Painting the color blue

Didn't finish mr. green down there, but I did a quick 3.5 hour blue creature. Trying to play more with mixing colors, as well as hard and soft brushes. Still haven't gotten the hang of subsurface scattering. The anatomy's nothing special but I wasn't really focused on that aspect. That's about it for now.

Lunchtime WIP

Started another painting tonight, only 1.5 hours in, some big green eating machine. Lighting and colors mostly laid out, just have to render it more and do all the little details, polish, and storytelling (he's probably gonna be slobbering and shit)

If I do 3 of these every week, I'm going to get better at a rate that actually makes me feel good about myself... ideally.

I'll finish it tomorrow, I swear.

Paintings

Wow, my first post since I graduated. Sorry about that. I've felt less motivated to post on here since then for some reason. Hopefully, this will get me back into the habit of it.

Not going to be the art dump that it usually is for me this time, just a few paintings I've done in my spare time.

First one is a 6 hour photo study of Scarlett Johansson. I'm happy with the way the values look, but the shapes need work. Lots of work. I've never finished a portrait in Photoshop before so it was really great just to call something done. This was also the first study I've done without doing any color picking (that is, from the reference photo) which made it an infinitely more valuable learning experience.

Speaking of things I haven't finished... (and probably won't)
Here are a couple other WIP Paintings/concepts from the last couple months. Didn't really put more than a couple hours into the colored versions of either of them.

I'll get around to posting some of the ridiculous number of drawings from the past few months soon, I hope. I'll also be posting some work (probably) from Battle Nations when the next update goes live.
-Aaron

Demo Reel

So my final demo reel for graduation is up on youtube and linked on my website. The shame is the amount of time it took to iron out some kinks, composite the whole thing and fuck with aftereffects is probably greater than the time it would've taken to make one piece that'd be better than anything on there. Oh well, haha in one month it'll be obselete anyways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzf-YCGfokg

In other news, rerendered my minion character from zbrush in an attempt to get a composited render i liked more. started comping AO and Shadow passes by inverting them and setting the blend modes to subtract instead of just multiplying them. I'll be doing turntables from zbrush on sunday so those are going to be next up on here I think.

At any rate, I'm done messing around with this guy (except for the turntables) and am going to focus on new stuff.
-Aaron

Zbrush Timelapse, Portfolio Website and more!

   Hey all, Now that I've got most of my stuff together for graduation, finally decided to throw up some new stuff on here. First of all, my site is complete except for my demo reel (Which will be up in a day or two), and here it is!
http://www.aaronhain.daportfolio.com

Here are some images for my flatbook, just to highlight a few projects that i finished in the last few weeks before I could even get them on here. Also, my entry for the Arena.net environment art test a couple months ago (damn i wish i had done the creature test instead)

Next, a few zbrush speed sculpts.
First is some sort of crab-headed looking alien. W/E haha

 Next up is a few sci fi torso conceptual iterations. none of these took very long, just trying to get ideas for my last project this quarter. Zbrush is quickly becoming my favorite program for conceptual design.

 Here's a couple timelapses. Finally! now you can see a little bit of my process, mostly used the Damien standard, H polish, Clay tubes and Clay Buildup brushes, all of these guys (except the shitty one in the upper left) were made from a quick Zsphere base.

http://www.youtube.com/user/hiimmeurnot?feature=mhee#p/a/u/2/1_bJ6gvuU-w

http://www.youtube.com/user/hiimmeurnot?feature=mhee#p/a/u/1/hUrN6w2ZFrk

 This guy is a speed sculpt, only a few hours in, based on a concept by AdamVehige. Also a timelapse for this!

http://www.youtube.com/user/hiimmeurnot?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/eYgu78jJVwE

This one (on the left) is just a test of what i could do with about 4 hours. Not happy with the outcome as a whole, but could practice for nailing out a specific workflow. This one helped me achieve the others above it so quickly. The one on the right was just another hour-or-so face that i'd been wanting to try for a while.

 Last but not least, some drawings. Haven't had as much time for traditional concept stuff lately, but managed to fill about a third of my new sketchbook, so i guess that's something.

 

Busy, as always

Finally finished another sketchbook, and a few weeks earlier than I had planned!
I've been doing loads of handpainted texturing over the past few weeks, as well as some drawing studies and creature designs. the renders aren't final images, but worth showing in their current state.
Also have been trying to paint some quick little buildings; some are turning out better than others. If only I had more time for all the other projects I need to work on :(

More Drawings

I'll have some more 3D character stuff soon, but most of what's been filling up my spare time (and some class time) has been my drawings. Here's the latest from the last couple weeks.