Dirty Dancing

This is a concept done for a friend of mine who is going to model and animate him.
I'll make an update when he is done :)

intended as different limb placement avian type creature, ends up now loking like a flyer with some small legs-stump danglng down. I like strange placed limbs, will do some more of them.

got some lovely books for studying too from amazonia - I have a good weekend ahead I think.. :D

quick doodle. another bug, I must fill my mind with non-bugs next time.

Armed

Sorry for all the mistaken posts here! I think this one actually belongs.
Shaking off too much freelance.

Hello all, firstly it's a great pleasure to rub shoulders with such esteemed folks, so hi and thank you for the oppurtunity to share and learn with you. :)

Bit brain-tired tonight, so a rather meandering hour of doodling led to this. I will be engaging in saturation of reference for a bit because my ideas have got stale and starting to be repetitive and too random most of the time ;-) Got to add some more of the old visual vocab and draw when less tired. :) Still it was a pleasant and maybe theraputic hour of scrawling...

Something small I wanted to share

Hello all!

Here's some sketches and doodles of creatures and things.

Hungry Appetite

nuff said

Guard Beast

Here's a guard animal used by the crews on airships. It can cling to sheer surfaces, and it horks stuff out of its exposed trachea.
Done for the Iron Grip series of games from Isotx

AP Magazine and 2DArtist Magazine + Sketches

Fishy Stuff

Because of the DEEP activities at Conceptart.org, and other events, most of my recent creatures have been aquatic.
These little fishies are the only creatures that I actually painted specifically for DEEP. The aim of the activity was to come up with ideas for creatures that could exist in some future underwater utopia. So these creatures are called jewel fish, and function somewhat like living jewelry. They are purchased as eggs and raised from birth to see their owners as the only source of food, so they will always be following their owners. In the same fashion that people in our world use makeup, jewelry, or fancy clothes to improve their appearance, people in the DEEP world use small, personal schools of attractive fish. Particularly rare and beautiful breeds of jewel fish are highly sought after.

This painting was a birthday present for my dad. I often make shark-themed art for him as gifts. The basic concept for this is that, in the future, a tremendous catastrophe has wiped out almost all life on land, making it free for recolonization. Whereas the land vertebrates that we know today are all descended from lobe-fined bony fish related to the modern lungfish and coelocanth, in this speculative future land life is descended from the other great clade of fish, the Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays, and chimeras). I'm not sure how likely such an evolutionary scenario would be; among other things, these fish would likely have to evolve true bony skeletons, as their cartilagenous skeletons probably wouldn't support their weight on land. But anyway, it's fun to imagine.
Most creatures that I design are vertebrates. So, I decided to practice creating some invertebrate creature designs. The above shrimp-thing is the result.


I also completed that cave troll sculpture that I posted a while back. This sculpture was one of the funnest art projects I've ever done, if simply for the sheer amount of different techniques and processes that I got to try out while making it. I got to sculpt with wax, create plaster molds, pour molten bronze, chip and grind away imperfections in the resulting bronze, sand blast the bronze sculpture, and colorize it by applying patinas (many patinas have to be applied at high temperatures, so I got to use a torch as well). Very fun and rewarding project.

The Louisiana Guardian

I'm moving to Louisiana this week. This guy will be my protector from all ill-will. Although he does not have thumbs to help me carry boxes, he can stab people in the face... Pretty helpful in the right type of situations!

Here's some bits and pieces...

Here's some bits and pieces that I've done recently.
I hope you guys and girls will like it!

Greater Crusted Lantaur

The Greater Crusty Lantaur is a boar and swine hunter, it measures in at 800lb and it's swaying walk pounds the ground into submission. Besides the large footmarks in the ground, The Greated Crusted Lantaur can easily be tracked by the grinding marks they leave on cave walls as they try to clean their hard shelled bodies.