just wip it

photo shop studies

Kelenken Rider

I'm planning to do a whole series of illustrations based on the Pleistocene era. Here is my first.




Here is the Kelenken





And with size comparison.




Witchdoctor

HA sorry guys a little late

Finally!!! Finished meh Ben piece, after a long period of not having any digital media I've finally been able to do at least one digital painting for the summer ever since my hard drive crashed, thus losing all of my photoshop brushes and latest werks. So! this piece was done in painter and it kinda took me a bit since i'm not very good with color and took me awhile to concoct a colorful formula that would work well. So far this summer I' ve had a new dew, so I've been meaning to express it via self portrait. So! i've used an internet image of the devils tower and just colored it up and from there and unfortunately i drawn myself with no reference which is not exactly the best approach of things, but!!! I would like some comments or either "you did ok!" or " great job on mucking a color scheme up"

plants

Screen prints!

hot off the screen !

My B-Style Piece

I know you all may have suspected it, but I wasn't about to chump out on my own topic, lol. I had to redo this piece with a bw value study first, as I mentioned in my last comment to Jair, because my values got out of whack really fast when I jumped right into the color. I tried to experiment with the color scheme on the cover of Orange. There were some things that maybe made that color scheme a little less successful here, since my ref only really included one single direct light and then massive amounts of ambient bounce light, as apposed to the dual light source from the Orange cover. Also Maria doesn't have dark hair, which seemed to be a pretty key source of the strong orange for Mr. B.

I worked off a photo of Maria for reference. I know the likeness isn't totally there, but after a while I was really just trying to get the values and colors down right, and the features started to get kind of smushed around. I tend to do this to things when I paint over my drawing, both with traditional and digital... gotta work on this.

At any rate, here it is. My bw value study seems to hold up better than the colored one, but I think I still like it.

WIP

I started doodling about five hours ago and figured that if I posted it I could break the cycle and go to bed.
I plan to fill up the space on the right with WW2 style fighters, using graphics in the same color as the pants.
Crits?

Here is some progress, hopefully.
Thanks for the helpful comments.

Progress


I still need to shoot some ref for the pants and feet.
I'm not sure about what to do with the nearest cluster of flora.



I'm pretty sure that this is the final. Any thoughts?

BenJmin piece!

I'm a bit inexperienced with the Painter, but i decided to give this one a go.

Ben J

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Hello, my name is Francis and I paint pretty pictures...

Jake's Benjamin piece

Well, who would have thought that I of all people would be jumping the gun on this one - especially since I hardly ever post here? :P Anyway, this is my Benjamin-inspired piece for the week. Decided to cater it towards my own graphic novel project so I worked up a mock cover with all the type and doodads. Definitely had fun with this. Good pick Raz.

P.S. - Hopefully this goes without saying to most of us on here, but just to be safe......This piece is in no way affiliated with, or endorsed by, Dark Horse Comics. I just used the logo as a mock place holder - and because I like Dark Horse.

Master Study

Hey everyone. I know it's been forever and a half ago since I've posted anything - or even made an appearance - out here. I'll be trying to join in on the fun this week with the Benjamin Orange (?) pieces. In any case, here's a little master study I got caught up in this week. It's a digital study of Carlos de Haes' "The Mancorbo Canal in the Picos de Europa." I just came across the piece in a book while I was working at the library and it just got me really excited (if ya know what I mean. :P). Anyway, see what you think. Looking forward to seeing the pieces at the end of the week!

Haha sorry for the mix up :P

Sorry about that i was signed in under Leo's profile when i was helping him set stuff up. I didn't realize i was still signed in under his profile when I posted fruit punch, until Raz brought it to my attention. I decided just to post the sketch this time under my own profile :D Can't wait for the crazy Benjamin pieces should be some killer colors on here next weekend!

New Topic: Benjamin Inspired Piece

New Weekly Topic!

Yo, yo! All you playa hate-ahs out there. This next challange is a tough one.

Step 1. Look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAljGuKzzaI (watch it in high quality, if you so desire)

Step 2. Look here: http://images.google.com/images?q=Orange+Benjamin&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=9WZOSv0m06S3B5PRpaAE&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1

Step 3. Study the style, in particular, the usage of color.

Step 4. Create your own piece inspired by Benjamin (the name that this artist goes by, I guess). Try to really push the colors.

Step 5. Have fun, and try to finish it and post by next Sunday.

Ciao!

Dark city+Munchkins

beast with two backs

I wasn't going to post this but since Raz posted his I figured I'd show what I have. The anatomy is supposed to be distorted but there some parts I couldn't get to look right. 

JE Inspired Piece... very late, unfinished, but still posted!

I propose that anyone working on a JE inspired piece get it up here by the end of today, whether its finished or not, so we can atleast have the enjoyment of seeing what other people were working on. I'm getting tired of this piece, didn't think it through enough when I started I guess, so I wanted to post it now and just come back to it in the future.

Now for a lengthy explanation...

First off, the detail shot is just to give you a closer look at the only parts of this piece that I'm happy with: The face, some parts of the hair, and the warmth of the skin-tones (experimented with the colors for a while, not sure if they're there quite yet).

The linework is botched in all three. I actually did my linework in clean pencil (traditional is unlike me, I know I know... and look what I got for it.) I'm not sure if its all chunky looking because I didn't have the proper scanning software for the scanner I used with my laptop or what, but I swear the linework was way cleaner on paper. I even tried doing some photoshop tricks on it, but to no avail.

When I first began working on this, I was working over a sketch from my sketchbook and was in the process of watching Benjamin Button, which has a crazy shot of a rocket launch that made me really want to put some crazy clouds into this piece. That was about all I was going on when I started. Halfway through I started debating if I liked the piece better with a flat brown bg, and that may actually be a bit more in the JE style. So now there are two versions, the one with the clouds needs a bit more work, plus some ref. I'm not sure which one I like better, although right now I think maybe the flat background is working better... let me know which one you guys like better.

Its funny that we picked this style to go with this week, because I've been wanting to do some experimenting with linework, rendering, and graphic elements all in one piece. So good timing I guess.

Anyhow, here it is, I finally posted, lol. All done with no ref, in the JE manner. The main reason for this being so late from me is because I couldn't decide what I wanted to do with it (still haven't, as you can see), and right now I'm hopelessly addicted to Persona 4... Don, you know what I'm talking about, lol.

Anyhow, post up people! Whatever you got, put it up!

Attention Slackers lol

Hey, guys me and Raz thought it would be a good idea to give a extension on the JE piece since no one has posted yet and we aren't exactly ready to post either. So we decided on Tuesday night. Hope that's cool, then we can start the new one on Wednesday. :D

You filth !

Oh space Hitler I will all ways fallow you

New Artist

Hey guys the 56 stuff looks great! I think we all brought are unique styles with a machine 56 twist great job all around :D

I do like the idea of a competition but i have also been wanting to do a Jeremy Enecio piece.

http://jenecio.blogspot.com/

post here to what you guys want to do for this week!

Hey guys i was thinking that for our assignments we should fine real life competitions.
That way there are possible prizes to win. What do you think?

http://www.infectious.com/contests/skatedecks ?

Machine 56 Inspiration

Here it is, a bit overdue, lol. I had a lot more planned but this took a lot longer than I thought it would, so I figured it was about time to hand this thing in. Frikkin vector, lol. Good job all who participated.

I worked off a photo of my brother from his wedding, taken by our wedding photographer Tamara Wade (gotta give props where its due.) And yes, he really had a katana in his hand. Tamara's site is here: http://www.silverthumbphoto.com/

lol

heyguysthisiscombatexwithanotherfppost

I used A LOT of shortcuts. I'll probably drive me insane to do everything manually.

uhm

probably could of done a better job. just got lazy :/

56 : O_o

Hope you guys don't mind- sketchbook entry

Sometime done real quick- I am working on quick face stuff and costume design. Didn't plan on anything too finished (hence the terrible hands). Was flipping through my Dressing a Galaxy book and was inspired- love the costumes in Star Wars and the work of Ian McCaig. Also attached a little practice head study- once again quick speed paint, nothing serious but would love crits on both.

Oh and one more thing- I started a blog of my own- even though I love this one, something to show friends and family- and others. I have a lot of illustrator files, what format do you guys use to upload work done on AI to get them in here with out distorting color (which happened in an ad campaign of mine) Should I export or simply save as a format....Kinda noob question but it has me stuck- Thanks guys

Creature concept

Here is an alternate version.

Pierced and Gauged

This isnt finished yet, but tell me what you think!

Sister

Work in progress. Oil + Canvas

It's about life sized, I'm definitely not used to working this large.

Any problems?