Friday, January 11, 2013

Experimenting in Alchemy and Photoshop: Minotaur

The final piece.

Threw together some shapes in Alchemy.

Obliterated the white background and continued shaping the figure.

Brought the image into Photoshop and refined the details.

After additional refinements, a level adjustment, color balance, and cropping.

Colors are hard.

Ta-da!


Monday, December 17, 2012

Practicing faces - Lee Hongki


Step 1: Blocking in the shape, first attempt to place the facial features

Step 2: Defining the forms and better placing the facial features

Step 3: Threw some textures on there, color balanced, final adjustments and touch-ups

Drawing at dinner



Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Animal-Human Hybrid: Boar Momma

Finished Product: Boar Momma

1) Started with a bad pose.

2) Made it a better pose.

3) Added some color.

4) Added more color and defined some forms.

5) Added a gradient and enhanced the details.

6) Did a value check, color-balanced, and finished off the refinements.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Concept Creature: Fishbait Angler

Final product: Fishbait Angler

After researching real fish, I did some concept thumbnails.

1) Lineart from thumbnailing
2) Simple value
3) Final value painting

1) Warm and cool color contrast
2) Splashed some more colors on there
3) Color-balanced the image and added some final touches

Wednesday, November 14, 2012