Painting Work In Progress

Been Busy Painting mostly, working now on some 3d and deciding whether or not I will go for the BRAWL Competition on Polycount (I am interested in the Environment portion)
Here are some of the painting sketches I am working on, some need a bit of work still, but I figured I would put them up in their states anyways. I am really digging painting like this, while it isn't photo real, I feel like I am moving in the right direction with getting the colors I am seeing while in the field.

Nice Day - Go Painting

Having a lot of luck with the weather for the past two weeks, continuing with some painting, want to touch up two of the paintings I had finished a couple weeks before then I will throw them up on the blog.

Back From GDC

Back From GDC, it was an amazing learning experience and I am super excited to get back to some personal work. Here is an update on Bertie Bot, I Zbrush'd some zombie battle scars and some other detail into metal. Pouches and Revolver are underway and should be up by tomorrow, that is, if I don't try to run out on a sunny day to paint.




- Justin

Snow Painting

Got a good chunk of painting done today, mostly inside work, I can't help but admit that I will like to be able to go back outside soon without all the snow around. Anyways pictures should be up tomorrow, have to finish up two panels I am working on, one of just interior stillife, and the other a backyard color, snow, study. Snow is a pain in my ass.

Snow, Snow, Snow

So I had a later start today than I would of liked, mainly because I was torn between painting out my window and trying to do some 3D. Well, I sided with finishing up some 3D work more specifically working in Zbrush on the little Bertie Bot project. I spent a majority of my time today though looking at rendering and matcap techniques, well because I wanted to learn how it all works :)

Here is a screen of Mr. Bertie Bot, with some dents and stuff, I will hope to get a little more done tomorrow than what I have done today, I am still continuing to stalk the Wacom site so I can order a centique (Out of Stock right now)

Damn, Ice!

Went out the past two days to paint, took a break from the 3d and Bertie the zombie killing, wise cracking, robot. After running to the car with sleet trailing behind, I think I will stay inside tomorrow and just do some 3D.



- Justin, the freezing

Bertie Bot

A little render test before I finish the grenade. I will be honest I don't know how well this will work, but my plan is to vary chamfer and edge width within Zbrush to create a worn look on his edges. Also I did not include his packs in this render, but they are ready to roll in Zbrush. Grenade should not take long at all, it is a simple round frag grenade with a stylized circle - shaped pin.



"HAVE GUNS WILL SHOOT!" - Deadpool

- Justin

Bertie Bot Update

Making some progress on the Bertie Bot today, finishing up his revolver, I love getting some of those complex shapes going - The revolver and the grenades are the last pieces left then I am jumping into some Zbrush work



~ Justin R.

Some 3D

Figured I would finish up some 3D this week, went to buy a Josef Albers book at Barnes and they had none, guess I will just buy it on the internet. I have a couple things that are close to finishing that I will want to finish up on the 3D front before I move into doing some oil painting in the next couple of weeks.

Here is a screen of a quick proxy for a robot I am working on finishing up, simple shape so I decided to model in all the detail instead of floating it for some practice:



Here is the initial image from Ashley Wood's Graphic Novel Zombies Vs. Robots that really inspired me in some weird way:




- Justin