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Skeleton Knight WIP

2010-04-10T18:21:00.003Z

Progress is slow on this one, but I thought it went quite nicely with the little axe guy I'm doing - and I needed a little break from him. So - here's an early WIP.

The leftmost one has no arm, so you can see the abdomen more clearly - I will remove the helmet on this one also to show the head. A face study and more detail on weapon/helmet/arm parts will be arranged around it. I currently have no idea whether to include the horns or not.. (one horn?) they bolt on to the holes either side of the skull/helmet. Actual head is very much lower down and would be looking out through the open jaw or alternatively maybe electronically via the eyes in the skull (silly I know).

I'll probably whack some more texture in there too - but if anyone has any crits feel free to let me know about it.

Please click to see a bit bigger :)

Axe Soldier

2010-04-09T17:21:00.000Z

Here's a little mixed up soldier - His armour is similar to some that I sketched at the V+A, then mixed with some other bits and bobs. Giant axe ftw! The original is 4000x4000 in photoshop, but I've resized down so some detail does get a bit lost. This is the second stage work in progress - so I just have to noodle in more details now.

He's got some flaming orange decorative boogers going on.

Monogram + Doodle

2010-03-30T13:34:00.001Z

Finally figured out a monogram that seems to work. Also played with photoshop settings to get a sketching template - works pretty nicely! Hence all the doodles....

Zbrush Torso study

2010-03-29T17:14:00.001Z

I'm getting more into Zbrush. If I'm honest, I haven't really read up much on how I'm meant to be doing things in this... So I will most likely have to go back and remodel. This is very much just studying how the clay brushes work in Zbrush 3.5 - It's all just from my head with no ref, so excuse any completely imaginary musculature :)

I'm thinking of adding the previously posted Yakuza head to this. Sculpting a Kimono drape - a set of hands and the kneeling pose. Again, just to practice painting onto the model in Zbrush, so - it's tattoo research time (and swatting up on Zbrush time)!

Zbrush learning

2010-03-28T23:44:00.000Z

So I installed 3.5 R3 - (Pixelogic Zbrush). It's great fun to play around with. I'm mainly using the claytubes tool to build up layers right now - I'm sure I should get faster at this ... but it's fun nonetheless. So go go pompadour yakuza action!

Mr.Old Robot

2010-03-24T00:11:00.000Z

Nearly done on this. Probably will leave in monotone... but was tempted to give it a very silly paintjob.

Ms. Fairy Mantisbug is complete

2010-03-15T23:41:00.000Z

I've got this one practically finished - but as I say that I'm noticing that she has two different knee's and some other bits that could be improved. I'll just edit this post rather than covering my blog with fairies... but here's the completed pic. I'll post some 100% crops tomorrow, but for now, sleep I think.

(click image for larger version)

Mr. Snow Crab #1

2010-03-15T13:51:00.001Z

So I thought I'd have a go at some creature design - Got momentarily distracted whilst designing a 'burrowing snow crab'. Crabs like sandwiches right? At least... I like crab sandwiches... anyway, here's the WIP.

Wake-up and doodle

2010-03-12T13:25:00.000Z

Little doodle I was playing with! - now to go finish off this fairy thing.

Fairy Concept 2

2010-03-11T23:58:00.001Z

Nearly done with this now, I changed the colour quite a bit and put some stronger saturated tones. I added a texture layer (don't know if I'm overusing this paper texture). This one is a bigger image and I've added some alternate head views.

Still need to fiddle some details and draw the feet. Shouldn't take long now. Click to see full size PNG.

Fairy Concept

2010-03-09T20:36:00.002Z

This grew out of something in the DMC thread at the Apedogs forum. I didn't want to create a traditional 'fairy' character so I thought, why not create something a little bit different. I hope the jaw mandibles communicate how the face would open up - but I'm not sure if that reads.

Here's a WIP from today - I should finish up tomorrow. Click to make it bigger as usual.

Robot rethink

2010-03-06T12:47:00.001Z

I'm rethinking the robot - realising that rather foolishly I designed it in a very back to front way, some time last week I stopped painting it and decided to go back to the drawing board. Determined to finish this guy at some point - so here are some sketches. As always, click to make it bigger. I think I shall go and do some studies of other things for a bit, I've been avoiding drawing as I'm not enjoying this one too much... (annoying).

Mecha Progress 1

2010-02-07T16:06:00.002Z

Here is today's progress on the mecha, very fudgy so far but it now has arms! I have to go over this once everything is done and fix the lighting. I've been avoiding thinking about the legs, but should get right onto that now.

Click image to see a larger version.

Mecha WIP 1

2010-02-06T11:55:00.000Z

I thought I'd hack out a new robot design, so here is the initial WIP. I still think this design is slightly funky (not the good kind), he'd kind of waddle in a comical way with his current back legs, so I'll most likely redo them. Plenty of room to play around still though - I'm making an exploded side view (this one) with the leg and arm parts to be layered on top and I'll probably do a few other detail shots in each other perspective.

Enjoy!

3D famicom

2010-01-24T01:44:00.002Z

Started learning some 3D and pixelart so I thought this would be a good tryout. Moved country again so apologies for a lack in updates. 96 triangles

click for decent size

Happy Holiday Alien

2009-12-24T15:07:00.002Z

Todays doodle so far - bit rushed as I need to prepare the flat for pre-christmas visitors. This kind of reminds me of the good Dr.Zoidberg. I'll have to finish this off some other time. Merry Jebus-day to all you humans out there.

Added some colours/tweaks - shall cleanup+finish soon

Texture madness

2009-12-22T17:50:00.004Z

Another day another doodle! Some improvements (i think) to this thing - click to make it bigger.

Some more silly textureness - Just experimenting!

bird/bear/monkey?

2009-12-21T14:58:00.002Z

No real thought behind this - but another concept for a possible enemy. Probably should work more on some variants. I guess this can be today's doodle!

Snowy Sunday

2009-12-20T18:06:00.005Z

Snow has covered the streets - so I've been sitting in my longhi doodling all day. I found a pad (gift from a friend) of tibetan hand made paper - makes a nice texture! Going out to see Avatar today - hope it's as good as everyone is making it out to be.

Todays doodle

2009-12-19T23:10:00.003Z

I think I'll try to promise myself to put something here every other day.... though, should I make that promise? I have no faith in me either... but let's see how it goes.

Today - a random robot! Who know's what tomorrow will bring:

Sargent reference

2009-11-13T16:19:00.003Z

I thought I would do a quick reference sketch this morning - which ended up taking longer than expected. Should really do this more. Doesn't really look like the ref too much, but a good learning experience none the less.

Robot doodle

2009-10-19T22:43:00.003Z

I'm thinking of trying to 3D this guy - started as a doodle this afternoon - Elderly robots are a bit of an odd concept, but oh well... I'll finish this off tomorrow with some other ideas.

(click the image to see it bigger)

Messy update!

2009-10-08T21:33:00.005Z

It's been far too long to think of any legitimate excuse for not updating... other than I am a right lazy so-and-so.

I've just started working on a few things and thought I'd share the whole messy process. Nothing groundbreaking - just a few goblins and robots. Standard fare! Start easy - work towards harder stuff.

Anyway - there we go! Now I'll try to neaten these guys up a bit...

Muffin Man Rehashed

2008-10-06T13:10:00.005Z

The amazing WP (Slid3) reworked my muffin man image with clever use of Zbrush and 3D wizardlike skills... I thought I might as well throw it up here, or you can see it in its original context via the Cloud9 thread - hope alls well with me linking it here! It's put a bit of pressure on me to do more work. He fills me with man-love.

Texturing the demon

2008-09-27T13:31:00.004Z

(click image to enlarge to full res)

Lack of updates! I've been pretty busy with a new job and all sorts – Therefore haven't had much time to devote to sitting in front of my mac to paint. Myself and Ptoing (Sven Ruthner) are having some fun texturing this low poly model by Brian Jones. This is still very much WIP but will post a couple of different skins shortly.

Sunday Afternoon

2008-06-01T20:39:00.004Z

I'm easing myself back into painting today it seems. Here's another quick doodle.

Hello Nursie

2008-06-01T18:45:00.002Z

I decided to take part in the DMC (Draw My Character) thread over at the Cloud9 forums. I thought I'd go pinup for this one... .

Art Rage 2.5

2008-05-13T12:22:00.002Z

I just got a copy of Art Rage 2.5 and although I still haven't really got the hang of it yet, I have to say that it mimics oils a hell of a lot more nicely than painter does. Here's a quick sketch I made while trying to understand it a little more... Nice and splodgy it is.

Muffin Man - Final

2008-04-27T20:14:00.005Z

Here he is. To be honest you won't see much difference at this size. Click the image though to view a larger version where you can see the details.

Photoshop Doodle

2008-04-18T19:35:00.004Z

Another test. Damn blogs and their maximum of 400 pixels wide. That's horrible!

2008-04-18T13:48:00.007Z

An image I made some time ago. Gotta love octopi.

Old Stuff

2007-02-26T12:39:00.003Z

Some older sketches and bits and bobs... Keep things all in one place.

2006-02-26T13:32:00.005Z

Did some painting so I thought i would chuck it up in here. Only sketching in pchat... Can't remember what it was referencing now.