Turtle soup Hut

A concept I had in mind while going through the book of Skillful Huntsman and other art center books.
This is a piece made to experiment with faster workflows and this time using a rough 3d block out to speed up my process.
I'm used to draw and paint everything from zero and this time it had it's advantages and disadvantages, really.

The concept of happy vibes still follow me everywhere, but this time I tried to introduce a bit of a darker mystery through the giant turtle shell, questioning that the life in these places is not always a picnic (upper side and the main focus) but when you look around and find yourself looking to bottom, you'll feel it may not be a big deal, to deal with giant monsters, and that they seemed to get away fine.
I was inspired by Dragon Ball a little, whenever a giant dinosaur chased the main character, the character would always end up having it as dinner later, which was quite funny, because he was a kid.


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City Color thumbnails

During the past few days, I've been mixing scenarios of low technology with a recent acquisition of high technology, enough to keep the population go on living, and also to keep their historic architecture intact. It will be the (hopefully) last time I touch the subject of a peaceful living anarchy as society in a post apocalyptic land, as I feel it's just becoming too repeatable in my portfolio, which would be fine if I wanted to pursue a branding of sorts for me, however, I want to experiment and risk more.

The fish scales on a facade suggests they fish a lot.

Refining a thumbnail set into color, using pure painting and photobash techniques, to experiment which was the best to achieve a end result. These came too illustrative, but I liked them this way.
A set of illustrations/drawings is coming based off this scenario, to flesh out information about the surroundings and the way of life in the town.

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Druid Character Development study

Hello guys. This is a druid character development, from a gnomon class and a side help from skillful huntsman from Art Center. 
35 minutes tonal drawing for the portrait and some extra minutes derping with gouache. 
Scanned the costume design and cleaned it a little in PS to get rid of the fuzzy lines from the pencil. 
Probably will be posting more traditional studies, turned into drawings, if they turn out interesting.

Have a nice week!

Camo smuggler boat - painting

This week I took a favorite thumbnail sketch from April and took it to a finished perspective drawing, then, applied the fundamentals of color and light that I've been taught.

I've researched camouflage for boats, I know I wanted to put a spin of razzle dazzle camo, world war 1 sea ship camouflage, also dug up some camouflage from poisonous animals and mixed it together.

Some minor texture work applied.

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This drawing is part of the series of concepts I did for the previous post apocalyptic project, I decided that even if the project is over, I liked it enough to gather the research studies I did for it, I liked playing with the 3 point perspective and even if it isn't painted, I felt the need to have some base drawings in my portfolio.
I couldn't move on without putting this together for upload and call it done.

WC Crime Scene

The initial moodboard for the painting went a bit like this, however I changed the value scale to more of a high contrast one. I'm just experimenting.

Last night I took some time to push the painting of one of the drawings I did, using what I learned from color and light and how some colors help portraying a dark mood with the help of value scale, aiming it to high contrast.
I wrote a little story to go with it, like a criminal file too, however I won't publish the text online anywhere but here, I may use it for a printed portfolio.

And here is the complementary text, if you can't read the small letters:

Crime Scene Report - Summary
Victim information:Name - Anthony Dallas
Occupation - Gardener, unemployed
Home Address - B852, Foyers, Inverness IV2 6XU, Scotland

Description of crime scene
Crime scene address: The Ashes Bar,
   40 Union St.
Position of the victim: On the floor, in a pool of blood with a door over it’s head.
Possible murder weapons: Broken glass bottle of liquor found on the floor near the victim, crowbar found on a dumpster outside the emergency exit.
Initial findings:
Time of death: Estimated from liver temperature: to be between 10.00 and 12.00 pm on 11/11/19
Cause of death: Blunt force trauma to the head.

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Agent’s diary: The last week events took place in the most
peculiar sites , often suggesting a religious cult or mentally disturbed individuals ganging together, who seem to follow a utopian prophecy. However the recent report took place in the most raw and rudimentar place, to be a crime scene,
the killer does not seem to be very skilled for that matter, and did not re-arrange the slaughter site to make the
police job a difficult one. There are prints, blood and sweat all over. This does not seem to be related to the event of last week.

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Work in Progress - Sketch drop

I was avoiding posting sketches, unfinished work and processes on my blog, but then I remember the purpose of having a blog like this is to streamline the information about my personal art development history.
There are many places online where I can post finished artwork, and the need to expose these sketches to the world is still vital, so this is the place, my home to sketch, work in progress and others as well as finished art.

The following works are unfinished and done fast, I will hope to render them later in full color and detail.

A) Criminal scene in bathroom:

B) My hometown in a dystopia spin:

C) Environment thumbnail practice: