Practice

Practice Makes Permanent . I officially made it a habit to attend life drawing 3 times a week . I think Charles Hu is getting rather sick of me but that guy is legit! Such a huge inspiration and it makes me want to do life drawing everyday. It really it is the key to being a skilled concept artist. I hope I can get enough money to go to the Gary Myers Workshop at his studio.

Body Rock

Desert Concept

desert concepts , again trying to explore different styles . tried to go for a more cartoon style than realistic . Start with some initial pencil drawing and value studies . then went to some quick color studies . then did the final version . Enjoy

p.s. thanx nino for the critique , it really helped out a lot

Environment Concept

Environment Concept I am currently fleshing out . Ill upload the color version painting soon. I hope . Probably will be adding the props for it first!!

totoro!

needed a break from all the stress concepts can bring at times . apparently they want to tear down the forest that inspired Miyazaki to create Totoro. Ne ways a bunch of artists are doing art pieces and holding a gallery to raise money to save the forest. Google Totoro forest project! It's pretty cool . Ne ways here is totoro chillin at the ocean!!!

entertainment projects 08

John Shephard - Rugged Photographer with a troubled past

flash painting

so just another test painting in flash. I am starting to get the hang of it. The first image is a scan from my sketchbook then I painted it in flash . Ill upload some more later.

another environment , trying to adapt to different styles of creating environments. So i tried to go towards a more graphic look . I am also trying to experiment with painting in flash so I will upload those results later.

this was an environment that i was working on , again trying to explore different creative processes for designing environments. I did some basic thumbnail sketches and tried some different iterations. Had the idea of a desert , rocky planet . I included some of my basic process of painting it too!

for sketch group we took a random photo and tried to manipulate into something cool we did a bunch of them , this was one of my favorite ones . It was pretty cool to try to a different approach.

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to the stars through difficulty

This is my submission for the contest
Basically the idea is for a level or a scenario . A marine is in a hostile area and he needs to get an evacuation immediately. But the transport ship cant pick him up in the area that he is currently at because theres is no terrain for him to land on. Meanwhile the space marine is in a zerg/like egg field and these hostile creatures are beginning to hatch. When they hatch the plasma goo that is covered in them begin to glow . So the marine knows that he has to hurry before the entire field starts glowing. However, in order to escape from danger he has to go to the heart of it , heading towards the mother zerg/like egg in the far off distance in order to get picked up. Can he make it in time?

some preliminary designs for a ice climber , ill post designs of his ice gear later , I'm going to design a similar firefighter as well.

having fun

face painting demo I did at my carnival for school