New painting

So for the last couple weeks we've been working on color theories and painting using color. anyways one assignment was to create a character and render it with the color theories we talked about. I decided to make this reptilian humanoid who was a slave, fighting in the pits, but when he earned his freedom, he became one of the most well payed mercenaries in the land. Hope you like it!

-C

Environment and more edges

this week my teacher wanted us to work on a piece that was an environment. the only requirement was that it existed in the 'Prometheus' movie universe, my favorite scene was the map room from that movie so I decided to give it a shot. It took some time to figure out and get the lighting to look good. anyways this was last week's work. Hope you enjoy! After the value render I decided to add a bit of color too. :]

-C

Digital painting! :D

A little more presentable!

I was fortunate enough to have Chris Legaspi, a teacher at Gnomon critique my lightning wielding character after I completed him, and using a bit of extra time and some inspiration from his comments I upgraded my previous sketch/comic style painting to be a bit more(not completely) finished painting! Anyways I hope you like the updated look.

-C

Rhabi- Spirit of Air. Complete!

I've been working this term on making more and more game characters! This one will be the counter-part of my previous character Kohlbes the engineer. This is Rhabi, the Spirit of Air. I really enjoyed designing and creating this character, he was very unique and kinda tricky to get his proportions looking right :]. Anyways here's the finished product of him. This is rendered just in the plain viewer window of Maya, nothing fancy, I'll get him into marmoset and hopefully posed soon.
For those of you who do know 3d, if you were wondering he is ~14k Tris with both weapons, with a single normal map, texture map, and specular map. a separate map for weapon/accessories I may happen to want to add in the future.

Hope you like him! I enjoyed making him, and hopefully will see him animated before too long
Until next time...

 -C

Its Finished! :D

So, I've finished my first game character. I hope you like him.  He's a fully 3d character made using Maya, Z-brush, Photoshop, Mudbox, and rendered in marmoset.
and here he is. the robotics engineer Kohlbes.

Click on the picture for full size.

-C

Up to date!

So, that really concludes my recap of the dead zone in my blog. I'm hopefully going to stay on top of posting now, try to keep a steady stream of at least doodles up here, and updates on my game character as it progresses. well, I hope you're enjoying my characters, art, and blog. thanks for reading(or just looking at the pictures)!

Recap- Week 2: make it purdy.

Week 2: So after blocking out an entire character and all of his pieces the first week, week 2 rolled in. assignment was high resolution, sculpt the character out in high res.

Muh robot!

I completely forgot I hadn't posted this robot on here yet. But here he is, he is a 3d model made in Maya 2 terms ago in school. Anyways I love robots, If anyone didn't know that. So I absolutely loved making this character. I hope you guys like it as well.

-C

Na na Na na Na na Na na Fishman!

FISHMAN!
 hello again people, So heres a ballpoint pen sketch I did, then brought it into photoshop and was just going to put some color on it...then I got a bit carried away, and now its going to end up a full blown painting. so Heres where he's at so far. Land ho for the fishman...because hes aquatic...he needed some gear to stay out of water for long.

Hope you like it,

-C

Z-brush- Elemental Centaur...

Alright, So I've finished my work on my Z-brush class. Learning the program over the course of the class, I made this character from my own personal concept. I blocked in the shape , re-topologized the mesh, Sculpted detail, painted it using Polypaint, Posed it, and ultimately I ended up with my finished version. It was quite the learning process and I really enjoyed the program. If anyone reading this is interested in 3d or digital art, and interested in doing characters, Z-brush is a very intuitive sculpting software. Anyways, I hope you like it.
Also, I haven't thought up a name for it...but I'm open to suggestions. so for now, it's just "The Elemental Centaur"
(Also, you can click the image to see it full size.)

-C

more zbrush

Spent some time posing my 3d model.
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Pi day sketches

More drawing!
I sat down today thinking, What to draw for Pi day....was thinking pie related...I drew no pies today. So random drawing ensued...and this is the result. plus the start of another project which I will wait til I'm a bit further in to post.
 Trying to keep consistent with sketching and drawing, practicing some quick sketching and coloring using my 12' Cintiq tablet. its a lot of fun to use because I can actually sketch in photoshop. Anyhoo, hope ya like the sketches.
-C
((I think the guy on the top right definitely enjoyed his fair share of pie, so that's how I can sneak in my honor to Pi day))...
Happy Pi day everyone.

Quick doodle

Trying to keep consistent with atleast the doodling :] here's something just for fun.

Doodling

Here's some more progress on the robotic/wizardish dude...And a fun little doodle robot
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I had to change his arm, make it look way more balanced :].

Zbrush sculpting!

Here's a quick update on the creature I'm designing for my Z-brush class, over the past 7ish weeks I've been learning Z-brush techniques and working towards this final product. Anyways, here's where I'm at.
-C

Cyber Wizard?!

Here's a work in progress I started today, might adjust the colors later. anyways hope you like it.

-C

Alchemy!

Okay here's something I hope people are interested in. This is a sweet digital art program that is free online, It's super awesome for quick sketching or doing fun stylized drawings. Here's the link for the download >> http://al.chemy.org/download/ <<  If you like drawing or just doodling I suggest trying it out! [[Especially try out the mirror mode]]. Anyways here's some of my stuff from alchemy. Hope you enjoy!

-C

Moar Drawrings!

I figure since this blog is a bit bland right now, I'd populate it with a bit of my art from recent months.
These are some digital paintings I did in photoshop. Hope you enjoy them.
-C

Card Shark

 Last night I was playing around with a hyper stylized pen drawing I had done earlier, and I decided it was time to upgrade it to digital.   :]
-Colby

Bloggen?!

Hello there, I'm Colby. I'm a 2d & 3d digital and traditional artist going to school and doodling randomness. This will be my first blog where I will try to keep consistant posts of either my sketchbook doodles or my digital works. Anyways, thanks for checking out my blog! I hope you enjoy!

-Colby