Paints

Some more quick stuff, been pretty busy with freelance work recently so nothing super finished.

Tribal guy-

Below: I usually use these two characters of mine as scale reference in env practice.

Hasty Faces

Some older speedy portrait studies

Adventures in Retopology

Been working on 3D stuff lately. Converted one of my creature sculpts into a game ready model and finally got around to rendering a rusty old viking sword I've had sitting on my computer for a while.

Textured the creature in zbrush with polypaint, and used ddo/Quixel suite to texture the sword and the base on which the creature stands.

Hasty photoshop paint-over to establish the color scheme before getting into polypainting.

Zbrush renders of the final high poly.

Maps and wireframe! Didn't establish a hard poly limit for this guy so I mostly just did what I felt necessary to retain silhouette and detail during baking.

Sketches

Recent sketch selections.

Moonlight Meeting / Waterfall Dragon

Some process stuff for a recent illustration. Thumbnails and character exploration for the human figures.

Sketchbook Sampler

Finishing up a sketchbook and figured I'd post some snippets here before cracking open a new one. My pages tend to be hectic, mostly stream of conscious and random shapes that eventually develop into people or monsters. Sometimes there's a finished drawing, often I get impatient and move from idea to idea before finalizing any one specific thing. There are also plenty of studies included here of animals, people, and some images by John WIlliam Waterhouse. Ladies riding deer are also a recurring theme.

Scalloped Ox / Rivet Heads

Mini creature project. I've had the idea for these guys knocking around in my head for a while so I decided to sculpt them. Eventually I'll turn this into a game ready model, but for now I've posed them for a fun paint-over to test out lighting and coloration.

Reference! I didn't have this while sketching but it's useful for sculpting details. These creatures pull mostly from tortoises but there's some crab and squid in there too. The Scalloped Oxen as they are currently called are large reptilian omnivores distantly related to tortoises. They thrive in a variety of warm climates, surviving in lean times via fatty stores beneath their flexible external carapaces. They travel in herds with a social structure similar to that of wild horse bands, the lead males of these herds attempt to add females to their ranks through showy displays and by battering rivals with their armored necks.

Zbrush sculpts posed with Transpose Master and bpr rendered.