More development of the Alien Character, head and armour detail. Up to this point it’s been pretty much a humanoid, but having reviewed these sketches I decided to make him more reptilian in nature. I did a quick sketch of a lizard type (bottom of page) character that maybe I’ll combine with some of the details already developed.
Alien Marine – Character Dev#3
Posted: 23rd January 2011 by RobotBash in artworkTags: Character Design, Character Development
Gone Fishing – Sci-fi Art
Posted: 22nd January 2011 by RobotBash in artworkTags: concept art, Digital art, fantasy art, sci-fi
Alien Marine – Character Dev#2
Posted: 21st January 2011 by RobotBash in artworkTags: Character Design, Character Development
Alien Marine – Character Dev
Posted: 20th January 2011 by RobotBash in artworkTags: charcter design, MyPaint
Witch Hunt
Posted: 20th January 2011 by RobotBash in artworkTags: Digital artwork, MyPaint artwork, Season of the Witch, Witch hunt
The Fallen Digital Painting
Posted: 19th January 2011 by RobotBash in artworkTags: Concept digital art, digital painting, MyPaint artwork
Hello again, boy I am posting a LOT these days. Lets hope I can keep up this pace!
Today’s image is inspired by a cool landscape picture by Kevin Walsh (found in a landscape photography book in the library). Anyway, I already posted this to my deviantArt page so you can get all the logic and details on my page there, click this link http://robotbash.deviantart.com/#/d37jr0h.
The Fallen
Bad Boy Bot
Posted: 18th January 2011 by RobotBash in artworkTags: Concept games art, games artist, MyPaint artwork
This is a coloured version of the sketch of a robot type of thing I uploaded yesterday. Coloured in MyPaint, and influenced by the game Vanquish and art and artists from around the web and magazines. I used this image to familiarise myself with MyPaint and I’m pretty damn impressed with it’s simple easy to use tools. Looking forward to churning out more painted images with this software.
The ‘Bad Boy’ robot is kinda’ based on the enemy robots in Vanquish. Though admittedly, not as streamlined as those designs, I took the basic shapes from the head and upper body armour and just integrated it into a design based around a strong gesture. The background came last but I had a good idea that I wanted a sort of abstract collection of colours that would help highlight the characters stance. The broken wall and buildings in the background happened organically out of the process of playing with the brush set and trying to create some narrative around the character.
I’m pretty pleased with the finished image and get such kick out of working on concept art that I wonder if that is the route I should pursue for the games industry? Only time will tell! Hope you like it.
P.s. Click this image to see a larger version!
MyPaint Sketch
Posted: 15th January 2011 by RobotBash in artworkTags: games art sketch, MyPaint artwork, Sam Gideon, Vanquish
I just had to crack open MyPaint and do some doodling. This is a fantastic tool for sketching and very easy to use.
Robot Gunner Tank
Inspired by the latest edition of ImagineFX and one of the paint tutorials they featured.
Vanquish Inspired Sketch
I’m playing Vanquish at the moment and really enjoying the high-speed action and animated sequences (though I think it would have been a good idea to give people the option to skip the movies if they wanted…). This sketch made in MyPaint. I was inspired during game play to create a sketch with the combination of lead character Sam Gideon and the infantry droids he battles.
Frog Man – Modeled in 3d Blender
Posted: 13th January 2011 by RobotBash in 3d Modeling & AnimationTags: 3d blender, 3d modeling
3d Model of Human
Posted: 12th January 2011 by RobotBash in 3d Modeling & AnimationTags: 3D animation, 3d modeling
3d Blender Lion
Posted: 12th January 2011 by RobotBash in 3d Modeling & AnimationTags: 3d blender, 3d modeling
I’ve been busy with Xmas and then busy being ill with flus and the like so have not done much posting of work recently. I have a few drawings to post from the last drink and draw I was at in 2010 so will put them up soon. I’m working on my 3d skills particularly in regards to modeling. Here’s a work in progress.
Lion Model
This is a model I’m currently working on, obviously quite a bit to do but really enjoying the process. I find trying to model real world forms is extra challenging because if it’s not accurate it looks false.
Oh No He’s Not!… (You get the picture)
Enjoyed Aladdin at the Gaiety with the kids and extended family over the weekend (made the trip to Dublin on train, snow wouldn’t keep us out, the show must go on after all). These two pictures were inspired by the costumes and drawn from memory so probably very different to what the actors were really wearing. Anyhow, I plan to colour the black and white one later with my eldest daughter (she’s 5) so we’ll pop that version up over the next couple of days. Hope you like and don’t be shy to comment.
The Bad Guy
The Emperor
Had a very productive drink and draw tonight in MacCarthy’s bar Dingle. One of our number was suffering from artist block so we agreed to do some 4 minute sketches to get the creative juices flowing. For each sketch we took turns of picking random or non-associated words to inspire the image. The results were creative and plenty of pictures were lashed out. Here’s most of mine from tonight, drawing with a biro type of pen.
Samurai Crocodile
Ice-pop and Octopus
Crisps and Teleport
Horse and Hairdryer
Girl and Music
The Secret Life Of Insects
Blind Drawing
We also decided to a little perceptional work, so we did these ‘blind drawings’ (just look at your subject, don’t take your marker off the page). This was a hit so will be doing more next week with compressed charcoal.



































