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<\/p>\nMy name is Dominic Redding, and I am a senior working on a Mathematical Sciences major.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
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This was my most recent (and first) successful attempt at merging parts from different models into one.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … <\/p>\n