Snow white promo poster study
Thursday 6 December 2012
Saturday 10 November 2012
Monday 8 October 2012
Tuesday 4 September 2012
Canyon City wip |
There's more progress shots in my CA thread : http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=130388&page=7 Which is down atm due to their maintenance.
With my current version I decided everything was getting too cramped so I opened the composition, and also the back ground was a bit dull, the composition was leading up to it but with nothing as a pay off so I had the idea there was some kind of settlement there. With more mountains suggested in the background to add depth.
Going to work the middle ground and the small details from this point. The figures I just quickly indicated, Ill leave them until last they are just a reference point for scale for now. P.s you can see my perspective lines in this one as I forgot to turn them off when saving.
Sunday 5 August 2012
Portrait of a Fairy |
Sunday 22 July 2012
Saturday 21 July 2012
Thumbnails - Halls of the Dead |
Initial Line work |
Work in progress |
I'm currently working on the Dungeons and Dragons art test (Art Test link) I decided to go with the environment test to design the Halls of the Dead. This is due to wanting to include more architecture work in my portfolio/improving my skills at depicting it, and it sounded like a challenging project that would push my skills.
I'm going for a 15th century vibe with the design whilst bring in elements of the back story such as the Skulls and symbol for the God of the Halls which is a skeletal arm holding judgement scales. From what I understand the house is meant to represent a place of worship that is welcoming of death/is accepting of death.
I thought it would be cool to have a converted building that is welcoming due to its aesthetics whilst contrasting it with the bones and symbolism of the skull hand holding the judgement scales (eventually I want to look like they have been strapped to the building). Also wanted a warm colour scheme rather than a cliché cool colour scheme generally used when depicting death/horror type scenes. I feel warm colours are more welcoming, which seemed fitting to the concept.
Currently I am working towards removing the line work so that the final picture is a finished painterly look. Really trying to push my lighting and approaching this work in a more methodical manner than to what I usually do, such as working on flat colours, then adding ambient occlusion, with key lighting following, and so on. Which I hope will improve the overall quality of my work.
Wednesday 11 July 2012
Sunday 1 July 2012
Caravaggio study I did the the other day. Currently I'm working on storyboards and character designs in order to expand my portfolio. Im also spending much more time teaching my self 3DS Max and Mudbox, so might start posting my 3D Work soon, when it isn't consisting of lighting and texturing teapots lol
Friday 22 June 2012
Friday 15 June 2012
The Fairy Chieftain
The Chieftain of the Fairies* is
usually the biggest and strongest of the Fairy folk. They prove their
worth in many ways such as the killing and eating of the hearts of
birds (a natural hunter of Fairies) often using the feather coat of
the birds as symbols of power**, challenging and beating the current
Chieftain, as well as prowess in War and Politics. Often in times of
peace the ruling families via for control of the position through the
nomination of champions who go forth and do battle in an often brutal
tournament.
*Fairies are half bird half human
creatures, their springy legs allow them to hop around and run
quickly great for grabbing those pesky birds!
** Often this give the illusion the
Fairies have wings when they are bounding from branch to branch. In
reality the fairy is a flightless creature.
Thursday 7 June 2012
The Baron - I know cliche, Im rubbish at naming characters ;p |
My goal was to create an Alien character in a steampunk western type of universe. I also wanted him to be more of an anti hero/villain rather than a good guy.
Sunday 27 May 2012
This is a Punk Girl character in some kind of post apoc world I guess,
Ive been working on this weekend. Now that my portfolio, uni work etc is
handed in, nice to do some personal art for a change.
Done on my bamboo whilst I wait for my replacement tablet to arrive (getting an Intuos5 medium)
p.s if your wondering that is a pickachu smoking a cigar on her arm
Done on my bamboo whilst I wait for my replacement tablet to arrive (getting an Intuos5 medium)
p.s if your wondering that is a pickachu smoking a cigar on her arm
Sunday 13 May 2012
Swampscape |
Dungeon concepts |
Final Dungeon concept |
3 more pieces to do now for my portfolio, not sure what those will be though but Ill keep them within this project I think.
Sunday 6 May 2012
Thursday 26 April 2012
Friday 20 April 2012
Sunday 15 April 2012
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Monday 9 April 2012
Mock Book cover w.i.p |
Friday 30 March 2012
Dreamscape |
The theme for this month is Dreamscape, my idea for this was that an Emperor or a King of some kind is looking on at his dream palace being built :)
Architecture is one of my weakest points, so the only way to improve it is to make myself do paintings like this. Doing the Gnomon competition is always cool as it challenges you to do something thats out of your comfort zone, well atleast for me, so I learned a lot from this :)
Monday 19 March 2012
First Page double spread |
Front and Back cover |
Fourth page double spread |
Copyright and title page |
I had to get a lot of work done recently as I will be going down to London on Wednesday to official start working with Alexandre Byrne, the oscar winning costume designer. Should be a great learning experience :)
Just finishing up my dissertation now as well, im on my 7th draft, arghhh. Definitely do not want to go into writing lol
Sunday 11 March 2012
Timeline illustration I did for my facebook page that I posted recently.
I took down some of my macmillan stuff, shouldn't really be showing it until after judging I guess haha Its progressing well, Ive finished my final dummy book, and Im just about to finish my front and back cover final illustration. I will be then doing 3 of the spreads for the book. Hoping to finish it by the end of the week, since I have a lot of work to do and a massive opportunity just came up so trying to keep up with my self imposed schedule :)
Im using my twitter page a lot more now (well at least for me lol) never really understood the program but my friend Nicky said its good for making contacts and after giving it more of a chance that seems to be true.
My twitter name is @scriar if anyones interested.
I took down some of my macmillan stuff, shouldn't really be showing it until after judging I guess haha Its progressing well, Ive finished my final dummy book, and Im just about to finish my front and back cover final illustration. I will be then doing 3 of the spreads for the book. Hoping to finish it by the end of the week, since I have a lot of work to do and a massive opportunity just came up so trying to keep up with my self imposed schedule :)
Im using my twitter page a lot more now (well at least for me lol) never really understood the program but my friend Nicky said its good for making contacts and after giving it more of a chance that seems to be true.
My twitter name is @scriar if anyones interested.
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Hi, sorry for the lack of updates, I've been very busy and a lot of the stuff I'm doing at the moment I cant actually post.
I've been working on a facebook page, as another means of promotion. You can find my new facebook page at the following address:
Facebook Page
Currently working on a timeline banner illustration which Ill post if i ever get time to work on it haha
I've been working on a facebook page, as another means of promotion. You can find my new facebook page at the following address:
Facebook Page
Currently working on a timeline banner illustration which Ill post if i ever get time to work on it haha
Saturday 21 January 2012
The 2 older brothers |
Currently starting off my designs for the Macmillan children’s book competition. This year Ive decided rather than write my own story to adapt one of the Grimm brother stories. Ive chosen ‘The Queen Bee’ due to how open the story is to interpretation.
These are my initial designs for the 2 older brothers in the story, literally the only description of them is that there’s 2, they are older, and brothers, lol You can also probably gather from the story they are brutish and bit of a douche, so I kept this in mind whilst doing the initial designs. I’m thinking of developing number 4 and 7 at the moment.
Sunday 8 January 2012
Im currently keeping up to date, a CA sketchbook, a Tumblr blog, this blog, a deviant art account, a cghub account and a facebook page lol I think I have the whole internet exposure thing covered, oh wait I still haven't posted any art in my cgsociety account lol
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