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.
I actually finished this piece a couple weeks ago for a Bettie Page tribute show, but Im going to put it up since I have been working on some projects for job applications and havent had much to show you all. Its Bettie Page, one of the first pin up models to entice the minds of many young men, and maybe even a few women. She recently passed away and a gallery did a tribute show for her which I entered. I did it pretty fast actually, since I found out about the show little over a week before the show. I kinda want to do another one now and spend more time on it, Im thinking of attempting a full pin up painting in a 50's style.
I do a bit of 3d modeling as well, just finished this particular guy. He is a model designed with video game intentions so hes relatively low poly count and with Normal maps. Yes, its a foreign language to many of you. All you really need to know its model with limitations which makes it a little more challenging.
I have been working on furthering my digital painting skills, and I have taken upon myself a project with a friend to create a CCG(Collectible Card Game). Its basically a game similar to Magic, but has to do with bugs and I will leave it at that. This particular piece I am calling done as of today, but knowing me I will probably look at it again in a month and change it.
It still is a little stiff, but I dont want to mess with it anymore. I have learned its better to mark something off as done and move on. Its better for the learning process to do more pieces than to sit there and spend your life trying to fix a lost battle. Its respectable at this time, move on.
-Meatmonkey
