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Wolf heads

This is a profile study of a wolf head I did for 2 reasons.  One was that I plan to illustrate a comic about wolves that my cousin wrote and the second being that I've been super inspired by this comic drawn by these two polish girls called Off-white.  The style is a complete imitation of what they do.

This is a test line art done in illustrator as opposed to photoshop.  The line art in the first painting was done in photoshop.  I was testing the line smoothing factor in illustrator as opposed to my photoshop techniques.

Character montage

This is a random cover compilation/montage of some characters in a universe I've invented about insects.

shark attack!

He is the Herald of the environmental Apocalypse.  His name is Atlas, and the forces of the sea bend with his will. Born a blending of two worlds he is destined to tip the gore brimmed scales of justice over to rain the earth in lamentation.  Nature's time to bite back has finally come.

This is Miriam, Another character from the Shark of Apocalypse Universe created by my Cousin Adam.  She's a bit of a rouge character with her own extremist schemes, a zealot/religious fanatic who will stop at nothing to attain her unbalanced religious views.  She teams up with a pair of monster hunters who gear her up and see her CAAT9 training as a suitable asset. CAAT9 is an agent level in the Candela initiative.  Counter Assault and Assassination Tactics, the nine being the highest level of agent training in the Candela initiative or as the agents like to say that it signifies the seeming unkillability of fully trained Candela agents like the 9 lives of a Cat.

Atlas

Atlas sinking.

I had this image of Atlas burned into my mind, just needed to extract it. Now you may enjoy!

Fall study

A small study I did of a fall picture I got off this great site http://www.outdoor-photos.com/ by this artist: Peter Milto

Paladin

Paladin

Finally done this. A really good friend of mine asked me along time ago to do a painting of his dnd character.  And here it is, way past done with this piece.

Daenerys Targaryen

Daenerys Targaryen

Painted this after I read the first book of a Song of Ice and Fire (game of thrones).  This is at the very end when Daenery's dragons are born.  Had the image burned into my mind and had to paint it.  I feel that I gave it justice.

Wallpaper size study of a game of thrones screen cap. My new BG.

Wolf studies for a comic I'm going to draw for my cousin. A little style exploration.

More wolf studies.

sci-fi

random landscape practice.

shamoo 3d

another render i made today.

Orca + other stuff

Some work from the last month.  An Orca concept for the shark of Apocalypse.

And a D&D character for a friend.

Sketch.

Work in progress. Having a tough time with the light sources.

Study, wanted to try and get it as close tot he photo as possible. 

Got lazy with the hair.

3d ogo sketch done

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't inspired by Damir Martin and his 55 3d dragon sketches for this one.  An idea of what the ogo could look like, colorless.

Ogopogo model beginnings.

Portrait study

A quick portrait study I did, traced a 1 min base sketch and painted in the big shapes.

Really focused on the general image, photoreal stuff I left out, to lazy and not what I wanted to aim for.

All that stuff is just time, not skill.  I really just worked on picking the right colors, and detoured near the end of the study to give it a little presentation.

Outlaw of madness

quick tests of this patch for the back of his leather jacket.

ATLAS

A test render for an image I want to make.

Three Score and Ten

A 3d model I did of a Bikura from the hyperion novels by dan simmons.

Sly'ke

here is a couple renders of my favorite character to draw... he is the protagonist in one of my many stories...but perhaps my favorite of all of them. 3d once again. I did not paint this contrary to what some may believe.