sketch + lunch = skuntch

Batmouse!

2011-06-14T14:19:00.000-07:00

A sketch I did for a project recently. Thought I'd post it just to give Skuntch something new. What's happened to everyone these days? Ever since NetDevil closed, I've given up joining a game company in Colorado. I'd have a hard time guessing where people went, given the lack of companies. Maybe if Trumbull builds his studio, otherwise I'm looking at other ways to become a permanent resident. Cheers.

Oh, Skuntch! Thee I Miss...

2011-03-02T13:25:00.000-08:00

It's been a LONG while since I posted on the ol' Skuntch blog, so I thought I'd put up some stuff - a couple actual Sketch Lunch sketches (since I've been Skuntching somewhat regularly again) and a couple personal drawings from mid-last year. I see someone has done some sprucing up around here (Ray?). Looks lovely. I hope the extended Skuntch fam is doing well.

Cheers.

TESV: Skyrim - Gameplay Trailer

2011-02-24T08:15:00.000-08:00

Here's the debut of in game footage from the project I've been working on for the last 2+ years! We have an incredible team and here is the proof! The footage seen is a mere glimpse into what's to come. Many more surprises are in store for the fans...:)

Make sure you listen to this with good audio setup/headphones and crank it up to 11! EPIC!

TESV: Skyrim: Concept Art

2011-02-11T10:23:00.001-08:00

Newly released concept art in high resolution!

This one actually covers quite a few bases. I originally began this one as a simple concept painting of a bear but I decided to spend some time after hours developing an entire scene to pitch a few ideas on wildlife encounters in the game and duel wielding weapons. Luckily Todd was excited by this idea as it had never been done in an Elder Scrolls game before and he felt it was time to give it a go.

Video: Art of Skyrim

2011-02-08T07:24:00.000-08:00

This was released a couple of weeks ago on Game Informer's site but it's all over youtube now so I feel like I'm not scooping them anymore by featuring t here for a little more shameless self promotion...:) Ok, before you watch I have to talk about the fact that I don't speak in the video at all. To be honest it was a little awkward since I think the PR person was overzealous in controlling the message by not allowing me to be mic'd. My presence was essentially reduced to prop. Ah well, I can't complain too much as all the art featured in this video is mine. Hope you enjoy:)

TESV: Skyrim: Concept Art - Time Lapse Painting

2011-01-23T09:35:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone! Here's some new stuff to show! This is an example of a paint-over, painted by yours truly. A paint-over is the process of taking a screen-shot from the game and painting directly on top of it to visualize how to improve a scene. It's a bit of the reverse of traditional concept art but it falls square within the job description and it happens more than you might think. The next time you're cruising around the different concept art sites, keep in mind that many of the pieces your seeing are not necessarily 'from scratch' but are collaborative pieces done with level designers and character artists to support the end product. It's a bit of different beast than illustration.

I recorded this back around Christmas 2009 using Camtasia and painting in Photoshop. I'd frequently stop and start the recording to make the clips more manageable in the editor so you may see a couple of dramatic jumps where I forgot to hit the record button:)

Click on This here thingie...

2011-01-21T15:23:00.000-08:00

What I been up to for the last couple of years...Doing concept art on Skyrim with my good pal and
fellow artist Rayford Lederer. Fun, fun, fun.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/01/20/skyrim-s-dragon-shouts.aspx

Skuntch needs some love

2010-12-13T08:47:00.000-08:00

So I'll do my best.

I had the opportunity to go to a 'Comic Camp' in October and study under Svetlana Chmakova. There were two other groups studying uner Paul Pope and Craig Thompson as well.

To say the least, it was a life changing experience.

So ever since I've been sketching up a storm and working on confident line. ( And comic submissions)
Other wise, I'm still Freelancing like mad.
So here's a sampling:

Hope all is well with you guys!
~Angi

July 2010 Life Drawing part 1

2010-07-19T19:23:00.001-07:00

Here is a sampling of life drawing from earlier this month. These are 3 - 10 min drawings except for the first which was a couple of hours. Conte crayon on newsprint. I kinda butchered the top one when I started drawing over it with white Conte. I should have left well enough alone. Ah well...:)

More to come later this month...

Ship poster - old concept

2010-07-19T13:29:00.001-07:00

Another non-figure study. I did this quite awhile ago, a concept poster for a small television production company wanting to pitch a Discovery-style series. I personally don't like Prismacolor as a serious medium, and I think this was the only thing I ever did using colored pencils. The irony is it was such a good show concept, another company 'borrowed' the whole thing. The research was fun. This was also before the digital age had matured, so I'm toying with taking it into Painter and giving it more punch, especially the water.

Figure Update

2010-07-19T08:56:00.000-07:00

This looks like a figure work blog lately! Lots of nice stuff all around though.

Here are a few of my recent digital figure works. I feel as if i'm getting better about making conscious pallete decisions and enhancing what I see rather than just being 100% representative. I still think i've got a lot of work to do on my edges, and I really need to focus on tightening things only where they need to be tightened.

Gotta Have a Hook Challenge

2010-07-19T07:32:00.001-07:00

Hi all, ol' Duder's got a lot of irons in the fire. Recently I've been participating in an open art challenge put on by WotC art director Jon Schindehette on his blog Art Order. It's been a lot of hard work and a lot of fun. Here is the assignment brief:

Description

Setting - A cavern

Characters - A Male Dwarf Fighter and a Hook Horror

Scene - The dwarf has just delivered a mighty smack to the hook horror and knocked it backward through a stalagmite and/or stalactite.

Details: The dwarf is wearing heavy scale mail armor. Wielding a warhammer and a heavy shield.

These are the thumbnails I started with: I chose number 3 as it felt the most dynamic and engaging to me:

Here is the B/W drawing and value study that will serve as the foundation to the final painting:

Next will be the final color phase coming up in the next couple of weeks.

Life Drawing - Gesture Drawing

2010-06-26T19:20:00.000-07:00

Who would've thought the Maryland/DC area had quite a thriving art community? I suppose it makes sense when one thinks about it for a minute. I'd never given much thought to Maryland until the weird idea of moving here reared it's head my way. Anyway, that said I'm making it a point to go to life drawing every week these days. Not only is it refreshing, it's *vital* if one is going to continue progressing to the next level. Montgomery College in Rockville has a great community of artists and models that meet on the weekends to do Short and Long pose drawing/painting sessions. I'm sticking to Gesture drawing right now to loosen up. I look forward to becoming more involved in the coming months. Here are some highlights from June 2010. These are all roughly 5-15 min Gesture drawings. Sorry about the poor image quality. I have no lighting rig or image stabilization available to me in the foreseeable future.

Lunchtime sketches

2010-06-23T11:24:00.000-07:00

Hey all. Here a few from the past year. Most are before I started concentrating on stronger musculature and a bolder variation of line, but since they're only practice here they are. All are 1-2 hour sessions, with the exception of the fifth, which was a 3-minute quickie.

Concept Crash

2010-06-09T14:52:00.000-07:00

A concept piece I did using ArtRage3 based on a rough sketch. Scout cruiser brought down on some distant planet, with a faint nod to Peter Elson's work.

I took it further than I should, but fortunately ArtRage is horrible at blending, so it provides a natural stopping point. Not happy about the background, but first time in ArtRage, so there was a bit of a learning curve as to what it can do well. Now that I have Painter, I may revisit it at some future point. Anyway, comments are always appreciated. Cheers!

Lunchtime at Disney

2010-06-04T10:08:00.000-07:00

Here at Disney we have long pose and short pose classes over a two hour lunch, so I spend those days drawing at eat lunch at my desk later. We used to have 5 classes a week, the other three being sculpting, costume and another uninstructed life. I miss the costume - we'd have a theme and soundtrack to go with the session.

I felt it's about time I start contributing to the 'skuntchings', so here's my first offer. There's about a dozen things I could tweak, but hey, that's the 'never-satisfied-artist' gene talking.

Moby Dick pt1

2010-05-07T13:24:00.001-07:00

I'm going to attempt a WIP series on my blog that will hopefully keep me motivated to see it through to completion. I've been reading Moby Dick recently which has inspired about a 1000 different illustration ideas so I'm going to try a couple of them. My goal will be to post stages of progress which may last months given my schedule:) Starting here are some very rough thumbnails of scenes in my head while reading along. The tail fluke idea comes from the part of the book when they've gotten surrounded by a huge pod of sperm whales in the south Asiatic Sea. A ring of whales has surrounded mothers and calves who swim just below their tiny boat regarding them with (slightly curious) indifference. The visual effect in my mind is a slithering mass of (what must seem like to the whalers) eyes, flukes, and teeth just below the surface.

I also have the ubiquitous White Whale jumping out of the tumultuous sea with Ahab's boat in the foreground which is always fun. As you can see I've thrown in some steep high waves to create a sense of even more peril. The other one I really like is a top down view again of Ahab's boat cutting across MD as his pectoral fin is cutting through the water towards Ahabs boat. Seeing this one through I think will be a challenge and could be a strong yet subtle piece. We'll see:)

My immediate goals are to do some very strong refined drawings using models and props with anything I can make, beg, borrow, or steal. Stay tuned...

Sunday Life Drawing May 2, 2010

2010-05-03T04:55:00.001-07:00

Maria Garcia. Learned a lot on this one. I'm not at all happy with my proportions or edge quality however I did come away with some insight on how to approach next time around. There's a few nice things happening on her head. I hope I get the chance to draw her again as I definitely only caught a glimmer of her essence this time around.

More old cartoony stuff... Part 3

2010-04-29T18:14:00.001-07:00

Here's a few more for good measure. The little boy drawing was done by Rafael Colonzo. I swiped it and threw it in for scale. Again all from around the same time frame of 2007-ish.

Beach adventure layout...

Snabbit Factory...

Some sort of pickup item. I forget what it was now...

More old cartoony stuff... Part 2

2010-04-28T18:35:00.000-07:00

Here comes some more from around the same time period around 2007-2008. A few environments plus a chibi-ish character. This could've been a really cool game but alas it wasn't in the cards. Such is the fate of many a game project the public rarely sees.

More old cartoony stuff... Part 1

2010-04-28T10:01:00.001-07:00

Rummaging around I unearthed some unpublished stuff from years ago for various project pitches. These were all fun and very challenging. Some of them have that Golden Books feel which I never even realized until my AD at the time pointed it out. Amazing what our minds will pull from when asked to step out of our creative comfort zones. Anyway I'll post some more soon. Hope you enjoy my little strolls down memory lane until I can show new stuff:)

Sunday Life Drawing April 18th

2010-04-20T19:00:00.000-07:00

Here's the result of a whole lot of measuring and remeasuring and then more measuring. I used the corners of the room as perspective guides which was quite useful for keeping my proportions in check and perspective true. I'll worry about making these pretty later. For now I'm interested in accuracy.

18x24 Newsprint and vine charcoal.

2010-04-18T14:51:00.000-07:00

a doodle that sprouted into a painting, i eventually want to get a fair amount of detail in there and do a larger format print with it (its currently about 8k pixels wide)

ah, here we are

2010-03-31T08:23:00.000-07:00

something skuntch postable. (now I need to draw some chiseled men >

Figure and stuff update

2010-03-05T18:51:00.000-08:00

Hey all, I have a few more pieces from the last several months, mostly figure work and a few blogs.

First: I have been casually keeping a food blog - not a critic site - more like a place to document what i've eaten. It's also an excuse to have fun with my camera. http://nateishungry.blogspot.com/

Here are some of my favorite figure works from recent months, all 3 hour poses, photoshop and a wacom:

Dante's Inferno!

2010-03-01T14:55:00.000-08:00

I've been kicking this one around a while and finally got motivated to finish it when I saw this months image challenge over at Gnomon of Dante's Inferno. I got inspired for this one driving down a wide open country road just east of the foothills between Boulder and Louisville CO. In the middle of blistering hot August day, a couple of road workers were filling potholes and touching up the asphalt with these long propane torches. It struck me as a sort of vision of hell to be out on such a hot day dressed in protective gear and torching a wide open, heat rippled expanse. Anyway that vision stuck with me for a while until I've finally purged it to pixel paint!

Perri

2010-01-06T12:26:00.000-08:00

Update 2/10

bird-ah
P.S. left is my fave direction.

Kristin

2009-12-18T11:54:00.001-08:00

A fun little pinup for a friend at work. Obviously it is essentially a study of a famous Elvgren painting. I'll tell you, though, the subject of this piece looks just like the girl in Elvgren's painting!

Cheers!

Hey I did some cartoony shite!

2009-11-06T08:15:00.001-08:00

This is what occupied most of my time last year. A really cool game that will never be made! Ah well, that's how it goes in this biz. I still get to draw fun stuff. Those that know me know this is quite a departure from what I'm used to doing but what a great way to stretch those muscles. I don't think I was terribly successful in getting the style like Rafael Colanzo and Bobby Pontillas. Those guys breath this stuff and it's brilliant. It just doesn't come that naturally to me but I had fun trying. These were some of the better ones...

Snabbit! Snapping Rabbit. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone had an evilometer?
I kinda like this one but if I had it to do over again I would redraw those monkeys. I can't stand the way I drew them. They look like the fell out of some stoner comic from the late 60s. Bah!Thumbnail process for the Bulkhead contraption...

What could be a more refreshing pick-me-up after fighting hordes of mechanical monsters?! Why a fruity beverage of course!
A gouache-y looking vista...
Bulkhead schematic... This guy was fun for me. It took a lot of back and forth to finally come to this design but it works well I think. The whole thing is controlled by a single ships wheel with a small horde of monkeys pulling levers and ropes to work the arms and legs!

Short Poses

2009-10-14T22:03:00.000-07:00

Sup yall, it looks like everyone has been up to some good stuff. Lots of great pieces recently.

Here's my short pose session from this evening. I'm pretty proud of how they came out, it's been a long time since i've done short pose.

Spade

2009-10-06T17:14:00.001-07:00

yay<3

2009-10-04T21:51:00.000-07:00

I saw Zombieland today. Brilliant new zombie flick! Loved it. Now, I am still a true believer in Romero's myth of the shambling zombie. However, a good dead flick is a good dead flick.

And yes, I am aware that I would fall quick thanks to rule #1. RUN!! :P

A quick digital sketch inspired by today's trip to the cinema!

Tessa

2009-10-01T07:17:00.000-07:00

Today Tess and I are celebrating our fourth wedding anniversary. I did this little pinup-esque drawing for a card I made for her. She is shown relaxing and reading one of her favorite books while hanging out with her buddy, Icebat.

Karen

2009-09-22T10:27:00.000-07:00

This is a quick (attempted) pin-up style sketch I did for a friend for her birthday this week. It incorporates volleyball and running, a couple of her favorite things. According to my sketch she is apparently also into tippy-toe butt flexing. :P

Atom Suit

2009-09-21T23:49:00.000-07:00

Been working on a model for a few weeks, based on a concept by guillaume menuel
:PCthread:

latest digi paint attempt.

2009-08-26T10:58:00.000-07:00

EDIT 9/25: final edits complete >_< <3

Edward is screwed

2009-08-25T08:18:00.000-07:00

"Now who's your daddy punk!"

daveisblue

Damn the Rising Dead

2009-08-06T07:35:00.001-07:00

A little fun with storyboards and haiku poems. Some quick character explorations included.

New figure work

2009-07-11T22:30:00.000-07:00

I have been doing some digital figure work over at the art students league of denver. It has been a great learning experience, especially because this is the first time i've done any color figure work.

Whistler BC Sketching

2009-06-17T09:55:00.000-07:00

Moleskine sketchbook - Whistler Master Class of One!

Hey if I can't be at the Illustration Master Class 09, I have to make my own right? Having loads of models doesn't hurt either:) Poolside at our condo and view of mountainside from condo window, plus monsters. One of the girls had found a plastic grocery bag and tore out the bottom to create a plastic halter top:)

New Camera

2009-05-22T23:23:00.000-07:00

I picked up a nikon D40 recently and have been having a lot of fun with it. Hey now! Introducing photos to the skuntch blog, is that allowed?

2009-05-13T11:45:00.000-07:00

baaaaahhhh heres what i ended up with, i wanted to do alot more but ive been in crunch for a long time and basically said fuck it, called it done. ill probably do a nice render later, and i built a nice rig so ill do some anims for fun. but here she is.
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Mother's Day

2009-05-09T19:29:00.000-07:00

An Illustrator portrait I did for Tess this Mother's Day. Hug your Mom, or your wife (even if she doesn't have kids - because she puts up with you, eh).

Boomer Joe=-

2009-05-05T14:10:00.001-07:00

The High poly has been done for a while but I`m defiantly not going to finish in time. I`m flying back to Denver to help family move so even if the deadline is extended this has become a free time project. pros and cons abound, but I`m glad I`ll get to take my time.

dom wars

2009-04-08T12:27:00.000-07:00

heres my dom war start, gonna be tough to finish with being in crunch the whole time and fighting a clinical left for dead addiction. let me know what ya think, and crit if ya get em, heres a link to my progress.......waitning on coles update, get moving man

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=61709

Golden Era Hip Hop Zombies!

2009-04-08T08:33:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!

2009-03-16T08:45:00.000-07:00

Dominance War IV

I wont spam this blog with each and every update,
but I might post significant updates:

progress can be followed here:

2009-02-25T12:03:00.000-08:00

MOAR
and no robots this time, ...well- sorta

Um... hi.

2009-02-11T07:34:00.001-08:00

2009-01-27T09:29:00.000-08:00

and two quickies from dinner time

creepo

2009-01-26T13:57:00.001-08:00

quick skuntch today, unfortunately he suffers from wonky eye syndrom.

2009-01-23T15:18:00.001-08:00

!!!SUPRISE!!! more robots

A Slow Death

2009-01-23T13:07:00.001-08:00

done at Stella's last night.

Figure sketches

2009-01-22T22:40:00.000-08:00

Some recent drawings from some model sessions here in Seattle... unfortunately my scans sucked (mostly the 3rd image), and I seem to like to draw clubs for feet ;)

So Long, 2008

2009-01-12T21:11:00.001-08:00

Holiday gifts for friends and fellow artists. Happy New Year!

2009-01-06T14:37:00.000-08:00

snuck this in over break, Crunch is killing me, and I dont draw anymore. sad sad
*edit, no idea why it posted so big 0_o

Fun Faces

2008-12-16T14:04:00.001-08:00

Some fun face sketches from photo reference. Yes, that's BB King on the left. I am going to see him in Boulder this coming April and am stoked! Been playing a couple of simple BB licks on the guitar - over and over - I'm sure my wife wants to punch me...

First cintique Art

2008-12-02T15:27:00.000-08:00

little demon I made playing around with new Cintique. Digging the new draw on screen action.

Floating castle rough paint

2008-12-02T13:01:00.001-08:00

[EDIT:3/9/09] The eternal n00b here,
Finally got back around to editing this, and fixing it up (sorry never got ta take you up on that tut, Nate! >< life has been insane! so shall do that next time i can catch a skuntch.) So I went and got some ref and listened to the little voices in my head (& msn)...and we have this.

Abi Grace

2008-11-25T16:39:00.001-08:00

Old Man

2008-11-22T13:53:00.000-08:00

Here's today's doodle. I started out wanting to make his mouth creepy, although I didn't really follow through, so it ended up about halfway there. 3 hours start to finish, no reference again because i'm lazy.

Frankenstein!

2008-11-16T22:00:00.000-08:00

Here's ol' frankie. I was thematically inspired by the ones that Jim and Samson posted, although mine went a different route. Maybe next time I'll try something a little more exaggerated and stylized. Somewhere around 7 or 8 hours.

Concept art test

2008-11-12T12:25:00.000-08:00

Hey all. Some new stuff from last week. I wanna sleep now.

2008-11-11T12:37:00.000-08:00

woot, thought i would throw up a quickie i finished off today, couple hrs over 2 skunthces

wirey

2008-11-09T20:04:00.000-08:00

a 3 hr sketch from tonight- i'm gonna keep posting 'til someone tells me to shut up :P

Another Mud

2008-11-05T17:37:00.000-08:00

Here's another from tonight. 2hrs.

Looks sort of englishy, eh?

More mud

2008-11-03T17:08:00.000-08:00

I've been playing with the new mudbox demo, it's awesome so far. here's a first pass on an angry head. I have some texture work in progress, but i'll save that for another post.

-Nate

Almost Halloween Doodles

2008-10-30T13:07:00.000-07:00

Cranky Frankie

2008-10-14T13:25:00.000-07:00

Frankengoober

2008-10-08T09:49:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook jones. :)

Angler-O-Lantern

2008-10-03T15:55:00.001-07:00

A quick painting I did for this year's NetDevil company Halloween Party invite. It's supposed to imply an angler fish jack-o-lantern.

Monsters

2008-10-03T13:38:00.001-07:00

Painting A Night...Water Color

2008-10-01T09:04:00.001-07:00

Ah speedpainting.... The goal is to do one of these a night. To be truthful some cheating has been going down, so as opposed to one hour per painting, it's been 2 or 3 over several nights. I tend to work on 3 or 4 at the same time so I don't get bored focusing on the same image. I'm working from picture on my computer monitor I took with my digital camera at various locations, except the one of Art Blakey, that's from a cd cover. Or, I'll do a color version of a sketchbook drawing. The important thing is to at the very least smear stuff around on paper while half dozing off at 10pm...

2008-09-26T00:09:00.001-07:00

quick(SMALL) thumbs

The Maxx

2008-09-21T18:14:00.000-07:00

so I finalyl finished this- The low needs optimization, but I digres :P

I combo-ed with kedhrin who made an environment for some scene setups.
the results ended up being pretty cool.

>More images<

Supes & Iron Man

2008-09-18T14:16:00.000-07:00

A few more sketches of some comic book icons. Superman got a little too "Hayden Christiansen" and whiny, but I like how the Iron Man came out. - Armando

Conan the Barbarian

2008-09-17T23:36:00.001-07:00

A quick sketch I did for some customer of the Comic Book store I frequent. More ink thrown down on top of some lead.

Red Sonja

2008-09-17T23:36:00.000-07:00

Yeah.....she got a little manly on me. BUT I did this in about 40 minutes.

Green Lantern.

2008-09-11T08:16:00.000-07:00

This is a quick sketch of one of my favorite comic book heroes. I roughed it out with some lead and finished it up with some pen and ink. - Armando

Bluesman in Orange

2008-09-08T08:38:00.000-07:00

Yet another page from the orange sketchbook.

Ouch!

2008-09-02T09:23:00.000-07:00

My sketchbook and I have been distant lately... I am trying to change that... for now, here is a monster that stubbed his toe. Awww...

ZOMBIES VS COWBOYS!!!

2008-08-29T17:34:00.000-07:00

Hi all, here's a thing I just finished. Zombies and Cowboys! I included a version with temp lettering just to give an indication of layout. I won't be handling that stuff in the end. Anyway thanks or looking -Ray

Also here's a time lapse video of my chaotic process of painting if you're interested:)

Thumbs

2008-08-27T14:26:00.000-07:00

Here are a bunch of environment thumbnails. It seemed like I kept making the same environment over and over with the custom brush technique so I wanted to step back to the basics and make a bunch of simple b+w environment thumbnails that were different from each other. I feel it was a good experiment, I got diversity in the images, and I think i may have refined my understanding of light and form just a little bit more.

as long as I'm on this jag....

2008-08-08T06:18:00.000-07:00

waiting around Penn Station, NYC for my next train

person on bus...japanese oni?

2008-08-08T06:15:00.000-07:00

having life studies next to monster ideas is always fun. And, the demon got drawn over a horrible scribble some drunk local made in my book. (me)

been awhile.....

2008-08-08T06:13:00.000-07:00

ahoy, here's a bit from my current sketchbook.... Figure drawing on public transit is a rough and tumble world, bumpy roads, and... People keep moving around, and whatnot. Wah, wah, wah.

doodles

2008-08-06T10:50:00.001-07:00

though i would throw up a post, with a couple dodles. the bum is Foul 'Oren from the prachett books(head of the beggers guikd). did it sloppy drunk and will only work on it drunk, (bit of method 3d as it were) sort of my tribute to prechett. and a quick mech head thing froma buddies concept, should be cool when i make the insides, and then normal it all. ill get some skuntch drawings up soon, been thinking about getting a sketch book thread started on ca to motivate and get some crits. e very ones been killing it lately. good work everyone.

-robb

IMC Final

2008-08-01T13:50:00.000-07:00

It's been a while but I've been busy:) Here's the final barring any tweaks...

The illustration is from a design brief for a book called Green by Jay Lake that is due to be published soon by Tor books. Dan Dos Santos has the honor of illustrating the real cover and it's a beauty. I'm fortunate enough to have had some great input from Dan, Scott Fischer, Greg Manchess, Donato, Boris and Julie, and the rest of the IMC alumni of 2008. Thanks all! I could not have progressed as far as I did without your help and encouragement!

Medium: Digital and Oil on Panel

Mudbox WIP

2008-07-27T20:23:00.000-07:00

I'm a little hesitant to post this, as I seem to have taken over the blog lately, but what the hell- Here's my latest mudbox doodle. Done over a few hours at a coffee shop. I'm thinking I will take this one a bit further into texture and detail than the last skull. I may end up doing some hair stuff in max as well if i stay motivated enough by this one.

Mudbox Skully

2008-07-19T19:21:00.000-07:00

HaHA Samson! My turn to hog the blog.

Here's a lunchtime mudbox doodle. I should have looked at some skull reference before i started, but i didn't really plan this one out.

Also, a quick beauty render.

Digi Life

2008-07-17T21:20:00.000-07:00

I brought my laptop to the life drawing session this time around. I'm pretty happy with the results of my first digital life attempt.

Vyle Video

2008-07-16T13:04:00.000-07:00

We watched a video on speedpainting and brush creation by David Levy. I made a few quickies based on the stuff he taught. Good stuff. Both under an hour.

Painting

2008-06-30T22:45:00.001-07:00

Hey guys. Sorry to overrun the blog like this, but I find posting quite enjoyable!

Here are a couple painting WIP's I wanted to show. The parrot is from an old sketch I am fond of, and the troll was done mainly to study that old worn-beaten metal helmet (which I copied from a LOTR sculpture I found on the web)- I posted the sketch of the troll a while back though. I may finish them someday. Hope uh you likey!

Sketches

2008-06-28T16:45:00.000-07:00

Here are some new creatures, and an old page of sketches so you can see the linework for that previous post. I am going to try to do a larger fully illustrated scene like in LOTR.

Beast Illustration

2008-06-22T01:21:00.000-07:00

Hey Guys, here's a piece of a painting I'm trying to work on in my spare time. It's been pretty rough so far, but I'm starting to feel better about it. It's a bit more complicated than what I'm used to painting, but I feel like if I ever finish it I'll come out much better on the other end... hopefully!

some drawings, new and old-

2008-06-11T13:35:00.000-07:00

Creatures

2008-05-31T20:41:00.000-07:00

I like drawing creatures...

Samson

2008-05-22T20:26:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone. I'm Samson. I started at Idol about a month and a half ago now, and it's a blast working with these guys here and skuntching with you NetDevil guys. Here are some recent skuntchies...

sketchbook doodles

2008-05-22T08:58:00.000-07:00

Sketches!!! The first and second sketches are a raksasha and kali from hindu mythology; some girl sketches; a chinese imperial guard dodging some arrows; and a girl with gloves... i havn't decided which set of legs i like on that one. that is all.

Life Drawing - 25min poses

2008-05-17T21:40:00.000-07:00

I had a pretty good morning at life drawing Saturday.

I threw away a few disasters but salvaged some lessons from today's experience.

I'm beginning to utilize some of the advice of Richard Schmid from his book Alla Prima in identifying edges and blocking in values while also incorporating line drawing to identify my proportions and add some flourish here and there.