Work Hard... Or Imma Punch Ya

At least I'm pretty sure that's what the advice of this poster is.

Our assignment was to create a poster that will give advice to the wee freshmen this year. Personally I don't think they'll heed it because doing the hard work to become a better artist is the one thing these kids seems to fear the most... anyway. Oh how I could go on a tangent.

I'm really happy with the progress this shows in my ability to paint digitally. Unfortunately not super happy about the piece... so much I could improve now but that will be a constant battle.

This seems silly, but I spent a lot of time picking out these colors from movie posters (faux et vrai), and random artwork with colors I like. It was a little mini-assignment for Illo because our professor is getting frustrated that our class doesn't think about this sort of thing. We need professors to kick our asses more.

Well, it's been an awful long time since I've posted anything. Since April 20th with what I see last, and that was forever ago. So, with something that I've been working on that isn't two dimensional and therefore horribly fuzzed out by my shoddy camera setup (though this is a bit fuzzier than I'd like) I bring you my goblin skull bust-a-ma-jig...Yah, it's not a full bust, I'm thinking about it, but I've only done the fastest parts of making it which is getting the roughing in done... now it's time to get to details.

There, I was compelled to update this and have, the only way to break bad habits is to begin somewhere.

True Art Movement

I usually don't open my emails from ConceptArt.org, I'm still feeling a little shy about entering their community. Today I'm glad I did, because I found a thread that's about making this world a better place. Despite the triteness of that comment, please take time to follow this link and follow what is being said and the cause that is being supported and I think that you'll agree on this cause. We need more of this happening around the world.

Someday I hope to do the sort of thing that John Spearow is doing, and to see that this art community that I respect already is supporting this inspires me about what we can do as artists. For now, between steep rents and other bills I'm going to try to send a package destined for Kenya with some supplies and a sketchbook or two with a (badass) sketch in them for these boys.

The Creation of a True Art Movement

The Veteran

Here is the second in my group of four. The Veteran, I wrote this little bit about him:

"You need the line held? This is the man to go to. 'But he's only one man,' y'say!? Pah! Listen, he's seen more battles than the number o` times ye shit yer pants as a wee lad. If somebody can do it all by hi`self it is him. Hordes of Orcs, armies of Zombies? He's fought `em, and what's more, he's survived every one of them. While your daddy was quailing with his knees a`knocking he held the front line time and time again, comrades dyin` round him and blow bearing down upon him. Aye, and he lives to tell the tales, he do. Not that he would, mind you, he just gives you that stare that strikes right through ye, aye, that tells the tale enough. Yea, only War will collect the soul o` such a soldier, mark it!"
-Retired soldier of unknown regiment-

Orc and The Warmage

So I've got a pic of an oil painting in progress. This is my first semester with oil paints and it is trying and has yielded little reward in terms of achievement... but I'll get a handle on it. If you didn't guess, it's of a Rehgar Earthfury action figure from the WoW comics or something.

This second image is The Warmage from the group of four I had mentioned earlier. I will be posting the other three throughout the next few days/weeks. They are a little unfinished (or very depending on how you see it because these are just costume studies so that while I'm doing the actual final, I won't be caught up trying to figure things like those out.

Also, check out my website, there is some new art there that will probably leak onto my blog soon enough. More importantly I had a long photoshoot of my work today and I have replaced most of my old shitty grey/yellow images with new white... and some purplish... ones.

Figure Drawing

I did figure drawing today. Fortunately, my mechanical pencil broke so I figured I'd try a new approach towards thinking about value on the figure. I like it. I think I'm going to do more figure drawings this way.

Werewolf

I don't draw enough werewolves anymore and they're one of my favorite things to draw. Here's an old one but one I still kinda like.

I may have abandoned my previous post's painting, but I've gotten what I wanted from it which an idea of what my elf character is supposed to look like. She will be returning to be finished by the end of the semester however.

Rawr! Elf lady scary!

I'm certain that I meant to post something earlier than this... however, that didn't so much as happen as not happen.

Anyhow! Here's a little work in progress whose progress I'm working on... She's one of a team of four fantasy commandos, who are referred to rather archetypically as The Veteran, The Juggernaut, The Scout and The Warmage. Obviously, she's one hell of a The Juggernaut.

This character, while not being part of the world I'm creating (explicitly) would fit in well with the elves of that world. For one, she has horns like those elves, yet more importantly she embodies something other than the idea of elves as our merry little tree friends. Still, my idea of what an elf looks like I'm sure varies immensely from the squat misshapen goblins (elf itself was interchangeable with dwarf and gnome) imagined by our proto-Germanic ancestors, but that is Tolkien's legacy on modern fantasy.

Anyhow, enjoy my Elvish Savage. Deadly. Inhuman. Beautiful.

Blogging in the Breeze

No followers yet, but I just made this blog and just told someone about it. Going to start this art blog with some posts of old sketches so that when people start flocking here (as they will!) they'll have something to look at.