still a few books left!

I made a bigcartel site to offer up the few remaining copies of MONSTROSSUS and some of the other pieces I made for APE. Super low quantities so if you want em take a look!

Illustrium.bigcartel.com

I'm out of town for a couple weeks but will ship out the arts when I get back,

Cheers!

Luke

APE 2013 is over!

 

Alternative Press Expo 2013 is over and went great! Plenty of copies of MONSTROSSUS went into American homes.

Met a lot of talented friendly people and caught up with some friends I didn't know would be showing their art there.

Our table The Illustrium - Will Coyner @WillCoyner, Patrick O'Keefe @TheOKArtist and myself @Auldrobot brought our first books and art prints. Big thanks to everyone who came out and stopped by our table!

 

IF YOU WANTED A COPY OF MONSTROSSUS BUT LEFT EMPTY HANDED

or

YOU NEVER SHOWED UP BUT YOU STILL WANT ONE

 

read on...

 

I have very few copies left so Email me with the title MONSTROSSUS, your mailing address and I'll shoot you a Paypal request for $15 plus $3 shipping and the magic will happen!

 

I'll update this post when all are gone.

 

Thanks!

Luke

 

 

classic theme: dead cosmonaut

Strange Gods

some skull

got distracted from my task of painting a thing in a jar and ended up painting a skull on a wall.

Dream of Leviathan

I had a dream of this image about a year ago and finally painted it up. I decided to treat this like a concept for a film shot so I used photo textures like the whale skeleton.

This is the color and light study I did first. Took me about 20 minutes to mock this up and I feel like I had to work the final image for hours just to be as effective as the study. In the end I prefer the final but there are still a lot of great implied details in the quick study.

my imaginary friend Amber

Skin tone study based on photo ref then migrated into this slightly cockeyed chick.

first demon on the Cintiq 13HD

Regus of the Infinite - The Equivocator

my Kaiju

I found this old comic I started circa 2010?

I was messing with trying to make comics. At the time I hated this but it has grown on me.

I never got around to doing the pages and pages of the robot saying "harm a human" over and over again all night long on the couch..

Only

Just a reminder.. Done 80's style.

Solo RED

The Wise One

Awaiting your offering. Do not offend.

cafe studies

Looking through a magazine, drawing interesting faces.

Voluc the Devourer

Voluc was one of the first characters we designed for Dawngate. He started in my sketchbook and grew into the handsome man he is today thanks to Patrick Morrison's modelling, Kiyoshi Okuma on FX and Zach Baharov animating.

 

prometheus study

here it is!

Max Von Sydow and our new game

www.dawngate.com

Just announced this thing we've been working hard on for a while. Check it out! I'm art directing it.

ten minute big brush Edgar Payne study

I am clearly blind. Colors are totally wrong. I used desat red instead of a nice toasty orange, among other things...

hill troll

study from The Hobbit. This big square brush makes drawing with light much easier.

One more kiss, dear

Rachel

big blocker brush film still studies

I started this aiming to use as few strokes as possible. 10 got me no where so I just freestyle blocked stuff in. I like the result, like painting with a roller.

Tears in rain

Bladerunner study. I overworked it. Really trying to simplify this and not noodle with the small brush.

value study Game of Thrones

no time for a full Payne study so I took a snowy Game of Thrones still and did a value study.

Payne again

Edgar Payne study. Trying not to color pick until I'm done to check how close I get the colors. Not doing well yet but the values are pretty close when desaturated.

some studies in black and white

Studies of photos of model Ilaria Pozzi from the internets done in black and white. Last image is just a random face.

edgar payne studies

trying to learn this shit. After the Nathan Fowkes workshop I'm pumped to do landscapes. These are Edgar Payne studies from internet photos on another monitor, no color picking.

Ilaria study

Did a quick study in Painter.

Nos the Feratu

Happy Halloween!

Mhons

The Song of the Blind Hammer-Mhons

monster thing, now with writing!

two images from live demo at Art Institute

Rembrandt is a little washed out and the dino head is a tad muppety but not bad, less than an hour each for sure.

fukkitanalien

Alien time.. Keeping the old toad skinned xenotard skills sharp

Robot corpse

lunch sketch - Will Ferrell

sortof looks like him. Based on a Phil Holland photo

Messing around in Mudbox

Messing around in Mudbox today. 

Black Ned vs the Arctic Blindness part 2 - Beyond the Cave.

new brush

I keep suspecting there are really cool brushes in my pallette, I found this one called "big fuzzy gesture tool#1".

Thanks to whoever made it.

Sketched out this chick in an action bikini.

Ipad Artrage

mecha chick

Did this per request of a buddy at work. The mechanical design needs work but I am hoping since there is a chick in there no one will care!

Sample of the cinematic we did for Darkspore

This is a quick compilation Brandon put together of some of the shots from our game cinematic. Total we did about 10 minutes of footage, me illustrating and Brandon animating the layered PSD's.

http://vimeo.com/23187322

BLAM!

Seriously. Our game is good. If you want to hate on Spore.. remember most of us didn't even work on that game. Darkspore is solid..

Here is a poster I put together.