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December 12th, 2008 | 
Author: Hey ya’ll!
(Kine; good going with the dry throat there.. made me post again.. hehe… )
I’m gonna post some work stuff along with a couple of quick studies here..
Haven’t gotten around to painting anything too christmas-y, but then I don’t think I’m all that christmas-y… Don’t think I even have any decorations or nothin’.. haha..
Anyways.. I had this project at work where I made five (or actually six, but there are five that we’re gonna show) illustrations for a client. I’m gonna throw a couple of ‘em on here that I’m most happy with… If you want to check out the rest, they can be found on my company blog.
The crystals came out of stumbling across this awesome story about
the Naica mines in Chihuahua, Mexico that are filled with these awesome huge crystals, so I painted in a few of them to give the images a bit of a supernatural feel (which was kind of the idea about ‘em ;) )
Technical mumbo jumbo follows: They were painted in 140x100cm (like 11000x7000px 200DPI) in PS, and the layered WIP files weighed in around 1.2gb pr image, so they were pretty taxing for the system to work on… Big, dual layered, complex brushes are not a very good idea at those sizes ;)
I made a whole mess of thumbnails for this as well that the customer chose from. Below are some of ‘em…
So that was work… I try to do like warmup sketches before I start doing anything serious to loosen up the hand and all that artsy fartsy stuff, and I figured I could post a couple of those… Haven’t posted any quickies on here yet, but I do a lot of ‘em, so I figured maybe you guys wanted a look :) So here are a couple of those as well.. Just wanted to get like… other pallettes than the ones I get hung up on into my head, and went for a fall colored sketch, and a winter one.
Hope ya digs!
Movie recommendation:
I rewatched Blade Runner the other day… Most of you have probably seen that one several times, but see it again! It’s beautifully designed, and generally a hella good movie! Big up to
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Cool stuff som vanlig! Jeg digger den gule gravemaskinen. Kanskje du må lage en figur som kan kjøre den også? En muldvarp som har blitt for feit og lat til å grave og heller vil bruke en gravemaskin?
Problemet for IE-brukere (suckers, I know) er at det eneste de ser er selve teksten på første posten, alle sidebar-ting er borte. Resten av innleggene mister bilder og blir helt deformerte.
Takk for tips! Men-eh… er det prosent-tingen man skal dra i etter man har endret pixelradius? Jeg trenger teskjeforklaring som vanlig.
yo! Digger den enviromenten din med høstfarger. Den har fanget en god høstmood. Good stuff!
Also, det begynner å bli en stund siden jeg har sett noe liv på steampunk myths and legends-tråden deres på cgtalk! Får man se mer snart el? :D