Practice

Hey guys. Been a bit of a delay the last couple of weeks, as im finishing up school. Will have lots to post in a couple of weeks! but for now... been trying to improve on my environments so here is some thumbnails I was playing with, trying to push the depth.

Update

Here are some character concepts I have been working on for a video game collaborative. Should have some more to show soon. We are starting our final for advanced perspective too, the task this week was to produce 80 thumbnails for scenes and shots throughout the project. Also produced some character concepts, armor designs to go along with. So some of these will be getting fleshed out into paintings this week. Very excited to start! Thanks for stopping by

cheers

Richard

Halo...

Hey all, the other week we had to do a spread for a pre existing ip, so with the current release of Halo 4 I decided to go down that road. Chose to do a little action scene, up close and personal. Not exactly happy with it, so hopefully its something I can refine in the near future. Also some photos of my current sketchbook as well. more soon!

Myth...

oakie doakie... so this week we had a theme of greek myth! Here are my thumbnails, I am really looking forward to getting in a finishing some of these when I have time. The aim was to do 4 different camera angles, and to end up with for very different illustrations along the same theme.  Hopefully I can finish some of them and post them up soon. Thanks for stopping by guys, and critic is always much appreciated!

Egypt

 Its been a little while since an update, sorry! Been working on a lot of different projects lately, hopefully ill be able to post some of that stuff soon. But till then here is some work I have done for school. I am currently taking Joko Budiono's advanced perspective class, which is really fun, we have a theme every week and need to produce around 3 illustrations. This week the theme was egypt, tried to mix it up a bit some interiors and environments, still got a few days to work on these but thought i might share the progress images as well... and thumbnails. Ill get some more sketchbook scans up soon. thanks for stopping by guys!

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Outpost

Hey guys its been a little while since my last post, been very busy. Trying to keep posting regularly... ish though.  Tried my hand at a couple of environments this last week, two different post apocalyptic like outposts or camp. It was really fun bouncing between photoshop and painter for this one something I havent tried before. I also did some digital figure painting this week! which was awesome, I only spent about 45 min on this so hopefully this week I can get a full 3 hours on one and try and push it more!

thanks for stopping by! 

Samurai

My first batch of advanced perspective assignments. We should be producing 3 illustrations a week, this weeks assignment was samurai so here is my attempt! I probably spent around 3 - 4 hours on the first 2 and maybe 1 hour on the 3rd, became a bit of a speed painting. It was very challenging and a lot of fun! I may try and refine them if I have time but for now onto the next batch... geisha! Also some portraits I did for a collaborative game project, and there will be more content from that getting posted soon! 

thanks for stopping by!

Life drawing...

Here are some life drawings that I recently completed. Long poses rendered in graphite. I learnt a lot while doing these about rendering form and light. Hopefully I will get some time in the near future to do some more of it! Also I recently completed a cover illustration, I am still experimenting alot with what I can produce mixing watercolor and digital, and added a bit of a progress shot too. Hope you guys enjoy!

vehicles!

I really need to practice doing more vehicles, planes and bots etc. So this morning a set aside an hour or so to flesh out some little scribbles from my sketchbook. It was a lot of fun, so more to come. I might even work one in to a more finished state. Also did a little color study last night, for a possible oil painting I may start in the future :) enjoy!

critique is always greatly appreciated! 

thanks for stopping by 

update...

The Huntsman Cover

zzzzzz

A quick update before bed! been working more of the battle illustration, proving a bit of a challenge, and learning alot! Also a long pose figure drawing from the last month, unfortunately its a horrible photo so ill get a scan soon. Good night all.

Another...

One last post before I crash out, here is a little speed paint that I did, about 40 min or so. I really have to get fast at these things. I also decided to do a more fleshed out illustrated scene, some sort of battle scene, I want it to seem chaotic and fast, not really sure if im capturing that yet. But hopefully get it done this week when I have time. 

Any critic or feedback would be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks for stopping by

Richard

05.08.12... Sunday sketching

Painted over an old character design and fixed up some problems with it, and also photographed a sketchbook page and painted over it for a bit of fun.

Space!

Thought I should try painting some sort of futuristic armor/ space suit, my room mate modeled the vehicle in the background. Its a work in progress hence the absence of a helmet :) A bunch of sketchbook stuff and wips coming soon.

Joan of Arc... progress

So tonight I thought I would set myself the task to sit down and flesh out an old illustration. I chose joan of arc! I spent most of the evening painting the background, which was initially grey scale, once I got an overlay layer down I just painted straight on top of it. Hopefully I can get to finishing joan tomorrow! Also another thumbnail I started for a possible illustration.

thanks for stopping by!

WIP

I thought I would go back and try and work up one of my character designs a little more. This is based on the designs I did for the royal guard for Ultrasylvania, which will have a booth at comic con this year! if anyone is down there and wants to check it out! Booths 5530 I believe.

I am trying to force my self to render things out a little more when it comes to color and materials, this is still a work in progress! 

Thanks for visiting

more...

Here are some more character designs ive been playing around with the last couple of days and a landscape study/ environment. Happy 4th of July everyone!

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