Catchup

Haven't posted here in a while and for that I apologize. 2013 was a very busy year for both schoolwork and client work. There are some images I'm not yet able to post here, so for now it's personal work only.

A couple of recent sketches~

This creature is a design for a personal world building project, he's based on the mythological Ichneumon that hunted dragons in the same way that a mongoose hunts serpents. As this guy was originally inspired by the Egyptian Mongoose, I spent a lot of time doodling to figure out how to take such a small animal and make it monstrous. I'm still not ready to call this design 100% finalized and will be painting more iterations in the future.

I was only able to get around to painting this version thanks to a contest hosted on facebook by Helpful Bear Productions. Which I'm excited to say won! As part of the reward, this image will be appearing in an upcoming issue of ImagineFX.

Creature practice, nothing much design wise, just trying things out~

I'm not ready to call either of the two images below complete. They were done for a Digipen course class, and on a tight schedule. Amid client work and other homework I wasn't able to spend as much time or thought on either of these as I would like. I used the class as an excuse to get out of my comfort zone, by focusing more on environments, as well as painting the two main characters of my personal project. I hope to have another go at the idea behind these in the future.

Paizo and More

A couple more critters done for Paizo earlier this year.

Aeteperax, from "The Dragon's Demand" Adventure Path.

Infernal Crocodile, from the "Reign of Winter" Adventure Path.

Ever look at a seemingly abstract pattern and see objects, creatures, or faces? I was looking at what I believe was a photo of the surface of mars, and thought it's crater riddled texture looked like the front half of some sort of Egyptian posed alien. So I painted him.

Last is a simple practice critter. A big beefy scaley cow.

Sketches 6/9/13

Just a couple things. Another sketch of Arro (the dragon) and a Behemoth rough concept. I hope to get back into working on the Aerie project soon. Producing a lot of concept sketches of the world and characters. The behemoths serve a background role. They're future magafauna, having evolved from either elephants, rhinoceros, giraffes, oxen or other large ungulate herbivores. They're prime prey for dragons, wyverns, and other big predators, as well as beasts of burden and livestock for humans. 

Paizo: Reign of Winter

Finally able to show a bunch of paintings I did way back in January for Paizo. These are all from the recently released "Reign of Winter" Adventure Path.

Dracolisk.

War Hydra

Zavackuul

More Zbrush

Well, finished up my school's Zbrush class and it certainly was a fun first foray into the program. Maybe one day I'll figure out how to render things nicely, I feel like my lack of lighting skill within it really destroyed whatever I managed to sculpt.

Oh look a dragon! Started sculpting Arro for fun. No teeth, spikes or extreme detail yet. Still messing around with proportions, and will probably increase his wingspan. He's proving to be an educational experience when it comes to fully realizing hexapodal anatomy. I've always had an idea of how the musculature for a dragon would wrap around the body, and have done plenty of anatomical sheets in profile, but putting it into a 3D format certainly helps cement the spatial relationships in my mind.

Palapunctor Sculpt

Been working on a sculpt of a creature of mine for my zbrush class. Based it on the Lightning Lure/Palapunctor and sketched him in a spiffy pose and a little costume. I've a ways left to go yet, more detailing, pose refinement, color and something for him to stand on. 

Arro Doodles

Haven't had as much time for personal drawing lately, so I figured I might as well post whatever I manage to jot down. Just some doodles of Arro. Featuring cartoonish dancing and a rudimentary idea of what he might look like as a youngster.