SOVAN JEDI'S ART TOPIC OF ARTY FARTY FUN!

As if I will really ever continue on with these... ???

I posted these animated .gifs on the office forums as a showcase for my progression on each of these images. I'm fairly positive I've shown them off plenty of times anyway, which is why I am going to make your head bleed out of spite by showing them again! Ahahaha!

Both these images are WIPs using Corel Painter 9 and a Wacom Intuos3 tablet. I'd estimate that there has been about 4 hours work in each image at the current progression.


This be a character from the defunct-for-a-long-time Idunn Ymiraldor, named Levian (who also appeared in a Maya project in college). This actually derived from a sketch I did years ago of the exact same character and the exact same pose in traditional pencil-and-paper media, and I really wanted to "remake" it to do it justice. I swear I will finish this one day.


This was a piece of concept art for a shooter I proposed at work titled Screwshot. Heavily inspired by the sickly sweet Pop n' Twinbee, the girl (yes) pilots an interchanging ship which can sweep up broken weapons from the sky and pile them on as a sort of tiered powerup system. You could say "Twinbee meets Tetris" in a way. Too bad it never went anywhere.

I promise that once I actually have some NEW Painter images done I will update this topic with them. Or just post my old work, over and over again. I need to get some new stuff done. Hrm. :'(

(BONUS: Some other sketches I just found to go with the shooter game concept! I'm only linking them because they are huge sketches and I can't be arsed to resize them.)

http://www.jontendo.co.uk/gfx/Duke_Saitarie_Crux.jpg
The main villain of the piece, Duke Saitarie Crux.

http://www.jontendo.co.uk/gfx/Pa_Grambles.jpg
The heroine's dad, Pa Grambles.

EDIT: 1st July 2007:


Lucky you, this is an entirely new piece! Meet my newest creation, Danté Swashboot! Although he was created with the idea of usage in a game he was not specifically created for anything in particular. I just doodled him one day and decided to commit him to digital form. You can probably see the natural inspiration from various Mario artwork in him, although I started off trying to emulate the Nippon Ichi style. Work that one out.



Another semi-original piece, the Clockwork Zombie. Somebody just asked me to sketch one of these one night, and so I did. Simple as that. Wasn't used for anything and never will be.


Sketches for a Bowser sprite to be made for the homebrew fighting enging M.U.G.E.N. - This fad died pretty much the day I started it, so no hopes of it coming into fruitition anytime soon.

author=Shadowtext link=topic=71.msg1386#msg1386 date=1183327627
Clockwork zombie haunts my dreams.

Say, Sovan, are you going to take part in the EB Siege Envelope Art dealie? You would probably need to send in an envelope pretty soon, if so. It says to have things in by the 10th, (postmarked by the 6th is their suggestion) but I assume snail mail takes longer to get here from crazy countries where they drive on the left side of the road!

I've no idea what you're talking about, sorry.

Also, updated with some sketches I did a while back when I was on a "I wanna make a REAL Bowser fighter sprite for M.U.G.E.N.!" stage.

Plus, to let everyone know that my online portfolio is up and running at www.jontendo.co.uk!! It has all the images I've posted here so far plus many many more.

I'm not dead!

I've been working hard at stuff at work, so I'm going to update with my latest project:

This is for a project in my spare time that's work related. The new games company we work for is called Finblade. The company logo consists of a metallic-looking shark fin cutting through stylistic blue waves. It was created by the company CEO. See below:



It's alright, but the accompanying promotional video material and the like is a little, well, bland. So I am working on this as an attempt to liven it up a bit - when I am finished with it I will present it to my manager (the CEO) to see if I can sway him to incorporating it.

Presenting... Tiburon del Finblade! (Finsbury for short).








It is all WIP right this moment, I'm still far from completing it. Last night I applied Blend Shapes to animate the fins moving up and down, as well as the ability to narrow/widen his eyes (to give a bit of an evil stare).

Here is a very rough draft of the animation, sketched out to give me a better idea of timings for the animations and so forth. Some details are missing such as the emphasis of the body jolting during his fin extending on his back.

Finsbury Rough Anim (997k animated .gif): http://www.jontendo.co.uk/gfx/finsbury_logo_rough.GIF

..so anyway, that's what I've been up to. Sorry I haven't been keeping this place up to date. Once I've finished my recent game I will post some art from it up here (which I have to say I'm REALLY proud of, even if by rights I shouldn't be proud of the license I'm working on... :-\)

author=kentona link=topic=71.msg4504#msg4504 date=1193409086
needs more teeth (rows and rows of teeth! Did you skip biology class, Sovan?)


But that's pretty damn cool.

Yes I'm aware sharks have rows upon rows of teeth and they're constantly pushing themselves outwards as they grow, but I didn't want to go that far with the accuracy of it. I wagered that almost all of the promo material this could potentially be used for would be tiny they would not show up very well on there and make the mouth look a bit of a mess from a distance.

Thanks though!

BUMP!

So, I drew this. I'm going to be printing this and two other (as of yet started) pictures of my parents' pet dogs on canvas roughly 12" x 16" as Christmas presents. Is there anything I should do to change it? I'm kind of umm-ing and ahhh-ing about the background colour, so opinions on that would be most grateful. Should I worry too much about the base of his chest or is it fine the way it is?