Base Mesh turnaround

Hey, been a while blog. Thought I'd upload a model I started working on last night. Just threw a couple of screen caps together in Photoshop for a turnaround. If you're wondering the colors are to help remind me of how I'm doing poly flow.

I was looking over Johanna while waiting for a Heroes of the Storm match and thought it would be fun to model Johanna or a crusader like her.

Update 1:

WIP

Had a sexy time image pop into my head so sketched it out quick like in accordance with my attempts to not sit on images my imagination graciously bestow upon me.

Probably not going to be work safe.

Weapon Concept - Battle Rifle

The more I concept out this gun the more I realize how very little I know about guns and how their parts fit together hah!

Burger at the Beach wip 2

Burger at the Beach

Daily Painting

 

Finger Licken Good Final

Think I'm calling this one good for now... probably.

Finger Licken Good - update 1

Think i'm almost done, need to just strengthen focal points and pop stuff. And drop the background in.

Finger Licken Good

Experimental painting playing with rendering/shading and proportion. Need to sharpen it back up as I was working supper small while roughing it in. So no everything is all aliased to heck. Haven't painted the rest of the line art in there yet. There is another character on the ground and some background stuffs.

Battle Alternate

Quick paint playing with a similar idea to the battle grip painting I'm working on.

Battle Grip Continued

Working on the foreground dude, I'm thinking he is going to be another character I've worked on instead of a random stand in. Letting different possible stories between the two ruminate right now.

Hangouts Art Murder!

This is why Google hangouts with my friends is bad for my productivity, Or is it!?

So background to this. I was working on my Battle Grip illustration, but I saw my friend, who we shall call cuddles! Drawing this cute girl and I screen caped it from hangouts and started to just GOoooooooo. And here is where I ended up before getting back to MY work hah.

uploaded for your amusement.

if your asking yourself why mouth shoulders that sing, you should be asking why not? =P

Battle Grip

Quick Illustration - Battle Grip

All and always on one layer, with hard round brush and color pick.

30th
Working on the illustration more, trying to implement some suggestions.

29th

Auto_saves (Process)

 

Daily Sketches

Hey hey, was show and telling a page from my 'sketchy sketchbook' so since I scanned the image thought I'd throw it up here with some minor paraphrased commentary.

So basically I was playing with visual flow; inferred lines and lines of continuity. This being body parts/elements that follow an imaginary line. These lines lead the viewer through the image and keep the eye moving within the image (ideally).

I don't really feel these sketches are engaging, so I'm hoping to figure out how to pop some of that life into them with some more work/experimentation.

So the first page was actually a land/city scape that morphed into a few people sketches. The second page is a figure inspired by a guys hair and bird that I saw getting off the bus. and another sketch that is an I'm tired I list spirals today.

That's it hah, thanks for reading!

Master Painting "Katarina Succubus" Update

I worked a double shift today so not much time to work on anything today. Just a small update tonight.

I'm still finagling wit the proportions and angle relations.

Master Painting "Katarina Succubus"

This master painting is of Jeremy Vitry's Katarina Succubus for a Riot Contest. You can find his work on artstation.

  I didn't get this one done, and I can't stay up until 1am today as I have work early tomorrow morning. So here is what I got done. I started at 9pm and stopped at 11pm. I did actually take process stages this time. But I'm not going to comp them together until I'm done with the copy. So here is the most recent state of the copy.

A quick note on my observations while doing this master copy. There were lots of concentric squashed ovals at an angle these are seen through lost and found, and inferred lines. For example, Katarina's daggers and the top of her hair contain an oval flow to them. I think this lends to the "life" and motion/dynamism of the work. I also noticed there were a lot of tangential horizontal and vertical lines that could be referenced between the major shapes of the different parts. You can see some of these lines being painted over in my sketch.

The numbers on the side are a note for myself, it is the size of my viewing window for the reference image.

Thanks for viewing!

Master Copy "Elf Prisoner"

Hey it's been a while! Just did a master painting of an artists work that really inspires me to draw each and every day so thought I'd post my copy and a plug for Saara Mäkinen. You can find more of her great work at deviantart, artstation, and her portfolio so give it a look, after you look at mine of course! =P

Didn't take me long, started around 10pm finished at 1am maybe I was in the groove!?

Here is some loose stage development, sorry it's kinda far in hah only dawned on me to take stages later.

Sprite Birth

Needed a really quick illustration to make my arbitray quota for the day!
Sprite Birth is actually/hopefully going to be part of my previous in the works illustration 'pumpkin pumpkin'.
I was looking at the 'pumpkin pumpkin' composition after being away from it all day and found that I wanted to "push" the story telling. I thought about what direction I wanted to go and then went with the first notion that popped into my head which was a birth?

Here are my glorious and varied idea sketches for pumpkin pumpkins evolved composition/story, with some random anatomy pondering. The bottom right sketches where me trying to get the feel and imagery of something trying to pull itself out of an egg.

 Here is a larger more elaborate sketch of the little sprite and the one used for the illustration.

Pumpkin Pumpkin

Not sure what I'm making yet. Maybe a witch? Mostly just trying to get something from a starting point to a finished illustration in one day.

How did it start? I opened up Photoshop and let my hand/brain jot down the first thing that came along. I tried doing some flat colors and wasn't liking it, so I went to a value sketch instead. So right now I'm trying to work the contrast to the focal point and shuffle around the extra visual space into an interesting space.

Robin Hunter Preproduction Suit and Helm

Some pose sketches and development art for robins suit and helm. I'm very much liking the idea of her having a full flak neck collar/guard.

W14 - 6 - F - No F's Were Given! by Valtyr.jpg

Figure sketches practicing reilly and form figure visualization methods.

Top three of page 2 are magic the gathering angels. Working on seeing large shapes. Two bottom left are artstation illustrations, last one is just a fuck it I'm tired sketch.