Lobster Man

amazons

Some amazon thumbnails

steampunk watch. will texture and do shaders today, shape needs some refining - also some watch hands etc [edit] still working on the face parts and some shader stuff - also the glass scratches need to be flatter thinner and want to model some weld joins on wristband parts. [edit2] Ok that's done, could have worked on the leather a bit more and the metal shaders but that's enough of 'steampunk watch', time for steampunk zombie - sweet!

steampunk zombie

Everyone loves steampunk everyone loves zombies. (thinking...)
I know steampunk zombies $$$$ canary islands here i come.

cityscape

The start of some cityscape

[edit] Some more work on this - yeesh there must be an easier way!

bugmen vs promgirl

Wanted todo something with dragonfly wings and a nice dusky pallete.Might have legs not sure.

Blocked out model

Here's the blocked out ship model - brought it into zbrush and played with polishing and clipping brushes without much luck. Maybe more refining in Maya then bring back in and detail might be the go. Clipping is an especially ugly business - Prob best at early stages when playing with shapes. Clipping is prob a design tool only. [update] - Some more work starting to take shape

Ship

Spaceship orthographic

Another Landscape

Yes more rocky landscapes - will do same zbrush techniques on this one at some stage - Pretty happy with the shapes so am looking forward to detailing this one. [edit] here is a newer version, looks the same hmmn that was time well spent.

weekend thing

Just playing around on the w/e kind of retro trashy sci fi bad guy- not so sure about this guy. Needs a lot more love to get him into shape especially the armour.

Bird Brain

Some kind of mutant parrot or beaked fish. Maybe will be a zsketch - pose is bothering me

Beyond Claw Mountain

C & P from devient art too lazy to say anything else except old and new look pretty much the same apart from the detailing. Main rock was a MR render - If I redid this would probably backlight more and make the rocks dark.

"Same techniques as Claw Moutain. Some 2.5 D elements. Zsketching (with zbrush) then comping back into original image. Main rock was an old pencil paper sketch that has been kicking around for a while so wanted to include that in a painting. Compositionally its a bit contrived/ overly staged with all the rocks pointing at the tower. Also went up to 8k way too early and was adding fine detail that when you look at the whole image just can't be seen.' Also spend a lot of time fighting JPEG artifacts from original photo of the pencil"

bone castle

Yep bad name but don't want to burn up calories thinking up cool names. Is getting there but progress is slow maybe because of poor planning and also balancing so many little elements.
Have included the first and last iterations. Have one more day for this one so have to put my roller skates on.

Playing with brushes in Photoshop CS5 - undecided - they are fun tho ;) definitly a step in the right direction and not as confusing and sluggish as painter. Photoshop speed and interface with painter brushes - yes that would be nice.

UPDATE: second one is the finished image and by finished I mean I am sick of doing it

chrysalis

Yes pretty weird painting. Started off as a doodle of a chrysalis I found in the park
and turned into this guy. Tariq has pointed out that the front ankle is a bit wrong and I agre, but don't want do dwell too long on this painting Need to keep truckin.

leecher

This is the 'g' rated version of another ztool which I have had in my folio for about a year. So remove genitals and vagina face and now maybe someone will employ me ;). He is also more buffed than the original.

Snail man

Big shiny snail man - parts were zsketched and rendered with mentalray to get some nice shadows and reflections. Need to resolve the back of the chair some more but am pretty happy with where he is heading. Original doodle is here as well (bottom)

Wanted to post the old 'bones' and the new one - couldn't find the original sketch but will find it and post. The idea is he has some kind of parasitic 'friend' on his chest. Yes the old one sucks but that's the point. I liked the idea and just had to work on the execution.

'Bishop' Brain original sketch and rendered image. (added more brain spec this was done with gel shader in zbrush)

Girl with 3 pigtails with obligatory subsurface ear. Sketch was done on the with the pad on the sink which is quite high so sketches always come out skewed.

Update of this - still needs work esp the tats

Ok here's my merman WIP - why am I doing a merman ? blame Adrian Moyes or maybe it was me. Anyway it was started and now I need to make it good. This is also part of an underwater thing - maybe started by Tariq - went something like ' I need todo an underwater picture' going to try and avoid the rays and caustics or at least minimise them

Tariq made me do it

Art will be dumped here plenty of it unfinished - hopefully this will force me to finish some stuff