Dusted off a zbrush sketch I had lying around and did some extra detailing and polypainting. After that I rendered a few passes with different matcaps and composited the final image.
A warmup exercise, more to come I promise..
Hi everyone! 2010’s been pretty good so far.. still practicing painting with my DS.. 2 of my favourites out of the last two months. I spent more time on these than the earlier ones, still keeping them in the sketch realm tho. The lighting of the fur was pretty tricky, I guess I made it harder on myself by deviating from the reference. Still, I like how it turned out in the end.
On the 3d side of things, I’ve been doing quite a bit of low poly stuff at work lately. Finding it pretty fun, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to try so many different styles. Would like to do some cute low poly stuff in my spare time, well we’ll see.. anyways, 2009 was a pretty good start to life in the industry. 2010’s gonna be the year everything gets set in motion. Just gotta keep working hard, and have fun doing it..
Random DS sketches.. moving back to pencil for a bit now.. want to do some nice detailed rendering that’ll help me greatly when it comes to zbrush..
I painted this watercolour of Old Supreme Court and Raffles City while waiting in line to get tickets to the last of Neil Gaiman’s upcoming talks during the Singapore Writers Festival. I thought I’d be doing sketches of the people in the queue, but this view from the Arts House of such stark architectural contrast sustained my interest for most of my time there. Many flaws with my technique, but it was still fun to paint. Next time I think I’ll try painting a simpler subject in more detail for practice. Oh yes, special thanks to the generous girl who shared her umbrella with me.
Woo.. been so busy that I forgot I prepared this post sometime in July and somehow neglected to hit the publish button. This was the first after work life drawing session conducted by John Mahoney (the concept artist/sculptor/all round visual guy, not that dude from Frasier). It’s been pretty cool so far. It’s really great to have an opportunity to work on my drawing and design skills in addition to the CG related stuff from work. In fact, combined with daily painting practice on the DS it’s directly improving my painting skills.
I realise now that before this I’ve been approaching life drawing sessions reaaally seriously.. It’s been fun exaggerating proportions and not being a slave to reality, and drawing inspiration from assorted artists to inject a little more life and colour into my work than I would usually add.. Muting the cynical, perfectionist critic in my head has lead to a lot more finished drawings – that’s a big plus..
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