Flash Gordon: Hawkman concept art

Here is a concept art I made for cgtalk Hawkmen  Flash Gordon concept art mini challenge.

I have lots to improve with concept art but still im ok with the result. I made few pose sketches and I chose one I liked the most and there I started to over paint all details.
If the beginning pose has problems it will always reflect into the ending result and no matter how much you try to fix it, it will show! (atleast for me).. So I have to make more better starting poses / and correct anatomy perspective stuff..

Hawkman

Revenge of turkey

more normal style digital painting for change...

the home journey

more comic style practice.. I feel this way is fast and easy.. you can make mistakes and it looks like it was ment to, so you dont have to be so accurate. Maybe thats why many comic book artist tend to keep their work simple? You can make lots of progress in short time..
I would like to make some comic stuff, but I think its going to be bit hard to make the characters look the same from different angles.

Rider of the storm

Again comic style & and trying to be funny...

hairy caveman guy comic book style

I was in my public library and took three funny comic books from there.. and I was trying to mimic these styles more or less...
Also this style would be really cool someday to make mobile app 2d-platform game.

Office Hell

Office hell (literally).. about 20minutes

more 3d-modeling... simple box guy vol 2

sketch for the character.

first render.. lots of fixing still.

Big Air

this was fast daily sketch.. more or less 15minutes.

white forest

Cgtalk daily sketch: white forest :)
30 - 40mins

Monkey vs Zombies

Sketching again... I feel that I am improving these days! Still have to try to improve my colors.

1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz

I had to sketch one car again just to keep the older blog at least little bit active :P

More humor today!

After killer potato I couldnt resist making more humorous painting... I was thinking couple in relationship therapy, two really different "funny" lookin persons. After while I changed it to be more like in their home..
I call this painting "She dont love me anymore" :P

Red sword and Potato Killer!

Dailysketch... Topic Red Sword.. I was thinking something cliche and then accidently I had a face in my canvas which looked like a potato.. so I ended up with a psycho potato killer!!

Baby giant orc.

no idea where this idea came from... :P

George!!

Haha I started to paint face again, just doodleing something.. the face came up so freaky I had to finish the painting.. I kinda imaged this guy would be your cellmate if you ever ended up in jail.. I call him George :D

More 3d stuff, the musketeer 3d model

Trying to improve my coding skills with Javascript and Unity3d. So I had this idea to make a game with musketeers. At least I started practice blender 2.6 and made this character with it. Still I have to uv unwrap and texture it.. Pretty good after 2 week practising? I had almost 10 year of brake with 3d-modelling so I`m happy that once you learn something and you already forget it, its always easy to learn it again.. like riding a bicycle.. you never really forget it :)

I was doing 3d-models over 10 years ago, back then I couldnt draw stick figure.. I was going to study little drawing to know enough to make my own blueprints for 3d-models. I kind of forget 3d-modeling and just started to draw and paint.. maybe now im back in business..

First sketch of the model..

my blueprint.

render(with some problems with polygons)

Goblin Army

Yesterday I just started to paint face of goblin.. then armor.. then the rest of the painting. I just couldnt stop. Whole painting without reference, pretty good from me :D

Still lots of errors and mistakes to fix but im really happy about the result. This painting took like 2h

Cgtalk sketch again: Purple Moon

Blood and chrome

Really fast sketch, more or less 25minutes :)

Autumn Gods

Forest digital painting.

First thing in the morning when I woke up I started to paint.... I saw some beautiful youtube painting videos and started to make something of my own..
Here is there result.. 1,5hours spend..

Night of ballet

Night of Ballet, time spend less than 1h... topic was tribute to Edgar Degas.

Hope

Her name is hope (the dragons) 

Yellow and midnight madness

Again i chose topics from Cgtalk.com.. Yellow and Midnight Madness... I had no idea what I was going to paint so I just painting something and these are the results..

Yellow

Midnight Madness (not so much madness) :D

Blue

cgtalk sketch: red

I had problems with my computer.. lets see, i got few days to catch up!!!

I will learn and read about colors this week...

My first 3d-character

Today Im not going to paint anything.. but I finished my first 3d-character for my game.. or lets say this was practice made with blender 2.6.

I was fine with the result but then after while I started to think it looks too much like Minecraft.
My idea was for the game to have boxes because I have no idea about animation.... Go easier with everything and still have nice and funny feel... maybe exact what Minecraft makers did?

So maybe I will still sketch more about my character and make it more unique.

Dracula

Small Dracula coming home from his hunt....

Wolfman!

Cgtalk daily sketch again.. Wolfman!

I still have lots to practice on many aspects.. but one thing that really bothers in my paintings are color.. I think my colors are "dirty", "Pale", "un-interesting".. and so on. This is one aspect I have thought about many years.. If I try to saturate my paintings or make more value it always goes wrong and when I just paint without adjusting the result is -dull-...

So my next mission is practice lots of color theory and try to find some lessons & tutorials in web about coloring images.

Todays daily sketch Mummy

Here is my entry at Cgtalks Halloween topic: Mummy-character design..

Nothing new in design but was funny to draw. :)

Environment sketch

Still practicing on perspective and I wanted also to improve little on coloring. I really like this cartoon and painting style mix...

Here is my house environment sketch painting.

Todays doodles...

Here is two digital sketches I made today...

Cgtalk daily sketch: Red Stripe

 And short sketching for villain heads... :)

Spygame Cgtalk.com daily sketch.

Todays sketch... Topic was spygame and I took my perspective to practise :)

Perspective practice`s Day 2

More practice`s in perspective. This time I took blender modeling software and I rendered a scene with it.. took 2h of my time to learn how to do that! But anyway I think blender is going to be great help for me to understand perspective and also lights. I don`t have to setup any real cubes and cones in real life I just need to render a scene with 3d-application... I think its more cool...

Here is the render I made with cubes. 

guidelines..

And my overpaint with few new boxes.. :) 

Perspective practise

I know one of areas I need really practice is perspective. Today I made three sketches, two digital and one traditional. The last one got little bit carried away..

the first one I made with just reading little bit from some article that I found in Google.

After I made this I found video on Youtube, which tells that amateurs normally tend to make the vanishing points too close to each other, and it makes the "fish-eye" feel to it.. Exactly what I made.. 

This is the one which I made maybe little bit too long :P

I really recommend watching this awesome guys lessons about perspective.. I still need to watch all of those.

My first random doodles in here!

My goal is publish (almost) everything I paint, sketch and doodle in this year... Here is the first one... Im actually little bit happy about the result.. I couldnt really draw any characters few months ago.

I finished reading Andrew Loomis "Fun with pencil" and I noticed lots of improvement in my skills. First time I really thought whats the subjects are than just copying like a monkey!

Goals, goals & goals!

Lets set some short term and long term goals!

To improve in digital art, I am going to have some goals. There is along way to go for me improving my art skills, so at least I have to know where I am headed. 

I never actually set my self any goals to reach. I have only made daily sketches at Cgtalk and that`s about it. 

Having goal is important because it makes you plan your acts better.

These goals might change in future but at least there is something I have thought already.

Long Term

• I will make one sketching/painting post everyday in this blog for a year! If im not able for some reason, I have to catch up making many in few day. (in 23th of October this blog has to have 365 posts) 
• In one year I will be at least twice as good as I am now!
• I will improve and read theory in these painting and drawing areas:
• Character drawing/painting
• Vehicle drawing/designing
• Environment painting
• Color Theory
• Perspective

Short Term

• I will finish Jose M. Parramons "Color pencil drawing" book in the end of this year!
• I will make portfolio in next few months
• I will make series painting(No more only sketches!!) and ask people to criticize it, to see my biggest mistakes. So I can crush my mistakes and really IMPROVE!

So lets see how I can keep with my goals.

Also yesterday I made a digital sketch on topic "The Lone Cowboy"... I will use this sketch painting as a reference how much I did improve in one year. After one year, I will do same painting about this same topic and then we can compare, if my year have been any good.

The Lone Cowboy 

(time spend approx 2 hours)