The Courtyard

Someone should really clean this place up.
Not much courting going on, eh?

Flooded hall

I've looked at this wayyyy too long. If you've got leaky-roof problems, you should really call the 'Seal Group'. They have got THE BEST CG talking-seal created in history, complete with the best lip sync you've ever seen - if you've seen the ad, you know the goodness that I'm talking about.

Dragons 'n shit

The Dragon was by FAR the least interesting part of this pic to draw...and probably look at. Stupid dragon.

Oh by the way, this was done for a little blog that some of the guys from work have created. Check it, yo!

http://monolithart.blogspot.com/

Abandoned Factory

This piece was a lot of fun - focusing on colour, texture and experimenting with workflow. Also trying to keep non-important elements loose.

Hmmm, I wonder what inspired this...?

If you can guess it, Leigh Miller has agreed to pay you $5.

I'll post WIP's laters.

Bath-time at the Smith residence

Studies, Speedpaints, Sketchcrawl and...Life Drawing

Jungle Gym!

A new post! Woah!
I've included a step by step for Mr. One22andan8th - hope this comes in handy! (nup)

3d, but not really...

Woah! 3d! Just relax, folks, I'll have none of that here thanks.
A very talented artist at our company named Francois Melard created the mesh for this character and walked us through the character texturing process - I just did the painting. Thanks Francois!

Check out more of Mr. Melard's stuff here.

Ships in space

I reaaally want to get better at speedpaints - this is my first personal one in a while, but I can't even really take full credit for it. I was trying (really hard!) to imitate the rendering technique of a bunch of other artists. The day I can do this all by myself I will be very happy!

Must...keep...practicing....

This took about an hour.

Struggle-town! Blog-filler ahead.

I've been under the influence of severe creative block the passed month or two and it really is an annoying place to be! I draw most nights but lately it seems really difficult to finish any of the pics. Here are just a few of my many recent attempts.

In particular I know I've made a conscious decision to try some more stylized characters (ala Pixar or something similar) so maybe its just that transition that is slowing me down - I still really want to explore another style so we'll see how it goes.

I'm hoping this will spark something!

Bits and pieces

Its christmas!

The first piece I did for the DSG at conceptart.org. Here's the thread:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=157286&page=2

The second piece was from life drawing last wednesday - tried to work with just shadows and highlights instead of full colour.

Look out, Hottie coming through

Some more CHOW.
The topic this time round were the characters from a comic called 'Sandman'. There were a bunch of characters to choose from - I picked one named 'Despair'. Never read the comic, but anyone who has seems to love it.

Here is her wiki description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despair_(DC_Comics)

Here is the conceptart.org thread with all the final entries:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2249346&posted=1

Choppin'riffic

My CHOW entry for the current topic on conceptart.org

There were a bunch of us from work who entered - all our entries were brilliant! Check it out:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2234283&posted=1#post2234283

Life drawing - 22nd April 09

3 x5 minutes, 3 x 10 minute and 1 x 20 minute poses.

DSG #1473 (Daily Sketch Group)

A quick paint for Conceptart.org's Daily Sketch Group forum.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2214263&posted=1#post2214263

People practice

Life Drawing - 8th April 09

5 minute (greyscale), 10 and 20 minute poses from life drawing class earlier tonight.

Enviro - The Towers

Another speedy from tonight - felt like squeezing out another enviro before getting back to work tomorrow. The saturation is a bit crazy with this one, but I like the looseness and design overall.

...Mike...using 3d? Lies!

I'm constantly giving crap to my 3d friends about how bad 3d is - that's because its TRUE (2d rules). Zbrush is an exception cause its actually good!. This is my first real go at zbrush and I have to say that I enjoyed it overall.

Time for Mike's zbrush review:

+ Modelling, carving away and painting - great fun and works as you'd expect it to.
- The menu's are infuriatingly complex. Also, sometimes the program will just do something completely random (seriously), when you are trying to do something that you thought was really straight forward.

Strange program, but I'm keen to give it more time.