This week's Artist of the Week! goes to Ben_Olson over on concept art!

Not only is this artist impressive with their varying style, but they have a great tendancy to delve into the realms of strange and weird. His art tends to have this almost watercolor look to it with the stylistic flourishes of his digital paints. Not only that, but he seems to have good control over his pencil work as well... if you look on the last page of his sketchbook (posted above), he has some gestural drawings as well from life. This guy seems to have a great grasp on it all. Keep it up!

So this week has been filled with work... mainly really delving into digital painting hard! You'll see some of the experiments that I've been doing below. Maybe some critiques would do me well.

Life Drawing at MCA has come to a close yesterday, so unfortunately I'll have to start just doing my own drawings on the side (even though I do that already).

Either way, I'll probably just go ahead and dive right into the post as I have a ton of work to get done.

Here we go...

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: Original is 8" x 10"

Notes: The final design for the Character of the Week contest. I still need to get a better grasp of the digital painting idea, but I'm proud of myself for actually finishing one when there is finals coming up!

Life Drawing - 15 minute

Title: Life Drawing - 15 minute

Date: November 1, 2011

Medium: Graphite / Conte

Scale: 8.5" x 11" Gunmetal Grey Card-Stock

Notes: Still a work in progress (need to finish the shading all throughout).

Roberto

Title: Roberto

Date: November 7, 2011

Medium: Ink

Scale: 5" x 7"

Notes: We actually used a regular old stick that we found, carved it into a brush type shape and then painting with ink on paper. It was a very unique and interesting concept for me and I think I might try doing more of this...

Portrait Series: H. G. Wells (in progress)

Title: Portrait Series: H. G. Wells (in progress)

Date: November 6, 2011

Medium: Graphite / Conte

Scale: 8.5" x 11" Gunmetal Grey Card-Stock

Notes: My next portrait in the series: H. G. Wells. It will be done in the same style as before.

Digital Paint Practice: Zephyri 

Title: Digital Paint Practice: Zephyri

Date: November 7, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: <unknown at the time>

Digital Paint Practice: Magyar

Title: Digital Paint Practice: Magyar

Date: November 6, 2011

Medium: Photoshop

Scale: <unknown at the time>

There ya have it folks... more to come soon!

This week's Artist of the Week! goes to MatejaPetkovik over on concept art!

If you actually look at the overall work that he's put into his work from beginning to end... it seems completely consistent in both skill and expertise. This guy seems pretty much AAA in my opinion. Not only that, but he seems equally focused on traditional and digital at the same time! Keep up the good work!!!

Hahaha, so apparently during the whole Haunted House thing that happened before... a bunch of the 'scarers' got beat up randomly. Like the people that were in the House got so freaked out by them that they actually punched out of reflex. Either they did an awesome job at the Haunted House, or the people that went are extremely violent.

Let's see... so I've been experimenting with new things involving art, mainly just digital painting now that I've found a good brush to use. You can see below... OH! And I finished my animation mid-term... that will also be below.

Here's probably what you've all come for, the art: