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Yesterday’s Daily

Sean — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:43:32 +0000

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

This Daily…

Sean — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:47:52 +0000

…Is being posted hot on the heels of the one from the day before.

ArtRage, then only slightly filtered in Photoshop, mostly for light and shadow.

Oh. Wait. I almost forgot. 15 minutes, total.

So begins Dark December…

Special Whitechapel Project Piece

Sean — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:54:17 +0000

This is piece that I did a couple of weeks ago for a special project that I wanted to contribute to. You can find the details here.

The first image is at roughly 1.5 hours, strictly in ArtRage 2.5. After that point, I shifted the image over to Photoshop CS4, and started tweaking the layers, which brings us to the middle image, a little over 2 hours into the piece. Finally, in the last image, I’ve added in the detailing, character shadowing, a very small amount of photo use for texturing, and added the final tweaks.

Total time: 3.5 hours.

DDH Issue 1 Artwork

Sean — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:47:01 +0000

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

Dagbar Wanted A Rogue Gnome

Sean — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:27:13 +0000

Dagbar wanted a rogue gnome (and left the rest of the details up to me to build his character around). So I gave him one.
Just a little over an hour, from start to finish. ArtRage and Photoshop CS4.

Moral of the story? Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.

-Sean