Bluesman in Orange

Yet another page from the orange sketchbook.

Ouch!

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!!!

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

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....

waiting around Penn Station, NYC for my next train

person on bus...japanese oni?

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.....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-

Creatures

I like drawing creatures...

Samson

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

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

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.

Tess Sketches

As you can see I am still working on the 'sun-kist' section of my sketch book. I did some drawings of Tess a couple of nights ago - from life, sitting at the dining room table. Pretty quick, maybe 45min. total for the page. She's pretty cute. :D

Viking Sketch

Ahoy, Dudes Galore! I have not popped though in a while, so I though I'd drop off a quick sketch and say hello. No specifics for this... one of the last Skuntch drawings from about two weeks ago. Nate sent out a thread with a bunch of groovy viking pieces, so I drew one.

Rane's B-day Gouache Painting

This week was Rane's birthday so as a surprise I painted her this little gouache painting. That meant the studio was off limits for the last couple of days. I'm pleased to say she was surprisingly good about not peeking. (she's a peeker.) Gouache, 6x9 inches.

I found this great pre-made shadowbox frame at Aaron Bros. It fit perfectly.

The cover that never was... sort of...

Blue Series

"Say hello to my little friends"

Col-erase

mar.2008