Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Rengar- Riot contest

Rengar- Riot contest
Rengar- Riot contest 

Finally got around to finishing this image in time for submission.  It may seem trite to say I learned alot from doing this but it is very true.  This is a style of image I have not done a lot of.  I know the riot art style is a rendered to a smoother finish but this was as far as I could go.  I think I would modify the workflow to be more efficient and get to a higher finish. Anyway I feel its another mountain climbed. 

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Plane n clouds

Plane flying in clouds
Plane n clouds

Above is a cloud study with an added plane. 
 I am still working on the Rengar image.  Here is the grayscale render.  I worked out most of the details in this phase but left some things to resolve after the colour is added.  



Rengar Fanart values rendered
Rengar - value

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Little dudes

Photoshop graphical of 2 characters
Little dudes
Having a bit of fun with these guys.  It was a welcome relief form a lot of administrative work I had to get through this week.  I did start an entry to the riot competition which finishes at the end of the month.  I have some decent progress on it beyond what has been posted there.   It is a departure in style and approach for me so I did not add a redesign challenge on top of it - which was allowed.  

Fanart Rengar illustration Photoshop
Riot Contest - progress




Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Into 2018


Portrait study   Neymar
Portrait study   Neymar

Portrait study Ridley Scott
Portrait study Ridley Scott


Happy new year.  

Took a break over the festive season hence the lack of posting here.  I had hoped to keep posting but it was not to be.  I have been busy working on other art related activities which I will share in the coming weeks.  In the meantime here are some portrait studies.  The Neymar one is a still from a beats advert.  The Scott one is from a Guardian interview about his new film.  

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Snowy Siege

Snowy Siege 
With Christmas holidays coming I have one snowy themed image. The other one is a  study from a photo.  



Study of  MELVYN GOLDSTEIN / National Geographic Creative

Monday, December 11, 2017

Beneath the Waves

Frame 1
 This week was all about the Artstation challenge beneath the waves.  I sat on the fence about jumping into this one and to be honest I left it  too late to give it a good go.  However I did pull together the requisite 4 images for the keyframe challenge.  If nothing else it was a good exercise in crunching a lot of work into about 5 days.  


Frame 2

Frame 3 

Frame 4
Thumbnails

Monday, December 4, 2017

Ant -Spider

Ant -Spider

The first 2 sketches in ink were following along with Bjorn Hurris stream on Twitch.  He streams early in the morning so its a good way for me to stay punctual with my day.  Besides that they are very informative.  The spider one I decided to work on in Photoshop just to play around.  


Troll -Dinosaur

The portrait is practice using a reference from  Grigoriy Peppo on Twitch.  He usually works traditionally but this one he also did digitally.  He has a lot of knowledge around traditional media and portraiture with a bit of philosophy thrown in and always entertaining.

Portrait study 33
 The others are just random figure sketches to practice poses.  
Sketches 38

Sketches 39

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...