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Here's a kind of thing I did this evening. Been talking about value and Seurat's drawings with my bud David lately.

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Sketches about things.

 These are two things that I did yesterday that I don't really know what to do with. I think I'm satisfied with the simplicity of both of them in a way. They have nothing to do with the new year, for some reason I'm never good at doing seasonal art work.

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Jinx Redesign

Here is a Jinx from League of Legends redesign I did for the Justin.tv Creativity Contest. If you have the time, please vote for my Justin.tv Creativity Contest Entry!

 Also, I always wish I could show things in higher resolution and or show the process a bit more. So here is a full resolution crop as well as a four step process picture. If you want to see a timelapse of the painting you can see that on the contest page here: http://www.justin.tv/contest/ethdraws

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121513 justin.tv painting.

Did this tonight while streaming on Justin.tv. It's a weird sort of progress. I didn't intend to block in the colors so flatly, or for things to become so ridiculously saturated. It's probably a good thing I stopped when I did because sometimes I get out of hand and work a little too long on something with no real perpsective. 

I started painting in my cat Moneypenny there on the bed because she jumped up on my desk while I was painting, but I'm not sure if she'll stay because she's unlikely to sit still like a good model. I think I'm at around 2 hours on this one so far?

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121413 red hair

Just a sketch for tonight.

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Couch

A pinup I started in October and unearthed earlier this week to finish. I've also attached my process images just for show. The images are in 15 minute increments, roughly. There are 20 overall so the whole thing should have taken around 5 hours, but I think it was a little longer because sometimes I miss the timer. You can see pretty blatantly when I started back into painting because I was very suddenly dissatisfied with the color saturation in the image.

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Neon and lace

These are roughly what some actual Koss headphones look like that I would like to own very much. So I put them in a painting. I think she's listening to some really classy music like Stan Getz or something.

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devils tower speedpainting

I've been telling myself for some time that I would take advantage of my Nat Geo subscription and do some studies from the goooorgeous photographs they have in there, but I just hadn't done it up until now. Here's a 30 min speedie. Not as much as I'd hope for in the color, I don't think I embellished enough. Oh well, next time.
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Dragons of Elanthia: Valkyrie Concepts

This is the design process that the Valkyrie rider in Dragons of Elanthia went through. Originally I had done a concept for a barbarian rider that sort of over time was transformed into a Valkyrie character whose armor suggests she's more of a deity than a warrior.

You can also see a little bit of my character design process at work, starting from little 1 inch. marker thumbnails to explore the shape of the character before I start throwing around color. With these I went right from thumbnails to color because our characters are often pretty small on screen so having big shapes with broad shapes of color helps in being able to distinguish them.

If you want to see more concept art and learn something about the design process for dragons and Riders, check out this piece my art director Tracy Butler wrote about it:

http://dragonsofelanthia.com/character-development.asp

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Dragons of Elanthia: The Titan

Here are a few concepts showing different aspects of the Titan himself as well as his armor from the game mode Siege in Dragons of Elanthia.
It shows him with some armor variations and I painted him all the way down to his basic musculature and body type because having his body looking very heavy was important to show the enormous scale of the Titan.

We've started broadcasting  different members of the art team on Twitch.tv while they're working, so if you're interested in seeing this guy get sculpted, or watching me concept stuff, tune into our channel!

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