Military Transport

Had a challenge over the weekend to design a Military vehicle that would traverse the forest. Vehicles usually aren't my thing, and I know next to nothing about the military, so hopefully this concept isn't too degrading to either subject:

Done in Sketchbook Pro - added the boarders and text in Photoshop. I feel bad because this transport is kinda nasty to the surrounding terrain with the saws and front spikes (they pick up lower vegetation and mulch it...I guess that helps new things grow right...?).

Flying Attacker

Hi :)

Randomly sketching for fun tonight. I wanted to work on some dynamic posing, so I did..and I like the outcome!

Sketched in Photoshop. It started the same way as the dragonlett with a really blob-y sketch of shape, movement, and a tiny bit of lighting information. Right now I'm at the detail sketching stage, and next I'll be throwing some colors down and cleaning things up. Then on to final rendering. I'll most likely be lame and leave out the background, hehe

Mages

Nothing terribly interesting to report, I've basically been re-couping after finals and preparing for the real world. Scary! Anyway, here's a few warm up sketches:

I'm seeing a slight mage obsession...I'll probably paint one in the near future to get it out of my system. These were done in Sketchbook Pro.

Koi Sketches

I've got some koi concepts for you today that I drew for a friend of mine going to AAU in San Fran. He's working on an animated short film that I get to do concept art for every so often.

I based some of the fishes on other creatures to give some variety to my concepts. One had the essence of a crocodile, one an eel, and one has a beta fish feel. I think using traits from completely different beings can give you something very interesting in the end.

These were sketched in Photoshop about a month ago.

Draaagonlette

Finals are over and I'm officially graduated! Woo! Time to quickly pick up an hourly job so I can live while I perfect my portfolio and start applying to studios. I'm very excited for what's to come, and I'm hoping to create some new paintings, as well as finish up the ones that got lost in finals. Take the dragonlette for example:

I'm hoping to get him all finished up sometime in the next few days - but here's the step where I started adding some background and the strong lighting that gave him those harsh shadows. Really, most of the painting is refined to a pretty good point, so I won't have much to do when the colors start coming in.

Photoshop.