Wes.W's sketchblog

Skyrim Inspired

2012-01-19T18:14:00.000-08:00

An environment done over lunch. Inspired by popular PC game Skyrim!

Cave Troll

2012-01-12T18:47:00.000-08:00

I Drew this character over a game of tabletop D&D last night in between turns. I just started playing for the first time ever a few months ago (and am enjoying it). I scanned this guy in today and cleaned him up a bit.

He is a cave troll.

BEARSHARKOCTOPUS ! ! !

2011-08-17T20:02:00.000-07:00

Something for fun; A Bearsharkoctopi:

Bug swarm

2011-08-05T19:16:00.001-07:00

I did something quick near the end of the day today and figured i'd post it. I was just trying out some new brush techniques (new to me at least)...(or out of my comfort zone rather) and ended up with this:

Desert Painting

2011-08-02T16:59:00.001-07:00

This one started out with me organizing my brushes and ended up turning into something inspired by Dark Tower which i'm reading right now.

Photo Speedpainting 02

2011-07-17T17:55:00.001-07:00

A study from a photo:

Waterfall Speedpainting

2011-07-15T22:06:00.000-07:00

A quick painting done over lunch last week:

2011-07-08T00:41:00.000-07:00

Lunchtime sketch from earlier. Just messing with textures, warp tool, and color.

2011-06-27T10:22:00.000-07:00

This was a sketch done for a friend. He's putting together a sketchbook that he is going to sell and donate the proceeds to a community that does stuff for autistic children. It should be at the san diego comic con this year. This was my donation:

Witch Mountain

2011-04-02T00:27:00.000-07:00

Came home from work tonight and still felt like painting more. I found out that one of my favorite concept guys, Sparth has a sketchbook over at conceptart.org with a lot of cool tricks, so i tried a few out in the process of creating this piece

Photoshop brush practice

2011-03-31T01:08:00.001-07:00

This was done really fast, i was mainly wanting to experiment with some new brushes, while trying to make a large vista type scene
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Warping in fungi

2011-03-18T18:35:00.000-07:00

Update: A Random quick environment, i'm just trying out a tool i never use, the warp tool, to get those lines stretched around the fungus like plants in the below painting.

Also i want to give credit on the warp tool idea to Levi Hopkins, a concept artist on Guildwars 2. I asked him over at his blog how he was stretching brushes and he was nice enough to tell me he was using the warp tool. Definitely check out his blog, there's some amazing work over there:http://levihopkinsart.blogspot.com/

entry

2011-03-04T18:20:00.001-08:00

I decided to do an entry for the conceptart.org environment of the week. Been doing a little bit of work on this over the last week during lunches. Here's what i got:

2011-02-25T15:39:00.000-08:00

Another update, really quick painting, just practicing brushes. About 45min.

More speedpainting

2011-02-23T14:42:00.001-08:00

I did a few more speedpaintings over my lunches last week. Mainly trying out a new method of using more brushes and less linework/rendering.

Forest themed:

Arctic/cold

Hydralisk

2011-02-04T22:00:00.000-08:00

This is a bit of fanart from one of my favorite games (Starcraft/Starcraft2). They call this one the Zerg Hydralisk. :)

Random snow environment concept

2010-12-09T16:57:00.001-08:00

This is some kind of alien landscape, snow environment. Really just practicing painting with the smudge brush + a few other custom brushes in photoshop, & playing around a bit with color:

Environment with a mouse

2010-11-23T15:45:00.000-08:00

UPDATE:
I finally got around to some more painting; i started this one this morning @ home with a mouse, then brought it to work and over lunch decided to challenge myself to not use my fancy cintiq and instead finish it with a mouse.

Surprisingly it felt much less limiting than i expected... Its almost nice in the way that it doesn't let me noodle... but i'll still use my cintiq/pen tablet. Mice are not terribly comfortable on the hand to draw with.

Tundra speedpainting

2010-10-11T13:46:00.001-07:00

Another painting done over lunch today. It was done using both Photoshop and some of Painter; Just a study of a cold, tundra environment.

Speedpainting

2010-10-06T13:59:00.000-07:00

Update: another lunchtime painting! more vertical theme-age.

Speedpainting

2010-10-04T00:25:00.000-07:00

A few updates. These are all lunchtime paintings from the past month. Every now and then i'll try and get one in during a lunch usually on days when i've been doing something other than draw all day and i need my fix.

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Environment speed-painting

2010-07-28T22:56:00.000-07:00

Here's another quick painting. Just playin around with color, stylization, etc.

Beholder

2010-06-18T13:42:00.001-07:00

Just doodling around in the sketchbook. Decided to draw a "Beholder" .

Snow Storm

2010-06-09T14:46:00.001-07:00

Quick update:This one started out with me fooling around with brushes in photoshop... then ended up looking like something snowy, so i kind of pushed it in that direction.

Dino-thing

2010-05-21T15:33:00.001-07:00

This is a quick creature sketch done during a meeting, in my Moleskine™ sketchpad. I'll probably do a color version and pop it in here

The concept behind it, is it's some kind of napalm spewing bird. Spewing being the key word, he vomits liquid napalmy firey goodness all over attackers. So it's something akin to boiling hot, burning oil, X 10. He keeps his napalm reserves in the pouches under his neck:

speed painting

2010-05-15T14:20:00.000-07:00

Something quick done as a sort of "test" for adobe photoshop CS5 that just released recently. Used the new "mixer brush" for most of this painting.

Creature concept

2010-05-06T18:26:00.000-07:00

This one was just an out of the blue creature concept. Just trying to make it gross, and bug like, and brush up on the ol' creature skillz.

Cleaned up version:

Rough:

B&W Environment concept

2010-05-06T18:24:00.001-07:00

This one was done awhile back on classic EQ. An old canyon/trash repository where junk has piled up. Never got around to color.

Creature concepts

2010-03-11T12:46:00.000-08:00

Here's a character & a creature done awhile back at work. The top one is a variation of an elemental creature, below is a type of lava worm creature.

Desert Environment Concept

2010-03-02T14:01:00.000-08:00

Another painting done over lunch, trying to break away from the usual forest/mountainous environment.

Mountain Environment

2010-03-01T14:37:00.000-08:00

Another quick painting. In this one i was trying to achieve the same thing as the previous post. Less detailing, more use of custom photoshop brushwork for the details. Moving away from my hard round "paintbrush" and trying to exploit photoshop for all it's worth.

Forest Speed-painting

2010-02-17T21:40:00.000-08:00

Another forest, this one was kind of an experimental sort of technique. Done pretty fast, just trying to keep things loose and not render into it too much:

Jungle Environment Concept

2010-02-14T03:17:00.000-08:00

Something from work, done last year, jungle enviro:

Nightmare bridge

2010-02-01T16:14:00.001-08:00

Quick lunchtime environment sketch, about 20-25 min. Done while watching an episode of Kitchen Nightmares.

Water study

2010-01-30T13:17:00.000-08:00

Another quick "speedpainting" done from photoref. Just studyin color & water...pushing the color just a bit in some areas while trying to remain true to life.

Random brain exhaust

2010-01-28T14:48:00.000-08:00

Another update. This was a quick lunchtime sketch:

Tree dwelling

2010-01-26T13:33:00.000-08:00

Last update for now. more in the coming weeks most likely.

2010-01-26T13:32:00.000-08:00

Very quick one done over lunch last week.

and something from work done awhile back. A mine of sorts...

2010-01-26T13:31:00.000-08:00

More color and value studies for a crystal themed environment.

2010-01-26T13:30:00.000-08:00

A fairly quick painting, mainly just studying color, mood, texture, etc.

2010-01-26T13:29:00.000-08:00

More mine type color environment studies.

2010-01-26T13:17:00.000-08:00

Thumbanils and wacky plant studies:

2009-10-05T18:27:00.001-07:00

This was another one, done pretty quickly, started in painter, then sort of finished up in photoshop.

2009-08-23T04:59:00.000-07:00

Cranked out another sketch today, and havent slept yet. This one started with me playin around with brushes, then managed to turn into something.

2009-08-22T16:01:00.001-07:00

Just sketched this one out today. It is what it is:

Step by step

2009-08-09T20:49:00.000-07:00

A practice in composition and color, this was doodled while watching a live composition workshop on conceptart.org, sort of playing around with the ideas as the guys were discussing. Here's the finished then below that is a step by step:

Process:

2009-07-19T16:27:00.001-07:00

Another update. This one was from imagination, just a little practice in color and keepin' it loose!

2009-04-15T15:35:00.001-07:00

2009-04-15T15:33:00.000-07:00

2009-02-28T23:30:00.000-08:00

Another update, some sort of tropical paradise with a giant tree.

2009-01-28T22:10:00.000-08:00

Finally another update, this is something quick done during a lunchbreak.

2008-09-26T11:56:00.000-07:00

More fantasy/scifi practice

2008-09-09T16:17:00.000-07:00

This started last sunday as me studying working from a photo, then i kind of tossed the photo aside and added my own spin on things.

2008-09-09T16:15:00.000-07:00

This one was done last saturday. It started as me playing around making new brushes and managed to turn into something.

2008-09-09T16:14:00.000-07:00

A very quick one done with some spare time.

2008-09-05T13:32:00.000-07:00

Another one, i think this was sunday night. I felt like messing with some swampy colors...i may revisit this one, it still feels like it needs something.

2008-09-05T13:31:00.001-07:00

Another one. This was done last saturday night. I was feeling like trying something arctic.

2008-09-05T13:26:00.000-07:00

Here's another quick one practicing colors and lighting. This one was about the same amount of time as the one below, right around a half hour start to finish.

2008-09-05T13:22:00.000-07:00

Another quick something. I was shooting for time on this one, it was about 30m total.

2008-08-30T20:54:00.001-07:00

My entry for conceptart.org's creature of the week. The topic was "Arctic dinosaur".

2008-08-30T20:49:00.000-07:00

This one was a pretty quick. Over a lunchbreak. It's probably a mixture of dark tower and dune, both of which I've been reading over the last few months.

Scarecrow

2008-08-16T15:10:00.000-07:00

A scarecrow done back in june done for a class.