Two weeks ago it was painting with wet charcoal, then painting dry pastel…now its painting wet pastel. wow!  I started with a pencil drawing and shaved pastel dust off my pastel sticks with a knife.  Then add a little water and your painting!  The color was tricky on this one though…too much water and your color is lighter than the pastel it came from.  Let your pastel paint sit and the dust soaks up more water and your paint is darker and thicker.  Also darker pastels usually go on closer to the color of the stick and wash out less with added water than the lighter ones.  This all meant lots of guessing folks.  If you wanted a super-big-detail version go here.

I changed it up a little this weekend and did a charcoal painting.  In case your not sure, thats when I use a knife to shave off some charcoal dust and then use a brush and water to paint the dust onto paper.  Click on the image for a much bigger version.

well this one took me a long time, didn’t it?   I spent most of the time shooting HDRIs and figuring out compositing.

I think it came out ok.

Look after the jump for a couple close-up shots of the model and for a little stop-mo turnaround I put together.

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wow, this one took me a long long time.  My hope here was to make a 2d looking illustration out of 3d objects.

Could’ve been worse…

hit the “find more” for a couple close ups and a video turnaround.

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every now and then I do a little rigging and animating to remind myself why I dont like rigging, and then animating my rig.  Make sure you right-click on the video frame and turn looping on so he keeps on keepin on.

and just to prove it…a little video to showcase some of my modeling and character design skills.  or ‘skillz’ if your that impressed.

For some reason I’ve really been hitting the monsters around here.  Whats special about this one you ask?  Why thank you for asking, hit ‘find more’ for a couple tidbits…

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Just a couple old characters i dug up and a fresh, new, zombie.   nothing too mind-blowing…except i did make the zombie skin texture from pictures of pancakes, bread, rotten apple and bananas!  i dont know about you but knowing that makes the zombie much more disgusting…click on the image to get a good look.

well…you more or less asked for it, so here it is…your new favorite shirt!

ta-da!

i know what your thinking…’where can i get that mind-blowing shirt, i’d do anything!’ well i’ll tell you how! just go here, I’ll be wearing mine!