Dog Volume Studies

Working on using blocks and gesture to define volume and form.

Perspective Practice

Reading through a book titled "Perspective Drawing Handbook" by Josheph D'amelio and decided to do some practice.

Tree Sketch / Study

Color Study Time

Adding some value to one of the silhouettes.

D&D Sword Studies

Some studies I did for a low level sword used by my ranger. Gonna pick a few and do some more exploration.

Lessons In Sketching: Reference & Life Studies Will Save Your Life

So I am working on visualizing my D&D character and I decided to do his pet first. For context, his pet is a dire rat that plays checkers. Below is some embarrassing stuff that taught me some important lessons. I started off thinking that I could jump straight into drawing Checkers. It didn't go well right from the start and I got frustrated. I then took a step back and asked "what does a rat look like?" Pulled some ref and just did some studies. I failed again by not asking the same question for what does stylization mean... In the end I learned the importance of study and reference. I also spent some time reading books about studio drawing and form.

WIP 40k Terminator Head

I decided to try and do some hard surface work in zbrush. Here is a WIP of a 40k Terminator Head. Base geo done in maya.

30 Days - Day 14

Some quick rock tests.

30 Days - Day 13

Missed a day. So here is day 13. Quick zBrush sketch of a some art done by those awesome guys creaturebox.

30 Days - Day 11

Ran out of time with this one. Will come back later and do some more work on it. Damn friends wanting to play games...

30 Days - Day 10

30 Days - Day 9

30 Days - Day 8

30 Days - Day 7

Today did a quick zbrush sketch of a Creature Box concept.

30 Days - Day 6

30 Days - Day 5

CRAP ITS ALMOST MIDNIGHT!!!!! Ran out of time on this one. Finally watched the first How To Train Your Dragon. So yeah, I got dragons on the brain.

30 Days - Day 4

30 Days - Day 3

30 Days - Day 2

30 Days - Day 1

Learning Zbrush - Tree Day 4

Learning Zbrush - Tree Day 3

Learning Zbrush - Tree Day 2

Learning Zbrush - Tree Day 1

Started picking up zbrush again. Been getting some great tips and instruction from a friend. Here is day one progress.
Concept by Peet Cooper.

Oh crap. I fell into the rabbit hole of pintrest.

Well I fully intended to do some studies this morning but as I was looking for reference material I stumbled headlong into the rabbit hole that is pintrest. Super excited to start using it. Lots of really inspirational stuff and a great way to organize reference and tutorials. I didn't make anything this morning but I feel like I added a valuable tool to my toolbox.

Here are my boards on Pintrest.

http://www.pinterest.com/lowtechr/

5 Min. Stone Speed Drill

WIP of Wildstar Fan Art

Got a few more things to finish up with this prop but wanted to post a WIP anyways. Also posting the original concept from Carbine Studios for reference.

5 Min. Bronze Speed Drills

These didn't go as well as I would have liked... well that is why it is called practice.

5 Min. Bark Speed Drill

5 Min. Speed Rock Drills

Working on speed and not over-thinking. Throwing down color and pulling forms out of it as quickly as possible. Fun practice.

Quick Afternoon Rock Study

I think quickening my process can help me improve in a number of ways. I am going to begin doing studies that are focused around quick block outs follow by focused addition of details.

Color Exploration + Testing

Got some interesting trick and tips about color from a friend today so I wanted to begin playing around with some of the ideas he dropped on me. The primary thing I was trying to play with here is exploring the ability to make a material more "colorful" without dramatically increasing saturation. One big caveat is that I did increase the saturation in the super dark shadow areas. This was a tip shared with me that it was possible to "hide" saturation boots in shadows. By doing this, the overall saturation seems higher but in reality it is still clamped over the majority of the material. Gonna need some more tests and experimentation.

Wildstar Fan Art WIP 3

Been busy with other projects. Here is an update to the wildstar prop. More polish to follow.

30 Days of Sketching - Day 25

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30 Days of Sketching - Day 23

30 Days of Sketching - Day 22

30 Days of Sketching - Day 21

Start of a treasure goblin robot. I will have to come back and finish this another time.

30 Days of Sketching - Day 20

30 Days of Sketching - Day 19

30 Days of Sketching - Day 18

30 Days of Sketching - Day 17

30 Days of Sketching - Day 16

30 Days of Sketching - Day 15

Start of a ground study...

30 Days of Sketching - Day 14

30 Days of Sketching - Day 13