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Hello! I'm Kim, and I paint, mostly. I love 2D game art, natural environments, anything hand painted, and, more than anything, concept art and world-building. 
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Some more hand painted tiling terrain textures. It turns out that I.. really enjoy doing these. Will definitely do more when I get a spare minute.
This rock texture is for a very surreal sort of cave environment, and goes with the snow texture from the last post.
And some cracked dirt and grass for terrain in a different level. I've never done a grass texture before and was feeling quite daunted, so I'm pretty pleased with how it came out.
This is a character of mine that I tend to draw alot... wanted to try painting her in a style similar to the League of Legends splash art pieces. Still doesn't quite compare to the Sona art I have as my desktop right now, but... I feel like I definitely made some great improvements just in this piece. :]
The game is a combination of 2D cutouts and 3D models... I painted all the 2D pieces, the backgrounds, terrain and a bunch of the 3D textures. Pretty much most of what you can see. :P
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If you're interested, you can check out our development blog at www.litdevblog.wordpress.com
I dig the Lost in Thought artwork
Another from today, this one for a part of the level associated with angry memories.
Anyway, these are some character concepts for Riak (a pet project of mine) They're a bit old, but I just went back and revisited it some so here you go. Also, I've always been a bit fond of them. They were grayscale, but added some colour in just roughly... not sure how I'm feeling about it yet.
@Austin Martin - Funnily enough, characters are pretty much all I used to do. I made an effort to start doing more environments, and now I've ended up in a position where it's really all I CAN do for Lost in Thought at least (only one character... and he's done. XD ).
Turns out environments are actually pretty fun though. Who knew!
This used to be a background for the first level of Lost in Thought, and then I went back to it and turned it into something else. Not my typical style at all, but interesting enough.
The latest painting looks lovely
A quick de-stressing painting from tonight. Obviously I cannot abide faces without some kind of markings.
I'm honestly pretty proud of this game, particularly considering that it's the first I (and many of the other team members) have ever made. And it's come a damn long way since the first build a few months ago.
So... have some new screenshots!
These first three are from a separate puzzle section, or "memory". This particular memory has to do with a woman's husband cheating on her shortly after their marriage, so there's lots of red, pulsing, and sharp things.
Annnnd some underwater bits (that jellfish is rad, right? I can't take credit for that one though.):
And near the end of the first level:
Soooo... if you happen to be at E3 in a couple weeks... come see us!
Something oldish that I recently did a re-paint on.
I'm going to be in LA for E3 in 3 days... ack!
I haven't had a chance to draw anything for myself in awhile, so these are just a couple doodles I did last night.
This one isn't my typical style, but it was nice to try something different:
And a super quick self portrait sketch, because I haven't in awhile:
Oh, and I'm only sculpting to a little below the hips at the moment. I just can't help but do the full concept. :P
(3 other pages of reference not pictured)
I'll be posting my progress here, so hopefully it's not too awful. :]
Having never sculpted before, i feel like it's not going too badly.
(Colour is very placeholder right now)
I don't know much about the gameplay but the art style is remarkable.
Aaaand, here's the last of the updates on the Adva model (for now).
A personal piece for fun and swirly hair:
And a couple Riak pieces, as per usual. The first is a page out of a sort of guide/overview compliation pdf that I'm making, (here if you actually feel like being able to read it) and the second a constantly-in-progress map.
More updates soon! I have some character concept work to show you guys.
Also, a quick self-portrait I did the other day for relaxation.
Drew this girl for fun the other day and decided to use her as a starting point at least:
Aaaand after sculpting (and re-learning stuff) for a couple hours after work today, I've got this:
I'm enjoying working with a more stylized approach (more natural for me) and it seems to be going better than expected... I dread the day I actually have to try and remember anything technical though (re-topo!). :P
Also got around to dropping in my zmaterials folder. Ahhhh. So much better. :P
The inevitable backlog commences:
(WIP):
I have a thing for forests lately.
More tomorrow!
Playing around with some concepts in isometric perspective.
This one was quick and is a little wonky, but I still kinda like it.
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A little more work on the tree, plus a new environment painting.
I'm also planning on participating in the Riot Games Art Contest, so I may post some of that here as well as in the other thread.
You can find my official progress thread with notes and such here.