silhouettes

Sentinel of Stone/Guardian of the Shore/Library Colossus

spent a few hours touching it up today, fixing perspective and adding detail.

PLEASE FULL VIEW :)

Christmas Break Speedpainting

So I found this image on tumblr and basically I thought it looked like a cute little giant, and I've been wanting to make a piece based on it for awhile. So, I tried out some Feng Zhu shit and I painted from it :D

PS crashed and I lost most of my process, but here's some screenshots I took along the way. I definitely spent more time on some things then others, but it was really fun. 1 hour to get the basic design down and 2 hours of detailing.

~3 hours

+3 more hours of detailing and touching up 

A Semester In 10 Pieces

for those of you who haven't been keeping track, here's a short list of stuff I'm proud of from the past semester, in no particular order

Oh no that airship is gonna crash into that tower pretty soon

please click here because it will be bigger and you will see all the things

The Pond for Sale!!!

Hey guys, the Pond is up for sale at Threadless, but only for 2 weeks! Only $20! Pick one up if you like it to support your resident Ringling Thready :)

BUY HERE

YAAAAAY

Le Géant de Montagne

Sketchbook Dump

Process Blog: the Ambulant Snail Colony

sketch

line

shading

voila!

Speedpainting

Evan Monteiro and I did speedpaintings to the theme of "symbiotic warrior", then traded characters and illustrated each others' creations next, ended up being around 2 hours each:

mine, a sort of mantis-based street urchin

his concept, a soldier with a lizard-like familiar, revisited by me

also this 1-hour one based on the theme of "animal knight"

Process Blog: Perspective Room

Process Blog: The Pond

original by Aaron Jay (randyotter3000)

8 x 5 in rough sketch in my moleskine

I wanted to take the idea of a giant serving as a pond and make it more functional and navigable.

Where would the water come from? Rain from the clouds, so it would need more funnels. What would these yellow fellows be doing there?

Probably using it as an amusement park, etc.

Scanned the previous image, printed it tabloid size (17 x 11in) Then put another sheet on top and drew the final. Then I reworked the whole bottom to change it up a bit. Then inked.

then colored in photoshop using randy's palette :)

total time: 10 hours

The Pond