Here’s some new stuff. Been world building and trying to paint faster and more efficient with my designs. I am open for commission work and remote illustration and concept designs.
New stuff
Beholder process
Here’s one of my process I tend to use. I love sketching with a pencil on paper still. I even feel I get design ideas out more quickly this way, but I still change designs in photoshop if I have ideas that will help boost the design. Then I paint black and white to clarify the read of the overall design, composition and feel. Then I do a “quick” color pass and add “sparkles”. I didn’t do much paint over after that besides the teeth and little here and there. Then I go over it with clean up. I also have a Cockatrice study sketch. I was going for more Rooster approach. But I didn’t like them enough to move forward from pencil studies.
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Earth Water Wind and “CraterDome”
Did a painting for fun and finally introducing my personal comic. At least the first 4 pages. Really feel WIP to me, even the title. But I got to get it rolling. I hope to get more synced up to producing comic pages and improving my writing.
New Stuff
I got myself an Artstation site. Been trying to up my game in design and illustration. I’ve updated my 2d gallery but here’s a preview.
GW2 weapons
Been over or almost 3 years since I made these. Here’s some last assets I made on the Environment team for GW2 before I moved on from Anet. I got the chance to design these weapons and make them into 3d (except for the Chinese Dragon Cannon’s head). I’m not sure what happened to the design sheets though. I’m also pretty sure that not everyone one of these went into the game. Especially the torture themed staff and the steel knuckle axe. My personal favorite is the Sylvari long range rifle. I usually don’t get use use variations of color in my 3d work. Hence why I started to digital paint more so my eyes gets more used to looking at and using color in whatever medium.
Study study study…
Team Stark – Bran and gang
Still working my colors. This sh*t is not that easy.
Rest in Peace Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
I was coincidentally rendering out a portrait of Leonard Nimoy’s most iconic character Spock and his well known “Spock Love” gesture.
Inktober 2014
Did 24 ink on paper out of the whole month with a bit of water color and a little “shading” with photoshop. I colored one up in Photoshop to help with studying color. It was more fun than expected and learned a lot.
Charr Armor: Rytlock update
Been a while since I’ve done anything worth posting. But here’s an update of the Rytlock/Charr armor, with the newer shaders, for Guild Wars 2. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve made on GW2. It’s been 3 years actually when it was made. My how time flies. Still some serious texture resolution problems but it’s not in my hands anymore. Designed by the awesome Kekai Kotaki. More updates as we get closer to launch day.
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