Video Winners Chosen!

Just a quickee post to tell you that the winners for the How-To Video Raffle have been chosen!

I used a random number generator (....there's a website for that. Of course. random.org).

There were 41 participants who gave their email for the raffle with 6 winners. I emailed everyone to let them know whether they won or not, so please check your mail!

Speaking of mail, If you'd like to be notified when new videos are available, I've set up a mailing list.
Find it here: http://eepurl.com/ci9HD

Thanks again! I had some fantastic, useful, and inspiring feedback. I'm psyched to get the first part of the series done.

Thanks again!
K

"Doodle" 2-14

I missed a couple days as we went away for the weekend and Sunday I was just plain lazy!

But I tried to make up for it last night by starting to concept what I hope to be a nice and large wall mural:

I want the base to be symmetrical, but I'll be painting most of the detail individually so there's more visual goodies to soak up. I want it to have 'layers' of patterns. 

We went to the Art Museum in Philly this weekend as part of our getaway, and I was really inspired most of all by the depth and detail in paintings, as well as the ornate detail in some of the renaissance-period armor and weapons. I can't wait to go back. 4 hours was definitely not enough!

Daily Doodles 2-9 and 2-10

2-9-2011: Concept work for Vespora. This is a race that will appear to be a cross between a chinese dragon and a humanoid - getting closer but not there yet!

2-10-2011: We had our P&P RPG Group last night, and as we're doing a Star Wars Campaign, I drew my character, which is a Torguta (sp?) Jedi. I NEVER play Jedis, I'm typically the goofball who plays stuff like a Wookiee Scoundrel or whathaveyou. ;)

Daily Doodles 2-7 and 2-8

2/7/2011 - Turkey Bikini???

2/8/2011 - Hair salon advert

These have been great for relaxing and having fun, but now it's time for some bigger concept art or speed paints or something I think. :)

Portrait: Teufelia and Daily Doodle 3

Quickee post from this weekend's work.
Most of my effort was into the video pilot I posted everywhere, but in addition I finished this portrait for a friend:

Bit of a different painting style, which was fun. :) I counted this as Saturday's "Daily Doodle".

Sunday was also a quickee, but much needed practice on males:

Was all but 20 minutes of drawing though which was kind of lame. I'll do better tonight. :) Need to start working on some costume design for humans, male military-esque 'grunts' in particular. Way out of my comfort zone of pretti elves - so I'm looking forward to it. :)

Oh and...

Watch and Survey my Pilot Video Please!!

vimeo.com/19604178

That's all for now!

Pilot Video Is Ready!! Free art for your feedback! Yarly.

Woohoo! So I finally finished my pilot how-to video.

Like any other piece of art, I think I could have edited it for another 20 hours and still not be happy. But, I don't think I could have handled hearing my own voice for that long. Haha!

Find the video here at Vimeo.com:
http://vimeo.com/19604178

Feedback needed!
At the bottom of the video link, there's another link to a 10 question survey. Please help me out by taking the extra few minutes to fill it out, so I can get a feel for how this format is working.

Free stuff!
Anyone who also provides me their email address (only used for this purpose and no other), will also be entered into a raffle to win a free full cg commission, or one of 5 mini portrait commissions!

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Doodle 1

Trying a daily doodle thing over at http://satellitesoda.com.

01: Doodle Fairy?
Super fun. Amazing what happens when you relax and just have fun! This was a squiggly line.

Behind the Scenes

While there's not much being posted by me right now, I'm still bustin' butt every night on two very cool projects, that I hope to have ready soon.

The nearest to complete is the How To Draw and Paint in Photoshop video tutorial 'pilot' video, which will hopefully get some good feedback and pave the way for a solid series. This is on the final tweaks to the audio, so it will definitely be out this week. LOTS of goodies to be given away once it's released, so stay tuned!

The other big project now has a name: VESPORA.
This is a collaborative Science-Fantasy concept between my fiancee' and myself. We're both writing the concept, he's applying some killer P&P-RPG mechanics he's been developing the past year to the concept, and I'm of course cranking away at tons of concept art. Really excited at this prospect and can't wait to show you some characters from the universe.

Also, we're still waiting with anxiety anticipation for the Otakon dealer's hall reservations to open up. As soon as we do, and we score a spot, we'll make the official announcement. Until then it's just more trolling their website and getting prepared by making more fun stuff.