Olympic tribute

Haven't watched much of this years Olympics, though I hear NBC has really dropped the ball on airing the events. Anyway, I did a quick sketch of one of the events based on the best photo reference I could find. I worked off the reference image and obviously added some from Street Fighter-esque energy strokes.

Armor

Inspired by one of my favorite science fiction books, this cover was done in Painter. I did the thumbs and value roughs in PS and then moved on to Corel Painter for rendering. I think the any of the thumbnails could  work as good covers, but I chose this one because it conveys emotions that were felt by the protagonist. The helmet itself has plot significance, so this composition provided the greatest potential for depth. I tried out a lot of different blocky fonts, I liked a lot of them equally and went with two of them for the type. I finally learned how to get a gif to play in a blog post instead of having to click to watch it. 

Ice temple

I kept this one small so I didn't spent too much time on it. Took about 2 hours, spent some of that time playing around with different layer effects to give the ice some depth.

Between a rock and a volcano

An environment I did during my time at Twist.

Fat creature thing sketch

Recently I decided to go through my folder filled with sketches that I never finished and found this fat bastard. I did this sketch months ago and had left in grey scale. I decide to just splash some color on him and a few gruesome details. This was definitely one of those drawings that I didn't plan out, I just started sketching and he appeared. I don't have a story for him, other than he enjoys...cows. Hhmm, he's not much different than us after all!!

Blue Skies

I live! Honest, I do, here is proof!

Forest Ruins

Something I did a while back, thought I would show my steps in Gif format this time.

Schrodinger

Old art test I did, I was asked to choose a physicist to do a turn around of. I avoided the most famous choices of Einstein and Newton and looked for a lesser known physicist. I considered Richard Feynman, Marie Curie, Niels Bohr and after some research I found myself drawn to Erwin Schrodinger. His glasses, hair, angular bone structure and propensity to always wear bow ties seemed to lend itself well for a cartoonish art style.

Icons

Late night thumbs

Come at me, bro

Did this last night before bed, once I did the silhouette of the man I knew just what to title this post.

Bamboo Hut

I hope everyone had a good easter weekend! Mine was quiet and productive! I chose this sketch from the many thumbnails I have in my sketchbook and took it to completion. As always these images give you a good idea of my process. I rarely jump into a painting without doing value roughs, otherwise I feel like I didn't properly explore what the painting has the potential to be.