India Value Study

Practicing my value work and getting back into concept art. Really enjoying myself doing these!

Egypt Value Study

Making the most of my spare time and getting some practice in doing some value studies.

Colour Keys

I've been working on this for the last week and unfortunately it took a lot longer than I had hoped. I've never done a colour script before but as the story for 'The Cheese Moon of Hillsville' relies strongly on light and colour to reveal what is happening with the moon and community I thought it would be a great idea. In the film there would be a montage sequence of the moon being eaten by the villagers as the town descends into darkness the colour script below is meant to illustrate that. I found it really hard trying not to get bogged down in the details of the image and just focus on telling the story. I definitely need to work on simplifying my artwork so I can get things done quicker.

Moon Concept Composition

I really struggled to get the composition I wanted for this shot but I really enjoyed creating all the thumbnails that helped me do so. Trying to convey a sense of scale was really hard especially because in nature things can be many different sizes. I decided to include trees, because although they can be many sizes often we regard them as one similar height, any higher is abnormal and smaller would have less foliage on as it would have less branches. I also struggled to get the colour of the moon right. I wanted it to be quite hot and warm everything around it even scorching some of the land where it has crashed down.

Elders House on the Hill

This is my composition and value worksheet for the elders house on the hill in the Cheese Moon story I'm working on. I found it really easy to design once I had the composition but the lighting was hard to get right. I loved working on the clouds and using different marks across the image for different textures, but when I came to take it from black and white into colour I really struggled and could never achieve what I wanted. I definitely think this technique is going to require more practice.

Elders House Design

Some quick thumbnails next to the final design on the right. I really enjoyed creating this as I don't often get to work on architecture and I've had a lot of great feedback!

Robinson Crusoe

Heres an image I created using photoshop based on a passage from Robinson Crusoe.

Air Balloon Launch Daily Spitpaint

I've been doing these every now and then but I never manage to keep within the 30 min time limit. This one took me an hour but I really liked the topic and the outcome wasn't too bad. Hopefully I'll get quicker if I keep practicing.

Timmy the T-Rex Turnaround

This is my turnaround of Timmy the T-Rex. I'm still undecided on the spines. The top is my favourite but any advice on which one is better would be appreciated! The top turnarounds spines are more square, the second one has curvy spines, and the third has more 3D spines. I hope you love him as much as I do!

Desert

This is a futuristic desert concept art piece I created. I couldn't get the lighting right and I was really frustrated in the end so I pronounced it done and moved on. I've never painted a desert before and I underestimated how hard it would be to get the harsh lighting right, especially while trying to convey an idea of it being on another planet. I came up with the idea of a family searching for somewhere to rest across the harsh desert but instead they find a factory esq building and have no choice but to go there to seek refuge.

Fishes!

I wanted to practice my repetition so I came up with this composition. I'm really happy with the results although it didn't look like it was going to come together until the very end when I added the lens blurs. I think next time I need to consider the composition a bit more as I feel it lacks rhythm although it has direction, and I wish the monster fish was scarier with a bigger mouth and more teeth.

Quick City Concept

I'm really busy at the moment but I've managed to fit time in to do this quick city concept for a game I'm working on.

Running pie

Yep it's another running pie...

Foggy Lake

A quick painting I did in less than an hour to practice painting water in Photoshop and adding atmosphere and depth.

Street Designs

Early street design for a project I'm currently working on.

Mermaid

This is my first ever underwater concept. It's pretty rough and I'm not sure about the characters, but I really like the colours!

Telescope

This is a quick digital painting I've done for one of the ideas I'm currently working on. Hope you like it!

Practicing my Speed Painting

I've been focusing a lot on my characters and drawing lately but I want to try and get back into digital painting. This is the first one I've done in a while and it's not perfect but I'm pretty happy with it considering it only took me half an hour.

Biker

One out of a series of biker designs I'm currently working on.

Fluffaluffaloperous!

Every now and then its fun to draw like a child with felt tip pens. Here is my Fluffaluffaloperous! It's not perfect and its only a quick concept, but i could possibly see it one day in a children's cartoon series. I hope you like it.