Annoyed

I was just practicing techniques in digital painting today, and after a couple hours he turned into this. He eventually got this look on his face of getting pissed off that I was painting him... so I stopped.

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Freakish Mutation!

Evolution gone very very wrong... or right, who am I to judge. All we can wonder what it once was, and hope we never run into it. This painting started out as a sketch that was painted over, and was more or less practice for carapace type creatures.

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Illumination

Starting to move some of my traditional artwork here to give it a home on the internet. This particular piece was done on black paper with white pastel and charcoal. It was a challenge to keep clean, since the slightest smudge would show up in the dark areas. We should wonder what an kinda radiation a orb of pure light would give off.

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Concept: Triramus

Began a concept sketch night with some other artists. We basically come up with a concept and we each create a sketch on it. I sketched it out traditionally and quickly did a digital painting over it, keeping in mind to keep the time spent on it relatively low. This particular concept was of a video game demon, like something you would see in Diablo. I was going for a faster hand to hand fighting demon from an arid environment.

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Leyendecker Study

This oil painting was a study of a J.C. Leyendecker painting. An old painting study I did that I found lying around. Thought it would be a great throwback to the past illustrators and pay some tribute to a past great. Leyendecker was an illustrator from the early 1900's and was one of the chief influences on Norman Rockwell. If you ever have a chance to see one of his paintings you take it!

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Apple Core

An image I have been working on and off for a while. I almost want to make a 3d model of this one, but I need to finish all these half done projects I have lying around before I even consider it. An apple a day.

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Thief's Tale

One of my many projects that Im working on is a old school side scrolling game with a group of independent game developers at Star Frog Games. I am doing the digital painting as well as some of the character modeling for the game. Here I show the collision screen capture I get, and the paint over in its early stages. Its in the early phases, and will have many more passes before we get to a finished product.

 There is a lot of file organization that goes into a project like this, sadly right before I was almost finished I accidently deleted the entire project.... (Pause to let fellow Artist shudder) ....

Yes, it happens. Lost a lot of work, and tried some recovering software but it failed me. But I got it all redone. 

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