skullsong

Concept timelapse.

2011-12-10T13:56:00.003Z

I recorded myself painting a concept.

More info over at my newly started game design blog:

http://grusomt.blogspot.com

(Please watch this in HD!)

Stuff

2011-11-09T10:05:00.005Z

Some completed, and a WIP.

Self portaid day 2011

2011-11-03T20:26:00.003Z

November 1st is the international self portrait day. Participated for the sixth year in a row.

Warmup.

2011-06-27T17:42:00.003Z

One hour warmup before continuing the project over at http://coastbound.blogspot.com

A face and tits. Neglecting everything else. Yes, I am very mature.

Space suit sketch

2011-05-26T16:07:00.002Z

I stumbled across an older doodle of mine that i never shared. I kinda like it.

Thief!

2011-05-26T01:22:00.002Z

Work in progress, obviously. Inspired by Icewind dale/baldur's gate character portraits. Part of a quest to land some freelance over at Wizards of the Coast.

Umber hulk!

2011-05-24T19:46:00.001Z

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Work in progress.

Tits

2011-05-06T05:20:00.002Z

Yeah, I know. I haven't done one of these in ages, it feels good to play around a little after a long day of much less interesting work. Took about an hour.

2011-04-16T00:34:00.003Z

I haven't updated this thing in AGES. Here's some work in progress stuff, and the finished version of the Orc chick from a few posts ago.

2010-09-15T12:49:00.002Z

A work in progress for one of my personal projects. Call it a warmup before real work. :)

2010-09-14T03:41:00.002Z

Just a quickie for a concept tag activity over at polycount.com. I picked up the ball from this image: http://i35.tinypic.com/2u7ta2e.jpg

'Twas fun!

Thread can be found here:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71835&page=22

There's a new love in my life.

2010-05-28T01:50:00.005Z

She's slender, sleek, to the point and very smooth. She's a SKB SB-1000 ballpoint pen. She doesn't make me draw any better, but she makes me wanna draw all the time!

Sorry mech pencil, you've been replaced! By a $1 dollar ballpoint pen.. :P Those are the breaks i guess..

Dungeons and dragonism!

2010-05-07T02:03:00.002Z

For a contest over at artorder, topic is "DnD Pinup".

I'm doing a half orc. So much fun! YAY!

Work in progress.

Apes and Babes

2010-05-05T13:25:00.003Z

Two works in progress, one photo study and another one of those weird linedrawing thingies.. :P My friend Devin is visiting, and he's giving me a lot of tips and tricks on how to properly use layers and stuff.. Which is still an alien concept to someone who's used to paint, flatten layers, paint flatten layers and so on and so forth.. He also keeps repeating "draw through the form!" in an increasingly exasperated tone of voice.. One of these days i suspect it'll stick, and I'll actually start doing that. ;)

Oil painting from life!

2010-04-01T00:10:00.004Z

Today i finally got my hands dirty with oils! I've never done any traditional painting before, except from a little playing around. I had a lot of fun, and oil paint is a very interesting medium. I obviously have a lot to learn still, but i'm very happy with my results after 4-5 hours of painting. This is definately something I'd wanna explore further!
Thanks to Laoura for sitting still all that time!

Style exploration

2010-03-06T00:41:00.002Z

Did a 1 hour thunderdome vs Luis (maxetormer), the topic was "witch". He showed me some stuff earlier today that really inspired me, so i tried something very different from what i usually do. It was a lot of fun, and very strange, working on properly named layers and everything.. usually i just flatten and mess everything up. ;)

There's some mistakes, the most obvious one being the different lenght of the legs, but i'm pretty happy with it for a 1 hour piece. Lesson learned: Next time I'll spend more time getting the basics right in the sketch stage, before even considering ink and color!

Thanks for playing Luis, it was a lot of fun!

Ifx cover competition + livestream

2009-11-15T01:30:00.003Z

Hey dudes and dudettes. Just wanted to post my work in progress on my entry for the IFX cover competition, and also link you guys to my livestream. You can watch this picture from rough thumbnail up to about this state on demand on my livestream channel. I apologize for the crappy sound, i'm not saying anything worthwhile anyways, so you might as well mute it and just watch.

I will, as much as i can, try to paint this piece live. That way people can watch the piece being painted pretty much from start to finish. There's gonna be some small steps in between, but i'm gonna make a step by step gif when i finish, so if some stage of the painting doesn't get recorded you can still see the stages when i finish.

my livestream channel can be found here: http://www.livestream.com/skullsong

Peace out.

2009-10-16T22:18:00.001Z

The sketch below won me an ORIGINAL ALVIN LEE SKETCH on the chiustream! WOOOOT!

Street fighter character!

2009-10-15T05:36:00.003Z

Tuned in to the chiu stream today, Bobby was interviewing comic book artist Alvin Lee! Alvin gave the topic of "design your own street fighter character".

So naturally, i came up with a haitian savateur...

About 2 hours. Photoshop.

PS: I also had a nocturnal visitor earlier. It was the cutest little mouse i've ever seen. We had a stareoff for about an hour, before i lost patience and shoved him into the box with the inconspicuous bread and the inconspicuous lid halfway closed.. I put him outside and he said "thanks for not killing me" and ran off like only little mousies on a mission can. I closed the vent where he crawled in, apparently bug nets arent meant for mice. I'll use this incident as leverage for my landlord to let me keep a kitten! ;)

2009-09-29T19:34:00.003Z

More chiu-streaming! Its so much fun to take a break from painting an paint with bobby! And seriously inspiring! The challenge this time was 1 hour self portrait.

Chiuism!

2009-09-22T19:22:00.003Z

I've been tuning into Bobby Chiu's streams, and find them very inspiring. It just makes you wanna paint! Here's the challenge for today, 1 hour cowboy. Topic by guest speaker Stephen Silver. Thanks guys!

Chiu & co:

http://imaginismstudios.blogspot.com/
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bobby-chiu-broadcasting

ZhangLu/Manley Download!

2009-05-25T15:48:00.003Z

I Just finished a piece inspired by the zhanglu/manley download. Zhanglu paints, manley narrates. I learned a lot of things i already knew. It sounds weird, but its true, a lot of the info conveyed was already there in my brain, but a refresher helped things click. Plus the girls are super hot! Get the download here: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=158646

My work still pales next to ZhangLu's, but i feel i've made improvements! about 3 hours worth of doodling, no reference:

LEBANON!

2009-03-22T14:43:00.008Z

Ok, so i've been in lebanon since the beginning of february, and i haven't shown anyone a single picture, which is a bit rude to the ones back home. So, i'll talk a little about my stay here, and show you some pictures. I live in a beautiful, although a bit run down apartment in achrafieh, beirut. It has a very.. um.. bohemian charm. I share the apartment with bebeh and another couple, Miles and Carla, an american contrabassist and and a lebanese actress. . There's always a cast of interesting characters around, our house is very nice for having people over.

I visited Jbeil during the first days of my stay. Jbeil is old, and have the mediterranean handy for scenic pictures. (this was during lebanese "Winter" by the way.. har har har.. It's "spring" now, and its getting quite summery if you ask me.. :P)

The cast of characters surrounding us in this play is quite remarkable. All of them have treated me like a friend from the first day. Cheers guys! That is something i've noticed a lot in this country, people are generally very friendly. And the food is SOO goooood! I've put on around 6 kilos since i got here. (well, i did, then lost 3 again..) Seriously, the food rocks! omnomnom. A note to San, watch out for all the pine nuts.. They are all over the food here..

I also poisoned myself. (twice) by adding blue food coloring to stuff. Apparently i'm not very tolerant to that kind of stuff, so i was knocked out for a couple of days, the first time from blue pancakes, the second time for eating this rice:

(Apparently i'm none too bright either, considering i did it twice..)

So yeah. Food. And then there's the place we live. Achrafieh (im sure i fudged up the spelling..) Is a really nice neighborhood. Safe too, or so i've been told. This is what part of the view is like from our 5th floor balcony:

I also got my hair done. Thats Omar to the right by the way.

By random chance i had the opportunity to act in a commercial for romanian yoghurt. It was a lot of fun, we got to spend a day at the beach, with brilliant sun and free food. :P Plus, i got to stomp around in armor. Very historically incorrect viking armor to be precise.

My schtroumpf!
Frolicking around on the beach looking for shells while the crew sweat their asses off...

That's my girl! Not a cloud in the sky, an empty beach, and sun hitting us hard, but she's still playing her DS. <3

two warriors of the invasion force. The "um, my costume is falling apart" regiment.

Beirut is a city FULL of textures. Bulletholes, rust, grime and dirt make up one side of the city, and then there's new, shiny, modern stuff growing out of the old. I'm snapping a bunch of references that will be very useful at some point.

Okay thats all for now i guess. I got tons of more stuff, but that will have to wait for later.

Rest in peace Bettie.

2008-12-22T06:35:00.002Z

I recently participated in the Chow 140: Bettie Page Tribute. She passed away on december 11th 2008. Her memory will live on for a long time.

Regular updates!

2008-12-16T18:12:00.001Z

yeah.. i do those.. :P

Here's some boobies to keep this blog alive!

'nother doodle.

2007-05-07T06:19:00.000Z

I just finished another doodle, and I'm getting rather frustrated over my progress. On this sketch i basically blocked out the torso and limbs, double checked the balance of the figure, and proceeded to block in the values. The way i usually do it. No lines to speak of, i need to work more on linework. I'm thinking of switching to pen for a while, gotta work on getting a strong, dynamic line.

Oh, by the way...

2007-04-27T12:07:00.000Z

Here's a video i recorded of me painting Michael Emerson's character "Henry Gale/Benjamin Linus" from the tv show LOST. It took exactly one hour to paint, and its sped up so it will take you 6 minutes to watch.

Painted in photoshop.

Enjoy!

A.

Grand opening!

2007-04-27T11:43:00.000Z

So here i was, thinking i should start a blog. So i registered an account here. Then i realized that i would have to write something in it too. What you're reading this very moment is what i decided to write. The rest, as they say, is history.

This blog will mainly be used to show random doodles i make, and there will probably be some rants too.

To kickstart things I'm posting two pencil sketches that i did the other day. The usual subject matter, heads and boobies. :D The ladies came out grainy in the scan, but i cant be arsed to re-scan them.

This blog will be updated parallel to my sketchbook over at www.conceptart.org. The sketchbook there contains much older pieces too, for those who might find that interesting. Viewer discretion is adviced, there's some sick shit in there.. :P
Link: CLICK ME!

Ok, i think thats all. Until next time, take care - and stay metal!

A.