GIRL WITH HAIR UP

Here's a drawing I did some time ago.

A drawing I did on May 1st at Dr. Sketchy's LA.

BATMAN!

Just for you Mike B.

In The Bird Cage

*Update of my Cockatoo Girl WIP with color, i think i like her without the headband idea better.

*Update of my Cockatoo Girl WIP

A concept sketch i doodled out the other day.  I based the bird girl off a cockatoo.  Hopefully she still looks like one when it's finished.

Just something I did over about 2 hours.

Chibi Designs

So I decided to make some designs for the chibi contest that Lauren posted about and see if anyone wanted to use them to make 3D models.  Lauren has said she'd be interested in doing that so here they are. Feel free to edit them in whatever way you need to, to make it work for the 3D model.  If you want to use one of my designs to enter the contest, post a comment below saying which character you're going to be using so no one else enters with the same one. Awkward! Oh, and a credit for the char design when you submit, please and thanks. ^_~

Can you tell that I like the spy the least? lol

I plan to make a full set of male characters but this is all I've had time for so far.

Here's the contest link again: http://gameartisans.org/forums/extras/8paths/index.html

It ends on May 7th so you'd have about a week to make a low poly model, I think it said 1500 tris!

Email me if you want a larger image of the girls.

Enjoy!

"Pigs is Pigs"

"Pigs is Pigs"

Tattoo on a fetal pig.. Enjoy kiddies

Painting minis

Something that I used to do a lot when I was (much) younger and am only now slowly getting back into is painting, not painting as in painting on canvas but painting of objects like miniatures and models. Here's a small sample of some of the minis that I've painted in the past and the few that I still have. These are all hand painted using small brushes and acrylic paints, unfortunately they don't really photograph all that well and look much better in person.





I've recently started working on custom painting my own vinyl figures but I don't have any pictures of them yet and actually only have one figure that I've finished painting. I'll have to take pics of the one and the works in progress and post them.

Sulu

Yup, yet another post from me. This one is something that I did years ago, it's gouache and colored pencil on illustration board with a little touch up in Photoshop.

Photoshop comp and enhancement

Some of you may have seen the wallpaper I have on my second monitor here at work but nobody has seen the original pic that I used to create it from. Here's a before and after of the two pics to show the difference between the two.





Not only did I add a background to the image I also enhanced the model by playing around with the levels, color, and contrast as well as adding artificial lighting that didn't exist on the physical model. To this day this is probably one of the pieces that I've done that I'm most proud of.

T-shirt design

Here's a t-shirt design that I did for the costuming group that I'm a part of. Sadly, it wasn't that well received overall because of the mash up nature of the design but it's an effective design because our group is not devoted to just one show/movie or even genre.

Welcome!

Hellooo there.

Post your 2d, 3d, photography, design, tutorials, industry info, or anything else you find inspiring or helpful.

Right now the blog is public, but let me know if you think it would be better to switch it to private. Also, if you want the blog name changed or if you want to be an admin let me know.

If anyone is interested, there's a challenge going on over on gameartisans.org. It's a 3d chibi character challenge. The soft deadline is on May 7th. More info can be found at http://gameartisans.org/forums/extras/8paths/index.html

Aaaand to start things off, here's a sketch I did in Photoshop over the weekend. Feel free to post past works to get things started!