"Man I Hate You..."

I'm going to stop labelling my posts as "speedy blahblahblah". Just cause some things I post won't always be a speedy. This one kind of is and kind of isn't.



This was a crop of a larger image I was working on, but decided on discarding the rest of it. Just wasn't really digging it.

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First off, here's some news.

I recently resigned from my job as concept artist at Ignition Entertainment Florida and am currently in search of any new opportunities that might require a concept artist/illustrator. I'm currently available for freelance/contract/full-time.

I'd like to wish the best of luck to everyone at Ignition. It was fun working with all you guys, and hopefully it won't be too long before we get to work together again. :)

And here's tonight's speedy. I'm glad I spent a bit more time on this one, because the composition turned out a lot stronger that what I had before, in my opinion.

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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.


(Click image to enlarge)

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!