Unfinished fantasy work, a dwarf, wizard, troll and ship merchant.

I have quite a few pieces of  work I'm working on at the moment. I'm going to post a selection even though they are far from finished. Keep the blog chugging along! Unfinished fantasy work, a dwarf, wizard, troll and ship merchant.

Rock n' load challenge, Character design/city design.

Another great challenge arrived @ artorder thanks to Jon. Two subjects I really have a passion for: Concept art and rock n' roll. A dream come true!

The brief was to create a character and a city called 'Tool City'. The character had to be an iconic male rocker! His studio has been taken over by the worst record company in existence, General Records. They stamp out creativity and the rocker has to fight all the way to the top!

Like I said I really needed more time for this one. I have a few more ideas for the main character and I have just added a new version of the city which if I had more time would have entered for the brief on artorder!

The results came in for the Rock n Load  challenge @ Artorder. I did not make it to the selected top 3, although all the participants received a crit from Jenny and Nate who are the directors @ Rock n Load!
Here it is:

Great building concept. You took tool city in a completely original direction. The well stylized main character would be so much more interesting if he didn't look like he was battling sleep. The sky blue background makes sense against the red buildings but I would de-saturate it quite a bit so it isn't competing with everything. I saw it on a different monitor and it wasn't as vibrant but I would still tone it down and drop in some texture. A solid submission.

 I agree with what they say 100%. One of the things I was not happy with was the the expression of the face. Also the blue, once I handed it in it wasn't really gritty enough for me. I've updated these images between commissions, these are the new versions!

krampus creature character designs

Just thought I'd post an early Krampus head design to show where I was coming from together with a more finished version!

And a few life drawing fast sketches.

These are a few real quick life drawing sketches. I think they were around a minute or so!

Sketches from my sketchbook.

Ok sometimes we have to calibrate ourselves with some good old humanoid sketches. Anatomy really is the root to all evil. I design and illustrate evil creatures, the fundamental base of these is an understanding of anatomy, form, weight etc etc. Not only that, I love to sketch! I take my sketch book everywhere, never miss an opportunity.Without further ado, here are a few! Ok I had to add a little fantasy here and there!

Without further ado, here are a few:)

Some fantasy dragon concepts

Here are a couple of quick dragon Sketches I did!

Hurakan god of storms book cover illustration and saxon warrior in snow storm!

Ok I'm on a roll now, can't stop myself! The next two images I've created for a couple of challenges ran by Jon Schindehette, art director for Dungeons & Dragons (Wizards of the coast). Really great guy, holds lots of challenges and gives tons of helpful advice to aspiring artists. The warrior snow scene was a one off challenge and the other (Hurakan) finishes this coming Sunday. The Hurakan challenge was 6 stages, the image here is from stage 5.

If you are an illustrator/artist I strongly recommend you check out Jon's Artorder blog! here's the link:


http://artorder.blogspot.com/


Update: Just added my final image for the Hurakan challenge which Jon was running at artorder! I included a version with and without the text. 

Frankenstein monster character design.

At last my first post...yippeee. I'm going to treat this blog as an area to show things I'm working on, a sort of WIP. I'm also setting up a website too. Thought I'd better get something out in the void! I need to empty my hard drive  of hideous creatures.

My first post is a character I've been working on. A sort of Frankenstein creation. Early stages, have to finish the full character soon so a 3D'er can bring it to life!