Some Vis Dev portfolio stuff

Here are some of my Visual Development pieces I did about a month ago when I started sending out Job resumes to some animation studios for vis dev / concept positions. As you can see there is a major emphasis on character design, as that is my main interest.

There's been a lack of posts recently on my blog because I'm currently writing a story, outline and script, for a graphic novel I'm starting. 

Merry Christmas Bear!

Christmas in the eyes of a child.     20" x 16"     Oil on Canvas

This year I was asked to create and donate a painting for a local charity event called The Festival of Trees. The event is run by the Mercy Foundation, and volunteers team up and put together a 'Tree' package that follows a theme; people then bid on the package and the money raised goes towards helping children in need. The theme of the 'Tree' my painting will be with is "Christmas through a child's eyes" or something along those lines. 

Dusting off my digital painting skills

Some practice sketches

Concept Piece for printing

So we had to make something 2'x3' to be printed.

I decided to draw my Nomad character on his giant lizard mount. The focus is really the lizard, because I find creature design a lot more fun for some reason.

Colored

Black/White

Line Drawing

A whole mess of Environment stuff

5 Developed Thumbnails

Quickly done paints based off of thumbnails. I show a before and after.

Leviathan

Underwater is pretty hard to paint. All I got to say.

Leviathan Update

Leviathan start

Gilgamesh Illustration

This is another card illustration, this time it's Gilgamesh the King. So I'm approaching this painting by blocking in some solid tones for value and shape. It's a pretty simple composition of him in a majestic pose with mountains in the back.

Underworld Update

Another update on my underworld painting. Pushing the contrast and playing with color/light.

I think I'm gonna step away from this image for a while and work on my others.

A fresh start

I decided to wipe my blog clean as it has been a while since I posted. I figured I would clean it up and start posting again.

The image is a start to an illustration for the headless horseman, I started it for Halloween but got caught up in other things and didn't finish.