first update of 2011!

Bet you weren't expecting this:

Yeah, Neither was I. And yes, to answer your question, that was my former apartment buildilng and thankfully I'm ok and no one was seriously hurt. We were lucky. Fortunately, all my work managed to remain safe as well (minus the lingering stench of smoke that had to be dry cleaned out).

rough vehicle thumbnails

Some very rough vehicle thumbnails that I blew up and threw together. The two on the right were ideations for future a rickshaw-esque concept.

some rough stuff

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Some rough value studies of exising painting and a loose sketch of the beginnings of a character design. I've been working away and cleaning up and updating work on my website. It's been quite a lot of work. I will post some work from that soon most likely, though I'm not I'll posting as regularly as I was before. There seems to be the inherit dilema with concept designers and production artists with blogs in that so much of we do stays secretive and behind the scenes making it so much more difficult to have anything to post or promote. Ah, a problem to ponder for another time....

3 speed paintings

Some simple value sketches.
The top I was experimenting with trying to do a bit of an aerial composition, and added the foreground element with the character standing on top to make it more interesting, although given more time I thought I could have made a more stronger composition.

The middle was a study from an existing film frame.

On the bottom I was working a little bit with overcast light and using local value to define the major compositional shapes, as oppose to having a strong directional light or artificial light to define form. I was also experimenting a bit with trying to elicit a more calmer or serene composition. I'm not exactly sure how successful that was, but it was adequate for a exploratory study.

hot air balloon

Fast and fun speed painting. Nice to bust out something quick and loose. I will do more of these, they're great practice.

Beast & Cyclops ideation

these are some very quick ideations of Hank/Henry McCoy a.k.a. Beast and Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops. They are quite old and I did very quickly on the side while I was practicing some figure drawing in my newsprint pad. I liked the feel of them though, plus I though there was something interesting going on with the body armor uniforms.