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Ray

2011-08-23T12:59:00.000-07:00

More life drawing, this one was 3 hours. Having trouble getting the colors right in the save files, not sure what the issue is :/ .

Black Mage Redesign Ver 2.0

2011-08-13T21:32:00.000-07:00

Didn't like the old concept for my Black Mage redesign so I made this one :) . Played with the proportions more and tried to add better lighting and environmental effects. Still not 100% happy with it but I think its an improvement.

Awesomeness!

2011-07-22T17:08:00.000-07:00

Some of you might already know about this, but apparently Autodesk gives away free downloads of its programs to anyone still in school or currently unemployed: http://students.autodesk.com/. The free software includes the newest versions of Maya, 3DsMax, Mudbox, Softimage and loads more.

Of course these are for educational use only and the license lasts for 36 months, but still not bad for free :) .

Red Head

2011-07-15T15:52:00.000-07:00

Drawn from life, 2 hours in photoshop. I feel like I'm getting faster (yay!), but I'm still struggling with the same old bad habits :P .

Brenna

2011-07-08T16:24:00.000-07:00

Painting done from my friend's wedding photo :) . It really is a lot harder to draw people you know.

Edit: Eye color corrected as suggested by the painting's subject. I think it looks much better now.

BB Hood Progress

2011-06-24T21:51:00.000-07:00

A paintover of my roughly textured model. Mostly was just trying to figure out how the hair will go and trying out different color options. The hair and eyelashes are painted but the skin is basically unaltered polypainting.

After taking a long break from working on my character I'm getting back into it again :) .

Magenta

2011-06-18T17:44:00.000-07:00

Done from life, 6 hrs. I think I'm getting faster at these but still feel like I could have pushed this one further.

I know, for a subject named Magenta I didn't use much of that color lol.

Nikita

2011-06-17T15:09:00.000-07:00

Quick sketch, done in a little under 2 hours in photoshop. Unforunately I hadn't set up photoshop yet, so a lot of time went towards that. My first time having a ex pro-wrestler as a model :) .

Ziggy

2011-06-03T12:48:00.000-07:00

...otherwise known as my favorite three legged cat :) .

I had a good vacation, but I'm back and will my best to be more productive/update more often.

Above image done in 1hr, painted in photoshop from a photo. He really does sleep this way lol.

Larine, Blake and Rocky

2011-05-07T16:11:00.000-07:00

First one was done from life, of my friend that runs the life drawing sessions I go to. The life drawing model for that day didn't show up so she was nice enough to pose for us :) .

Second one is from a photo of a friend that was posted on the "Draw from what you look like" thread on conceptart.org. Both took a little over an hour each. It was kind of fun painting people I know :) .

For those of you who need an online portfolio...

2011-04-27T17:45:00.000-07:00

Check out Carbonmade. Its a free online portfolio building site that you don't need to know html to use. Check out the example sites (even the art director at Blur has one! :D ).

Foreshortened

2011-04-15T14:32:00.000-07:00

Experimenting with a more rougher painting style and playing with color a bit more.

Victoria

2011-04-01T17:59:00.000-07:00

Newest life drawing. Not much more to say :P .

Brawl!

2011-03-20T23:02:00.001-07:00

Entered Polycount's Brawl contest. The competition is to redesign an existing fighting game character or level. I decided to do Darkstalker's BB Hood :) .

If anyone wants to follow my progress my entry thread is here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=82386

As always, comments and crits are welcome.

More Fishy Guy

2011-03-11T17:20:00.000-08:00

Still a work in progress, but I think I'm getting close. Next up will be posing, lighting and maybe adding his blunderbuss :D .

Tami...

2011-03-01T17:47:00.001-08:00

...or "how I paint when my eyes have been dilated and I'm wearing paper sunglasses" :P .

Jenna

2011-02-18T19:46:00.000-08:00

Another photoshop life drawing, this time of a long pose.

Noticed the colors look totally off on certain monitors, unforunately I don't think theres much I can do do about it.

Another life painting...

2011-02-07T18:09:00.001-08:00

Done in about an hour and a half, I lost track of time which is why sections of it aren't really refined :P . Full color paintings to come soon.

Fishy Guy

2011-01-31T19:59:00.001-08:00

Game model I'm working on, started in Future Poly's ZBrush Character Modeling class. The first image is the current ZBrush sculpt, while the second is texture progress on the normal mapped low poly model. There's still a lot to be done but at the moment I'm kind of liking how he is turning out :) .

Character design by Sean Andrew Murrey: http://www.seanandrewmurray.com/ . Comments and critiques welcome like always.

Quick Sculpt

2011-01-29T21:01:00.001-08:00

Have been playing around in ZBrush 4 lately, and am really enjoying all the new brushes and features :D .

Skull sculpt is from a while ago, but I'll post some new stuff soon.

The greyscale continues...

2010-10-29T16:53:00.000-07:00

Life drawings of a 3 hr and a 40 min pose. I'm hoping our class will go over how to approach color soon.

More Practice...

2010-10-22T13:48:00.000-07:00

Trying to master describing the form in limited values. Done from photo reference in the Atlas of Human Anatomy book.

Why I've been busy lately...

2010-10-13T00:58:00.000-07:00

I'm not yet happy with the textures and haven't been able to add everything I wanted to, but I think I did okay considering the time I had to do it in. I'll probably go back and fix all the things that are bugging me, but for now I'm going to go to sleep lol.

The original concept was provided for me and can be found here.

Another practice sketch...

2010-09-23T16:03:00.000-07:00

Wanted to do more digital paintings from life but stayed home sick all week so I did this from an online photo instead.

Click to view larger, the thumbnail image is all blurry for some reason.

First Sketch

2010-09-21T13:25:00.000-07:00

Taking a break from 3D with a class taught by the super talented Jason Juan. I'm really excited. It seems like it'll be a photoshop class with more of a focus on traditional painting skills, which is exactly what I've been looking for. His approach seems to be the total opposite of what I've learned so far, so it should be a really interesting class :) .

Above image was a quick sketch done in Photoshop using brushes that he developed.

Still Truckin'

2010-08-16T17:21:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of sketches done last week. Still trying to decide if this should be a daily thing or every other day, etc... The plan however is to have something new and post at least once a week.

Who the sculpts the week before last were. Congrats to Eric for guessing Samuel L Jackson right, I thought he was one of the ones that looked the least like the ref hehe.

I need more practice capturing likeness, but I'll keep working on it. If anyone wants to try guessing the new sculpts: one you would only know if your into animation and the other is associated with Philadelphia :) .

Daily Practice

2010-08-06T18:26:00.000-07:00

This week I tried doing one quick sculpt a day. I definately need more practice, but I feel like I'm slowly improving :) . My goal is to eventually be able to do these in under an hour.

A cookie to anyone whose able to identify who any of the sculpts are. They're all actors, but some of them are pretty obscure.

Real life Zbrush

2010-07-30T14:42:00.000-07:00

Hes about 10 inches tall and made of water based clay. It was fun getting my hands dirty sculpting again :) . I'll find out if he survives the kiln in a couple of weeks.

Texture Progress

2010-07-02T17:26:00.000-07:00

Worked more on the texture today, I think I'm almost ready to move on to the spec and gloss maps?

Forgot to post this earlier...

2010-07-01T18:27:00.000-07:00

Here's some more WIP shots. Low poly model came in at around 5,617 tris, which I think is pretty good since my budget was 11,000 tris (I might go back and add some more in, but we'll see).

Some non-black mage posts coming soon :) .

Not too much more to post...

2010-06-17T19:05:00.000-07:00

...Been mostly working on the low poly model and unwrapping so I don't have anything too exciting to post :P . Last week I added hair to him, I still have a couple more things to ZBrush but I want to finish unwrapping before I get back to it.

Mage Update

2010-06-08T22:20:00.000-07:00

More detail updates. Trying to get all the high poly modeling done so I can move on to the low poly.

More images can be found on the Crit Blog, comments and crits are welcome :) .

Black Mage

2010-06-04T21:12:00.000-07:00

Working on a redesign of Final Fantasy's Black Mage. This character was my first time working with 3DsMax, which was actually pretty fun to model in once I got used to it :) .

From way back when...

2009-11-04T11:24:00.000-08:00

Was browsing through my hard drive when I found this guy, one of my earliest 3d models.

Look at that super realistic stack of paper and be amazed! (Please note the sarcasm)

...And a peek at my first ever 3d model. I'm proud to be the only one to ever interpret the plane project as a flying lawn chair lol.

Work in Progress...

2009-09-26T15:29:00.000-07:00

I was tempted to throw on a blue shader for fun but decided against it :) . Surprisingly the hardest part so far has been figuring an effective way of doing the hair, and getting a good balding effect.

I'm still tweaking a lot of the features, but let me know if theres anything that needs fixing.

Naked People!

2009-04-23T18:25:00.000-07:00

...shown in the opposite order that I drew them.

Trying to practice/make up for leaving my life drawings back in California lol. My apologies for the low quality images, my scanner was another thing that was left behind in the move :P .

Shameless plug... :D

2009-01-26T13:30:00.000-08:00

Most of you have already seen this, but being that I haven't posted anything in a while...

It still kind of blows my mind that I was able to work on such an awesome game. Here's hoping that where ever I end up is as cool as Neversoft :) .

Real art post coming soon, I promise lol.

Bob ver 1.5

2008-11-24T17:10:00.000-08:00

In an effort to update this thing more often, I'll post up what I'm currently working on. Definitely still a work in progress, but as always I'm open for any suggestion or critiques :) .

Belated Art Show Follow up!

2008-10-30T22:36:00.000-07:00

Some stuff from the art show that I realized I haven't posted yet :) .

^ for Jadyn hehe

Bob character design by Alice Herring

Big thanks to everyone that checked it out in person. Newer stuff will be posted hopefully soon...

Art Show!

2008-09-10T20:14:00.001-07:00

Sorry I haven't posted much, but Charles, Wes, and I are having a group art show in a couple of weeks. Its on Saturday, Sept 20th at 7:00pm. Hope to see you guys there :) .

Weekly Challenge #1 Entry

2008-06-08T23:45:00.000-07:00

The theme was "broken" and the challenge was to create anything that fit that theme. New challenge will be posted tomorrow ^ ^ .

A break from school work...

2008-04-14T12:41:00.000-07:00

A quick painting in Painter, mostly done for experimenting with the program (turned out a little more monochromatic than expected, but oh well ^ ^; ).

Going to Nationals next weekend, a big thank you to anyone who voted for us :) .

EDIT: Whoa, this looks so different on my laptop screen o_O ...

Vote for us!! (please?)

2008-03-24T23:14:00.000-07:00

Our game Latrop has made it to the top four in Imagine Cup Viewer's choice!

Also in the top four is the game Art and Terry are currently working on, Clean the World. Our games are still in the rough Beta stage, but the top three teams here get to go to nationals and have a chance at a trip to Paris :) . If your interested in checking it out (and maybe supporting us by voting...) you do so by:

Register at https://imaginecup.com/Registration/Default.aspx (they do this so people can't vote twice)
Go to http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=12
In the "Viewer's Choice" menu on left, click on "Participate" and accept the rules
Check out the videos, and click the check boxes to vote (LATROP and CTW are the ones that are ours, and you can vote for up to three games)

...and that's it ^_^ . A big thanks goes out to anyone who'll help support us!

PS: My apologies for the shameless plug.

The Owl

2008-03-07T01:05:00.001-08:00

My infamous owl.

This is the first project for life sculpture class that I did of an original character design. I still need to work on getting the clay smooth. In hindsight the eyes are a bit much *cough*, but overall I still think I like the critter.

Texture/Sky Practice

2008-02-13T18:13:00.000-08:00

So heres part of what I've been up to since school started:

Inspired by the drive home.

Fun with custom brushes :D .

Still a work in progress...

All of these were done in Photoshop, I'll post the Painter ones later when I can.

OC Register

2008-01-01T21:10:00.000-08:00

Titan Racers is in the OC Register! ^_^

first post~

2007-12-20T02:25:00.001-08:00

Yay, first post! Here's my final for cartooning, a certain late night talk host ^ ^ .