We’re at the end of January, and I’m figuring out my art goals for 2025 (finally!) I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m still not 100% clear on these goals, and it’s probably okay. So they are not so much actual goals as… directions? “At War’s Edge” Going Forward Definitely…
“Finalize the recent history of the town of Shelisk”, said I. And cheerfully proceeded to: The end result is: now I know that the Shelisk citadel was always meant for a steward rather than for a local magnate, so any heraldry present will be related either to the crown of…
I did not make that word up. I feel compelled to point that out because I do make words up. Sometimes. Not that one. This here thing is really called a vihuela (pronounced bi’wela if you’re Spanish) and is basically a 15th century precursor of the guitar. Or a close…
When a part of your brain wants to focus on finishing the location for the next scene and the other part of your brain goes “but we just learned compositing, gotta composite something!” So my (as yet unnamed) planet now has it’s own Blue Marble Image. Or at least a…
It was Sunday, it was St.Patrick’s Day, and I was tired of evening interiors and twilight mountains. I also came across Monet’s “Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies”. And, well… It’s not exactly the same bridge, or the same pond, and definitely not the same trees, but I think…
This is a scene for the webcomic that isn’t happening anymore due to plot alterations. I originally created this scene a while ago (way before I knew what I was doing) in Blender Internal renderer. Now I’ve converted it into Cycles for the sake of adding it to my portfolio….
The two characters had been standing with arms crossed, and then heard Very Unexpected News. This is the reaction shot which I feel worked out, so I’ll just leave it here to be proud of. Or possibly to be ashamed of, a few years down the line. The (yet missing)…
I might yet change the logo. And do something with the sword so it looks less like a lightsaber. But otherwise this should be quite close to the final version. Sooo excited 🙂
Been working on one of the fight scenes. Turns out, the marshal looks a whole lot less prim and proper when in action 🙂 Snowstorm-in-the-mountains-about-to-happen type of lighting is also starting to work out, even in the cases where magic is turned off there are no extra light sources. Here…