Art Dump

So I know the title of this blog is DARAF's Daily Doodles, but I don't post here daily, nor are the post always doodles.  I do however sketch, doodle and experiment with my art on a daily basis.  Here are a bunch of the sketches (not all of them) and experimental art studies that I do on a daily basis.  Some here are done in Mischief , some painted with my finger on my Samsung galaxy tablet (using the Sketchbook App) and others in ZBrush and rendered in Keyshot.  The tiger was painted in the latest version of Corel Painter.   There is also a Google Sketch up model that was blocked in quickly with the intention of drawing over the model.  Thanks for stopping by, Enjoy !!!!

Castle In The Sky

This concept painting is inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's (Studio Ghibli) Castle In The Sky, Puss In Boots, and Jack The Giant Slayer. The structure in the middle was an old Google sketch up model that I decided to re purpose for this piece. Below is the painting sketch followed by earlier versions. Thanks for stopping by, enjoy:)

color keys and Z-brush 4R4

This is a paint over and texture pass of a crude Google sketchup model. I gave it a few different color passes to experiment with time of day and mood. Below that was some practice using my new upgrade to Z-brush 4r4. This creature bust was the same model with features morphed and pulled a bit. loving this new upgrade and looking forward to trying out the rest of the new features.

Google Sketch_up compositions

Here is a few thumbnails generated using google's 3D program Sketch-up version 8. Just simple shapes obviously nothing special here, using the same model and lighting it differently and zooming and panning around the model to generate some interesting compositions that will later be used as a base to paint over in photoshop. Below that are some more creature design explorations and the beginning of a dinosaur model done in z-brush.

Military Vehicle

A quick speed paint of a military transport vehicle concept. Done using a crude Google Sketch up model as a base, then paint over in Photoshop.