Environment - Underwater Colony

I redid my environment from the last post, which was the second project in my digital modeling class - it came out pretty well for a few things that I ended up learning new from watching tutorial videos that I bought, as well as found on youtube. I definitely plan to explore doing more paintings like these, since I plan to have one for each of the characters for my thesis. I'd like them at least laid out to be ready for painting before the school year starts back up. <3 The teacher really liked it, and gave me tips to push it, so I'll have to remember to do so while I'm doing nothing over break, nya. 

I thought I'd go ahead and upload these old environment studies that I did in my digital painting class - Somehow, I never realized just how candy-like these colors were, despite my teacher saying it was okay, haha. I think I would be better off doing a blend of the lower two color studies... The final piece is what I turned in, and it looks so terrible. xD; 

I'm in the process of redoing it for my critique - I know it's usually not kosher to up and redo it, but I have the general gist of the whole thing in the new painting - just new mood, atmospheric, and colors more adhering to how they work underwater.

Illustration WIP - Aquarius Stage Design

Here we go~. Now that it's winter, I have a steady amount of WIP's and things to post, though I won't do it all in a day. I'll have it update steadily, maybe every few/other days, or maybe once a week. Anyway - don't mind the little bit of graffiti (amusingly enough, many people liked the little quirk of it!) but here's an near-finished environmental painting I did relating to my thesis, but meant for my Digital Painting Class.