Lost edge practice - a portrait of my fiancée.

Sketchy!

Posting a sketch to kick this blog back into motion.

Doodles!

Just a bunch of warmups, thumbnails and quickies. All fun, nothing serious.

Concept timelapse.

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

Some completed, and a WIP.

Self portaid day 2011

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

Warmup.

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

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

Thief!

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!

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

Tits

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

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.