Overhang

Here's the fixed version of Zemelac, the newest member of the team (loosely based off of username Fanboy) and a new environment I'm working on.

I Like Hot Chicks

Identify this 30 min. practice portrait to affirm knowledge of Simon Sweetman's favorite musicians... Major Clue: The flippin' title.

Lurker Hound and Co.

Here is the finished product on the lurker hound. I changed the legs a bit as I was doing them, so that it looks more like a leaping, or dodging pose. I noticed that a lot of my poses are pretty static so this was an attempt to get across something a bit more dynamic.

The other drawing is the first of a few drawings that I'm doing in preparation for a cyberpunk D&D campaign in the near future. The campaign is going to feature a group which will act as the rival characters to the party, each one loosely based on a different friend of mine from the artist community at the Escapist. This is the first one based on a user named Zelamac.

Sick Day

I have been very sick lately. The last 4 days have been spent mostly at home... in bed... doing nothing. It sucks. Anyway, this is what I've done in that time. Not as much as you'd expect but here you go. The second is the finished version of the Defiler redo. The first drawing is a work in progress of another monster in the same vein as the Lurker Maw a few posts ago. They will both be monsters in my D&D campaign. They both live in a vast wasteland where the sandstorms are incredibly bad. The reason neither have eyes is because, presumably, sandstorms would destroy their eyes, thus I've decided that the red barbs/spikes on them are extra-sensitive feelers like antennae which are heat sensitive and cold sensitive so they can tell where objects are based on heat. Some future creatures may use echo location or something...

Refiler

Here is a pretty much finished version of the Defiler redo. Hope you like it.

WIPping myself into shape...

Yesterday I saw material from a 16 year-old kid. It made me shameful of my meager talents. Holy balls is this kid good. He's the featured artist in the latest issue of ImagineFX, which is like THE concept art magazine. His character art is really quite good and, considering is age especially, is enough to make me feel inadequate. Nevertheless, with shame comes inspiration in this case. So last night I sat down and drew. Today I drew some more. Here are my two works in progress for the moment. The first is a REALLY early stage on some knight character. I'm planning on building him up. Starting him with the simplest of details and slowly building on them until the image is complex enough for me to be satisfied. The other image I'm posting is actually a revamp of a previous image. One of the first things I did for May Contain Dragons was a piece called Incursion by Defilers. Well, I decided to take a look back at the defiler and redo him with all I've learned taken into account. It's also my first time using texture overlays, which was fun and I think turned out really well.

Does it break your vow of silence if it makes noise when you transform?

I have a lot of influence in my life from East Asian culture. Particularly what's become part of mainstream popular culture in the North America. I love images of Buddhist temples overgrown with foliage. This goes neatly along with my love of secondary succession. Anyway, I did this number throughout the day today. I honestly couldn't tell you how much time I spent on it, since I was so sporadic working on it. This is the first time I've tried to tackle tropical foliage and I've come to the very reasonable conclusion that I have no fucking idea what I'm doing when it comes to that. I don't know how concept art guys do it, but I have a feeling it involves a full version of photoshop and something that rhymes with 'gustom grushes'. Anyway, here's my newest piece. The background sort of fades out when compared to the saturation levels of the dude and the dragon (which I didn't intend to be a dragon when I started), but hey, it's more about the dude anyway. I feel like this is one of those characters who's really a dragon the entire time but just takes the form of a human just for the helluvit, and just when you think you know him then he's all like *Bam* "I'm a dragon!". You know... kinda like me.