Posts Tagged ‘creature’

New Daily Piece

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

I think I’m finally getting to the point of being comfortable with ArtRage 3. Here’s today’s daily exercise:

Just fucking around with a wood/shrub sort of being, with a hint of fungi. A little over 2 hours, most of which was playing with layers to push-pull for popping depth and shadow.

The one thing I can think of off the top of my head that I wish AR3 had? Somewhat more advanced transformation options, rather than just the basic rotate/scale/skinny/squat/move.

Now I get to return to working on less ‘cute’/more serious apocalyptic cyberpunkian vampire stuff that’s on my freelance pile.

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Yesterday’s Daily

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

The last 5 days were put on hold to prioritize a charity piece for short notice. While I won’t be able to disclose the specific children’s charity that it’s for, I’ll at least be able post the picture and give a description once the intended recipient has it given to him. The Mysta Remake/Remodel got backburnered so that I could get that priority done, but I’ll probably finish it up later this week, and post it here with progression details.

Moving along…

I dove back into dailies yesterday. No progression with this one, I’ve got a different lengthy post I’m working on for later today. Without further ado, here’s yesterday’s daily:

Just under 3hrs. Initial background and creature painted loosely in ArtRage, without any base linework used. Then ‘ported it to Photoshop, working around a dozen or so layers of varied filter, opacity, and selective erasing on the creature. Brought in foreground and background cloudiness. Rendered in the wreckage in the background with a couple of my custom brushes. Gave the eyes a touch of bioluminescence. Signed the bugger and called it done.

X-Posted to my LiveJournal

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DDH Issue 1 Artwork

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Since there’s a delay on publication, I’ve been given the okay to promote things a bit, and I’m tired of sitting on these, I’m going to post them. Here are 5 pieces of art that I’ve done for the first issue of the Dumpshock Data Haven online Shadowrun ‘zine/supplement. I’ll also make sure to post here when the first issue goes live (BTW, did I mention that it’s free?). That being said, I’m posting them in order of what I like from least to most.

I’m somewhat abivolent about this one. I like it, but I’m far too aware of the aspects during it’s creation that I wasn’t happy with.

Now, these two, I’m quite happy with.

Especially this one, the Troll, which is my favorite.

All were done in ArtRage and Ps CS4. Times varied. The two at the top took the least amount of time, as I was pushed an extended deadline at that point and had gone through to revise all of these.

Later today I’ll post process and procedure for a few of these.

-Sean

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