Sunday, September 6, 2009
Fresh Posts To Come
Till then...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Work In Progress - M4 Sneak Peek - LINEWORK COMPLETE!
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.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sooo....Disney Buys Marvel.....
Work In Progress - M4 Tactical Carbine (sneak preview)
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.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
New Posts Coming...
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.
Monday, July 6, 2009
15 Minute Portraits
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 -