Skidadle!

Just two fast sillhouttes exercise before going out with family for breakfast! Their actually rushing me. gtg!!

Character Sketches

Just felt like doing some character sketches based on a certain type of environment and try to evoke a different type of persona to each character. The one on the left is basically the executioner of things and handles all the brutal executions with his chainsaw (which was not rendered out) whilst the middle character is sort of like the person who you would see guarding the door to the secret hideout hence he would be the door guard..
yes.. and the right is basically the deceiver (quote Jason Chan) the type of character who is the one holding the suprise at the end of the story. Shes dangerous and attractively attractive.. These were meant to be very rough but just cant help it!.. Well in a way its still rough for me~

Ponyo

Ponyo was interesting. Always nice and engaging to watch a Studio Ghibli Production led by the well known Hayao Miyazaki. Loved Ponyo's design and her expressions throughout the story, never fail to put a smile on my face lol! Some study sketches done in my sketchbook with blue color pencil and rendered with Photoshop. Cheers!

Red Myst WIP

WIP for Red Myst. Been tweaking the mass and proportions for quite some time just to get the anatomy and feel right for the creature. Currently working in Z Brush and doing studies for the creature.

To know more about the progress of my team's Project check the link Last Jump

More Life Drawing

Decided to do some life drawings today. Kept yesterday's newspaper and did some drawings from the sports section. Well given that Malaysian newspaper write articles on soccer most of the time hence why there are a lot of soccer figures. Its fun to study the action lines of the figure in motion nevertheless and am planning to make this habit of drawing from newspapers more frequent. Nothing is better than drawing from life and newspapers have interesting images sometimes.

The last two pages which is filled with sexy female figures is based on a life drawing of another artist but am starting to get the hang of it and be more of an analytical artist instead of just copying what i see. Quite satisfied that im improving and slowly achieving that independance factor as an artist. Can't say that im satisfied at this point of course still a long way. Oh well better start sketching some more!

Study

Studies that i did from this month's Imagine FX Issue on Bobby Chiu and a greyscale study referenced from a 3D artwork by Jeff Miller. Overall i would say that i definitely learned a few things from these two studies. Learned the importance of steps in our painting process in order to make ourselves more consistent and faster, the percentage of greyscale tones in a picture although this requires more practise. Apart from that started to learn a thing or two about brush flow settings in photoshop which by the way i rarely use in my artwork and how to apply that knowledge in my sketches, paintings etc digitally of course.

Progress progress on Leet Games

Here are some updates on a current project that im working on for a 2D online battle card game under Leet Games. Looking forward to start rendering some of these bad boys!