OOPS!

Final image for "Oops!", my entry for conceptart.org's "Newborn" contest.

"The Summoning" or "Oops"

Mock Turtle head sculpt WIP

Been playing with this in the MICA class after I've been bugging the students too much and they just need to work.
It's pretty early.

Girl Vs. The Sea

I'm down in rainy, hurricane-prone Florida right now, but I still managed to whip up a piece for the VS show. I had a lot of fun with this!

Here's a teaser from an upcoming gallery show called VS. that I'm participating in with various other artists.

Recent oil painting for Vs show

This was a different kind of piece for me, but I enjoyed it. It's 30" x 40".

Jab Strong Fierce

This was done for the Jab Strong Fierce show at the Nucleus Gallery. It was a tribute show for the release of the new Street Fighter IV game. This piece depicts Dhalsim vs. Fei Long. (18 x 24, watercolor and acrylic)

I wasn't able to make it out to L.A. for the show, but there are a lot of videos and blogs out there that documented the opening. Looked like a fun time.

"VS" Art Exhibit coming soon, featuring artists from Big Huge!

BALTIMORE-BASED VIDEO GAME ARTISTS, COMIC BOOK ARTISTS, ILLUSTRATORS TACKLE VS. THEME IN EXHIBITION JUNE 5-JULY 31
Opening Reception Takes Place Friday, June 5 at The Windup Space in Station North

Baltimore-based artists working in the visual entertainment fields of video games, comic books and illustration will exhibit their personal work in VS., a new gallery show at The Windup Space during the month of June. An opening reception for VS. takes place Friday, June 5 from 7-9 p.m. at the bar, music and arts venue located at 12 W. North Ave. in the heart of the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. The show closes July 31.

Each of the 14 artists in the exhibition will interpret the theme of conflict from a fine art perspective. It may be literal -- Bigfoot vs. Cookie Monster -- or conceptual -- Nature vs. Nurture.

For more information about The Windup Space, visit http://www.thewindupspace.com/.

More info and images coming soon!

ZERG RUSH!!!!

Maybe we should have nuked 'em from orbit?

What's Mine is Mine!

Final drawing for a new piece I hope to execute in watercolor and inks.

dominance war mini challenge

I entered the dominance war mini challenge to see if I could finish

The theme was to create a war general

Here's what I eneded up with

Did this guy last week for an activity at an art forum. The rules were to sculpt a bust of any Street Fighter character.

Robotic Tank Love VI...

Sorry, too tired to draw a crew :(

Tshirt stuff

Update: This shirt is now for sale on Shirt.Woot.com! It got third place in the competition, yay! You can see the details and look at the shirt here.

Been drawing t-shirt designs lately for fun. It's fun working with a limited palette. Above: theme is "heartbreak." Below: theme is "Myths/Legends." Learning what makes a good shirt design :O

A frightening encounter in the alley....

Recent oil paintings

I'm having a show with a ceramics artist, Rob Bilek, who use to work at BHG as an art intern. I really wanted to use the opportunity to push myself to do some new paintings, so over break I started five canvases. The gallery specifically asked for Antarctic work, so that's what I went with, and it was nice to return to that theme. There are five new ones below and the last one is an old one I updated. These range from 24 inches across to 40, so they're a little big for what I usually do, then there were a handful of smaller, older paintings I included in the show.













And the show card (my non-Graphic design design):

Don Quixote Steam Punk II

I finally had some time to work on this a bit more. The new deadline is Sunday. If you have any suggestions let me know before then. Thanks.

Don Quixote Steam Punk

I was talking to Young today about the cgtalk contest so I thought I'd post an in-progress image. So much to do :) Any crits would be much appreciated.

Blue Giant 2.0

I'm like Lucas and Spielberg the way I keep re-doing my oldies! But they're considered masters at what they do, and I'm not where I wanna be yet. Well, at least in my case I think there's a significant step up from before. To think, less than 6 months ago I was satisfied with leaving this image here



Silly me. Thanks to everyone who helped me out on this one. Invaluble.

First post :O

Had some free time between school and work to draw a quick-ish lady. Was watching a lot of Heroes and playing a lot of Mirror's Edge, which probably inspired the style of this image~

ps: My name is Helen. I'm a new art intern, and this is my first post!

Marsh painting finished

I finished this one up last night. The bottom one is the final one; the two above are the two previous nights' work. I learn a lot by looking at where I've come from in a piece (oftentimes I realize I've gone too far) so I put this together to compare them.
It's been too long since I've touched canvas, but it felt really good. I don't think I'll ever get tired of experimenting with color and brushwork, or learn enough where I think I don't have something to new to experience from every inch of a piece.

Gorgon Blood

Here is a rework of an oldie, im pretty glad i revised it. I think works a lot better now in several ways, and i got to add a lizard! Lizards are just sweet. Thanks for lookin'.

STeaMpUNk

I started messing around with an image for my Don Quixote Steampunk image. It's pretty rough as I try to figure out what to do next. And I just started playing Dead Space so this is probably going to move along slowly.

Kat -First Post

Hey, I'm an intern at BHG and this'll be my first post here.  It's finals week at MICA, so I'm super-busy, and here's one thing I'm working on right now.  I drew this little Jackalope guy for my 3D animation final and now I'm modeling him in Max.

Blog Update

Some newer practice paintings...





And also some older more playful stuff...

Bog Witch

Hey everyone, this'll be my first post to the Big Huge Blog, so I thought I'd post something that I've been tinkering on for way too long. Its time to put this one to rest.

Charcoal portrait and oil landscape

Did this drawing of Jess a bit ago. I told her she could play video games while I drew her. I'm not doing that again. She squirms and makes faces.



I started an oil painting last night, a larger (18" x 36") version of the completed painting just below (6" x 12"). I just did the underpainting last night, and still have a long way to go, but it felt really good to be painting.

The original, from coastal Georgia:


Drawing of the new one:


Under-painting of the new one:

Robotic Tank Love V...

Zbrush Learning

When I was starting to learn Zbrush a couple of weeks ago I grabbed a sphere and played around with it until I came up with this. I was just goofing around for a little bit, and it has any number of problems with it, but it was fun and I'll look back someday remembering this as one of the first things I did in the program.

Robotic Tank Love IV...

Study

Started this last night. Just a quick study.

Robotic Tank Love III...

Recent Life Drawings

Tried some brush and walnut ink out at the last life drawing session. It was fun - I enjoyed the fluidity of it, and that I had to be loose but also address mistakes.
The last one I just doodled on some. That thing wasn't in the room with us.

Robotic Tank Love II...

Life Drawings 10/26/08 & 10/12/08

More Robotic Tank Love...

Recent Practice

Life Drawings - Sunday Oct 5th

Figure Drawing

Life Drawing - 09-28-08

Some Sketch Book Stuff

Some newer sketch book stuff :)

Head studies and life drawings

Here are some head studies and figure drawings I did lately.

Some New Life Drawings

Meant to post these before... I think life drawing uses a different part of your brain than drawing for games :) Good to stretch that part out once in a while.

Life Drawing

Here's what I got from the first life drawing class down at MICA. That one at the bottom there went through some weird stuff, but I decided early on I was going to just let it happen and play with it. So don't blame the model.

Life Drawing Session

A number of Big Huge artists are participating in a series of life drawing sessions at MICA. It's been many years since I last sketched the figure, however 10 minutes into it the familiar feeling of having pencil and sketchbook in hand came rushing back. Good times...

Come Join Our Team!

The Big Huge Games art team is looking for an experienced, exceptionally knowledgeable, talented, and motivated Concept Artist to joing our team and contribute to our upcoming original RPG title (Xbox360, Playstation3 & PC), headed by internationally celebrated Game Designer Ken Rolston of Oblivion fame. This is also an opportunity to work alongside award-winning Big Huge Concept Artists Sean Andrew Murray and Jeremy Enecio. Together this talented duo has earned high accolade from Spectrum, Dominance War, and Society of Illustrators to name a few.

To view some of the concept work from our past titles visit our ConceptArt.org forum post.

The Big Huge art team has been bestowed with Gamespy's 2006 Special Achievement in Art Direction Award and critics have commended Rise of Legends as "A playable piece of art..." (Game Revolution), and "...the best looking RTS I've ever played" (PC Gamer).

If you think you're the right person for the job then click here to read the full job listing with directions on how to apply, as well as take a closer look at our benefits and fun office perks such as free sodas, extensive game library, pool table, ping pong, and bar modeled after a local Irish Pub just to name a few. We do all we can to adhere to our motto of "You Gotta Have Fun To Make Fun!"

We look forward to seeing your work!

A few concept examples from our past titles...

New Stuff

Gnomon Monthly

Right below is my piece for the Gnomon Monthly art contest and below that is just a doodle.

Samus

Here's something I've been noodling around with, but its getting out of hand so I'll stop now.

Mock Turtle

I think I'm done with the Mock Turtle, if for nothing else than he's been sitting too long on the back burner. The barnacles were a final thought, trying to ground him in the scene a bit more.