My Dominance War 4 Mini challenge entry.
Finally got around to finishing some of the rushed parts up. I could still work with it but I think I'll call it done! Sketches are on my Sketch of the week:
http://www.vinodrams.com/sketchofweek.html
-Vin
Been awhile so I thought I should post something. I had intended to give this a few more passes, but just in case I never get around to it here's a little something from me.
Amazing work here as always guys and gals.
[ EDIT: I made this one a bit more monstrous, and thought it would be worth adding... ]
Photoshop 7
A bit goofy, regarding the anatomy (In particular, the unnaturally truncated torso), but I rather like this anyways, so...
Here.
Great creatures posted since I was here last! Here's a quicky I did recently depicting the god Pan, lord of the wilderness (or my version anyhow)
A fun sketch that I've just done this afternoon for my brothers birthday.
I'll probably print it and frame it as a gift.
It's embarrassing posting among such greatness, but i need to get my act in gear and start pumping out more personal work.
Here's the underpainting for that sketch I posted earlier...
It's a little dark... I'll probably brighten it up as move forward.
Comments and critiques are welcome!
-Vin
So Dominance War 4 is starting soon. I have no idea if I'll have time to particpate again... I'm going to have some major crunch in March at work. But it was alot of fun (and alot of work) last year so hopefully I can do it again. I was happy with my design for DW3 but I had to turn in an unfinished entry. But I still made it to the top 50 so that was cool!
I recently painted more on the head concept... so here it is and I figured I should post some of the other stuff too!
If only I had one more weekend.... sigh.
Here's the original forum thread if anyone is interested in the progression!
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=234&t=598128
Hi guys,
My name 's Fred Rambaud , I have been working as an illustrator and concept artist for the past 4 years now. Mike was kind enough to invite me, thank you sir ;)
So here is my first post.
This is a concept for a personal project, a mount for an ogre-sized warrior.
This is the sketch or line
and this is the color version
I always like showing both versions because I feel that you lose something in style and also design when it is painted.
Hope you guys like it :)
Fred
Been a while for me, posting-wise, so here is something of the creature type...
A rather grainy snapshot of a painting I just did called HAPPY DOG. ^ _ ^
Is Airbrushed Acrylic.
Here's an alien scholar, reading a book. A fairly quick and loose sketch, done in pencil then scanned into Photoshop. It was fun.
-Vin
Here's a little fella I call Xenosimias. It's an alien monkey of sorts. Elements of marmosets, cicadas, flies, and Drepanosaurs went into its design.
Hi everybody,
Been a while.Didn't have much time lately to do some creatures so here I post some older works I did some time ago.
Hope you like it.
Cheers!
Hey guys,
I wanted my first post to be something original but I ended up posting old designs I did for Project Offset. You probably seen them already. It's just been so long since Davi invited me and I haven't had a chance to post.
Great work from everyone, very inspiring :)
First weekend off for 6 weeks or so, and I made some time to doodle.
hope it is somehow enjoyable!
Hi everyone,
this is my latest personal project, I know that almost everything has already been said about aliens, but I just wanted to share my personal view about them, or about one of them. When we think about aliens we tend to ask ourselves "Are they good? Or evil?" but I just wanted to shift my view from this clichè, I imagined them as creatures, nor good or bad, just living beings. As a predator like a lion, it's not bad because it kills other animals to eat, it's just its DNA. This is the same for Zenoth, he comes to Earth to eliminate humans because they need our planet. Just for this reason. No chances to communicate with him, he just doesn't care about us as we doesn't care about ants. He's not curious, he doesn't feel anything, his mission is to eliminate us. And he's not bad because he kills humans, and there's no reason to eliminate us because of something wrong we did as human beings. We're just in the wrong place
Think about earth as an old garage that we need, we just clean it, clean out the spider webs, sweep away little animals and we have our cleaned garage. Do we feel bad about those little creatures? Are we evil?
Hope you like it!
Bye
Fede
I was on the computer yesterday when suddenly the idea came to me to paint an old school, pulp magazine, raygun-toting, bug-squid hybrid alien invader. So, I sat down and painted this guy in virtually one sitting. I think it's the best creature rendering I've yet done, and I'm pretty happy with it. I even gave him some halfway decent-looking technological devices, as well.
As far as creature concepts go, this is a highly intelligent alien species native to a low-gravity world with a warm, humid climate and at atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide and chlorine. It evolved from mud-dwelling ancestors that looked somewhat like crosses between sandcrabs and cuttlefish. It is omnivorous, with three sets of powerful mandibles to process its foot. Its eyes are set atop dark stocks on the upper part of its carapace, while its ears are those crater-shaped structures near the mandibles. Its olfactory and respiratory organs are located on the back of its carapace, and in this image are covered by a gas filtering apparatus designed for traveling in an alien atmosphere. The three pairs of limbs can function as either arms or legs, interchangeably. Though these aliens can communicate by sound, they prefer to communicate by sight. Their wide, black eyestalks can shift to any color in the visible spectrum, and this ability has evolved into a highly complex visual language. The device attached to the eyestalk of the individual pictured is a communicator: it allows information in this visual language to be sent long-distance and fed directly to the aliens' visual centers. They can also communicate through the use of chemicals and pheremones.
I wrote a much, much longer natural history/short story about these creatures in my Deviantart gallery: link. I enjoy writing, as you may be able to tell.
Also, some alternate color schemes.
