Son of Colin promo pieces

Finished promor desktop for Son of Colin, the Colin one is complete while the Astronaut one requires a little more work before it's done. Just needs a bit more noodling on the details and for the 'concept sketches' to be completed by Luke and dropped in on the left side.

I think it's done?

WIP - commisioned character piece

A painting I've been asked to paint as a birthday present for someone. I know he doesn't read this blog so I'm 95% certain I can post it here without him becoming aware of it. It's supposed to be a painting of his WoW toon, a blood elf Paladin, with the face painted to be a bit closer to his girlfriends.

Little update.

More Raven stuff

So I finished up on the first set of character sheets for the Raven, as well as the accompanying accessory sheets. I've also started on a render of a portion of the t-pose picture to help define colour and texture for when that part of the modelling process starts. It's actually been quite some time since I've painted flesh.

Ok so, I only put twelve members into a painting of the council of thirteen. I suppose someone could have been absent, but that'd be silly and lazy. So I woke up at 4:30 in the morning to paint in that last guy and have it submitted on time.

The Thirteenth Member, illustration for issue thirteen of the Skavenblight Gazette. Composition ummm...borrowed...from Leonardo DaVinci. Fun fact - from creating the file to submitting it in to Matthew to be placed on the cover was a total of thirteen days. I may have purposely taken that long, although a big part of me wanted to push it to the line and take a few extra days on it. This is the first full illustration I've completed since buying the new PC and Photoshop, and the first picture to have started and completed with the new PC actually sitting at a desk. Originally I planned to have some animation to it, for the cover, but that can wait for another day.
I've got a few work in progress shots I plan on compiling into an animated .gif instead, so people can be all like wow, it fades between things!

Oh! So I mentioned it but hadn't actually posted any of it. The Son of Colin Astronauts Magnetic Ball vehicle, work in progress concept pictures for real.

Recently built a new computer and purchased a full retail copy of Photoshop CS5. These are the first two quick images I painted with them...after sorting out compatability issues between my Wacom drivers and Photoshop CS5. The new brush engine seems to produce more organic results, even without using the new 3d brushes. I'm not sold on those yet either,  but I've never been a traditional painter anyway.

Space Marine update 23/9/2011

Worked a bit more on the Space Wolf elements of the space marine today. Not sold on the face, want a kind of viking look but it turns out I'm not that great at painting blonde hair. Red could work though, and I feel like it'd fit in with the colour theme a bit more.

S.Team Project - Steambot Thumbnail Refinements

Picked out my three favourite steambot thumbnails and worked on them a bit, adding a little bit of detail and colour to help me flesh out the ideas a little. Eventually I'll decide on one that hits the sweet spot for likeability and ease of modelling/rigging, which means that even though I like the feel of far right most so far that middle will probably win out.

The Forest

And so it's gotten to the point where I don't think it'd be wise to work on it any more. I'm just noodling whenever I touch it now, which I could do for hours and hours more but would ultimately just be wasted effort. I like what I've ended up with, and I've learned things during the painting process (especially since I completed quite a few other pieces and scribbles while working on this). I'm thinking of painting a few more environment pieces and having them printed to see if people would pay money for them.

WIP - A Forest, minor update

Placed a mountain and stuff in the background, some clouds. Something to stop it feeling so empty. I like that it now has something there, I do kind of wish I could think of something better to put there (that is still suitable).

UPDATE: Couple of hours, one load of washing and a tiny amount of general house cleaning later, this is what I have. I think I certainly like where it's going and think it'll be finishing up soon, but mostly because I want to work on a few more pieces like this that I can print and sell to fund my alcoholism.

Personal Piece WIP - A Forest

A personal piece I've been working on, of some sort of forest place, with leaves and grass and a rock, some water. Some trees. And some pleasing, pretty colours. It's a pretty piece but it still feels unfinished, like it's lacking something from the whole middle area. Thinking maybe I shouldn't make it so blown out and work in some more details of the clearing and waterfall there, since you wouldn't even know they're there if you weren't me.