Mail box wrap up and back to the official work.

So here's the entire process. It's too bad I kept running out of time this week . In any case it's back to official work now. Personal stuff is going to have to wait for a while hopefully if I get enough done I can continue on my back log of work. PS, Gears are NOT fun to draw lol.

I was inspired by Everquest Next and Landmark and I wanted to see if I could make some mailboxes that might fit into the game. Kicking my self for not doing it sooner.

Backlog

Alot of backlog inc. Starting with working on a color pass now.

PAX14 Contacts, Redesigns and Career Moves.

Looking at packing up a lot of my art now as this blog will still stick around mainly for study purposes. Keeping my work here to show my process behind my work and very loosely to post relative work periodically. I've brought down my jleigh.net as its no longer needed for my job application purposes.

Did the below concepts today in about an hour picked up a few of my old thumbnails and saw what I could do. Hopefully going to integrate photo textures and detail it up to a good decent polish. Realising that I am going to have to create a lot more diversity in my portfolio not just an environmental focus. My lighting and texture work needs improvement, as well as main foundation skills. Hope you enjoy my blog and feel free to check out more of my work over here: http://drawcrowd.com/joerdenleigh098c

fan art for eq landmark.....

Did some fan art in response to a community post on the Ever Quest Landmark Forums. Safe to say that mining light is redonk . PS I used the silhouettes from Patrick Ho's Pulverizer Concept. Robert Ling wrote lore for it as well.

jan5th and 6th speedies

 Trying to draw 30 hours a week is a bloody challenge and I take it as one. More so, keeping things fresh and not getting bored with what your doing is another challenge entirely. One I look to face head on. I may move the speed paints and dailies etc to tumblr for the sake of frequency .

jan3and4 speedies

 So.... made the mistake of not being stoic in my time management... Dang civ5!!! (shakes fist at self) work before play it's harder than I thought. So easy to get into bad habits. Anyways today and yesterdays speedies. Looking to do some possible collaboration with a writer friend of mine you can find his blog here http://corlagthebard.blogspot.ca/ Also props to radio rivendale and this artist i was listening to http://grooveshark.com/#!/profile/Digitalism/22181306

speedies jan2_14

1:15min each all same brush random colors

First of what I aim to be many speedies.

1min15sec interval timer did around 16 . Quickly found that comps became regular and lazy so tried to change it up . Did not ave a plan for color just used random cs5 swatches that were already there also just one brush some sort of square one i believe got some interesting jutted shapes.

Happy new years folks 2014 is gonna be awesome and full of hard work!

Bugs bugs N more bugs

More Drawings to come I have been working online with Missing World Media to garner experience on a project in hopes to further my career. Also have been interested in investigating bugs in the new batman game, as I am a huge fan of the series. Found this:

The Isles of Melrune

A secret port :) Tired for now and outta gas kinda like the picture haha!  Results of a stream. Would like to model this guy up and get it in an engine.

Study

crunching studies now for my weaker rendering skills. Mainly rendering, texture work characters and industrial design . A lot of work and a long way to go but, as long as I make drawing a daily even hourly routine while not at work it will slowly take over and  Ill start to see results. Gotta stay hungry.

Also I have a habit of cranking out pages of heads had an interesting robot design and idea come out at a result.

Gearbox Fanart Concept!

Gearbox Community fanday! Love gearbox and would really like to work with them or even studios like them. Anyways I became very engrossed it having fun with a "yolo" concept for claptrap only he lives for ever so..... "yolfe" leading me to some very humorous thoughts about what kind of in game shenanigans he could get into.

And some of my reference/wip of course..i have the artbook on hand so that helped.

speedies2

running late for work 20-30min

Speedie b4 work

managed this in 30 min i believe cutting it close for being on time to work but i recorded this one to be up tonight on my channel

Pax2013

PAX was a blast and you can bet I was sketching whenever I had time! Some are not up to par but there's definitely some savvy stuff in here. When I got back to drawing after resting I tried an underwater , one layer, almost no undo sketch. About 1:30:00 ish and then I played around making a gif I have had kicking around in my head for some time for my logo.

Too much Eureka AO

Loving this series mainly for the art , just wanted to post something quick most of my times being taken up by MWM and the upcoming kick starter. Bin doing landscape sketches constantly but  need to  scan those in soon. Ive had Eureka AO on the brain for weeks i just love this show . Really want to do some sketches from that universe.

More practice heads.

Brain Storm Cafe Sketch

Had an awesome time at the brainstorm group downtown here's a page and then 2 sketches I did just relaxing.

5 hour draw holy

I am wrecked, but iI did learn a bunch and came up with this , I also had a hilarious idea for a laundry obsessed wizard  name ogglebod the clean I have designs in my head for the tower cannon and its history more to come in the future hopefully.

ogglebod_WIP

I also developed a new method / process for faster concepts ie dualing two illustrations at

the same time but, I got so involved with the wizard and had so much fun I totally just put the other one away. I really want to have fun re iterating this guys and working on the story. I just keep laughing to myself "This is ridiculous" "Good lord" .... " This  is sooo stupid lol" ...

Okay til next time I've forgotten to eat damn it.