Speedy 20090619

I've recently been thinking about changing the way I light my images. I want to be able to use multiple light sources. Something like having one major light source, but some smaller and subtler light sources hanging around. Not sure if this was well depicted in this image. But I wanted to do a quick environment speedpainting. I ended up spending a bit more time on this than I wanted to. Not really happy with the composition, it seems a bit cramped in the background.


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Standoff WIP

I don't really like sharing WIP's to the general public, but I figured I can't just continue to post art every month or so. So here's something I've been working on during my off hours. I hope to be able to finish this this weekend.

Concept Art World-Feature

Thanks Louis, from Concept Art World! Loving the site! :)

Article: http://conceptartworld.com/?p=1915

MT --> WP (again)

Movable type was just too difficult for me to work with. I've gone back to Wordpress. There might be some broken links here and there. Perhaps some oddities or poorly scaled images.. I'll fix them soon enough. WOOPS!

To-do list:
-Match the colors of the site
-Fix broken jpg links
-Change any abnormal jpg scaling glitches seen in Google Chrome

Wired

It’s around 6am right now. I’m a bit wired from drinking half a can of Rockstar Orange. It’s a decent drink. I never crash from it and It’s pretty effective and doesn’t taste too bad.

I’ve been meaning update this blog for a while, but I’ve been distracted by work and Dominance War amongst other things. Seems like there’s always an excuse, huh?

So here’s some art updates. I guess the bad thing about not updating for a long time is that you end up having to post a crap load of stuff the next time you do.

I recently uploaded some of my Sci-Fi Concept Art Package work. It’s not done, yet, but I hope to re-visit it in the near future. Some things are speedies, orthos, illos, and misc. Some I hate and some I don’t. :p

























And here’s my Dominance War IV progress. I’m really thinking I’m not going to finish this in time. I’m alright with that, really. One thing that I set out to do with this challenge was to go against the grain. For those of you not familiar with the DW challenges, usually participants end up creating super over-the-top creatures/robots/humans/cyborgs/whatever. All the entries look great and polished, but I wanted to do something a bit different. So I decided on designing something more practical and not worry so much about how many guns or how many tanks it could bench. I just wanted something intimidating and with I wanted to push myself in trying to convey it in a threatening pose/image (which I have yet to have done). Enough with the blabber.











I’ve still got a turnaround and a final illustration to do. But once again, I doubt I’ll meet the deadline (May 11). Good luck to my comrades who are in the process of completing their entries! Lots of cool stuff out there.

I’ll be attempting to add a link bar and a bit of info about me to this blog in the coming weeks. I’ll hopefully be getting assistance from a web design pro I know (since I know just about nothing in regards to this blog app). Fingers crossed!

Music

Recently I've been spoiling my ears with some really cool music. Some I've just ignored until now, some I've been introduced to.

The 99 Most Essential Beethoven Masterpieces - I found out a few months ago that this album was only 99 cents or a dollar on amazon. I picked it up, added it to my playlist, but for the past few months I've been stuck on the God of War II soundtrack, so I never really got the chance to listen to it until two weeks ago. It's especially soothing to listen to while driving. I feel like a symphony conductor when I'm painting with this on. Be sure to check out "Grosse Fuge in B Major, Op 133".

Weezer: Red Album - I've had this for a while, too, but I just never really dug it. But once again, I just let my playlist go and I came upon this album and I really like some of the songs. I've always enjoyed Weezer's past albums and this is no exception. I'm not sure if it's their best, but there's definitely some keepers in there! I really liked the track, "Heart Songs". It's an interesting concept for a song and really well performed.

Two Steps From Hell - My co-worker Josh Kao introduced me to this group after he did some digging to find out who did the music for the latest Star Trek trailer. I'm really enjoying these guys. It's basically all trailer music. So if you like ES Posthumus, Hans Zimmer, and just trailers in general, then you should check these guys out. It's epic throughout and it's funny hearing some of the songs because every so often you'll hear a tid-bit that was used in a trailer you might've seen recently.

As far as art news goes, I'm going to be posting some stuff from my sci-fi concept art package soon. It's such a huge undertaking this time around, and I felt like maybe I should post some stuff, just to assure everyone that it's not something that I've given up on. It's been slow, though, unfortunately. I'm about 50% through at this point. I've still got some things I want to flesh out and I know that there's at least one more illo around the corner (I'm visualizing it all out while I'm driving to and from work) and I'm very close to finishing my first illo. Expect some stuff this week!

check, check, check, check, check...

char 1- silhouettes, iso, portrait, tech closeup, illo
char 2- silhouettes, iso, portrait, illo
veh- silhouettes, iso
aln - silhouettes, iso, portrait, illo
veh2- silhouettes, iso
combo- thumbs, illo1, illo2

PS- I hate that for the second year in a row, I didn't send any work out for Spectrum 16. It was worse when I had skipped out on Spectrum 15's entry submissions because it would've been cool to have possibly had my art in 3 consecutive Spectrums. With all this stuff I'm creating, I don't/won't have a legitimate excuse to skip S17. :p