Arcane Legends

I saw this go live on the site so thought I would post .I did some contract work last month for Space Time Studios on a game called Arcane Legends .

http://www.arcanelegendsgame.com/

forum post here 

some design WIP stuff

Udder Destruction

 I recently did some icons for an Iphone game called Udder Destruction made by my Friends over at Retired astronaut collective.

https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id576916512?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

SHAPES!

One awesome thing about  new jobs is new office mates which mean talking shop and learning about someone else's artist tool box.I was totally unaware of shapes in Photoshop until yesterday .This is something that Sparth has talked quite a bit about and something i had completely missed.

I did this speed painting over lunch + a "smoke break" at 4 .This is not the first giant walker placed in the french country side I have painted  . probably not my last :) see here

I broke out a few steps so you can see the simplicity of the shapes and you can pretty easily ID them in the final but as a quick composition tool it works pretty slick .

New Job!

I now work here ! new project coming soon  and I'm very excited to be working on it! I will keep you posted on details when i can

http://www.lightboxinteractive.com/

an afternoon at the coffee shop doodle

electro bot guy

Mario WIP

TMNT exploring continued...

I took my last round of line work and redid it very thin lined with some thicker lines to separate objects .I want to experiment with some cleaner styles.I will take a break from it and com back and see if i like it .

the lines i started with ..

Some ground speeders

Some quick idea thumbs that may fit in a galaxy far far away .

Some road sketches and some photos from a few weeks ago

whilst traveling to Santa Monica ....

check out the weird rainbow halo plane shadow  

Right about now!!!

Brick Tank WIP

Personal Project .

The white Knights of Mars ! Join today!!!

I really just wanted  to do a semi futuristic Mega tank nicknamed "The Brick Tank "so here's the first roughs .I did a lot of figuring out on this one to the point that i could see through the paper:)

  you can see that I explored little bits off  to the sides knowing that i would be retracing it all after .


Inks!
  I inked the original but kinda didn't like how it looked .the lines were too fat and kind of killed some of the energy soooo.....

*note the giant cat hair 

                                                  

I light boxed over the inks !I left it as pencils and just cleaned it up in Photoshop .it gave me the chance to fix a few things .Some of its pretty organic but i like that.

This a rough color /value pass .this could change quite a bit once i dig into it .

TMNT WIP

I have loved ninja turtles since for ever and I haven't drawn any in a while so I was over due to make some TMNT fan art!My first ever black and white ninja turtle comic was issue 10 and it gave me a very new appreciation for what comics could be .I bought many issues after and  read those comics ragged .

Here is  the first thumb i did .looks like hes sort of coming out of a door which i ditched but the pose was working for me .

This is me drilling down to the final Composition .If i haven't said it already tracing stuff like this out on a light box has been a life saver!

i removed the teeth because he is a turtle but then he looked old! teeth it is :)

my final Line work .I didn't ink it just cleaned up the pencils in Photoshop. It could probably be cleaner but part of me likes the more organic bits .

First pass color rough in 

Z-brush/Sculptris project - monster bird

In an effort to broaden my skill set i will be 3D sculpting something .I always go in and muck around with Z brush  but rarely do i have a target in my head .I though i would try and draw up an idea so i can focus on a an end goal as i work :)

I'm going to Attempt to sculpt this :

Here is the very first sketch i did before light boxing  .Of course its too ambitious right off the bat .I ended up ditching the top hat and watch thing  but if  I succeed at the creature i may add the elements back in .

Here's the rough sketch after removing the extra stuff and also playing with more of a bird style leg(you can only see it faintly in the image ) .Even for a monster it was weird and awkward so i kept the strait leg .

Demon down

Some Concept work i got to do last year while doing some IP exploration .

D-Day Rabbit of the 29th

Darksiders 2 sky box screenshots round #1

     I'm finally playing through Darksiders 2 and i thought id take some screenshots as i went. My contribution to the project was the sky boxes and some icons and everything else in these shots is the hard work of some super talented people .You all know who you are!

sky boxes......

.......and some random icons as they appeared in game .Most of these Icons were collaborations.