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.

Sooo....Disney Buys Marvel.....

For 4 Billion dollars. Now the deal might not go thru eventually but board members on both sides have agreed in principle to the deal....

so.....

Just sayin it might look like this thats all :D

Here's one more....I'm having WAAY Too much fun with this.

Source: http://kotaku.com/5349341/disney-buys-marvel-for-4-billion://

PS. I've been offiically pimped by my friend Andy over at ToysReviL. http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/

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.

New Posts Coming...

The last time this happened it took me almost a year to start posting new stuff haha.

Gonna put something up over the weekend.




Post Update: Blogger seems to have some javascript problem and I can't upload anything. Once this problem is resolved I will put up new work.

15 Minute Portraits

Some sketches from the July 09 OIC Portrait Day event at the Red Dot Museum - I really should go more often. All the portraits were of folks off the 'street' (we were indoors) who signed up to model for 15 minutes, so sometimes its a challenge for all artists because they weren't paid professional models. But that makes it more interesting because you gotta use a lot of short term memory. The models also could buy the portraits they liked (there were at least 40 artists there) at 8 bucks a piece - so thats' not too bad!

In case anyone was wondering about the size of the sketchpad, its an A3 (or 11x14 for you north american types)







































The pooch (image below) presented a different challenge. Pooches being Pooches, can't sit still for too long - especially when its an 8 month old Italian Greyhound thats full of energy. Still it was a very rare opportunity to get to observe and draw dogs up close, the last time I got to draw critters up close was a few years back when the Prof had a couple of birds - a Great Horned Owl and a Peregrine Falcon - that were brought in for our ornithology illustration part of the program.

I was actually hammering away at this one because its only 15 minutes and you can only get so many details in. My previous experience with dogs helped a lot with the structure so a lot less time was spent on observing and more on actually drawing.































Pooch was awesome by the way, he's a real darling -

Environmental Concepts

Here are a couple of images hot off the press. I'm bidding for a storyboarding job recently and while I'm not sure if I'll get it, I've taken the opportunity to explore environmental concept art again. Used to do it for a living a few years back - though I admit I'm not the best at it. These are some of the locations I'm looking at for a comic that I'm writing, they're coming along slowly, but nicely.

Hope y'all will like these.


























I've also taken my own sweet time to recover from a virus. I swear I almost coughed up a lung.


New addition - just continuing the work - got some new references and hopefully I can put something up next week.