long time no write

Sorry I have been gone for so long.  Summer seems to be my time of year for freelance illustration work so I have been busy.  None of the work has been glamorous but its work and it pays.  So here is a sample of some of what I have been doing I will upload more later I just have these ones handy so here it is.

silver hand

I made this for a project I did a while back but never really got to show it.  So I will post it here for now.

working a bit more on the model

well I still working on my elf character, added some more detail but I think that the overall image is starting to get a bit garbled.  I need to find a way to stylize it a bit more.  But that is a problem for another day.

some more zbrush stuff

here is an update on my newest zbrush character.  I know that I still have a long ways to go but with each one I figure out more and more.

new zbrush character

so I caught a bad cold last week and didn't feel much like posting much.  I am all better but before I get back to posting about my painting I figured I would show what I have come up with in zbrush.

starting to puzzle out perspective issues

  I have been working on this castle picture in my free time for a little over a week now.  It is coming along but part of the point of doing this picture is to give me a chance to experiment.  I am trying out a bunch of things like focusing on value before worrying about color,  incorporating photographic images in a manner that doesn't overwhelm or dominate the picture,  trying out building objects by blocking in shapes instead of line work,  and figuring out how to combine photos and drawing and come out with good perspective throughout the painting.  As I worked though I found that the castle and the two pieces of the village just weren't meshing. They looked wrong.  So this was my solution, I don't know if it was a good one but it seems to be working.  I added a black layer and then turned it to about 40% opacity.  Then I stared blocking in the building structures I wanted to keep as well as start adjusting for perspective.  There is probably a better way to do this but I have not found it yet.  Anyway this is what I have so far...

more detail

still working on this painting, added a bit more detail but I am still not happy with the placement of everything.  Its coming along though.