Art K.O.

The Art and Illustration of Kit Olsen

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My full color character set for Zombie Farm! You can see Aisha and Porketta in their full glory! I will say though my favorite character definitely the goat, unfortunately I haven’t been able to do turn around of her yet but I’m sure I’ll get around to it in the future.  

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A few sketches of my little piggy Porketta. I seriously love drawing her, she got so many stories to tell.

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Aisha’s lil’ sidekick/best friend Porketta. She is a zombie pig from the planet Zom-B who came to Earth after her home became too polluted to live on. She might be a little pig but shes a top scientist looking to make the world rub clean and green!   

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Some quick poses of Aisha. You can really start to see her spunky personality come through in these.

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So Term 3 was character design. I was given a name for my imaginary TV show and the ability to choose my genre and audience age. The name I was given was Zombie Farm and I choose to make a pre-school sci-fi show. This is my main character Aisha. She loves animals and wants to be a vet when she grows up.   

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So I got a request to do Oola from Star Wars after my last Twi’lek doodle, so I did this one real quick to try out some new brush techniques. I think I could have tried out some more texture on the skin but it was neat to try new brushes.

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Aaaaaaannnnnnndddd here’s my final establishing shot. The style is a more simple geometric one inspired by Mary Blair and Kevin Dart. While the city worships the stars they are also cursed by them, which is why they hang in the sky ominously over the temple. 

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And the next part of the process, color drafts. I took 4 of my thumbnails and worked out the composition some more before doing quick color studies of my favorite reworks.  

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So part 2 of term 2, a full establishing shot of my building design. These are the black and white thumbnails to try and plan out my final painting.   

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Its me. I was bad and did a doodle in class.

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My final building design! Because Capricorn is an earth element I wanted my temple to be an artificial mountain, and being a sign devoted to hard work the temple is also dedicated to farming and has rice paddies on the lower tier. As far as painting goes I kind of approached this like an oil painting but added a lot more line work at the end.    

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Some sketches to develop my silhouettes more. I didn't have the pleasure of using my Cintique because I was at a friends wedding so my intuos had to do. The sketches could be a little better but I’m happy with some of my ideas.     

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I’m back with my art from term 2 at VFS! This term the focus was environments so we started with building silhouettes. The city that we were building was supposed to be a society that worships astrological signs so all of my buildings were designed to be the Temple of Capricorn. 

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Quick doodle of Josephine Baker for her 111th birthday. Such a lovely smart woman.

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Happy (Belated) Stars Wars Day! I sketched this during class yesterday but didn't get to post it til today. I love the Twi’leks so much but they always get designated to the sexy girl character, so I thought it would be fun to do one out of that typical context. I think I might even do a Twi’lek fan comic at some point.

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After all the work, my final car. I’m pretty happy with the final concept and I really love the ways I discovered it through the different parts of my process. 

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Final orthographic turnaround and render of my prop. I love my ortho but I have to say I wish I could have had more time to render the prop better. I cant say that it turned out the way I had hoped.