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Portrait fun

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Been listening to the great concept artist and illustrator Bobby Chiu lately, and painted this :) Not like what he does at all, but I got inspired :)

Just some fun really… hehe.. Hope you dig!

Queen

Until next time

dC

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Elephun

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Hey, peeps! Done another ArtRage quicky.. an elephant.. ‘cuz I felt like painting an elephant.. haha… gonna be getting the full version of ArtRage.. I’m hooked, as if ya’ll didn’t know that already :P

I’ve included a zoom as well to show my soopah sloppy brushwork.. haha

elephant_web

Zoom

elephant_zoom

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VoodooRage

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Did another ArtRage quicky… 30 minutes or so… and a screenrecording… compressed to little over 3 minutes this time.. let me know what time is least taxing on your patience :)

Voodoo priests are cool… what can I say.. heh :)

voodoo priest

peace

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Staffvalley

Friday, December 12th, 2008

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 Lawrence G. Paull for the production design and the art department must’ve had a blast! And not to forget, Drew Struzan, the awesome poster artist!

I’m out like Lars Monsen (‘cuz… he’s outside alot… and… yeah.. you get my drift)

dC

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Hidden in plain sight

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

‘sup ya’ll! One of my collegues kicked my ass about not updating my blog, so here I go.


I’ll start off with an illustration I did… it’s called as you might’ve guessed; Hidden In Plain Sight
Had this thought about other beings existing in like a “world beneath the world” or whatnot, so Regular Joe can’t see ‘em. However derelicts, bums, drug heads and shit can… ‘cuz their view of the world is kinda torn compared to ours.

Been thinking about Oslo too, which is filled with dope fiends and like cthulhu-ish mythology… Lovecrafts mythology is filled with monsters and shit that we feeble humans don’t get, and would go mad if we knew about. So, the bums and doped out people, might see ‘em, and interact, right… seeing as how they’re not “sane” in the common sense of the word.
The monster itself isn’t anything particular from the cthulhu mythos, but I have this thing about tentacles and cthulhu shit…hehe… but it’s definately inspired by it… I’m reading “The Call of Cthulhu” by Lovecraft now… guess this piece is like a… collection of thoughts around Oslo and what might be behind the curtains of our world.

Ze picture:

In other news I been working on a robot design with a 3d modeller lately… I’ll show ya’ll when it takes more form :) We’ve dropped a couple of ideas already, but I think we’re hittin’ a track where we’re more happy about it. Went from a car to a chopper so far, some thumbnails and a little head modelling been done, and a car. ‘Nuff talk about shit I’m not gonna show though… haha… I’ll show and tell when we get there.

I checked out Big Fish the other day again, to follow up on the movie-recommendation from last post… It’s a beautiful piece of film! I’m not gonna get into what goes on in it and all that, just see it ya’ll! Ok… if you wanna read about it, click here..
Just to make this a cross post between our blogs, me and Kine are planning on making some stencils… probably gonna be doing some chimps :P

Aight… I’m out ya’ll… until next time! In the words of Koa: Still Create or Die



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