Mortal Engines LOD

Wish I found out how to rig sooner, rigging LODs is a "cake walk" compaired to rigging a 6k mesh. Damn. Rigged this LoD in less than an hour, which is crazy for me, however something tells me it should take more time than that, but hey, it works.

Self portrait Wip

Well does not marmoset make the difference?

Sometimes I just guilt myself in to writing something about my work. Mainly because I rarely write anything and secondly, It will make me look slightly more professional. Not only that, but it could build character, who knows. Give people something to read you know.

So This will be about the use of reference material, as we all know use of reference has its up and downs.
Copying a photo to the pixel is something that I consider poison, however the use of photos can change your work from something alright, to something a bit better. How do you know what your charcters face will look like if you dont know what a face looks like? Many artists use a photo or a model or something like that. Life drawing is using a referance, just primary referance. Recently Ive been thinking about how I can use my life drawing for illustration purposes, Ive done this a few times before, a few digital paints and a few traditionals.
Change the clothes, change the setting, change the mood, change the stance. The limits are unending, the first push is all thats needed to catapult ones imagination into a place unknown, who cares how you get there once youre there?
I dont really know where Im going with this. I guess I can just say, I used referance, than changed my painting untill it no longer looked like the reference picture, In fact, I got the reference from a korean photoshoot website. Oh well.

Todays Mushrooms

Every 3D artist ever has to end up modeling some mushrooms at some point, so heres mine.
Just a simple set of 3, theyre probably a little expansive for mushrooms when you think about it, but Its not made for anything in particular. Being wasteful on the map, lots of empty space.
Flat diffuse map with marmoset render.
Was a fun little day project non the less.

Photostuday

imagination i cant draw boobs

No refs, her face is seriously derpy

Photostdudy

Its a Thursday at the national institute of time

35mins

Still life work is still enjoyable, playing with shadow and what not, I perfer using human or animal subjects more than glass balls and what not, feel Im learning more about character features than when i was studying the later. Maybe I should do a long still life. Get something highly rendered and what not.

Speed from imagination awaayyy

 Photostudayyy

30 min still life

Another one of those lladro still lifes, thought id do a quick one.

Beep

Got fed up of this pretty quick, porcelain and glazed sculptures reflect like crazy, oh well.

Reading is a pile of, okay I guess.

30 minute speedpaint

Considering Im back in Reading I thought I would do a quick speedpaint. This is a little stuffed bear that sits in my hallway, thought it was kind of fluffy, dont draw many fluffy things.

On other news, I forgot to bring my tablet mouse with me, this isnt a problem for drawing, however using 3DsMax now has a added challenge to it, it would seem.
Oh I also forgot to bring my lamp, so still lifes are going to look kind of dull in the afternoons, stupid light.

 Oh yeah, and this stuff. Dont you love it when youre university gets you to do work for them, but make it part of your university projects? ...what that doesnt happen to you? Well youre obviously missing out. (If that sounds bitter, its not, Im fine with it, but still find it amusing.)

Hand studies

Man, hands are a real bastard, can never get the tones right. Hmm, need to do more studies I think.

Just some more speedy photostudies. I did a good set of life drawing today, might upload them in a bit.

Work In progress shots

Studiess

Photo Studie

A snazzy photostudy I fount on thatslikewoah.com. Just trying to warm up in the morning, but it kind of lasted longer than was intended.

Leicester Final fuck yeaah, grey on grey action, serious grey tones, getting some sweet grey rays from the grey godess here!

Traditional paints

Some traditional paints Ive been messing around with, still needs work :I

Weekends

30 Minute photostudy

Morning Self Portrait

Long time no real words. Ive been kind of pre-occupied with silly little things and been unable to update frequently with a good amount of text.
Not much has been going on.
But ive noticed a trend in my course of blatent photocopying. Makes me want to make a tutorial on why one should do a photostudie. Or copy from a photo in general.
Theres nothing wrong with photo studies, but how you use them can be. Copying from a photo and saying " heres my final illustration, look at me im badass " is pretty lame, theres no real challenge and youre not helping yourself create new imagery, you already have the photo, what the point of painting it? No one will ever ask you to copy a photo to the T. Painting a realisitc scene from like has some promise. Youre changing a 3D scene, into a 2D plane with the illustion of 3D. Which is a great skill you learn and will make you understand the 3D world in depth. Where as the 2D photo study is flat naturaly. Not to mention, the difference between youre two eyes vision and the vision of a one eyed camera.

You should realy only do photostudies for reasons such as: How do I draw that?  Ive never drawn that before. I want to know a bit more about this. I want to test out this new technique/brush/medium.
Some people dont seem to realise that and just go " DUR THIS IS MY AMAZIN FINAL PEICE ", its pretty lame.

Speeder painter :I

Oh you know some scribbles, Its pretty early and I need to go to class, so off i go!

KNIGHT!

Quick self portrait after getting out the shower. Man, I need to plan a 3 week course :b

Bark bark bark.