Wake-up and doodle

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

Fairy Concept 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Happy Holiday Alien

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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Messy update!

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

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

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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

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

Hello Nursie

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

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.