DMB Shirt

I made a painting for a T-Shirt for my WoW Guild... this is what I came up with for the Drunken Monkey Brewery. I'm thinking we can make shirts personalized by rank listings in a cafepress store as a compromise. http://www.cafepress.com/mirisins

Fun with orthographic drawings

I'm working on my portfolio, and I need some orthos in there, so I turned this one out. It's a WiP but it's looking alright. The back still needs lots of work, I think.

I painted a head today...

I painted a head today as part of an assignment I've given myself for my new portfolio. I think it looks pretty good.

I used an Asaro head for reference, since this was meant to be a "paint over" of a 3D model a la concept art. I didn't have a 3D model to use that wouldn't have been ripped off from someone else's website, so I used the Asaro head instead.

As usual, I'm not completely where I want to be in my skills, but I'm getting there. I think part of my job as a professional artist is to never be satisfied, but to know when it's time to finish and move on to the next project anyway.

Update? What's an update?

I've been busy with work and Watts, but here is some of the work I got done in the last few months. It's not where I want it to be, but it's not bad either. It's good to get back to life drawing, it makes you realize how rusty you can get when you're not drawing from life all the time.

Flying Dutchman Pirate

This is a much more cartoony version of the type of pirate you see on the Flying Dutchman ship in Pirates of the Caribbean II & III. I wanted a big hat for her, and I also wanted it to be a her, since there's no women pirates. Anyway, after doing some reef research, the anemones really reminded me of the big feathered hats, so I ran with that idea.

Delivery Bug

So we have to do a delivery bug for the concept class, here's what I came up with. A friend from class ( cuca's cabana :: katherine brannock ) was doing a cyborg (cybug? :D) motorcycle kinda thing, and it made me think of an all mechanical bug....so I drew this. This is what happens when you cross a UPS truck with an orb weaver spider. Delightfully weird.

Atlantis

So I'm supposed to be making a half submerged Atlantis, and its supposed to be an Atlantis that's never been seen before. I decided the tale of Atlantis and the tale of Jonah are two tellings of the same story and that Atlantis (island and all) got eaten by a giant fish, and the few remaining inhabitants have lived in his belly since then. They have turned aquatic themselves and grown much larger in his belly, a side effect from whatever originally made the fish so large.

I made several thumbnails of other, lesser ideas before I settled on this one, but I'm only going to put up my fishy ideas today.