Incoming

Working on some character stuff for a project...WIP now.  Just wanted to keep up posting.

Update, able to work a bit more on him, his upper body seems a bit weird, thoughts?

How's everyone else doing?

more stuff! and now back to work!

promise I will be back and actually critique but here is a smidgeon of what i've been up to.

also, if you guys have any tips on how to compose a piece or any composition tutorials I would be eternally grateful. eternally.


also, sketch here is that painter I currently adore.

http://pringleart.com/

Another fantasy landscape

Not done yet, I think I'll really flesh this one out.  Only about 3 or so hours at this point.

and some 5-7 minutes quick studies

update: a landscape/maybe dragon creature landscape I started 2 hours ago

update on this one

update

a very blizzardy Orc

Well, I finally got around to finishing that orc shaman DndD test that I made a rough for waaaaaay back, figure its better late than never! I also wanted a few more blizzardy things in my portfolio, because its a fun style to paint in and is always popular, so I wanted to have a few good examples of it represented in my port.
     Its not exactly my favorite style, but it translates really well into game and card art because of the bright colors and global lighting and all that. I do think that im going to put a hold on painting like this for a bit because I do have enough examples like this built up, and move on to more moody, mostly b&w pieces and get back to the basics of tone and value. Color, in all its complexities, boggle my little brain and I think I need to retreat from it a little bit for now.....Also, I am still having problems calibrating my monitor to the normal setting and I apologize if this is either way too saturated or faded out......my computer is getting along in years and there is something wonky with the way it shows color...


So, how is everybody else holding up?

Poster

Forgot to post this along with the other stuff a little while ago.  A mock up for a game poster idea from a month or so ago.

Also a concept of a game background location

Another update...doing some posters for this week:  WIP of three

shot practice

shot practice... 'shooting' if you will.

I thought this joke was hilarious since my goal this week was to break apart and try my hand at composing a shot. but I ran it by casey and he seems to find it a little less than hilarious. anyway, Im pretty pleased with this.

I keep running into a problem though, I want to add more details to the woman's face (right, center) but then all the focus shifts to her... matter of fact, can you guys tell me if the hooded character and boy are even coming across as the focus? (yes the hooded character is supposed to be huge.)

this guy isn't quite done, but given the time I had to work with it I was pretty happy.
lemme know what you guys think.
thanks amigos

Street Slugger

I had a little free time this morning, so I figured I should post something. Im not really sure how I feel about them, and they are the only thing finished enough to post I think. I have been jumping around a starting all kinds of things and drawing like crazy in my sketchbook, but nothing is catching my attention for all that long. I think I might need to slow myself down, or set up a schedule of having a specific time of the week where I sit down and complete something, even if its crap, just to form the habit....

so... who's ready for fall? and all its delicious, delicious food

alright, so heres some stuff from this past week, hope all is going well for you guys. Also here is something beautiful. here 
Its a collection of keyframes from some pretty kickass movies. I found it through, a guy from the on campus concept art club and he got it from Anthony Jones (who is wonderful).


On that note, I'm setting a goal for myself this next week, I'm going to dissect and learn all I can from some of these stills about composition and how to portray mood in a scene.  Then I'm going to try my own hand at setting up a keyframe. Anyway, enjoy the link and I'll catch you guys next week.  :)

I'm back

I know it's been forever since I last posted anything, but I'm back.  I've been doing a lot of figure drawing; working on gestures and some characters.  I'm also currently in the process of developing a new story.  I'll post things about that as I go.  Anyway here's what I've done.

P.s I don't have a scanner so I have to use a camera, I apologize for the shadow in all of them

Stephen

Hello all!  Been a while.

Our new game design teacher is having us do concepts for our game art class.  So I'm having to bite the bullet and start doing some stuff.

Also I'm trying to start painting with straight up color, no b&w, any suggestions on practice.  I've started bringing my tablet outside to paint the landscape.