A diary of my adventures in art from painting to 3D animation. I have added work over 10 years so it has become a record of my changing abilities and interests. Contact me if you have any questions.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Lets Play - start
Lets play draft 3 |
Lets play draft 2 |
Lets play draft 1 |
A while ago I did a character concept and shortly afterwards a beast. I had figured they would exist together so I wanted to make an illustration with them both in action. Above are the first stages of the illustration. I started out in greyscale to work out as much detail as possible.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Roman Soldier study
Roman Soldier study |
Monday, July 30, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Flight
Flight |
This began as a bit of doodle and grew and grew. I knew i wanted to do something with a lighter palate and this was as good a subject as any.
I had all the basic stuff down reasonably quickly but the rendering and detailing well that took way longer. Things definitely got more static as I rendered it further. It is still a shock how long it is taking me to get to a point where a piece looks finished. I think if I focus more and have a clearer idea of what I need to get too it would go faster. On the other hand I am trying to learn as i go so lots of mistakes.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Armoured soldier
Some stuff seems to reasonably easy ans fast and some stuff well, it is just hard. Here is an image I have been tossing and turning for over a month now. It has gone thought alot of iterations. What I thought was going to be something relatively simple has become an epic. It was supposed to be a study application, just all those machine studies applied in some way. So a mech of some type scaling a hill, no an armoured soldier, a hill well maybe not ....
Played with some armour.
Abandoned that then thought about
environment a bit more
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Soap bottle study
Soapbottle study |
This is a study of a soap bottle I did on my lunch break. About 40 minutes effort. Last still life was the parachute guy back at the start of June. I wanted to bring some of the work I am doing to a higher level of finish. That has proven to take a lot of time and unfortunetly I have a liited amount of time available for this so in the past month studies have taken a back seat.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Portrait practice 4
Portrait Practice 4 |
Changed up my process on this one. I used just a hard round brush and went to town. Even though I kept the brush small I finished this in about 3 hours or so. Probably a shorter time than if I went to complete using some of the other approaches I have used. The reference is from National Geographic a great resource.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Beast 1
Beast 1 |
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Écorché of horse
Écorché of a horse |
Écorché de cheval |
This is a copy of a muscle study of a horse. The study I found here. I am going to take this and put it in a study to follow.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Orc - Game On!
This just popped out of nowhere. To be honest I had some time off and decided to do a piece and finish to as polished a level as I could achieve with an eye towards building a portfolio. I worked on the first piece for about a day. At the end of that I just took a break to doodle. If was a value piece.
The next day I continued working on it and got it finished in a surprising short time. It was a real texture fest. This is a real step up for me, which is great but now the bar is higher...............
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Hands study
Hands Study |
Monday, July 2, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Helicopter Study
Helicopter Study |
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Bloodsports 12 Final
Bloodsports 12 Final |
Here is the final label designs for the Bloodsports 12 challenge.
Below are the 4 variants plus the labels printed on bottles.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Carrauntoohil
Carrauntoohil |
Carrauntoohil the highest mountail on the island of Ireland (3406 ft). Number 4 in the series. Now that these were complete I went ahead and completed work on the rest of the label.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Devils ladder
Devils Ladder |
Looking at the image ideas I had it became apparent that I would have to work really hard to give them visual impact. I decided to take a distinctive feature of each mountain and use that. The first was Carrauntoohil which has a portion of the path up it called the Devils Ladder. That's what I went for. I did not finish this as I had a rethink on the whole approach.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Bloodsports 12
Bloodsports 12 was a design challenge.
we are asking you to create a BEER LABEL to be put directly on a BOTTLE.
you get to choose what brand of beer youll be working with- or if youll opt to create your own. both are acceptable. the important thing though is that your label has an intended market, and a fitting style for that market. is this a fancy beer meant for upper class people? is this a trashy and cheap beer meant for college partygoers? is this a badass beer meant for biker gangs? its up to you. Choose a market, choose a style, and go to town!
I have not done anything like this before so it was going to be a trip into the unknown.
The first thing was to decide the theme for the beer. It happened that a colleague of mine was wrapping up training for a charity event called the Four Peaks Challenge. This involved climbing the 4 highest peaks on the island of Ireland. I figured this would be an interesting theme to play with.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Ironman -+ Variations
Ironman Study |
Ironman Greyscale |
After the Bloodsports 11 submission I had resolved to try harder on hard edges. I did this Ironman study as practice. It was done in grey scale then used colour overlays. This seemed to work really well for this subject. It is not my usual approach. What this method does offer is the opportunity to try out different colour combinations.
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Écorché of a horse Écorché de cheval This is a copy of a muscle study of a horse. The study I found here . I am going to tak...
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Roman Soldier Study Following hot on the heels of the armour study did this photo study. A Roman Soldier. This was a bit ...
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House Render Back to 2D and Photoshop. I wanted to try and get as close as I could to watercolour render. This was based off a goo...