Adventures in Art!
Art is kinda my counterpoint to programming, and I need some of both to achieve “developer homeostasis,” we’ll call it. Unfortunately, in terms of ability, my art side has been lagging pretty considerably and so I’ve been focusing a lot of attention lately on “catch-up” time: training my eye, developing a better technique and building my creativity (as you can see, a lot of the current selection is fanart).
Hopefully this will be one of the most rapidly-evolving of all the pages on my site. Updates may not always go with my posts, either, so if you’re curious you’ll just have to check back on it every once in a while!
In any case, here’s a portfolio with my latest ventures, in hopes that the percent of embarassing content over time approaches 0.
(By the way, arts and crafts go in here too!)
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- Took a game’s concept art and gave it a pass at “realism.” Done with Photoshop. The resemblance to Mark Hamill is not a coincidence :)
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- A character in a friend’s Cthulhutech campaign. She’s a Nazzadi (gray-skinned) fire poi artist. Done in Photoshop with reference.
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- Source model from Posemaniacs. Sketched in pencil (shown in upper corner), redrawn / shaded in Photoshop.
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- Another dodgeball player, this time a little more realistic-looking. Sketched in pencil, colored in Photoshop.
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- Yeah, just a girl with a crazy color palette. Sketched in pencil, colored in Photoshop.
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- It’s a professor at RPI, though I don’t know who. I was studying some particular facial details, like dimples and wrinkles.
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- Sketch of a girl in a sunhat in pencil, colored and blended using pastels.
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- Growing is a game made in May 2011 as a gift to my mom. This is the title page, with a depiction of the two main characters.
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- Quick concept sketch of a game jam idea. Didn’t end up making it so I guess you could say it’s now a “rainy day idea”… oh dear.
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- This is the main character from Snapshot, an awesome upcoming indie game! Made with baking clay and acrylic paint.
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- Study of a couple of faces, source images found on flickr. A study of halftones and shading, accidentally smudged up the bottom guy a bit. Pencil and charcoal.
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- This was a Christmas gift for my sister, made with acrylic paint on wood. The necklace behind it is made with baking clay and acrylic paint.
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- Starcraft fanart. Man, I don’t even play Zerg, they’re just so gross and sickening and incredibly awesome to draw. Gogo muta rush!
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- Fanart of the female main character and the water starter Oshawott, from the Pokemon Black/White series. Sketched in pencil, finished in Photoshop.
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