Twenty Eight

Just a little sketch without too much thought or design. These things are usually fun to do because there's practically no pressure me to hit it out of the park. Not that I've hit any out of the park!

In other news, I turn 28 today. I guess it's a good time to look back and see how little or much I've progressed.

Bummer.

Magma Crawler

Here's another one of those that started with me being full of optimism, only to be deflated halfway. I usually find myself lost the moment I start to paint something up. At first, this seemed like quite an interesting lighting situation. However, it proved to be a huge challenge.

Anyhow, I decided to wrap it up and leave the lines in. I'm moving on.

Attempting ZBrush

Not too long ago, I had the pleasure of attending a workshop featuring Ben Mauro and Neville Page at my alma mater. It was a great and insightful weekend, listening to their interesting stories and watching them sculpt.

Like many others, I went home and decided to give ZBrush a try. I have to say, they made it look too easy. After some nights of struggling with the not-so-friendly user-interface and haphazardly using the tools to create something almost recognizable, I retreated to Photoshop.

Apparently if my sculpt was untidy (that's pretty much an understatement), I had a lot of painting to do to cover up the sloppiness. I guess this alien-helmet guy was pretty much a disaster.

Take a look at the sculpt below.

Sky Glider

This took me quite a bit of time, as I slugged through the process. Being pretty weak at production painting, I went through every step rather carefully, from composition to linework before proceeding to add values and colour.

Here are some process shots:

I really need to do a whole lot more of these to get better.