Cute.

Went to my local art shop the other day for supplies and found some slightly cheaper mole skin type sketch books for sale, Ive been curious about Moleskin but spending more than a fiver on a sketch book has always been an 'alien concept' to me (what a terrible pun about concept art).

Anyway these were 3 quid for two very small sketchbooks so i gave them a try. Saw a sketchbook showcase in ImagineFX this month with Mike Corriero in it. He's one of my faviorite creature designers. Anyway he'd done this things were he asked for peeps on facebook to name an animal for him and he took the first three entries and blended them into one creature design.

I had a go at this and got Sarah to name three animals. American Beaver, Vampire Bat and Emperor Dragon Fly. I ended with something almost cute..

Warcraft 2

War Craft 2 had the best generic Orcs ive ever seen. brilliant game full of character.

Over the holidays Ive been steadily working away in my little sketch book dedicated to the redesigning of Orcs, Trolls and goblins. At the moment id say that im heaviley influenced by Hayao miyazaki and Paul bonner, both are very unique individuals in their own seperate ways. miyazaki a master of asian culture and Bonner the nordic europe.

droid_2

thought id have another go at the droid, just keeping things abstract, wanted to see how it would turn out.

Merry Christmas.

A blue robot.

Digital painting

My girlfriend has asked me to paint a sloth for her as a christmas present. This is a challenge for me given the limited time I have aswell as the huge workload with uni.

I have decided to work with pencil drawings ive produced three of them a portrait of the entire animal and two head shots, the two headshots ive painted digitally but im not sure if she'l appreciate these prints alongside an original drawing.

Ideas

Im going to focus more on the actual sketch book work for this, moved off the nomad concept for the moment but thats the beauty of it, its an idea ive been working on for roughly three years now, each time i revisit the idea i feel i improve it a little more.

id like to think that the idea for the 'dunner' alien race i created will get a retouch at some point next year, for the moment im focusing on this idea that i thought about a couple of years ago. redesigning orcs, trolls and goblins as i desire. i never got round to putting pen to paper with this idea before so its pretty much a virgin concept.

ORCS

Trying to redesign some stereotypical fantasy creatures, focusing on Orcs atm.