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Figures In Line 02

2012-01-08T12:04:00.000-08:00

More of those one is from photo the rest invented. I was lazy here again, It's about time I move on the more detailed sketches. I hope the next batch will be more refined.

The Dentist

2011-12-28T14:15:00.000-08:00

Since I haven't been up to much painting or drawing lately here's one from the vast archives of thing awaiting to be finished.This one has been there since 2009 and apparently is never going to get more polished or finished than that. I still quite like the idea so I might do something more based on it in the future.

Figures In Line

2011-09-26T15:08:00.000-07:00

Here's a bit more, decided to switch to something simple first until I'm totally comfortable with line sketching digitally(I have the feeling I might need a bigger tablet for that). The third one is from reference photo the others totally random. I need to go into suggesting a bit more subtle details and using finer lines I think.

Line Exercises

2011-09-08T00:50:00.000-07:00

I've decided that's about time to take some steps to improving my line drawing skills, especially getting used to do it with the the tablet. So here are some quick experiments on top of simple thumbnail sketches I did to a different degree of success. Switching back to line after years of mostly painting and quick sketchy thumbnails is way harder than I expected, and makes me thing about going back to some serious figure studies for a while. More of those to come soon!

White Sand

2011-08-18T16:39:00.000-07:00

More work folder cleanup. since I don't have anything new, here's an old sketch I'm still quite fond of.

Land Ship (Old Stuff)

2011-07-30T07:01:00.000-07:00

Here's one that's been sitting unfinished in my work folder for more than an year, finally decided to patch it up quickly and let it go. Experimented with brushes quite a lot, ended a bit too grainy for my liking, suggesting textures and the way they change in perspective it still something I need more practice of.

BRINK - Released!

2011-05-20T18:00:00.000-07:00

One of the first areas I got to design for the game:

Last week BRINK finally came out and with it a ton on new interesting articles including this one on The Art of BRINK(IGN) featuring some freshly released concept pieces by me and Laurel Austin. Here're some of mine.

Neverbears

2011-03-31T01:09:00.001-07:00

Never go hunting alone in the forest for bears! They're not what they seem, the're not what you're told...

Medicine Woman

2011-03-27T09:40:00.000-07:00

Initial sketch

I've been always fascinated by early human history(Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age) and I've been plying around with different ideas based around similar topics, with the ultimate goal of creating a short illustrated alternate history of one such tribe, in an invented alternate world...someday. Here's a random character based on an old thumbnail.

BRINK - Container City - Market Square

2011-03-08T15:40:00.000-08:00

Here's another early BRINK concept art that got released recently. Container city again. After all this time for some reason I'm still quite happy with how this one turned out.

Orthodox Police - Light Priests

2011-02-03T16:00:00.000-08:00

Here are some more old [neo]martyr concepts/thumbnails.

Those are the three branches of the priest class of the Orthodox police in their light to medium variants.

The Apostle - a sort of a battle priest missionary type character using a range of light weapons. Adept at dealing with hostile situations.

The Holy Smoker - bearing a range of large incense burners and staves and the heavy robes of a higher order.

The Proclamator - Voice of the law of the church.

Five Helmets

2011-01-30T19:00:00.000-08:00

Here are five quickly rendered in B/W helmets, part of a series of 100 that I never finished. Mostly because I planed to render all of them in this way. Will probably post the rest of them at some point in whatever state they're in when I have time to assemble them :). The designs are completely random, just an exercise.

Centrifuge Outcasts Head Mechanic

2011-01-24T15:00:00.000-08:00

This one is a paint over an old sketch I did for the [neo]martyr project ages ago, I decided to paint it over recently, but the overall lack of perspective and depth to the portrait finally managed to put me off polishing it more. Nevertheless a good exercise that helped me realise some things that I was lacking and need to study more. Also I think that In my attempts to fix problems with the initial sketch I lost a lot of the character and attitude I had going on there.

Random Locations

2011-01-21T18:10:00.000-08:00

Random eviroment studies of locations from Google Street View, found trough http://www.mapcrunch.com/. I've planed to do one each launch break this week but managed to find time only for 3. Maybe 3 per week is a more realistic number, we shall see.

Square Boat

2011-01-20T16:23:00.000-08:00

Here's something done for the Monthly theme over at the Sijun forums. SQUARRRES!!! And many thanks to sparth for starting the rectangular craze :).

Robot Got Back

2011-01-18T17:20:00.000-08:00

Here's a bot I've spend too much time on. Time to move on.

You can download a vid showing some process steps here:

Robot Got Back WIP Vid

Skies

2011-01-17T17:58:00.000-08:00

Some sky studies from photo reference.

Captain of the Night Watch

2010-12-30T17:54:00.000-08:00

And exercise trying to speed up my procedure when painting character. Trying hard not to overdo things and keep them quick, balanced, and spontaneous. Still not fast enough, took me couple of hours to do most of it and ages to decide on what final touches to put.

By The Falls

2010-12-23T17:32:00.000-08:00

Wish I did more like this one!

Sand City

2010-12-23T17:27:00.000-08:00

Something that has been lying around my my to finish folder for ages, and it's not going any better than that, which is not great, but I still like some little Ideas and elements here and there.

The Fifth Horseman

2010-11-25T16:07:00.000-08:00

Launch break sketch. Post title should explain everything.

The Art of BRINK on CGSociety

2010-11-19T15:44:00.000-08:00

Recently a great article came out on CGSociety showcasing some new concept art and other art production details from BRINK. Feel free to check it out and leave some feedback. All concept art pieces courtesy of myself and Laurel Austin aka. Tully. Enjoy.

Trailing The Wall

2010-11-01T17:56:00.000-07:00

Here's a small sketch I did some time ago and forgot to post, or more likely postponed in the hopes that it could turn into a more finished illustration.

Procession

2010-10-25T17:22:00.000-07:00

This one could have used more polish and less grain/noise, but I delayed it too long. So it's time for it to go!

Ferryman

2010-10-24T09:13:00.001-07:00

Sneige Portrait

2010-10-23T17:11:00.001-07:00

detail:

A Semi-stylized portrait of my amazing wife Snezhana aka. Sneige check her works on sneige.com or her blog orangethyme.blogspot.com !

Attack Of The Saints

2010-10-23T15:02:00.000-07:00

Randomly conceived image, by sticking some random older speeds together and tweaking colours, under the strong influence of Thom Scholes amazing imagery. This one stayed on my hard drive for quite a while in the hopes of getting some polish, but finally I decided this it as finished as it gets.

The Streets

2010-10-01T14:11:00.000-07:00

Decided that I need to practice more low-tech architecture. Here's an attempt based as usual on a tiny pencil thumbnail. I got carried away with expanding my composition and other things. Will most certainly do more of those and try and pay attention to the the style of architecture too.

The Approaching Lights

2010-09-14T23:49:00.000-07:00

A quick one. In pursuit of figuring out a procedure to finish paintings faster.

100 Heads

2010-09-14T23:18:00.001-07:00

Here's another 100 things exercise, heads this time. Most of them really bad attempts some not so bad. The important thing learned tons of thing, thing's that I do wrong and many I need to improve or concentrate more on. Here's a list of some.

- Increase format, tiny moleskin is nice quick and comfortable, but the lack of "resolution" messes your proportions and often the sense of scale. Makes you miss things.

- Pay more attention to perspective in faces, try and exaggerate it when needed. Yes it's there especially when the viewer is very close to the subject.

- Pay more attention to subtleties and detail, something the larger format allows.

- Fill in my visual dictionary with greater variety of expressions, not only extremes, but ones expressing more subtle feelings too.

- Do more studies from life and reference. Those are never enough. And are especially useful after s loon series you've tried to pull out of your head.

- There's maybe more.

note: some heads might be missing, because done on separate sheets or SBs if I manage to track those down and scan them I'll add them here

Orthodox Police - Temple Guardian

2010-08-28T14:00:00.000-07:00

Over painted a bit an old concept I did for a personal project codenamed Martyr or [neo]martyr some time ago. The project is frozen and I still have tones of half finished concepts from it that I need to process and post so stay tuned for more in near future.

100 Arms

2010-07-04T15:57:00.000-07:00

Some thumbnails for a challenge I was doing with some friends. I've gotten a bit rusty in that department, so those were really useful to remind me where I have to improve. I even got a couple not half as bad as the rest :P.

Medieval?

2010-06-15T01:01:00.001-07:00

I tried to stick to more realistic and authentic feel in terms of proportions, but still adding enough in terms of details and elements to make it distinct and not quite of our historical past.

Ferry to Nowhere

2010-05-10T18:11:00.000-07:00

Trying to be more spontaneous and balanced here. The ground could have used some more attention probably, and I'm still not sure if it wasn't better flipped the other way or whatever :) moving on.

Jetscapes

2010-04-25T15:49:00.000-07:00

Tried some organic landscape approach to some jet fighters, I might explore this idea further with other subjects.

Sun Bathed Towers

2010-03-17T17:24:00.000-07:00

Here are to speed from today, tried to hit the 20-30 min time limit with those and almost did it, one is for 30 and the other 35. I just couldn't stop :P.

Crimson Resonator

2010-03-10T16:52:00.000-08:00

Bright red car ref based tank-thing. Second in the series

Planetside Patrol

2010-03-09T16:04:00.000-08:00

A quick B&W sketch with some curves for flavor. I should try to suggest more with some colors on top for that time, but I still lack the confidence I guess.

Flotilla

2010-03-09T15:17:00.000-08:00

Something out of the archives, this thing I started somewhere in 2008 and had several failed attempts to bring to a finished state. So I guess it's not getting more finished than that. It's weird that there's something in that image that I still like after so much time, so I decided to share it.

The Huntress

2010-03-09T15:00:00.000-08:00

Here's little something from the end of last year. I didn't originally post it because I had plans to have it polished a bit, I never did it. Finally decided that some sketches are a lot better left unfinished.

Conversation with the master

2010-03-09T14:50:00.000-08:00

Here's a speedy from last month, trying to improve my speed a bit, finishing thinks faster preferably in one go. Still doesn't work most of the time and I find myself overdoing parts again and again. I also tried out some new brushes here.

Burn

2010-02-11T16:34:00.000-08:00

A random figure sketch. Just trying to loosen up. I haven't done anything even remotely related to figures or characters lately. I evidently need more studies from life or ref. Life preferably. I tried bringing it a bit further in several directions, but finally resided it's not going anywhere and I should maybe rest for a bit from overdesining stuff and just enjoy the painting.

Teal Thunder

2010-02-02T15:11:00.000-08:00

Part of series of experiments I started that include picking a really small photo thumbnail of random vehicle(car), with a pallet and overall perspective I like and using this as a starting point and building on top, whatever comes. In general, turning old cars in a futuristic and some times retro-futuristic, armored vehicles in bright colors. If I get time to finish them expect me posting the rest of them in not so distant future.

Out in the Desert

2010-02-02T14:55:00.000-08:00

A derert patrol bot and its crew, meeting the sunrise.

Shaded thumbnail, B/W sketch and final.

Aerden

2009-12-01T16:50:00.000-08:00

A recurring character of mine I keep drawing and redesigning from time to time. Here's the latest version.

Magic Hammer WIP

2009-12-01T16:08:00.001-08:00

This is a sketch a started a looong time ago and intended to finish before posting, something I'll probably never do so here it is all of it's unfinished glory.

The idea in few word: a bad ass warrior mage with a knick for picking locks and brewing potion, wielding a great hammer of war. In other words - the most thinly spread multi-class possible to achieve in Eschalon Book I by Basilisk Games (http://basiliskgames.com/) . For some good old fashioned dungeon crawling goodness check the demo of this fine indy rpg!

Mixed Media Attempt 2

2009-11-29T15:01:00.000-08:00

Here's my second recent mixed media attempt/test/exercise.

Quick black Marker sketch + Some Acrylics + Some Photoshop.

Alchemy experiments

2009-11-29T12:32:00.000-08:00

Here are some experiments I did some time ago with trowing some quick shades(PShop) on top of b/w mess quickly done in Alchemy. I was planning to do more of those but finally ended with just two. Maybe some day, I'll play with this process some more.

Bike Sketch

2009-11-28T07:23:00.000-08:00

A quick and tiny doodle of bike and girl. Just a rough idea from some time ago, I never posted back then.

Tractor

2009-09-04T19:34:00.000-07:00

Here's a speed paint of random vehicle, without any thought involved. The task was to impovise and get something finished in decent level of detail in about an hour. I kinda worked, the lighting is a bit vague and the design is meh, but it kinda looks cute. I also managed to get a video of this one recorded and it's being already 3 hours since I'm trying to downsize it and crop it a bit, no success this far.

And here's the time-laps. The quality is a bit poor, don't ask how I did it, it was long and painful. I hope it'll be useful :).

Flyer ONE

2009-09-03T16:19:00.000-07:00

A quick flier for today. Maybe more tomorrow.

Arrr...

2009-09-02T17:41:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick hue study. It was just a quick exercise in me trying to stick to local tones an use shadows and darks only if necessary. I'm kinda happy with it, should do more.

Of Charshop and Photocoal

2009-09-02T17:26:00.000-07:00

A little charcoal doodle made a bit more plausible with the help of PS, done inspired by Aeon telling me repetitively just how awesome charcoals were. (slightly inspired by Zhaoming Wu)

Forest of the Pierced Stones

2009-09-02T16:56:00.000-07:00

And here's finally the unremarkable first post on my blog I've being postponing for ages. Some mystique forest thumbnails, with strange monoliths hiding in between the trees. Started like another set of those popular lumpy stone mound environments, but accidentally they got equipped with a few branches here and there an voila we've got a strange looking forest of towering trees.