Another Warm Up Piece

Barbarian Queen

Some more Warm Up Pieces

More Warm Up pieces from my art group. As with before I use these to experiment with new brushes and techniques. Especially working towards a natural feel with digital media. I don't usually spend a lot of time on these, anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour often depending on the amount of interruptions I get. 

Muddy Barbarian:

 Ceremonial Cardigan:

Face Off:

Been a really long time...

Probably been too long since I've posted on here, but believe it or not I've actually been working on things. Most of which I can't post on here yet but I have been working on warm up pieces and such so I figure I should start posting some of those here until my other projects wrap up. Once those do I will be posting lots more.

One of the art groups that I belong to does what we call Weekly Warm Ups, just topic suggestions that can be used in any way to inspire the artist. Could be spitpaintings, full pieces, practice with new techniques, etc. I thought I'd start posting those here to keep things current on here again.

For me, most of these warm ups are a chance for me to work with new brushes and techniques and see what directions I can push myself into.

Here are a few of my recent ones.

Marsh Army:

Iron Ox:

Elevation:

I'll post a few more older pieces soon too.

Contemplative Vampire...

Lunch Sketch.

Lunch time droids

Quick lunch painting...

30 minutes tops. Just messing around with tool presets and various symmetry methods.

A few recent sketches/test pieces

Just messing around with some new presets, tools and brushes. Not more than 40 minutes or so spent on these.

A late night sketch

A 40 minute, late night, one brush, one layer painting.

Spit Paintings

Still trying to get back into the stride of doing these quicker pieces again.  Ninja from the Future and Skeleton Lord both took roughly 30 minutes to bring to this point. Maybe someday I'll come back and take some of these further...maybe.

Character concepts...

A couple of rainy day character concepts I did a little while back.

Last minute fan art...

So I found out that Bungie was doing a fan art challenge for Destiny in honor of Earth Day. The problem was I didn't find out until a day before it was due. I decided to go ahead a paint a piece and submit it anyways. I decided to go with a medium shot to save time although my original idea was to do a full figure painting.  I spent about 2 and a half hours working on this one. Maybe I'll do the full one eventually just for fun too.

I've been swamped with so many projects lately that it felt good to take a break and paint something different even if it was a quick one.

It's been a while...

I haven't posted in while. I've been keeping pretty busy lately, but that is a good thing. I did manage to get a couple quick paintings in tonight just for fun though.

Paint over an old sketch...

Decided to paint up one of my old sketchbook drawings.

  

Here is the original.

Some Global Game Jam 2012 work...

Here are a few of the concept pieces I worked on for Global Game Jam 2012. The game that my team (Team Scope Cannon) worked on was a project called Embodied. We managed to accomplish quite a bit in the the 48 hour time span, more than we were actually able to include in the final uploaded version of the game. The team has talked about polish the game up to a more completed state though in the future. The link to the game in its current state is: http://globalgamejam.org/2012/embodied

Anyways here are a few of the concepts...

Lunch time speedie...

Was working on some concepts for another project and this is one that sketches that went in another direction than intended.

Messing around...

Just experimenting with some techniques and various settings today.

Lunch work...

Worked up from an old ink sketch. Little more than an hours worth of work.

Some recent sketches...

10 to 15 minute sketches. Most of these were done while waiting for something. I have lot's more to post of these soon.

20-30 minute warm up piece...

Lunchtime speed painting

Today's half hour or so project off the cuff, maybe I'll polish it up more in between my other works. I also have some traditional pen and ink pics to post soon...gotta get scanning though.