Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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



Friday, February 20, 2009

Robotic Tank Love VI...

Sorry, too tired to draw a crew :(


Saturday, January 24, 2009

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

Monday, January 19, 2009

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):

Friday, January 16, 2009

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.





Monday, January 5, 2009

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.

















Tuesday, December 23, 2008

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.


Friday, December 12, 2008

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.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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.








Saturday, December 6, 2008

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.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Blog Update

Some newer practice paintings...





And also some older more playful stuff...

Monday, November 24, 2008

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.


Friday, November 21, 2008

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:

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Friday, November 7, 2008

Study

Started this last night. Just a quick study.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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.








Wednesday, October 22, 2008