kid head - octopus body

a new face. Trying to get some skin tones down. Angry boarding schooler.

Pope Innocent x master study - portrait

she knows how to use 'em

new stuff

Character concept

Somewhat deformed character concept (minus some text and titling)

Little Hawk

cafe doodle

a naked old man

Neptune with a shark bite.

magician poster

I was looking for something to do yesterday and saw a post on craigslist from a dude who needed a business card. He was a magician with a crappy website so I emailed him and made this (had to be b/w due to the card stock he was using.) Basically worked pro bono.

I tried to capture some of the old style classic magic posters and practice a little graphic design which I usually avoid. Came out pretty cool and he was happy.

The final size is business card but this is 1/4 work size. The text is all his request (he really wanted to show how "green" his Magic biz was)

Parambulator

I felt the need to do something with more than 2 legs so here it is. Still trying to keep it in control during the transition from scanned pencil sketch to painted. There are so many unintentional marks and textures that gradually get painted over even if they are cool. Hmm. I think ultimately the way to go is with a simpler sketch then paint in the base through details so there isn't the remorse of painting over something that could stand alone but that doesn't work in the final piece.
On to storyboards..

some new stuff I posted on my portfolio

YAK!

Keith Thompson has a cool look, sortof like Wayne Barlowe but not as good. Here is me trying to do a quadruped in that style

a soldier and a beast of burden

done!

my first device

I guess it is just a flashlight but it looke much more complicated

an angry turk?

Some parts of this guy came out as intended but there are some glaring bad perspective parts that really bother me. Values and contrast are 80% of what I wanted, on to the next I guess.

the original sketch

pencil drawings on Sunday

square brush quick concept

3D based city with Titan

I made a simple 3D model in Maya - then textured it and drew details in photoshop.

This was meant to be a period architecture piece but I had to throw in a Titan protecting the city from some huge blast. We can never understand their motives..

Getting a bit tired of this color scheme now..

realistic environments

Trying out some more realistic textures. Less stylized. The guy in this is a bit more painterly but I accidentally saved the flattened image so he is in there permanently.

Outside the city speedpainting

Lunchtime quick street scene numero 2.

No perspective fussing here. Bricks lit by the fire!

defiant/bashful/insane russian cosmonaut

nebulas

Nebula+ship=future

Quick character - comfy

This character is just a fast concept in a comfortable style for me. Cartoony, not too finished. From a sketch, Scanned and given a steampunk color theme. I'd like to do some more realistic people when I can put more than a few minutes into a personal drawing. Soon!

Cliff castle with some concept sketches

I was about to go to sleep and had this idea pop in my head of a cliff with animal headed cylinders extending over the edge. After a few sketches I worked up this idea. I like it but got too mired in the messy middle phases. The values work desaturated though so I know they are good:) * If it looks good in black and white then the shadow to light balance is correct.

I wish the architecture was designed better - it is really bland and not to scale (windows are too big by far) but I didn't work on a detailed sketch so had to make it up as I went along. Next time I will definitely use real perspective and map out a tight sketch for architecture before painting.

Space crap

Space town
Moon Burg Quadrant
Star-ville Region of the Kentucky Nebula
U.S.A.

speed painting

10 minute mountain

blue junkland

I wanted to do another pice with the same blue night, industrial theme color scheme as the last one. This one was little more planned out to begin with. Took maybe 2.5 hours?

I started with perspective lines. Added junkland shapes and went from there, adding the miner/traveler and the working forge area last.

City scape

Next attempt at landscaping with the brush set. To be clear, I'm using someone elses brushes. Huge time saver if the project needs loose and gritty. Going to try something naturalistic next.

new brushes

I am trying out a new set of brushes. Makes loose and fast landscapes pretty easy. Compared to the soft brush I used on the last one, this landscape has way more detail and took about an hour.

some faces

I've been working on skin tones and faces in general a bit. Here are my first few. The mohawk girl has jelly bean of a head and her ear is in the wrong place but the skin is passable. I like how the guy came out, took a bit longer on him.

Viola

Not a huge backstory on this. Just trying some stuff without doing a sketch first.

Space woman beating a low charisma fuzzball.
Some surly guy with patterned skin brands.

the alchemists

These are the alchemists. Not your typical wisened european chemists but men who are following the Great Work in various ways. This guy is more of a blacksmith, with protective leathers due to explosive endeavors. He has already lost a leg but still gazes deeply into his creations.
This fellow below is inseparable from his bopkin. He is selfish and dangerous.

This one is just a blue sky attempt - alchemy on an alien scale. Human ingredients are needed. His pose is reminiscent of giant buddhist statue, perhaps they used his form as a model. He has humanoid anatomy on the outside but his pose has no counterbalancing, inside he is boneless. His clothes are perhaps a crabs casing. Giant voodoo alien alchemist?

Needs a ride

Just a quick black and white undead bandleader patriot gunslinger looking for a ride.. A bit sloppy but I'm proud of how the tree branches came out - just made a crappy brush and threw em down in 5 seconds. Economy!

the dreamer

I tried some new stuff with this guy. Didn't take him to the level of finish I would have liked but my hand is hurting from the day of painting.

I do like how his face is hard to focus on, with an upper face it's almost like your eyes are crossed for a second when you look at him. His posture recalls hindu statues, double limbs and multiple eyes pimple his body. Two cherubim souls help unfurl his "wings" as he meditates.

I did paint over a sketch on this, it is showing through. Needs more work but I'll probably move on. The lighting came out ok but not as intentional as it could have been.