There and Back Again: "Digital Paintings"

Adapting to new styles and technologies; Well digital painting and the Wacom tablet were the the two aspects of conceptual art that I needed to get a firm grasp of. I've purchased a lot of reference material, usually concept art books of popular films and video games and digital art made up a large portion of what was shown. 
I feel that I really found myself now that I work, for the most part, on  the computer and my Wacom table (I currently use an Intuos 3). It took me about a year to really get the grasp of how to use this tool and to get a feel for it. But it really helped me loosen up and experiment.

"Rhino Warrior": This was my first character that was completely drawn on the tablet. It started from a sketch I did at work (I like to go to Google and sketch from random images), from these sketches I came up with this cool looking rhino/human hybrid face. I later redrew it in Photoshop and added the rest of the body. I went with a tribal feel for this one and I still hate his shoes :)

Here are few other concepts:

"Bird Man"

"Female Study"

"Zombie Concept"

The "Bird Man" started off as a sketch I did while looking at some bald eagles and this old mans face kept popping into my head.The next one was my first attempt into painting a female character; she is my Pre-Wonder Woman. The final one was for this video game project that never got off the ground, I'm still pleased with it.

And a newer one!

"Dwarf Warrior Revised"

"Warrior Dwarf Original"

Well this guy was actually a revisit to an earlier design that I had did a few years back. The original was a sketch I did for a class project which was then colored in a Photoshop (I didn't know what I was doing). The revised design shows a significant amount of growth in the tools that I now know how to use (somewhat). I had a lot of fun with this one; He has a personality and a story which the viewer can have fun imagining when viewing specific traits that are visibly present. The only thing that I had to keep somewhat the same from the original design was his two handed ax, I still think it's bad ass.

Well that's it for know, the next few posts will continue with some of my older projects then off to the new stuff!