Alleway Project

We are on the pre-production phase of our level design. This is my concept art:

Lord of the Rings - Thumbnail studies

Painted some thumbnails on photoshop from The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
I went through the entire movie pausing and analyzing as much as i could. These thumbnails helped me understand a lot about lighting, composition, mood, color, and when put together; the progression of the movie.

Digital sketchbook pt.2

two of the sketches while the model was moving.

Digital sketchbook - Quick value sketches

Rusty in the life drawing department. I haven't painted a live model since 2010 in Ringling. Decided to get back into it the other day using my wacom tablet.
First time painting a live model digitally.

These are all no more than 10 minutes.

Spirit

Bit of character design. Trying out different styles of digital painting.

The massive collection of photo references i've been collecting this summer has helped immensely. I am forever grateful for picking up photography.

Killnmouth Dragon

Another illustration inspired by the magic the gathering description of Killnmouth Dragon.

Important to note is that I don't look at the official Wizards of the coast card before starting my illustration. I try and pick cards I don't know the image of already so that I am not "pre-influenced" by the original design.

So here's Killnmouth Dragon's description:

Color: Red Creature
Action: This is not your typical D&D dragon. Show a dragon (of the artist's imagination) on a rocky perch. He has fired a blast of hot sand at a couple of fleeing goblins. The superheated sand coats the goblins and when it cools off it turns into glass. So you end up with dead goblins covered in glass.
Focus: The dragon
Mood: Intense

Pigeon

Caught a pigeon using my new 250mm lens.

Time Warp

Used the Magic the Gathering card description to come up with a sketch.

Time Warp:
Color:Blue Spell
Action: This spell is powerful time magic- it stretches time for the caster, slowing down the rest of the world. Show this symbolically: we see a huge curling wave, and we see a figure calmly walking on the water of the wave, away from us, as though the ripcurl is a tunnel. We even see the figure's footsteps lingering in the time-frozen surface of the water.