Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Still life - Morla Gorilla Model

Morla Gorilla Model
I was watching  a still life demo by Awesome Horse.  While I was watching/listening I figured I might as well do something.  So I did a study of the morla gorilla model I used here. Morla is the Irish word for plastecine.  Every young kid in school gets to play with it at some time making snakes and the like.  
This study was a lot harder than I thought it would be probably because of all the colours.  Anyway It took me about as long as the livestream.  The stream itself is every Saturday - evening for me- but well worth checking out. 

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Check out Punk Economics

I try not to mix anything else into this blog- keep it just for study but here is a crossover.  

It is  Punk Economics produced by David McWilliams and Irish economist.  People in Ireland have by necessity all become amateur economists.   David s is a professional economist.  Stuff that 10 years ago Irish people would have dozed off at the mention of now forms the basis of casual conversation and jokes.  In case you don't know Ireland is currently in the process of paying  billions to bondholders  to keep the European 'project' afloat.   The video is a product of this cocktail. 

Friday, February 3, 2012

Gorilla Study -Crimson Daggers Bloodsports challenge - final

Gorilla Guardians Bloodsports final
Here is the submitted piece for the final.  Lost all dynamism in the pose that I started off with. The arm is a bit wonky and there was a cop out on the foliage.  Gorilla ended up way to contemplative.   I suppose in that way it failed the brief.   I used colours in title. I liked the planet but most of it got lost when rendered.  So the final product drifted along way from the thumbnail and the drift was not all good. Next time...

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Gorilla Study -Crimson Daggers Bloodsports challenge part 4

Jungle Photoshop study






This was a study I did to get some ideas for rendering a jungle environment.  I did this reasonably quickly.  About 90 minutes I think.  It went by really fast.

Big Bear Game Art

  I started creating a series of promotional art for a ficticious game.  This was to practice going through the design process.  I have foun...