new year, new sketches

Just the things I've been up to lately.

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody! Not particularly Christmas themed, but winter inspired at the least. I was just thinking about what it felt like to be a kid playing in the snow, pretending to be a nomad, having snowball wars with friends. The good ol' days, you see.

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woman of the woods

New work...

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End of semester post.

Since my semester is coming to a close I've been really busy wrapping everything up, but this is one of the doodles that I've been working into lately. I'm not sure if it'll turn into anything or not, but for now it's a sketch/color study. I think the characters have some potential and I'd definitely like to explore them more, so expect to see more forest scenes...

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night and day

These two pieces were really quick color treatment sketches I did for a friend's film. There's a good chance I'll end up doing matte paintings for it and it will probably be something similar to this, expanding a world just beyond a doorway or something. It's got a nice old world Middle Eastern feel. 

More work to come as I'm to be finishing up the semester at school this week...

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111911_New work for Simutronics

So now I have a bit more things to share. Here is a bit of the work I did during the summer for Simutronics Corporation, video game developer a video game developer based near St.Louis.
It was a lot of fun interning with them over the summer while they were still developing their most recent title Tiny Heroes which, as I understand, is an excellent tower defense game. I didn't get to contribute to that my work was working on promotional illustrations in some of their online RPG titles like Dragon Realms and Gemstone IV. It was a blast working with the artists there and I hope this work shows it!

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111511_wip_animation_project

I've started collaborating with my friend Stephen of the Robo-san project from last year on a new fun side project involving children with super powers. The result is really fun and silly, and I'm learning to model in Maya as a part of it, which is a big plus for me. As time goes on with the project you'll be seeing some maya renders and hopefully some zbrush stuff as well! 

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110611_stripes

I was feeling really down that I hadn't put a decent amount of time/finesse into a piece in a while and then I decided to look at Illustration Friday for some inspiration and I saw the theme "stripes."

I've been aching to do more digital painting lately as well so this seemed like a good opportunity to work on painting flesh.

I started with the usual thumbnails and tried some other ideas but ended up liking none of them very much except for the ones with the girl. I guess I wanted to do something pseudo-pinupy anyways. Also, here's a full resolution crop so you can see a bit more detail.

110511_sketches

I...did these.

030211_color_fun

Playing around with some colors I've been using lately plus some really neat photos of ice. Lots of subtle stuff that I only wish I was capturing here...

45 min in painter before going back to painting Robo-san scenes...

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