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Showing posts with label monsters. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

June Sum-Up

2:33 PM anatomy , applied studies 1 Comments
June - Anatomy Summary


Title: June - Anatomy Summary
Date: June
Medium: Photoshop CS6
Scale: Varies

Notes: Overall, the month of June was, what I felt like, a bit of an unproductive month. I think maybe I was feeling down or perhaps all the pending housework was destroying my productivity, but I can say that I'm trying to make a point of the things that I need to work on. Edges and Stoke economy. These are the main things that I want to really make sure that I start to watch. I think I'm getting kind of there as far as getting really expressive with my painting technique, but I think it's still falling apart on those two aspects mentioned. It's a long and frustrating process, but hopefully in the end it will be worth it.
As always... time to just keep on powering more down!

Game of Thrones - Season 1, Episode 1
(Stark's Dilemma)
(Work in Progress)


Title: Game of Thrones - Season 1, Episode 1 (Stark's Dilemma) (Work in Progress)
Date: June 17 - 24, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6
Scale: Original is 12.8" x 7.8"

Notes: I really want to do a study for every episode, so I've been taking screen caps of what I would consider to be a 'pinnacle' moment of each episode. I'm really behind as far as the work goes, but I love this show so damn much that I just want to keep pushing on my studies for these. They are some great examples of dynamic lighting, crazy scenes, and even awesome character design. Either way... more to come on these.

Demon Lord - Applied Study (WIP)


Title: Demon Lord - Applied Study (WIP)
Date: June 24 - 29, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6

Notes: Still plugging away at this WIP. That staff is looking stupid and so is the altar... much work to go!
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Demon Lord

2:10 PM animals , applied studies 0 Comments
Ram Horns - A Study


Title: Ram Horns - A Study
Date: June 24, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6

Notes: I worked a little backward this time, but this was a study for the bigger illustration below. Let's face it... horns of any variety are kind of a pain because of all the folds and ridges that are there. BUT they look awesome! 
I was trucking along with my demon lord painting and lo and behold, I realized in mid-paint that... I have no idea really how ram horns work - SO! I thought, what better time than to study some horns from a photo. I took the study of the horns and began to apply it to the demon lord painting that I'm working on. I'm still in like mid-paint for the demon lord, but this is it so far:

Demon Lord - Applied Study (WIP)


Title: Demon Lord - Applied Study (WIP)
Date: June 24 & 25, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS6

Notes: This piece is really just a test to see how well I can use both applied studies, imagination and to really push that dramatic lighting. It still has quite a bit to go, but I thought I would share where I'm at currently. Finally breaking away from those damn studies to actually paint something that I enjoy.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

School's Coming Up Again

7:01 PM art , ashley webb 0 Comments
Creepiness


Title: Creepiness
Date: January 5 - 7, 2014
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Varies

Notes: It's amazing what kind of weird stuff pop out when you listen to your fiancee read The Strain...

Anatomy Simplification Again


Title: Anatomy Simplification Again
Date: January 3 - 6, 2014
Medium: Pencil
Scale: Varies

Notes: Yet again, discovering more and more ways to simplify facial features. I'm sure more of this will keep coming up for some time to come.

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Friday, January 3, 2014

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Friday, December 6, 2013

Independent Study -- Finals and Book

6:15 PM absolved , art 0 Comments
Sorry for lack of updates for a bit... but I was really busy.

All I can say is... WHEW! Now I can relax the rest of the semester away (Monday is last day YEAH!)

But yeah, this is the entire project, sans text.

Independent Study: Displaced Final


Title: Independent Study: Displaced Final
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 11" x 17"

Notes: The final for the Displaced race for Absolved.

Independent Study: Foundling Final


Title: Independent Study: Foundling Final
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 11" x 17"

Notes: The final for the Foundling race for Absolved.

Independent Study: Marionette Final


Title: Independent Study: Marionette Final
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 11" x 17"

Notes: The final for the Marionette race for Absolved.

Independent Study: Absolved Preview Booklet










Title: Independent Study: Absolved Preview Booklet
Medium: Photoshop CS3, Pencil, Ink and Brush
Scale: Each 'page' is 8.5" x 11"

Notes: This is the final for the entirety of my Independent Study. I've had the ideas flowing around for quite awhile, and so taking this independent study pretty much forced me to really get in and dig deep to get this all out. Honestly I hope to one day be able to turn this world into something, but that's for another day I think.
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Friday, November 22, 2013

What's This?

12:53 PM art , chunky paints 0 Comments
DJ Shadow - "Erase You"

"What's This?"


Title: "What's This?"
Date: November 22, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: 800px x 1200px

Notes: Trying to continue on with chunky painting. Yet again, not only pose study, but also seeing how big I can keep my brush while painting. Theres a bunch of the background elements missing from this one as all the boxy objects in the background are pages from a book. I simplified them quite a bit. 
~30 minutes.

A Still-Life Lesson in Subtlety


Title: A Still-Life Lesson in Subtlety
Date: November 22, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 2000px x 2000px

Notes: I was sitting there thinking about what to paint and I look over and light is streaming through the window and hitting this vintage gargoyle statue that we have and so I wanted to see if I could paint it. It was literally one color from the light on hard stone.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Independent Study -- The Displaced - Finals

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Independent Study: The Displaced - Finals




Title: Independent Study: The Displaced - Finals
Date: November 13 - 18, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Varies

Notes: Man-oh-Man. I didn't think I could do it at first. Crank out three full character paintings in a week. I kind of surprised myself with these.
I wanted to show the proportions they have in comparison to their bodies. Those hands are huge, and that waist is tiny. Damn sewer rats.
Now all that's left to do is rework that first piece (the marionette) and start cranking out the booklet, and then I'm done (at least for this class -- I still have a ton more work to do to flesh this world out to the max).
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Friday, November 1, 2013

Independent Study -- The Displaced 1

2:16 PM art , concept art 0 Comments
Independent Study: The Displaced 1


Title: Independent Study: The Displaced 1
Date: October 29 - 31, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS6, Pencil
Scale: Varies

Notes: And so begins the final characters. The Displaced. They are literally homeless people that live in the London Underground. They are sickly, they are disgusting, they even have strange, rat-like growths on their bodies.
I have been bouncing back and forth between that idea and the disgusting body-builder like build. But then I decided, ultimately, that they are too close to Fallout 3's super mutants in that form.
More on these guys soon...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Independent Study -- Foundlings Final

7:55 AM art , concept art 0 Comments
Cradle of Filth - "Cthulhu Dawn"
(I've been on a black metal kick lately)

Independent Study: Foundling Final


Title: Independent Study: Foundling Final
Date: October 22 - 27, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 11" x 17"

Notes: The final shot of the Foundlings. I was trying my damndest to not make him look like an insane gnome, because that's not what the Foundlings are at all.


Independent Study: London Underground Environment Studies


Title: Independent Study: London Underground Environment Studies
Date: October 27, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 8.5" x 11"

Notes: The next race that I have to look into will dwell in an abandoned version of the London Underground. It was more or less militarily quarantined, so I think it would be smart to look into the London Underground as it is today, as well as abandoned subway stations, tubes, etc. More on this soon...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Independent Study -- Foundlings Final WIP

7:41 AM art , concept art 0 Comments
Independent Study: Foundling Final - WIP


Title: Independent Study: Foundling Final - WIP
Date: October 22 & 23, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 11" x 17"

Notes: This is the first work in progress shot of the newest poster for the Independent Study. It's for the Foundling race of characters. They are literally magical children.
I'm thinking that at the moment the perspective is kind of strange, so I will probably have to fix it a bit before I can continue, but I do love the color palette so far. I think it's working.
Time to get back to it and work MOAR!
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Bakhtak and Some More of that Inktober Love

6:32 AM art , ashley webb 0 Comments
Ashley's Version of a Bakhtak


Title: Ashley's Version of a Bakhtak
Date: October 15 - 18, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 6" x 19"

Notes: The original version of this is from Iranian folklore.
Again, I'm just trying to push my painting skills further and further. This was an excellent test of my painting skills and also some character study. I'm trying to push further and further outside of my comfort zone to really see what I can do.
"My version of the Bakhtak:
Gives you bad dreams, a constant weight on chest (you are unable to move). They take glee in filling people with bad dreams, suffocating, or causing sleep paralysis. She is a woman that can grow roots from her fingertips that secure into the mattress and tie her to the intended victim. She lives in trees and draws the life force from them with the evil of nightmares, therefore she obtains some of the power of mother nature and uses it against her. She has wisps in her eyes, not pupils. She uses these to hypnotize her victims if they wake up. She is generally beautiful and delicate looking. She has words on her skin from the influence of people's nightmares, which she feeds into trees - killing them. Her rival is mother nature." -- (creature created by: Ashley Webb)

Inktober Days 14 - 17 





Title: Inktober Days 14 - 17
Date: October 14 - 17, 2013
Medium: Brush and Ink
Scale: Varies

Notes: Again, more of that inktober love. I have to scan the next few days...

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Monday, October 14, 2013

A Blemmye?

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Blemmye Comic


Title: Blemmye Comic
Date: October 9 - 11, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: My first real foray into comics that aren't assigned.
Ashley (my fiancee) was just sitting here talking about some awesome legendary creatures the other day and told me to make an interpretation based off them, but with some twists. 
This creature is based off of Blemmyes.
The only thing that I could go off was some comic breakdown of the exposing moment. 

Blemmye Rendition


Title: Blemmye Rendition
Date: October 10 & 11, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3
Scale: Original is 6" x 9"

Notes: Again, using Ashley's rendition of the creature, I wanted to take it to the full illustration.
Not only was this an awesome test of painting, but also of concepting. I wanted to make something that would really push me in both aspects, and with such awesome concepts being bred by mah lady, I can't help but start to really try my ass off to get something awesome from her ideas!

"A more powerful witch who devours soulds through her eyes, which are mouths. She is otherwise blind and sustains her existence on the soulds she captures. The captured remain animated, but soulless. The soulds reside on the stomach of the witch and remain visible there until fully drained." -- (creature created by: Ashley Webb)
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Independent Study -- Foundlings 2

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Independent Study: Foundlings 5 - 8





Title: Independent Study: Foundlings 5 - 8
Date: October 10 - 14, 2013
Medium: Brush and Ink, Pencil
Scale: Each piece is 9" x 12"

Notes: Continuing on with the Foundlings.
These are mostly just studies and potential compositions, but I did come up with a corporation that would be at the forefront of the search for new foundling candidates: Evo-Medical.
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Monday, October 7, 2013

Independent Study -- Foundlings

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Independent Study: Foundlings 1 - 4


Title: Independent Study: Foundlings 1 - 4
Date: October 1 - 5, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3, Pencil
Scale: Varies

Notes: The first sketches of the Foundlings, the second archetype for the game.
They look like children, but are actually extremely powerful and magically active. They have a form of mutation that causes them to age (internally) very rapidly, and they unfortunately only have a lifespan of about twelve years or so... Each point of mutation causes the skeleton and musculature to coil around rock formations that protrude from the skin.
Also the area that they live in is inhabited by 'Nurses' or Mamas.
For the first week I'm just doing a ton of studies based around children and costumes and also vintage style nurses and cyberpunk nurses.

Independent Study: Environment Studies 2


Title: Independent Study: Environment Studies 2
Date: October 3, 2013
Medium: Photoshop CS3

Notes: I never got to post these the other day, but this is more of that environment study.
I think I will actually want to do more of these before too long as they are actually really good for helping with composition. Although I might want to start doing some color versions...

Independent Study: Portraits


Title: Independent Study: Portraits
Date: October 2, 2013
Medium: Graphite, Brush and Ink, Goauche

Notes: I'm still having fun taking the Just Busted magazine and turning it into portrait studies. It's not the greatest as a ton of the portraits are pretty washed out, but it has the entire gamut of human emotion in it.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Late-Night or Early Morning?

4:08 AM art , chalk 0 Comments
Time Travelling


Title: Time Travelling
Date: June 9, 2013
Medium: Ink
Scale: 9" x 12"

Notes:  Again, going with that white gel pen on top of the black ink washes makes for some really interesting tones. I love the way this looks, I just need to get the underlying figure still more in order, but I feel like I'm getting there, albeit slowly but surely.

Portrait Double


Title: Portrait Double
Date: June 8, 2013
Medium: Graphite, Chalk
Scale: Each piece is 9" x 12"

Notes:  I think as always, drawing from life is key. The top one is done from a photo, and the bottom is done from life. I honestly think that the 'from life' one looks infinitely better. I think in my image though she looks a ton more serious than she did during that drawing. As with a bunch of my pieces, these are matter of focus driven.

Cora, Beer-o-Clock


Title: Cora, Beer-o-Clock
Date: June 9, 2013
Medium: Graphite
Scale: Original is on 9" x 12"

Notes: Trying to make it a daily habit to draw Cora. I'm not entirely sure if she'll be the focus of my comics class next semester, but she might very well become my comic go-to character.

True Blood Portrait Series -- Eric


Title: True Blood Portrait Series -- Eric
Date: June 7, 2013
Medium: Photoshop

Notes:  I think there might still be a few things wrong with the eyes, but I'm just going to call it and move on. I think it's a big step up from where I was not even a month ago, with both digital and anatomy. Either way, I have a bunch of these True Blood characters to go.
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