August Dump

As always I am terrible about keeping up on here.  

August has been a productive month.  I'm getting over my artist block I feel. 

I also purchased a new software Art Rage.  Its an awesome oil simulator.

A simple still life with the Oils Brush to get a feel for art rage.

Something mechanical - using the watercolors brush with some pencil via Art Rage

 

Soemthing, more oils.  Its as confused as I felt that day.  

 Figure practice, photoshop

 Art in the style of Rupert Everton

 My lovely opinion of our fearless leaders...

 

Doodles and practice 

 Oils brush in Art Rage..   I'm getting a little better at women.  

 A new commissions that I did via Photoshop.  I worked from supplied photos compositing some of the subjects together.

To deliver that painted feel, all the work is free-handed panted, no photo manipulation here.  

Figure doodles and trying to get better hand control with the intuos.  The thing is really a bitch to draw on due to the disconnect of not looking at what your hand is doing.   Maybe brute force practice will get me somewhere.  

Big Time Update 2014 to present

Well holy gadzooks batman I have abandoned this for far too long.   Long story short, I had some wee personal feels to work out.  Head-drama is mostly over now and Chris the artist man is back! 

So this will be a big dump of stuff I've been working on.    Lets go down from oldest to newest at the bottom

 Abstract things...

 

7-20-14  Portrait of my bro...



 

A little study did about the the same because.  
 


One of his Girlfriend... Christmas 2014


Of course the kid wanted another one...
Julyy 2015 and at that. 


A family member wanted their dog painted.  It was fun to make the puppy look friendly.
I also got paid for this...woo!  -Christmas 2015

 

Which it went over so well another family member wanted thier boyfriend's dogs painted.
It was well received, felt nice  - Jan 2016
 

I'm been cranking on art some more all on my own too. 


Messing around with abstracts again...low effort art poop



This is personal project, started this February.  It started a bored effort to try extreme colors in a portrait.  Also I wanted to take on a pretty pretty girl because I tend to make women manish.  But it started to turn out so I refined it.   Its still in progress.  I was trying out new custom made brushes and the mixer brush in photoshop.  Both turned out well. Feb -2016
 

Hair is the devil, so I'm taking a crack at studying it.   I'm trying to prep before I add hair to the girl as I wanna do something over the top with it. 


I'm calling it punk neon, even more art poop.  


I bought Art Rage for my Note 3, such a great phone with a stylus and wacom digitizer.  Its no photoshop or Corel painter, but Art Rage is probably the best painting app for Android.  I know, I tried them all.   My note is a neat little paint-box in my pocket now.   I'll probably be doing much more with it in the future, battery life be damned. 

I must not Buy a Galaxy note 10"...

Something something movement...


Tonight's fun...figure studies and trying to learn to draw effectively on a desktop tablet.   Someday I'll have a cintiq to slave over...for now...



I think its time to resume the blog.   I've also got a goal of a couple art's per week from here on out. 

Working on a Project to make some Moorish Arches

And now the final version of the model doubled to show how it fits together

And with a rough texture Applied.  I think I need more texels

Asari Doodle

Because I am a total Mass Effect nerd, did a doodle of an Asari character a friend has, not sure it will go anywhere.   Was fun to exercise my imaginative figure drawing.

Etzel

So my girlfriend had this ongoing story about a fey character Delma.   But in her story one of her twins Etzel died.   She wanted a little painting to commemorate the kid.  A fun couple hours and a fun chance to flex my painting powers...

Viking Sword 1st Progress Pic

Tonight i had some art-time, so I started on the model for the viking sword, a companion piece for the axes that I have already completed.   The plan is to make a set which will also include a shield and get them all on the Nexus for public consumption.  

So tonight I got the sword modeled to my satisfaction.

And with wireframes on, because clean geometry is something I do.  

Whale-dogs galore

So today was more work and fun, after a few days out of the running for various reasons, one of which was a completely sleepless night.

So today was some doodles on the idea of a "whale dog."   The idea is this is a dog-like creature native to the planet Thessia in the Mass Effect universe. (Yes am I am a huge mass effect nerd)  Whale-dog is the term that would be given to it by humans...I don't have its actual name yet.   Think like a pug, but with a mouth big enough to nibble on your whole head...

They are companion piece to a design project I did with my girlfriend, over a hypothetical "male-asari" race, the Tass'ron, and this is one of their space ships, a light frigate style ship with a 5 man fight crew, and engineers + marines possibly...   

The design was inspired by a manta ray.  I looked up all kind of ship designs and concepts in the research but I find my favorite designs always come from not from using other concepts and art as references  but actual photo source martial. 

And this was only gleened after the 10th attempt, proof once again the first design is rarely the winner.  

This ship is planned for upcoming 3d projects

Axes and Normal Maps

Tonight was more work on the ax.   I finally figured out through experimentation Skyrim uses a green up and red right normal map system.   So now my ax is looking much better.   Finally the design looks properly raised from the surface of the ax head.   I think I will call this ax done at this point.  Onward towards finishing this project off, time to make some swords.

So I'm working on a project to make gear for Skyrim that is both historically accurate and fits the theme and art of Skyrim.    Today I did some work on the 2 handed Ax  so far its looking good and in the game.

The axe was completely designed, modded and textured by your's truly.   The screens have an effect because I enjoy one of the ENB presets it enhance my Skyrim playing.

Though it looks like my normal maps may need some help! That dragon is supposed to be raised not recessed.   Time to fix that for tomorrow.