Study and Extras

 A study from the great Jamie Jones, trying to figure out his water and color choices with more overcast comps. Also, a couple random comps. I liked some elements from each, gotta keep pushing it!

Heat bloom

Playing with the affects of dense atmosphere and lighting.
I reworked it following a critique for a much better composition.

Mood

Not as much time this week for art, which means more rushing on assignments, and less desirable outcomes. Exploring mood is an exciting prospect and I will delve into it alot, now that I have a bit more time :)

Here is one of the pieces i liked from the past assignment of doing almost color script type paintings. quick and rough with basic color/light exploration.

Tablet Paintings

Very busy this past week with non art related things, so I only had a couple opportunities to work. One of those opportunities was while flying, so here are a couple paintings done on my tablet (Asus Transformer). I'm getting more used to the setup, and its alot of fun! Plus, painting at 30,000 ft...

Cinematic Concept Designs

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to develop some concepts with a more cinematic edge to them! The lighting for the night/black market was really fun to play around with!

Light logic

This exercise required using no color picking of any sort. Viewing the reference and using your knowledge of color and light and observation skills to learn the logic of how the lighting would affect objects if you placed them in those environments.

A tremendous exercise! I can already see some of my mistakes, but always moving forward, eh?

Material Coolness!

A really cool bit of cross discipline here. A co-worker, and talented character artist, friend of mine Michael LaMorte grabbed some of the texture spheres I had been painting for CGMW and tested them out as Zbrush materials! The results varied, but some of them came out really cool! I had to share :)

Material Exploration

Some more material exploration. I would have like to take more time analyzing the references and painting more materials, but sometimes work and life gets in the way. I think i will continue this practice though as its a great tool for learning light.

The materials are labeled from top left to bottom right.

Hot Rod paint job

Reflective material

Matte material

Hard candy/semi translucent

Foil

Flesh

Transparent

Gummy Candy

Reel

Something quick I threw together over the weekend to demo some of my work. I would probably view it small since the upload downgraded the resolution.

Rapid Iteration.

Rapid iteration on robotic/bipedal characters for a game pitch. Maybe ill put the final one up at some point!

Basic Color and Light

For this project we worked with basic forms to explore color relationships. We used standard Key, Fill, Bounce lighting setups for with warm and cool. I took the liberty of exploring a bit with materials and surfacing.

Value simplification and Lighting

For this project we were instructed to use only 5 values to recreate a movie still. Each image must represent a different type of lighting and thus a different range of values. Learned some great things from going through this process.

Girls with tranquilizer guns

More costuming and female character designs iterations. And more gray-scale. I also added tranquilizer dart guns, for no specific reason.

Color coming soon!

Ill be taking part in a class taught by the extremely talented Ryan Lang, in a week or so. (not July) I am very excited, and I should have some new work to check out soon! Check back!

Costuming and the female figure

Practicing costuming and women...
I promise color will be returning to the blog soon. I start my color and light class with Ryan Lang next week, so hang in there and ill have some new stuff up soon!

Unifinished_Drone

A very unfinished piece revolving around this drone in the middle. Ill probably never get to come back to it so I thought I would share it here.

Architectural Elements

Experimenting with interesting architectural patterns and how to make elements stand out from each other.

Value Environments

Some hard surface environment work, developing lighting and contrast

Hookah and Lighting practice

Developing environments while working on lighting and value contrast. The top is more successful in almost every way!

Discarded comps

A couple compositions I ended up not pursuing.

More to come, better than these :)

Disaster Pod

Part of a personal project I am have developed. A sealed environment with hydroponics and life support systems.

Cold Gear

A new sci-fi character, developed to push my clothing/costuming design skills in relation to graphic shapes.

Over-protective Cactus Salesman

The Over-protective Cactus Salesman. A 3D animation style character design challenge! It was a really fun challenge and I did a ton of sketches which I may post later as part of the process. I'm pretty happy with the result, I will probably do more soon!

Project Visual Development

Visual Development for a personal project. Exploring the interior of a volcano and how the society would have developed their stronghold and society within.

Asset Development

These where some asset development sheets I created for Games That Work. The zone revolved mostly around freedom fighters living in dense vegetation.

Volcano Design

Working towards a unique design for a volcano as part of a personal project. Trying unique shapes, and environment locations from rocky and arid to lush and green.

Rock Towers

Some crazy perspective, and floating rock mountain towers!

Evolution Competition

Hey guys, check out a small project i'm doing with a talented character artist friend of mine, Michael Lamorte. Evolution Competition Here is the concept painting I created for the character model! Keep checking back to the thread for progress!

Cathedral

Learning from the masters and taking the opportunity to try new techniques.
Can you guess whose work I was learning from?

New Stuff!

Some new work, the product of a long weekend! I have some new stuff in the pipeline coming soon! Check back!

Star Wars! _ Hallway in Process

I plan to continue this one, it feels too modular at the moment but I haven't gotten to it yet so i thought I would put it up as process.