My name is Dominic Redding, and I am a senior working on a Mathematical Sciences major.
My experience with art goes back to mid-high school: I spent a couple years in my school’s Digital Arts class in which I dabbled in graphic design via logotype and icon making, editing pictures with Photoshop, and creating simple graphics for flash-like games in Illustrator and animating them in Edge Animate. Since I’ve enrolled in WPI, I’ve taken Essentials of Art, a drawing course, Intro to Digital Art with Photoshop for 2D and Maya for 3D, and 3D Modelling 1 with ZBrush.
My tech experience is almost entirely in programming. I’ve spent about 3 years at WPI taking various Computer Science courses, have been commissioned to design and build a game in Edge Animate, and completed some course projects using algorithms.
A big part of my life is my hobbies, the most significant of which is tabletop wargaming: essentially board games using miniatures painted by their owner. I have been playing various games and painting models for the past 5 years or so. One of the most interesting things about this is that, as some of the stories for these games have existed for 20-30 years, there is so much story which can be used and altered to fit my hobby. I can paint however I want, and create a story around it to represent my models in these universes.
Most importantly to me: art is fun for me. I like sitting down for a few hours at a time and paint without worrying about anything else going on around me. While I’m not sure I can necessarily call it a goal, painting is a thing I can always look forward to at the end of the day, and I can know I will walk away having bettered myself.
This is one I am proud of for how little paint went into it. After the first coat, the transitions on the arms and tentacles were all done with several coats of a very thin ink, which led to a smooth transition from base to end.
This was my most recent (and first) successful attempt at merging parts from different models into one.
I was happy with how clean the line between the blues and oranges turned out, and I was able to keep the black going up the shin to come into a relatively fine point.
This is the largest model I’ve painted to date, and is the cleanest coat of white I’ve managed in all my years of this hobby.
This is the piece I have most recently painted. While I am not completely happy with it, this is undoubtedly the best face I have painted. Additionally, I believe I am very happy with how the cape turned out, especially with the gold transitions.