Concept art portfolio

I’ve updated the concept art gallery with a few pieces I did for Catalyst Game Labs for their pen ‘n paper RPG “Shadowrun”, the images are for the 20th Anniversary Edition of the book. They were used to illustrate various sections of the book, like character creation and such. Had a lot of fun doing these!

Here a taste, go to the gallery to see the rest:

I haven’t been freelance many days, but it seems things are cookin’! I’m doing some concept art for a point ‘n click adventure these days. Can’t show any of it yet, but I’ll share when I can! Got some other very interesting things in the works as well. We’ll see how they pan out!

Workin’ hard, studying hard and generally enjoying life a lot more than a little while ago!

I have capacity for more work though, so if you guys come across anything interesting, or wanna hire me, give me a holler!

Fredrik/dCepT

Hey guys! Spare time fun these days; the Newborn contest over at conceptart.org!I figured I could put the sketches and concept art and such up here as well so you can follow the progress. I’m looking at doing something with machines and whatnot… Had an idea of a mechanical womb and midwife. The character iws a fully grown guy being “born” from the machine. I was thinking we make machines to make our life easier, and then reversed the roles.. machines that make people to handle tasks for them.

Anywhoo… here are the first sketches.. let me know what ya’ll think! Click for larger versions, as usual :)

dCept/Fredrik

My job bought me the full version of ArtRage a few days back, so now I get layers, blending modes and everything nice! I’m totally geeking out over ArtRage! Wonderful piece of software!

I think there aren’t a lot of animals/creatures in my portfolio, so I’m lookin’ to remedy that.. hence the elephant, crab and all that.. And now a turtle. I do these animal (and reptile) studies to expand my visual vocabulary when it comes to the animal kingdom. We’ll see how this develops and what kind of original creatures come out of it.. hehe..Click for larger version, which I think is nice, ‘cuz you get to see the brushstrokes alot better :)

Was listening toAesop Rock’s Daylight EP while looking through my pictures, and found this chimp.. I think I never posted or showed this.. The Nightlight track off of Daylight seemed appropriate.. hehe… Aesop; if you see this and feel I should take it down, let me know! Click the image for larger version (and to make the text readable.. heh)

Hey ya’ll, playin’ around with ArtRage still.. hehe.. here’s another one… 20-30 minutes or thereabouts for the first sketch, and then some time spent in photoshop cleaning up a bit and adjusting colors :) I’m experimenting with finding a good balance between the looseness I get outta ArtRage and the tighter stuff I tend to do in photoshop.. hope something cool will come of this when I find a good workflow.. hehe.. Ya’ll can probably tell I freakin’ love ArtRage already :P

I saw Babylon A.D. a little while ago (I can almost hear the “WTF, a Vin Diesel testosterone driven bullshit orgy??” choire… hahaha)… It so happens I think Vin Diesel in Dangerous Fuckin’ Mercenary roles (like Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick as well) really works.. like Ahhnold Schwarzenegger (it’s a wonder I get that sh** right.. haha) as Conan :P
That aside, it had a really cool vision of our world in the near future! Everything from the rich cities lookin’ like Tokyo on ‘roids to the run don backwater russian places in social upheaval… lotsa very nicely executed enviroments and whatnot :) So.. go see it, if you like that kinda thing! I sure do! Hehe

Yeah, so I’ve been playing around with ArtRage, like I said in the last post, and now I’ve tried out a screenrecording software… here’s a 20 minute speedpaint compressed to 5 minutes or something… And the final image :)

No movie recommendations seeing as how I haven’t seen a film since blogging last.. hah…

Next time ya’ll!

peace

Yeah, so I downloaded the liteversion of ArtRage and I’ve been trying it out, and I’ve found I luv that shit! Not all by itself, though, I constantly jump back and forth between ArtRage and Photoshop, but it’s an awesome tool!

Thanks again to Kine for not-so-subtle kicks in the ass about updating ;)

Done a couple of quick experiments with it to test it out:

Oh… movie recommendation: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Nuff said.. go see it :)

Peace

‘Sup ya’ll!

Ubisoft has said that there will be a sequel to Assassin’s Creed coming out! I though the first game was really enjoyable, even though it became a bit… one track after a while playing… That being said though, it moved beautifully, I liked the controls, and there was a bunch of very impressive concept art done, and the game looked very very good, in my humble opinion.. hehe..Looking forward to what the guys over at ubisoft come up withn for the sequel!

Did a warmup-y quick’n'dirty sketch after reading about it.. she’s not Altair, but I wanted to imagine up a quick assassin.. hehe..

peace

dC

Happy New Year ya’ll!

Hey ya’ll! Sorry I’m such an infrequent poster :P I try though… I’mma attempt to post once a week at least…

To follow up the KidRobot-ish Penance from the last post; here’s a dunny based on a Big Daddy from Bioshock… a Big Dunny I guess..hehe… Maybe I should send these to KidRobot and see if they wanna make some custom toys :D