Sketchbook

amadarien

Hey guys!

I work at a small game studio in Canada, and I thought it'd be fun to post some of my work here, as a way to track my growth and hopefully get some useful CC or at least something to think about for my next projects.

I am primarily a 2d Artist, but I have been learning maya over the last year or so. So, most of my art will be 2D. I would love to hear any type of feed back, but 3D tips and tricks are extremely desired.





This here is my first character model I did over the weekend. Fun stuff!













A little re-imagining of Orko, of Heman fame.





Self portrait!








-- Some >1 Hour sketches --

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-- Some >1 Hour Paintings --










-- Some Work related things--

rattlesnake

wow really nice concept drawing man! really like the first one here,of course the rest looks great too! Megaman character has cool style :thumbup:

amadarien

Thanks a lot! I was just browsing your portfolio - awesome 3d stuff. I hope I can start working on my 3d to get it to a respectable level (without halting my 2D studies).

rattlesnake

with your 2d abilities you will be creating some great 3d art dude! try some sculpting software im sure youll be doing interesting art immediately

kaikun2236

I love your 2D work! Very inspirational stuff!

amadarien

Thanks a lot. I've never joined a forum that does the sketchbook stuff.. It's awesome seeing a lot of different work. I like the idea of joining a community of artists.

amadarien

Whipped up a character tonight to turn into a low poly model. I want to keep practicing my modeling, so I think this will be what I do next.

njc6425

i really love your 2d art work love the style and everything! great character designs

amadarien

Thanks a lot! 2D will always be my primary skill but hopefully I can develop some decent 3D ones as well.

gillmeister74

Really awesome stuff all around! love your illustrations and your megaman is pretty sweet.

amadarien

My second go at modeling a character (based off the sketch above.

amadarien

Hey guys,

Haven't added anything in a while, but here's a posting of the small scene I am working on (based on a posted reference I did).

nkonstantino

Very nice texture work on that last model!
And very nice everything else too! I really like your style.
I like to see the wire frame versions of models too, since I like seeing how people do their topology.

amadarien

Heya! I will do a sheet in a few days with multiple poses/topo. I kept it under 3000, as was my goal. I am going to model some weapons and stuff for it too. And thanks

amadarien

A creature painting I did yesturday. I kinda like it.

Zyloh

First I want to say that you art is absolutely beautiful. The most recent post is actually one of my favorites. The Blue skin looks epic.

So.. I may be crazy but in the pic of the scuba diver, the man looks like Walter White from 'Breaking Bad'.

amadarien

Thank you very much for the compliment! I've never seen the show, but I am definitely going to look up the actor now, lol.

amadarien

An update! The sword and shield for the knight model I was working on. Diffuse only. Wippy wip.

Twoflower

Think your the shield would improve if you added abit of highlights and shadows to the woodgrain, anyway it looks really nice.
Really digg your 2d style,the last creature is awesome

amadarien

That's a good idea. I think I'll give that a try tonight. Thank you.

allmighty_thunder

like them weapons

amadarien

Thanks! I am working on a treasure chest now, hopefully the textures work out.

amadarien

A 1-2 hour environment painting! The first attempt at it.

Callesw

cool structure I like the shapes you got going!

amadarien

Thanks a lot! I made some value mistakes and whatnot, but I only give myself limited time! Hopefully my next one turns out better.

amadarien

Another quick environment piece I did up today.

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I did a quick 2.5 hour painting. I don't usually go without any prep.. but I decided to just go for it.

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Some character concepts that wound up getting scrapped in favor of a new direction.

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A quick 1 hour study of an ant. I am going to be doing an Ant-man piece for the Avengers theme for my works art blog.

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Another study.

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A quick monster concept piece I did.

FullSynch

Looks great! The only thing that bugs me is you have all these lovely distinguishing features, but they are only used once or twice in a confined area of the monster. It doesn't feel like one monster, but parts of many monsters, but if you were going for that mish-mosh look then I guess I could still bring myself to sleep at night.

Adriaan

Those ant studies are cool, really nailed the lighting!

amadarien

Thanks guys! I guess I was sort of going for a chimera type of creature, but I probably should have reused some elements in different parts. I was hoping that by sharing and dropping the colors over that it would sort of unify it.

amadarien

Decided to take a crack at making a bunch of random silhouettes and turning them into quick characters. And here is the results!

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Dwarf concepts done in the same manner as above.

amadarien

Figured I'd post this quick, random painting I did in an hour. I had no direction. When in doubt, add giant spikes, I guess!

amadarien

Something I did over the last couple of days for a little challenge.

KyleHickey

I like this last painting very much. Great atmosphere.

amadarien

Thank you.

SimonT

These a really beautiful art pieces. especially the 2d pictures.

Daven

Really wonderful stuff. The last one reminds me of John Bauer's Troll work. Very cool, keep it up!

amadarien

Thanks guys, I appreciate that!

gillmeister74

Your stuff's really exciting! You got a ton of really expressive characters and like kyle said you nailed the atmosphere in that last piece.

amadarien

Thanks a lot! I am going to repost the above once it's completely finished. I tweaked it a lot and it's looking a lot stronger now. After that, I may finally get around to texturing a treasure chest I modeled a while back.

amadarien

This is what I wound up finishing with. Creatureforgehttp://http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=121614&posted=1#post121614 is a pretty cool thing. Lots of good stuff.

amadarien

Waiting around for a new challenge has inspired me to tackle some enemies from my favorite video game series. This time, it's the classic FLAN and Bomb, enemies.

amadarien

A new creature concept I have come up with!

squareko

Really nice pieces. Keep pushing them further and further.

amadarien

Thank you! I'm trying to. I want to do some more modeling sometime soon too. Especially vehicles. I am weak at vehicles more than anything else.