back.

all sorts of account weirdness lately. this is back. i'm obviously not really back. deadlines. i wish i had more time to post here. If you've given up on me i understand. I just ask that you check in once in awhile to see if there's anything new.

:)

In between

Deadlines have hampered the experiment below. Tonight I instead forced myself to do something and ended up just doodling. Posting results here.

Hope to get to the experiment soon, deadlines pass after this week. cheers.

An experiment Pt. II

Ok, there was a few votes for this one from Daniel, and it sounds fun for me as well, so i will be working on :

Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger are the stars of Back to the Future (Doc Brown, Marty, and Biff)

It may take me a couple weeks to get time to spend on this. Stay tuned.

An experiment

I've wanted to try something for awhile now and just never had the time.... i figured i should just post it to put a bit of pressure on myself to get off me ass.

I want to do a test which I think would be fun and hopefully interesting to people.

I'm not sure how much traffic i get anymore these days, but hopefully there are enough people seeing this to make this work. In the comments, in one sentence, post a situation involving people that would never happen in real life. To keep it fun involve at least 2 famous people. I think the more random and off-the-wall the situation the funner the result. My goal is to see if I could recreate this situation as photo-realistically as possible in one single image.

If you read ideas you like, let people know in the comments as well. I'll go through em all in a week or two and see if there are any favorites or any that sound like fun.

(edit: Whatever the result, if i fail to create something good, i'll post the result anyway. eek! )

Request: Keep in clean.

PIXELS

Great video from One More Production, click on image to go to video.

ear buds

freestylin a bit.

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Haha

This is really cool. Similar concept to what i had done here but taking childrens drawings and making them nicely rendered:

Click here for some more examples and go to http://www.themonsterengine.com/ for the original website.

Happy New Year!

It serves no purpose to promise more content without actually providing some, so I'll just leave this post with a Happy New Year. :) Welcome to 2010, I hope I can share some more this year.

Follow me on Twitter. http://twitter.com/pixeloo

monarch.

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heyo, made some time tonight to do a bit of art. This started out as a drawing of a girl but ended up here. go fig :) mixed in a bit of butterfly pics here and there...mostly illustration though.

ahem.

No point making excuses. but life overtook. I've let a lot of emails slide too. You ever have that garage that needs cleaning, and you keep thinking about it, but as everyday passes you feel like its getting messier and messier so then one day you just stop looking? This blog became that garage to me.

its a new year though, and i need to do some house cleaning. and i will finally get to the garage.

*gasp*

coming up for air. oh my busy.

We're in the middle of our quarterly deadlines at work...things should be dying down in the next couple weeks though and I'll have time to do some art again at home. There's a bunch of new things I want to try and am looking forward to having some free time.

fling.

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A quick sketch I worked on recently. It started out as just squiggly lines till i saw some hair and i went with it. I also seem to be on an upward facing camera kick with this and "untitled". This was in Photoshop CS2, I was also messing around with the brush settings to try to get the individual bristles look.

sup

** crickets **

Been super busy with some deadlines at work lately. I just wanted to chime in and say that I'll be posting some things in the upcoming days. Its tough I guess knowing how often to update. I started this as a post whenever deal but things got off to a really good start and I felt like I had to keep posting to maintain the experience for repeat visitors but at some point that starts feeling forced and I think the quality of the work will dip. I also have a ton of email I have fallen behind on, so if you wrote me please forgive the delay in replying.

untitled

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I had done this last week and wasn't sure if I should post it or not but I guess thats the point of this blog so here it is. I couldn't decide on a title because anything I thought of was adding a lot more meaning to the image and it wasn't speaking for itself. So here it is unfiltered.

Nico Bellic

Niko Bellic of Grand Theft Auto IV

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Here is an image I did for Official Playstation Magazine UK which is in their latest issue. I had a hard time getting it to look exactly like the game model because I started out with an illustration that I realized later was a bit different than the game. So after the fact, I started messing with it to try to get him closer to the game model.

This image involved a lot more illustration on my part than the other ones too since I was changing the lighting compared to my source image.

Anyway, enjoy!

* UPDATE * ugh,.... you'd think after all this time I would have spelled Niko right. thanks Brian.

rEvolve.

couldnt sleep, gettin some drawing done to get it out of my system

randomness.

Been a bit quiet here lately as I catch up on some errands and work. A word about upcoming things; I'll be posting the Nico Bellic image next week probably on Monday or Tuesday as thats when it hits newsstands in the UK. At the risk of losing a bit of my audience I'm going to be taking a break from untoonings as I feel like exploring some other concepts. I'll probably come back to them from time to time as I'm inspired to.

In the mean time, here are a few neat sites I've come across this week.

http://www.notcot.org/
http://www.graffiticreator.net/
http://www.drawergeeks.com/
http://www.vectorpark.com/etc/spider.html

CGUNIT.NET

I ran across this blog a couple months ago by checking referring traffic sources and felt like I had to share it. It seems pretty popular already, but its new to me, so I'm posting it in case others haven't seen it before.

Incredibly amazing collection of art and photography from different artists that I find very inspiring.

http://www.cgunit.net/
(some images potentially NSFW)

check it.

Stewie Griffin Untooned

Stewie Griffin

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Gotta run this morning, but I'll post this and talk a bit more about the process later this weekend. One thing I'll say its definitely harder to get that "realistic" look with smooth skin. This seems pretty illustrated compared to Homer and Mario. Anyway, cheers, enjoy!

* UPDATE * I got a date on the Official Playstation Magazine UK magazine of Nico Bellic. It'll be on shelves June 16th, check it out if you're in the UK or somewhere that has it!

randomness.

Ok so I'm about 85% done with Stewie. I know I said it'd be done awhile ago but i only found time to really get into last night. Here is a preview:

I definitely plan on finishing and posting this by noon Saturday the latest. This time for real!

One thing I'm noticing is that these smooth skinned ones are hard to make "real". When you see the Stewie one, I think it will look a lot more drawn than Homer or Mario just by the fact that there isn't that much texture to toddler skin, as was the case with Jessica Rabbit.

On another note I've finished a Nico Bellic (of GTAIV) image that was done for Official Playstation Magazine UK which will be published in one of their upcoming issues. When i know final details I'll let you all know here.