Thief's Tale is officially on hold, but not cancelled, and this has greatly freed up my time. It feels good to sketch again, and I find its not like riding a bike. It will disappear on you faster than a parolee leprechaun if not maintained. This particular guy was done for an online concept group at Sketch Night, feel free to check it out. All the good time info will be in a post there!
The "Thief's Tale" projects due date is fast approaching and I am far from completion to the degree I would of liked the art to be at. Trying to shove this much background art within a couple months is just not good for ones inner child. Its crying. As such I will have to make cut decisions for the IGF launch of the game, and come back over a few months afterwords and polish the game for the high definition version at a later date. Its sad, but will have to be done to make the deadline.
With the weekend comes a lot of hours of work on background painting. I put close to 30-40 hours this weekend as usual by not sleeping much and it seems like I barely put a dent in this project. Either way, this is a work in progress on the cave stage. The background is mostly in values at this point, and will be knocked back quite a bit before done. The caves stage will take the most work I feel out of all the stages, but only little time left will tell.
Its surprisingly hard to get a low pixel female model to look correctly and was an unpleasant experience overall. The first attempt she looked like a he-she out of Silence of the Lambs. After take two, she looked more like a she-he with Homer Simpsons makeup shotgun. I eventually got her down to a clown whore, but I tried a third time and finally got something like this.
The captain of the guards from the game "Thief's Tale". He is the leader of the Stooge's of the guards, and the largest Stooge of them all. Though he likes shiny things, he is dull and blunt as the weapon he carries. He may be made more ornate, but time restraints will tell.
Though the final may change some, this is my first draft of one of the enemies for Thief's Tale. The initial characters were already completed for the game, so my models for them should follow those designs. Unless I wanted to redo the ones completed, which I saw no need and dont have the time to complete.
Another work in progress shot from Thief's Tale. Been hard at work trying to get as much done on this as possible, with little sleep this weekend. I have taken four stages to an early stages of completion. Right now Im trying to get every stage to a point if we had to launch we could, then go back any make everything the way I really want by adding onto it. This is still at the cut and paste stage, but at least its a different stage. Next week is going to probably be dedicated to character models so the Animator will have more time to play with them.
Another old image that I want to get archived here onto this blog. This is a 3d model and render of the future of weaponry as thought by people in the past. Done in Maya, with me basically trying my hand at high end rendering stuff. Working on trying to finish a bunch of stuff for a deadline around the corner. Hopefully will have more to share with you all soon.
Another work in progress of a stage screen from the game "Thief's Tale". Its starting to look more respectable but I have yet to really push it to where I want it to be yet. Right now Im still just making generic background elements and cut and pasting them together.
Another old painting that just wanted to get up for all to see. Hopefully I will get more time to do some traditional painting again here soon. I have been busy with other projects which are taking more time than expected. 
More bugs. I will probably come back to all these bug paintings and eventually work over them. Right now I am just trying to get as much practice with the "medium" as possible. When I have a good quantity of them done, I will take another look at them. Usually its good to take a look at something after some time has passed I have learned.
A concept sketch of a"Transporter Accident" done in color pencil on vellum marker paper. I plan on painting over it digitally and adding the transporter into it. This woman was once Miss Universe 3010 before her unfortunate accident.
Been a while since I posted anything, so I need to get back on track with that. Heres a sketch of something that probably smells really bad. Dont remember the time, around 3 hours if I had to guess, it was done in a single sitting. Color pencil on vellum marker paper.
This sketch was up elsewhere, but I would like to transfer all my images to this blog in time. So here is just a fairy sketch I did a while back. Kinda been lazy today, not really in the mood to do anything new. But this sketch is new to everyone else!
Here is a work in progress of a digital painting Im working on. Its the rise of the undead fly people! Sounds like it would make a great B movie and would of course star Jeff Goldblum. I started with a pen sketch and in process of a digital paint over. I decided to start with a more value oriented paint over and will refine it. Im not sure if I should just move on or try to make this better.
Just some figure drawing practice. I desperately need to practice more figure drawing, its the core blocks that everything I do is based upon. Can never get enough practice at figure drawing!
The Inquisition is back in a post apocalypse future purging the sinful and evil from the world who brought this new dark ages upon mankind. Armed with a wide array of weapons, they bring a burning light to the darkness.
This is an old painting I did that Im throwing up here. I basically did a bunch of small 6"x6" acrylic paintings to get practice with the medium, I also did not want to spend a large amount of time on them either. I was going for more practice than getting hung up on perfecting a single painting.
Here is a sketch of a possible future painting I might do. It is going to be a pilot pinup but I have not yet decided if I am going to take it any further and transfer it to a board. If I did I want to paint it traditionally but in the mean time, its here for now. Maybe in the future it will get painted but I have other projects I am seriously behind on to do first.
Here is a work in progress of another concept for a monster set in a Diablo genre. The goal was for a smaller flying creature, so I went with a floating demonic head. I was thinking perhaps it came from another demon or possessed evil humans after they fell in battle. Kinda like a second monster you would have to fight after killing the first.
Its the 4th of July and who knows how drunk I may be or what I may blow up. So I will post an old sketch and hope I have my fingers tomorrow to draw something new. Happy 4th, and try not to lose any appendages.
Meet Zeus, the cyber psycho. He went in for a cybernetic enhancement and did not come out not quite the same. Now his hobbies involve his forearm tesla accelerator, and his plasma cannon. Lets hope Zeus finds help for his problems.
This guy is like the thinker of apes, he would just sit and stare for a while at apparently nothing. Im very hit and miss with watercolor. I consider this one of my better watercolor studies, and want to continue to do further animal studies.
Here are some works in progress of PSI Knight concepts. Knights that walk a very thin copy right law of being Jedi Knights... Meh... (Shrug). Got a few more Im working on, and probably will paint at least one of them, if not more.
I know its been a while. Summer has come and with it a wave of laziness that swept over me, but its time to get back to work. To hold you all over until I put something new up I pulled out an old painting for you all to enjoy. Its an acrylic airbrush on wood with a custom built frame.
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.
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. 
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! 
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.
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.
A watercolor sketch, a portait of a woman in a bandana. Ban..dan..a.... funney word. Hehe.
Here is a quick sketch of a dog like creature I am planning on modeling in the near future. I have other models and paintings I need to get done first though. But this guy has a future and wanted to include an early draft of him to save to compare to later.
Been busy with 3d stuff that I cannot post, but here is a sketch I squeezed out recently. I was considering painting it traditionally, but I am still behind on many other projects. Just trying to keep somewhat up to date here, hopefully I get more time to dedicate to traditional stuff.
