Over paint: Level up teaching.

Sarthak Singh a artist of Level up gave me permission to do a over paint of his work. I jumped in and about a hour or so later I reworked it to this. I left him a informative message on various things to help him improve his skill. Here is the over paint and his original work.

Lands of the eagle lords

Just wanted to do a epic feeling matte/concept today. This was the result.

Battle Cruiser Matte: 4 Variations

Did this as a study and exercise. I'm really happy with how they came out. Yet the 1st one is my favorite! I love storms. Hope you enjoy.

 

Wake up call enviornment concepts

Some environment concepts I did for Dark Synergies- Wake up Call

http://www.onlysp.com/new-concept-art-for-unreal-engine-4-stealth-action-fps-wake-up-call/

Sci fi soldier sketch

Sci fi soldier sketch. Searching with a drone.

Yoda study

Yoda study/speed paint. 1 Hour. Just practicing.

Uruk-hai

Just a sketch. Where's Frodo? Ohhhh no...

Soldier

Wanted to make a fast/agile light armored looking soldier. Came up with this design. Had fun doing it! Enjoy.

Speed painting - Dragon Hunting

Speed painting. 45 min. Dragon Hunting.

Rust fan concept art

Hey, Did these a little while back. Some fan art/ concepts for Rust. I was just thinking up some 

items I personally would like to see in the game.  I sent over the art with my resume and suggested they let me do some concept art for the game! Hopefully they will get back to me!

Mammon

Forgot I did this a little while back. Few hours. Done for 2D Character Forge on CGHUB.com. It was to design one of the princes of hell. I chose Mammon. Who is a representative of greed. Just made him laughing his ass off as the gold is pouring into his hands. Since I had been sketching Zombies and demons I figured it led in perfectly with the Forge. So I took part.

Zombie Survivor

Still just messing around with this photo stitching/painting style. Felt nice to crack the fingers and do something not work related. Inspired by the most recent episode of The Walking Dead I watched.

The Hero "They just never stop coming..."

AOM place-able plasma fire.

So I was asked to concept up a place-able plasma camp fire for AOM. My first thoughts were all over the place. What would that look like? Camp fires. Like logs and rocks? Yet its supposed to be a metal machine with a sci fi feel to it. So I started throwing together various designs. Some having slight animation thoughts behind them. Like the first one. Placing the orb down and the 5 plasma prongs rise up and it kicks on and starts hovering mid level. Or the 4th that folds up into a small portable canister.
 

In the end after talking with the team we decided we wanted to go with 6. Aesthetically it had a nice "camp fire" feel and fit the rolls we intend for it to do in game. A few additions were made like a handled lid to place the pit down on the ground and twist it off. As well as a twisting option in the center that would give a cool extra bit of sci fi tech to it. 

Zombie warriors sketches

Two zombie warrior sketches

Zombie Demon Lord line work

 I often spend a lot of time exploring other techniques and ways to do things faster that I don't really show that I can do line work as well. It takes a lot of time to throw some solid line work down. It can be a hours of extra work. Yet sometimes solid line work is the best starting point. I found some of my favorites I did for S2 I started with line work. Sketching and inking it out in my sketchbook. To be fair I always start from some frame of line work or sketch. I guess I'm talking about the line work that you spend a lot of time putting the details down. anyways enjoy the sketch! I added a bit of value to make it pop off the screen a bit more.

AOM weapons before iterations

Instead of posting this after iterations I felt like posting these weapons up that I concepted for AOM. They will go under iteration and I'll post the alterations later!

Ambush

Just working out a scene/concept of a ambush about to happen.

Overlooking the falls

Another concept of the realm I've been creating. 

foliage sketch.

I watch The Croods tonight. The style is so cool. Inspired me to throw down some paint and scratch these together.

The castle under the crying king.

Castle under the crying king. Another addition to the Realm I'm creating. Imagined as a game in epic scale like Skyrim. I've been thinking about this world in my head for a year or so now and figured I would start doing thumbs and bring it to life. Spent a few hours on this today. Grabs the general idea I was trying to present. Didn't feel it needed the hours of detail work. If it were a real game obviously it would! I hope you like it.

Waterfall Inn

A realm I've started to create in my spare time.

Cyclops

A hour speed paint I did a while back of a Cyclops 

Owl

A painting I was working on between work when I could get the chance. Had some time to finish it up today. That stare!

 

Mercenary

Mercenary. Kill shot.

Speeder ship

Small Speeder space ship concept

Kalamazoo Overgrown exhibit rated number 1

 My Kalamazoo Overgrown exhibit has been mentioned as the number 1 thing to see in Kalamazoo this January Art Hop. Neat!

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2014/01/january_art_hop_5_stops_to_exp.html

Sketch

Had some time to spare. So I did this sketch.

Well waiting for a call from a friend I just sketched this up as well.

Zelda Majora's Mask Redesign: Link and Epona

The conclusion to my Majora's Mask redesign. At least for now. Many of other things to work on! As far as I'm concerned I hit a core area of Zelda Majora's Mask universe. I hit every race Deku, Goron, Zora. I hit the Villain Majora/Skullkid. The Hero and his trusty steed Young Link and Epona.

So Link and Epona were a lot of fun to obviously! I wanted the ability to customize Link to be able to use your shield or duel wield. If you have ever played Kingdom Hearts 1 you only get to use one key blade. In Kingdom Hearts II you get to use 2 and it is such an upgrade. I have always wanted it to be something you could do with Link. So I left Link and Epona for last since it would be a good goal to work toward. Having the last be my favorite to do. I honestly couldn't tell you what was my favorite though. This whole project has been a very fun and interesting experience. To redesign one of the games I grew up playing! A lot of fun. As well this will be the 14th year anniversary! As always I hope you enjoy the work! Thanks for checking it out.

Majora's Mask redesign: Zoras

Today I got the Zora's done in the Majora's Mask redesign project I've been doing.  It's been hard to get a few hours in on my own things between the contract work. The Zora's have always been a interesting race to me. They have always come off pretentious and snotty to me. They always seem to be closed off from the world. That helped in designing them the way they looked. I wanted them to be mainly creatures of the water. Push them even further from the other races in the land. They still have the capability to come out of the water if they had to but would have to more or less slither. More like the Naga's in World of Warcraft. Well I hope you enjoy. I'm hoping to get to young Link next. Keep you eyes peeled!

monlolith relics

I had a hour to kill so I threw some monolith/relic ideas together for AOM. Basically some simple statues reminiscent of culture the aliens had in the past. Kinda scattered around the world giving a feeling like Stonehenge.

Zelda Majora's Mask redesign: Majora

The Devious villain of the game. I had a lot of fun with this one. Majora was the first small fry villain I had seen in any video games I had played growing up. To me he was so Interesting. I mean the real villain was the Mask its self. Just so happened to be skull kid obtained it. At least that's is what I thought happened. Sorry any hard core fans that are steamed about me not knowing exactly what took place! I hope you enjoy!

Zelda Majora's Mask: Redesign Gorons.

Got the sketches in of the Goron concepts. It was a lot of fun making these. I wanted the Gorons in this redesign of Majora's Mask to be reminiscent of Giants. Ive always loved the Gorons in the games.  Full of culture and really a silly race. I felt they needed a bit more of a tough large feel. I would love to see a militant faction of Gorons. Armored up charging into battle. Link was fun. I liked the Idea of him using the Biggoron sword. Adult link being almost as big as the sword so you can imagine the scale I'm running with here for the Goron's in my rendition. As well a deku shield for a belt buckle! Hope you enjoy. look forward to more!

Start of Zelda Majora's Mask Redesign

Last night I started to upload some of the sketch's Ive been doing for a redesign of Zelda Majora's mask. I've seen the clip they did for the Wii. I think it was for that. Very cool but I wanted to try running with something different but still feeling very Zelda. I have several sketches of alterations I've done thus far. I started painting the Deku sketches first. This was for fun and a challenge. I'm allowing my self to take this wherever I kind of feel. I love the old design for the Deku's and am still trying to hold a bit of that feel. I wanted to run with something where the Dekus felt more healthy. I wanted a transition between them and Deku Link. I really wanted Link to feel cursed and sick/ill. Seeing that Majora cursed him with the mask. Hope you enjoy. More to come! Goron's next? Hmmm well see.

1 Hour speed paintings

I have been taking part recently in 1 hour speed paint Facebook challange. Here are the ones I have done thus far.

Topic: Valkyrie. 1 HR

 

 Topic: Temple under tree. 1 HR

Topic: Cerberus. 1 HR

Join us. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/509565319112295/

Giant Batteries

Industrial matte I threw together.

The Golden Barbarian

Something I just threw together. Ive been meaning to do a bit more exploration like this! Enjoy.

Some relaxing doodles.

I've been doing some mind numbing work lately. I had to just kick back and do some doodles. My brain feels refreshed. 

 Haha. Ummm alright?!?!

The women and her mech

Sketch I threw together. Some women sitting on a mech. 

Sci fi armor heads

Over the past few days before going to bed I have been sketching some various sci fi head armor styles. Fun stuff!