views of our kitchens. Following this was pencil renderings with two versions of lighting for each view. Once that was completed we picked one rendering to paint in color. After the final paintings were turned in, the teacher asked us to repaint a selection of our image and apply what we learned from the final critique and the other student's work.






This project was extremely difficult and pushed many of my boundaries. My strengths do not lie in perspective and man made objects, and I had never painted in photoshop before. Over all I am happy with my design work though my technical experience could use some more skill points. I can't say I'm happy with my final painting, I feel I could have done a better job unifying colors and staying closer to my lighting study. I am much more satisfied with my selection painting as I was able to fix many of the problems I faced in the full piece, though I still have a lot to learn.

I'm pretty excited to be finished with the kitchens and I'm super stoked for our current project, designing tree houses!

Animation Character Packets

This semester my animation class is developing 30 second short films. We've just finished designing our characters and here's my two leads, Eddie the Yeti and Greg the Explorer.

Winter 2012 Sketches

A selection of sketchbook stuff from this past winter.

Fall Class Work 2011

This semester I took two art classes, Intermediate Drawing and Intermediate Animation. Here's a collection of work from both classes.
The big project this year was to design a forest inspired by Midsummer Night's Dream. We were required to create both a day time and enchanted night forest. Many steps went into creating the final paintings, such as thumbnailing and small comps, a pencil line drawing, a pencil rendering and color comps.
Night pencil rendering
Night pencil lines
Daytime final painting
Daytime pencil rendering
Daytime pencil lines
My animation class had a lot of weekly sketchbook work. Following is a selection of figure drawing, lemur studies and observational gestures.

Sack Pantomime from Megan Lawton on Vimeo.
Last but not least my animation final, the sack pantomime.

Summer-Fall 2011

Dinolich
Caricatures of tumblr friends, tumblurtures even.
Rehashed the cast. Devon, Benji, Delilah and Oliver
All kinds of sketchbooky things.
Old self portrait and some revisited characters from eons ago. Right is Nanuka's and bottom left is Daewen's
The aliens from Attack the Block were particularly inspiring.
Zach's Jillian
Updated Mallancholy cast for issue 3.
New Deviantart ID.

Monster lady
I just had to draw Marshal Lee as Rufio from Hook after I heard Rebecca Sugar wanted Dante Basco to voice the genderswapped Marceline.
Last but not least, new drawing of my ideal Pokemon team.

Spring Semester Work

Major works and projects from 113a and 112b at San Jose State.
Line drawing for the city scape. I like this a lot more than the final result.
The final painting, done in gouache, by far the most difficult medium I've encountered in my life.
Color comps also done in gouache at a much smaller size than the final painting. These are the best results out of the 12 we did.
Figure studies, primarily 5-10 minutes, done in pencil or ball point pen.