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The Maxx

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.

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Supes & Iron Man

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

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

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

Green Lantern.

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

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!