Character Design wip1

@ Phill Hoskings

Well I finally got round to pushing my 3 potential characters further I am liking 1 and 3, you can probably tell that 2 didn't get quite so much love, I was going for a heavily built guy in a sort of Budhist repose, which is falling into the kind of character that I would want to push further. However No 1 the techno assasin and No3 the Evangelical Redemptionist Killer are more interesting to me.(Especially since I have lost No3's Solomon Kane style hat)Next stage is to settle on one of these guys and push up a bit further, your thoughts and comments are moist welcome no matter how harsh.

Maya pen and carbon fibre ball

Had a bit of a play around this evening with MIA materials, the ball and the plane, the pen is all Blinns including the rubber bits. I quite like the pen design but then again it is a riff on an actual Parker design, please don't sue me.

Sketchbook Dump

A selection of bits that were placed in my sketchbook whilst I was off air, some are work in progress some a bit rough 'n' ready. Vaulted City

Airship, concept idea for the image in the post below.

Sentinel 2

Summer at the base of the Devils Spine Mountains

Master.... Its alive

Finally after having to invest in a new Motherboard and Power Supply Unit my computer once again breathes. Hardly a surprise that these items needed replacing as other the past 3 years they have had a very hard life. And for a grand total of £102 I now have (hopefully)another couple of years usage. yay

Airship_wip

Yes it has been a while I know:)

The initial inspiration for this image was taken from a sketch that I drew a couple of weeks ago. That in turn was inspired by the Medway Queen being transported on a barge (for restoration iirc).

The scene was first created in Maya and an Ambient Occlusion pass was rendered out, this was then taken into Photoshop and then painted over digitally,there is still a fair bit of work to do, I thinkI need to re-conceptualise the background, something more Mediterranean possibly, also finish finish the foreground and introduce a couple of figures. So all in all about 50% done so far.

Journeying in the Vale of Tears

Sketchbook Page 6 (Sentinel)

Character Design Pre-Lim Sketches

These are a series of character designs that I have been working through in order to develop a character for an art battle with Phill Hoskins (who will no doubt serve my ass to me lol) these took no more than a couple of mins a piece. At the moment I am just trying to grab an essence that I can build on.

Sketchbook Page 5

Yes ok I lost a day or two but kids go back to school (or go for the first time for Nathan)

Sketchbook page 4

Hi all, I trust everyone has had a good summer and is looking forward to a new semester. As you can see I have been working on good old paper. I have been trying to do a page a day, however the weekends are somewhat more hectic , so it is a page every other day. Todays page will probably be uploaded tomorrow morning.
In reply to your comment the other day Jon, the holiday was good although a good 3 days too short, as I ran out of time to just chill and sketch. However I came back with about 350-400 reference photos, so not a total loss in that respect. Edit: Just a note about this page.... I tried a drawing of a theme with and without reference material I think it is obvious which one is which lol

Sketchbook page 3

Sketchbook page 2

Sketch Book Page 1

Scanner has washed out the tonality a little, such is the joy of using blue pencils to draw with.

Amalfi Coast here I come

Well guys tomorrow I depart to Sorrento for a week, so unless I find a Wi-Fi spot then no updates for a while. Whilst trying to relax I will be visiting either Pompeii or Herculaneum, climbing Mt Vesuvias and hopefully visiting the Emperors palace on Capri, so plenty of opportunity to grab some reference shots.

In between these little trips I hope to be exploring the back streets and cafes of Sorrento and indulging in some sketching and being all arty etc. lol.

So assuming I don't become all pre-occupied there should be plenty of updates soon.

Stars

Old School Skull Painting from reference.

Rams Skull


Practising Lava

carrying on

Another update... cheers Jon for spotting the eye, It was getting late and I didn't spot that, bit more bl,ocking out done. will do another check on angles etc. later. Not sure about the wings either..... thoughts anyone. There isn't a significant amont of time invested in them yet.

Something that isn't dead... current wip

More Undead goodness

Arachno Gladiator

The Hidden Vale

Another quickie

homage to Romero

remnants

Detective

More vampire badness

Vampire.001

30 min warm up speed paint

Damnation... speed

Lilith.... speed paint

Lilith  (Hebrew: לילית‎ Līlīt; Kurdish: شەوە[dubious – discuss]; Arabic: ليليث‎ Līlīṯ) is a legendary creature that appears in many creation myths. She has many origins with many variations on her name and common themes of infertility and unabated lust. For the most part she is considered a succubus, a powerful demonic creature who seduces men and sometimes eats children but has even appeared as a screech owl.

She is believed to have originated as a female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as Lilitu, in Sumer, circa 4000 BC. The phonetic name "Lilith" is traditionally thought to have originated in Ancient Israel somewhere around 700 BC, despite pre-dating even to the time of Moses.[1]

In Jewish folklore Lilith is the name of Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and same earth as Adam. She left Adam after she refused to become subservient to Adam and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael.[2] Her story was greatly developed, during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadic midrashim, the Zohar and Jewish mysticism.[3]

In some modern views Lilith was a mother goddess demonized by Semitic religions and now recaptured as a feminist icon.[4] The Lilith legend is still commonly used as source material in modern fantasy and horror.

Nike update

Always good to have a couple of projects on the go.

spot the difference

things to do while the Doctor is on the box

growing mycellium

Thought I would have a quick play around today growing some stylised mycellium

New Blog

I have set up a blog purely for one particular project, it is situated at

http://medwaysbillboardproject.blogspot.com/

Not the most imaginaqtive title, but when I have confirmed in which direction I will be going in it may change.

ooh aah just a little bit more....

Mech update

managed to squeeze in a little more time on this one

Nike in Repose.... wip

about 4 or 5 hours work so far, derived from the classical myth of Nike, with a twist

mech update

Cruddy week at work, managed to get an hour on this this evening refining and sculpting forms ignore the arms/weapons. Will be a gun platform, bipedal tank so will need to research waepons etc.

Non Japanese Mech...wip

Girls and Guns

Enough of the Freud already, it was fun to draw.

Work Done... couple of warm up sketches

Coming Soon: Ivan and Irvine.

Initial sillohuettes, and the first concept for Ivan,




concept1.1 revised mouth