The Never Ending Illustration, part II

Here is the current progress on my Conquest of the Nephilim illustration. Done under the constant tutelage of Mike Bierek and the occasional help from the other students, especially Lake. It's probably the most accomplished illustration I've ever done, which is slightly disconcerting for where I need to be ;p




Also, an alternate take to the George Harrison painting seen in my header. Not quite finished, but well on its way.

Update.

Here's a final of the doof from the last post, plus one more metal head guy.

Going to polish up a few more of these thumbs I have sitting around and put together a more stylized portfolio for casual games, since they're all the rage now.

Kids these days.

wereboy

doofy cartoony werewolf guy for school project. this stuff is fun ;P

The Never Ending Illustration

Here is the current progress on the angel illustration. Still struggling through it but, hopefully, I'll have a final by next week.

Updaaates

I put this smirky broad and a slew of new work up on my portfolio site, check it out right here.

Beasties and the like

Still trying to figure out composition, value ranges and color theory simultaneously. Probably not a smart idea, but that tends to be how I work ;D

I should mention that these guys are technically angels, not just dopey beasts.

Return to CotN

We just started a new composition/illustration class at school and it's sweeeet. We're spending 6 week periods working our way from generic thumbs up to fully realized final illustrations. I've been entirely unable to squander a single second of spare time for personal projects for the last 6 months, so this is the perfect opportunity to drag out my sketchbooks full of Nephilim concepts and go to town. Plus its all under the guidance of Mr. Mike Bierek and his beard of power. I swear I catch that thing staring at me sometimes.

Here are my first round of thumbs. Spent about 30 minutes to an hour on each, since the idea was to keep things a bit abstract to allow for compositional fine tuning at any stage. I was totally off the mark, so I'm going to redo the whole idea from the ground up, which I'm pretty excited about. Every screw-up is a chance to learn, and when Mike is the one correcting you, then the more mistakes the better. I also apologize for the terrible, terrible value range I worked with for all of them ;P

Blarfl?

I couldn't really get this guy to scan very well, but here is my third cast drawing:



The next one is going to kick my ass, for sure. If you've never done it, try to look at a face and see anything other than a face. You fucking can't! Your brain just goes "face!" over and over no matter what. Apparently you can break your brain of the habit, but thus far I've just simply broke my brain. Even as I type this I can feel my little synapses sputtering and spewing and surely before long I'll resort to some simian poo flingery and word jarble nonsenk jja perfff blut grook blarfl tart blllrrrgg.

Shit.

The banality of finality.

Finished my second cast drawing today. Clocked in at around 50 hours, which isn't too terrible, I guess.



I'll be posting my first oil painting soon. Get your belly laughs ready and armed.

Busy, busy, busy. My first cast drawing (90 hours) and some digital stuff.