Experimentation

Well, my time at the school here in San Francisco is tentatively over. I'll know in the next few days, but I have little confidence in those who have the majority of control in the situation-- obviously not talking about Carl Dobsky or Massive Black on that.

So, I'm spending July starting over from scratch. I think I've honed my current methods as far as they need honing and now its time to begin anew and skew that knowledge in favor of what I know to be more effective. I've set deadlines and put multiple personal projects into development. This time next month, I hope to be an entirely new artist.

Here are a couple speed paints to get the general tone of the setting for my next illustration, and one failure of an attempt at speed painting straight from the head. Onward ;p

sketcherz

after a very, very long hiatus, i've started working in my sketchbook again. definitely rusty, but i'll get there.

Subway Mattes

These are a mixture of speed painting and matte painting for quick ideation based on a new personal project (same one the zombiens from below were created for). I was kinda going for a "campaign" feel with these, hence the similar compositions.



Hope ya dig.

zombaliens

think of these guys as bums turned zombie turned alien parasite host. i figured out a few shortcuts with my process, so these guys only took 45 - 60 minutes each. more on the way. looooots more.

raaaahhh BUKKA-BUKKA-BUKKA

prepare yo self ;p

gunner bishes

quick round of thumbnails for the camaro gunner. slowly figuring out a faster way to work with these things.

Quick update, the final concept for the camaro for my illustration.

Vroom

WIP for my dad's birthday and as an asset for my new illustration. Double up !

I've been trying to inject speed into my concept work. Figuring out ways to simplify problems rather than throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks, which I still do far too often. There's a fine line you need to walk as a production artist, where-in both under-thinking and over-thinking inevitably destroy the potential of your work.

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The circular building is from a photo I took in Seattle, the rest is speed painted in. Just working out some new techniques, many of which are borrowed from Dylan Cole.




Alternate cropping that I kind of like better.





Character design done in one quick sitting. Trying to get as speedy with character thumbs as good ol' Zacharicious has been lately.




More on the way...

The boob runneth over.

Boob Runner final:





First attempt at matte painting. Fun!