slacking

Haven't had time to sketch for a while with the redevelopment of mindresin going on. It's almost there!

I happened to have cooledit installed (cooledit is oldschool -- what Audition was before Adobe bought it), so I ran a little databending on this sketch. I'll write up a tut on it later since I can't seem to find any coherent ones myself right now.

How Lemmin gets to work

Quick study of a Hezrou in artrage. I have the D&D figurine on my desk (christmas gift from Amy), with the addition of a scarily happy Lemmin Kainen riding it.

Samus - Bounty Hunter

Started this before the weekend. Probably my last Metroid thing for a while. 1920x1200 here

Parallaxin'

So the brush sets I posted a few weeks ago were created with a specific project in mind;- This site. It's a work in progress, but let me explain what's going on here.

If you load up the site and resize your browser window horizontally, you will notice a lot of the illustration elements slide along independently of each other at different speeds, in what is known as a parallax effect.

The client requested this functionality after seeing the technique used on a previous project that I was commissioned for, Reisa Elva. This time around, instead of computer generated toon-like illustrations, I chose to approach this project in a more traditional manner, with a watercolor style illustration.

Parallax sites as a whole are a fun gimmick (easter egg?), that hopefully people will at least find by accident.

Some junk I found

Cymone

Odette

ZeroSuit Samus Aran

Very pleased with how this turned out. It has its obvious flaws but it was a challenging perspective/posture to deal with, and not many people depict our favorite heroine Samus in this style. Click here for a glorious 1920x1200 wallpaper version for your enjoyment.

This took a little under a week in artrage. I greatly enjoy artrage's simplicity and stability in contrast to Painter, and the price tag is a lot more forgiving as well.

Happy Easter.