Photoshop brush practice

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

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

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:

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

More speedpainting

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speedpainting

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

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

Beholder

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

Snow Storm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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