Desert Environment Concept

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

Mountain Environment

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

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

Something from work, done last year, jungle enviro:

Nightmare bridge

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

Water study

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

Another update. This was a quick lunchtime sketch:

Tree dwelling

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

Very quick one done over lunch last week.

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

More color and value studies for a crystal themed environment.

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

More mine type color environment studies.

Thumbanils and wacky plant studies:

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

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

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

Step by step

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:

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