Lunch Endeavors

Probably not gonna finish rendering this guy, values all over the place x_X

Lunch Sketch 11

Lunch Sketch 10

Morning Sketches

Oh Hai!

Hey everyone!  Guess its time for me to get off the sidelines.  I have a bunch of stuff sitting on my harddrive that never sees the light of day -- gotta get better about that...

Some character variation sketches for a personal project I'm developing.  First pass--

A little refinement--

I'm flattered to have been invited to contribute to such a talented group.  Thanks for letting me tag along! :]

Class Demo

lunch sketching

Lunch

Lunch Sketch 9

Lunch Sketch

Dinner Sketch 1

Greatly Inspired by the amazing Travis Charest

Lunch sketch

not much thought behind it... sorry

Lunch Sketch 8

Try to come up with some weird scifi stuff.

Lunch Sketch 7

Lunch Sketch 6

wish it was warm again...

And in the element of light
The sun reflected from the waves
Inshore it spangles
The child of air is borne upon the wind that blows across the sea
And in the element of summer
The cliffs suspended in the heat
The air in columns...

I wish i knew who wrote this.

slowly but surely... ?

Lunch Sketch 4 & 5

Been doing lots of studies on the side (Mainly from Paperblue), but out of them, here are the lunch sketches I feel are worth to post :)

Theme Paintings ( Under the Sea)

So on James Paick's blog he speaks about the different themes one can paint for environmental concept art. So I have decided that each day I will try to bust out 3 - 5 paintings for that particular theme ( I know he can do 5 in a day , I am not that fast .... at least not yet)

Something that I started is that I work on each painting in 20 minute intervals , and I put an online timer on my other screen. When I see that time winding down I force myself to be bolder with my decision. As soon as it hits 20 minutes I start a new painting and I keep rotating. So I kept each one of these to 2 hours a piece. However, before all this I gather some reference and spend about 20 minutes doing rough sketches on pen and paper before jumping to digital. I will be doing more tests on this and themes. Next theme is cliffs.

kalen

brainless lunch sketch

trying out stuff... poop haha 

Lunch Sketch 3

Lunch sketches too !

Lunch Sketch 2

Lunch Sketch 1

trying to get up off them sidelines

inspired by AJ's recent art dump and Gino Whitehall's brush work

Hard Surface Studies

Hey there, just wanted to post some of the Hard Surface studies ive been doing from the AWESOME photo ref uploaded here! Perspective and Hard Surface have always been one of my many week points, so im watching as many scott robertson dvds and feng zhu dvds in an attempt to give myself a bootlegged Art Center education! (We'll see how it goes) Crits and advice welcome!

Environment Demo for Red Engine

A Great Interview!

Hello every one!

I just finished reading this interview on art direction in games! Jonathan Jacques-Bellêtete just finished art directing Deus Ex: Human Revolution and has some amazing stuff to say on the subject.

Enjoy,

Luke

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6462/a_cyberrenaissance_in_art_.php

Schoolism!

Here is an image I did for a Imagine FX ad for my class at Schoolism. If you guys are interested go check out my class here >>>http://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=12

I just started my class recently so the next one starts up in Novemeber 30, 2011! Anyways, thanks everyone for the support. Mucho appreciated.

Sketchadoodle

Hey guys, If you haven't found out already, I made a twitter! Come follow me! :) http://twitter.com/#!/Robotpencil

Oh and here are some doodles!

ancient guardian

Demo!

Spaceship Thumbs!

Some space ship thumbs I did after work.

Creature Design Demo

This is my demo I did last week for my creature design class at Red Engine!

catwoman sketches

Just messing around. I guess i was aiming for something in between Burton and Nolan... i dunno .. Lol where's you guys' stuff ?!

Mech 3D Model and Animation

ROOK Mech Walker from Talking Animals on Vimeo.

CTN, They've got the Look

They’ve Got the Look! Art Directors Discuss What it Takes from Creative Talent Network on Vimeo.

This video is pretty interesting! Thought I'd share. Plus they have my favorite artist involved!

Tight Black Suit

A tight black suit seems like all the rage to all of our female heroines and villians! It amazes me that after all these years we still stick to the same tricks to design a female hero. Only a few movies that I can really think of really pull through and bring us some unique and re-memorable female heroines! Kill Bill's Beatrice was one of them, in her awesome yellow jump suit which was a throw back to the awesome Bruce Lee.

I saw the latest Catwoman design, and was greatly underwhelmed. I get she starts as a burglar, and evolves into the Catwoman, but I feel that this ideation is the easy way out. I trust in Nolan's story telling and will still have much hype for the upcoming film, but honestly they shouldn't have shown us anything.

Anyways, what do you guys think, and I pose this challenge for you all! If you had an opportunity to redesign Catwoman, how would you do it? Feel free to post designs on the blog :)

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