I have an offer in mind...

With my recent move (yay I'm a home owner!) work, and life in general I've had precious little time to work on any personal art. But with this weeks release of Darksiders 2 I just couldn't help myself and create some fan art. I've been a fan of Joe Mad since his days drawing X-Men and Battle Chasers just cemented it. I was SUPER bummed when his company Tri-Lunar closed without releasing their game Dragon Kind. So when Joe Mad and some other peeps started Vigil Games I was REALLY excited! They didn't disappoint with Darksiders, and so far the sequel looks to continue the awesomeness! Of course I got the special edition which comes with a rad mask that Death the main character in the game wears.

So during lunch on Yesterday I found myself wanting to open Zbrush and sculpt something for fun but I couldn't think of anything. I looked over and saw this bad ass mask and thought, hey why not!?

 I noodled on it a bit during lunch today and yesterday as well as a bit after work as well (my PC at home still isn't set up). Anyway I started with a simple sphere and used dyna-mesh and just kept going till I was happy.

And for shits I messed with the Lightcap material in Zbrush as well as some photoshop magic and did this :)

Expose 10 is almost here!

So as I mentioned in an earlier post, I am so excited, proud, and honored to have been included in the 10th anniversary edition of Expose! The amount of talent in this book is staggering and humbling, I am among giants! This is a huge step in my journey as an artist, but I must continue to push myself, learn all I can, and practice, practice, practice!!!!

Pre-orders for the book are now open so if you love cool art please check it out! This is their biggest edition yet so there is sure to be something in there for everyone!

Expose 10

One last thing...

...before I call it a night, I put this together real quick. Artists love their signatures, and I'm no different. So I used my guardian heroes skull and made this.

Putting it to bed

So I'm pretty bored of this piece. Without a concept or a clear direction to take it I just feel like now is a good time to call it done. I have no intention of texturing it, but it was pretty fun to just model without a concern for polycount, or anything else that rears it's head in game development. I have a few other personal projects in the pipe. I just need to pick one, maybe I'll start a poll!

It's been a while...

No new art these days, I've been super busy. Both at work and at home. So basically my wife and I decided to buy a house! Very exciting, but very stressful as well. Anyway we're moving in at the end of the month so I decided to create some art for our new home. We're going with a very industrial, apothecary kind of vibe so I thought this would work well. I basically just re-purposed the spine and skull from my Guardian Hero piece. The actual frames we're gonna use are from Ikea and pretty awesome as well.

Back to it

So with Diablo vanquished and no games I want to play until Darksiders 2 comes out, I figured I go back to my street scene and do some more modeling work on it. I'm just going to keep adding detail until I get bored or a cooler personal project grabs my attention.

Expose 10!

I just found out one of my pieces got accepted into Expose 10! I couldn't be more excited! The piece is this one found here, which was inspired by a random image of figurine I found in a Japanese artbook, I wish I knew the artist to give credit for the concept but I don't speak Japanese:

Waiting for the End of Time.

You can see some work in progress here:

Pelican Machine Head

I have to be honest I was a little worried about submitting a piece based on a concept not my own. BUT I've seen entries in Expose based off of IP not owned or created by the artist. I just hope no one faults me for submitting something that is essentially fan art.