Latest Artage

Just a few quick sketches I've done lately. I've discovered the handiness of silhouette concepting and enjoy it. Also! Concepting for an upcoming 3D scene... the super girly French Boudoir. I'm excited.

The Airship

Well, I decided I needed to finish the thing and move on to new adventures. Check out my portfolio for the skinny (www.april-s-art.com), but here's a render for kicks.  Made a quickish world in UDK to get a screencap. =)  

Textures Arrr...Rrr..rRrrr...

Haven't worked on the airship as much as I'd like to. The excuse? I've been busy! Helping friends move and getting over the sniffles. Btw, Band of Brothers + nyquil is a pretty awesome cold remedy.  ;)  However, I did get some done today. Working on weathering and detailing.

Sails

Worked a little on texture refinement on the sails. Sleepy now, more later.

Play-Doh

Started blocking in some texture on the airship. Nothing super exciting yet, but it's nice to get a more concrete idea laid out.

And Finalllyyy.... In With the Newest!!

Yay, finally done posting all that old, middling and newish artwork! Woot. Now I can move on with my blog-age and get to some 100% current stuff.

In this case, my Airship!

I decided, very recently, I want to build an airship. I want it to have the look and feel of an older wood sailing ship, with the newer fantastical feel of being... an airship.  =P  After staring at reference, drawing up about a dozen concept sketches, I've spent a little time on modeling it out. I'm aiming to keep it fairly low poly (2-3k) with most of the detail being in the diff texture. Here's a quick screengrab of the model to-date.

AirShip - Progress Shot 001

In With the New... Daily Sketches, Doodles and Concepts!

I've been trying to upgrade my digital painting skills as I work on upgrading my 3D skills. The reason? Mostly for fun. Also, it helps my texture painting skills and gives me some new ideas for projects. The following is a pile of "that stuff".  :)

Speedpaint - Photoshop CS3

Speedpaint - Photoshop CS3

 

 

 

 

Speedpaint - Photoshop CS3

Daily Sketch - "Anime" - Photoshop CS3

Daily Sketch - "Brit for Pres" - Photoshop CS3

Daily Sketch - "Date Night" - Photoshop CS3

"Dryad" - WIP - Photoshop CS3

Eye Paint - Photoshop CS3

Lip Paint - Photoshop CS3

Marisa 001 - Concept Sketch - Graphite and Photoshop CS3

Marisa 002 - Concept Sketch - Graphite and Photoshop CS3

3D Space Concepts - Hotel Fox Inspired

3D Space Concepts - Hotel Fox Inspired

3D Space Concepts - Hotel Fox Inspired

Daily Sketch - "Wrong Map?" - Photoshop CS3