Fresh Sketches For Jan 012

I'll paint these later.





I know the M4 for the 2nd piece is off (by miles). No excuses. Oh wait, I do have one....I work directly on ink and mistakes happen. Deal with it guys 8-D

Guns Collection 01

All the nice and candy glossed firearms I've illustrated - up till now.

M4 Carbine Progress

Going a little slow this week. More tweaking the little parts than actually working the major parts in. There are little things here and there to add and change, so as the old saying goes, slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Placed in the remaining major components that aren't done yet to see how it looks like as a final:


Not too bad - should be able to get the piece done by end of October.

M4 Carbine Progress

More work done on the M4. Integrated the EOTech holosight and added the entire buffer tube construct. Also added the forward assist key, but it looks off - may redo it. Added a retouched Timney trigger - the hammer spring is in the proper position now. Also retouched the Magpul MIAD grip, dunno if anyone can see the difference haw haw haw.

Just plugging away for now, hopefully will be able to get this up to scratch by the end of October.

M4 Carbine Progress

Still testing the 'ghosting' - but I've rendered a few more components and tossed them in for a quick look see. They seem to fit fairly nicely and it shouldn't be too much hassle. At this point I'm not too sure if I can get away with a full phantom/ghosted view. Might have to rethink the strategy here - hopefully I don't have to do extra work by doing a cutaway for the rail panels.



Pretty rough last couple days - a rushed storyboarding job with a probability of more work if the pitch is successful. I better go sleep - don't want to fall asleep in class in front of my students haw haw haw haw.

More M4 Carbine progress

Pretty much slacked off all of last week - with the exception of my part time teaching and some progress work on several personal pieces - including this one. Here we go:

Timney drop-in trigger. Timney doesn't make a full auto trigger. What they have is highly accurate drop-in match grade triggers for the M4/M16/AR15, but I gave it some liberal creative license - with full technical knowledge just so you guys know its not BS - and made it a full auto trigger. The...errr...selector plate is still not done.

The hammer spring is also....in the wrong resting position haha.

Below here is one of the few files I've worked on. Basically I did the linework for each component and then paint them separately. Made some discoveries while rendering these. I'll be working with photoshop paths more from now on.....lesson learned.


Here we have a 'test'. I'm still tweaking the balance of the masking - since there are many lines, its hard to figure out what to sacrifice yet what detail to retain while masking the surface layer to reveal the internal components. More tedious than difficult.


Thats all for this update. I'll have another WIP up in a couple days.

Some Updates....WIP

Its an eventful few days - couple weeks back just as I started work for this client, my computer died suddenly. After some figuring out I thought it was a motherboard issue. To keep the story short, the old motherboard 'exploded' right in my face. I saw a chip glow bright orange and fizzled into white smoke. Changed the mobo and I'm now back in business.

Been working away on the series of illustrations for the current client. I won't post those just yet, I want them to use it first.

But here are some progress work from personal pieces, the M4 carbine and a new piece that I don't believe I've put up here before.





Back to work - man the air smells stale today....

Work In Progress - M4 Sneak Peek - LINEWORK COMPLETE!

ALRIGHT! The linework is finally done. Took a bit longer than I expected. This represents maybe 95 hours of work. I hope to have it completed sooner but that's that. I have a new commission that might start this month so this will have to take the back seat. Though I hope to have it finished before October.


Here are some close ups.

The full linework setup for Phantomed View. Parts are ready to be painted in Photoshop.

The forward assist key is missing from this. Its already done but the line weights haven't been added at this moment. I'm not really too sure how its going to turn out, hopefully it won't suck - but I'll keep this spot updated so anyone who is interested can follow the progress.

Work In Progress - M4 Tactical Carbine (sneak preview)

Can't figure out what's not working, but its not Blogger's problem - its my firefox browser.

Yeah, lots of things going on, I probably should've updated the blog more often.

This is still a WIP. I've placed it on a 30/10 axonometric grid to avoid distortions in perspective, but some bits are slightly tuned because it looks better on the eye. Tested out the EO-Tech styled holosight in colors to see what needs to be tweaked in the linework.

The linework itself took about 85 hours on Adobe Illustrator, and its still ongoing because there are some tweaks here and there with the lineweights and several smaller components like the full auto sear and small springs and catches are not fully included yet. This piece of work is set up for exploded style drawing or a phantomed view drawing which I am attempting - a lot of work up front, but I can get 2 versions of artwork from the same linework. Will be needing another 40 hours or so more for this. The mess you see here is really not that messy at all, its just the way I work - clutter.

More posts coming up this week. Keep watching this space.

Title Bar Artwork

The artwork on the title bar was actually specifically created for promo purposes. If y'all think it sucks then I'm in trouble. What's already up now is just part of the complete artwork.












The snubby M4 carbine the fella is peering thru will in fact be a cutaway drawing showing the internals of the rifle. Here's an idea how it'll look like:













This was a rather fun piece due to the research I had to do. I'm rather satisfied with it and its now being tossed up onto my business card, hopefully future promos will make further use of it.