Bloodsports 15 studies

These are some early sketches and some character drawings for Bloodsports 15.  

Owl Study

Owl Study

Owl study.  This was done as a study for the Bloodsports 15.  Did not really use it in the end. 

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More movie still sketches.  Up to about 23 minutes in Avatar. Woohoo!.

Snowy church ruin speedpaint

Snowy church ruin speedpaint

Two hour speedpaint  with reference from Kennelwood-Stock  here. I did this one with no line work just painting from the start. 

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I was travelling for a few days which meant I did not get to do these last week.  I missed doing them so I hope to keep going with them for now.

Church Speedpaint

Church Speedpaint

A church speedpaint of 2 hours for the deviant art speedpaint group.  The reference was from here.  Tried to start with linework.  Not very successful.  Colours got muddy and did not control edges.

Bloodsports 14 Beastmaster

Bloodsports 14 Beastmaster

A lot of the first week was spent on this guy so he turned out as a more developed piece than the beast .

Bloodsports 14 Beast

Bloodsports 14 Beast

This was the beast for Bloodsports 14.  This suffered most from lack of time.  I should have gone for the obvious minotaur with this.  I may well go back and have another go at this as it feels like an opportunity lost. 

Bloodsports 14 Beastmasters studies

Bloodsports 14 studies

Got totally whipped by bloodsports 13 and as I am a glutton for punishment I went ahead and put some work together for number 14 Beastmasters. I knew I would be travelling the second week so I cut short the studies and committed to an idea probably prematurely in order to have enough time to get some sort of finished product. How did that work out ?  Well the submitted stuff to follow.

Canyon city

Canyon City

A quick environment done while following along with  a concept world sketch stream.

Pious

Pious

Another texture and colour piece.  Limiting the palette.

Bloodsports 13 Time Warriors

Bloodsports 13 Time Warriors 

Bloodsports returned and I could not pass.  I really ran out of time on this. I only spent a week so it did not leave enough time to polish.  I skimped on the studies.  The one I did to completion I did not end up using.  That was the lizard which was supposed to be for scale mail.  I did spend time on the thumbnails and I think the composition worked but I needed more time to get the contrast. I will return to it.  I am doing the next bloodsports so I will hopefully get a more polished piece. 

Studies

Daffodil

Daffodil

In celebration of Easter.  
It is still bitterly cold here doesn't feel like spring.  
First still life study in a while.  Must do more.

Bot2

Bot2

Just some nonsense while tricking around with some textures and colour. 

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More sketching.  Yeah!

Fighters

Fighters

This started life as the exercise below which was some figure drawing practice.  I attempted to take it a little further then realised how hard it would be for me .  Left for a few weeks then went back and resolved to finish it in some way.  It was difficult and a real stretch but I have found that that has been the best way for me to learn so I got to be prepared to fail.  I like the colours in this and some of the treatments but this really brings home how much I have to learn.

Horned Lizard-study

Horned Lizard

Ah have not done a straight forward study fro a photo in a long time.  This was quite a challenge.  I did not set a time limit.  It took probably 3 hours or so.  The reference for this can be found on a site belonging to Richard Seaman. There are lots of other great lizard photos there so check them out.

Flying Alligator

Flying alligator

A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men. 
30 min  for concept world skethathon. 

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Ogham Stones

Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Phádraig daoibh go léir!  Happy St Patricks Day to all.   

These are ogham stones.  These ancient stones carry words in the form of markings scored into their edges.  The scored patterns are an alphabet.  They are found all over Ireland.  They are not usually in a circle.  The circular mounds sometimes marked with stones are referred to as fairy forts in folklore and are considered magical.  In truth they are the remains of ring forts. 

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Another few sketches.  Not so many of these this week as they took a backseat.  I am in the middle of some job hunting.   I had some job interviews last week so I had to swot for them.   As these sketches are the last thing I do in the evening before I turn in I find them a good wind down exercise but I just simply had no time - I missed out on them.  The job hunting goes on so it will probably continue to take my attention from this work. 

Colourisation -Zombie Hunter

Colourisation -Zombie Hunter

Saw this piece on  a CG Hub challenge I think  .  There was an invitation to colourise by the inker Haruk79.  They have a site on Deviant Art. Check out their work!

I have tried to do one or two of these before and they require a whole other process so good practice.

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Some more quick screencap sketches of Avatar. 

Trekking 2

Trekking 2

Could not resist adding a little bit of motion to this.  It was my first time working with the animation part of Photoshop.  Its a bit clumsy but was just checking out what was possible.  The final still image is here.

Trekking

Trekking

I took some time with this. It started off as a quick painting then developed. The mule/goat I completed very quickly then struggled with the guy for a while. This was fun to do and I did spend some time fooling around with stuff. My favorite bit is still that goat with attitude. 

Foot speedpaint

Foot speedpaint

 
A speedpaint of a foot of  2 hours effort.  Most of that was tickling those toes.  I don't think i nailed it but it was a sole effort.  The stock was from hannah-boaden  here

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Still doing them. Some more Avatar sketches.

Study of The Gramaphone

Study of The Gramaphone

I did this photograph study to help with an image I am working on.  Did not labour to make an exact copy. The photo is from the library of congress collection which has some amazing and sometimes unexpected collections of images. Do you think this guy had heard recorded music before?

Giant Fight

Giant Fight

This started out as a doodle and went further than planned.  It took a while as the elements got juggled around.  It definitely drifted from that initial sketch and took quite a long time to finish.