Sketchbook: Jeff Parrott

Jeff Parrott · Jul 2011

I'm going to crosspost here and on my blog.

Sculpted a hammer today.

Jeff Parrott · Jul 2011

Few pillar sculpts

Jeff Parrott · Jul 2011

Knocked out a mace in 30 minutes this morning.

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gibson543 · Sep 2011

nice texture bro but it just looks very....gray, even with the little greenish overlays and whatever it looks very monochrome and colorless

Jeff Parrott · Sep 2011

Yeah, I agree. Next time I do a rock texture I'll work on getting it less monochrome.

glottis8 · Sep 2011

I like the edges of your texture work. But the colors are a little overwhelming. The dark brown is too prominent and will cause your texture to feel washed out. But then... it might be ok depending on how you use it. I would still soften it up a little bit and change some of the tones so they don't all look the same.

Jeff Parrott · Sep 2011

Good crits Braulio. I agree with adjusting the tones on the wood one.

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MrNinjutsu · Sep 2011

Nice work bud. Keep up with the good sculpts. Liking the mace!

Jeff Parrott · Sep 2011

Thanks! hand-painting>sculpting right now for me though.

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Dan! · Oct 2011

PUNKIN!!!!!

Oranghe · Oct 2011

i like dem pumpkins!

ladyknowles · Oct 2011

I LURVE dat pumpkin! Nice work!

Jeff Parrott · Nov 2011

Back with a quick sculpt today.

Jeff Parrott · Nov 2011

Not sure if this will be lopoly hand-painted or sculpted or a mix. But I'm going to make this as a game asset.

Edit: Updated to a more final look I think I'm going to go for.

Jessica Dinh · Nov 2011

Low-poly, hand-painted, and sculpted!! Go! xD

Jeff Parrott · Dec 2011

Reviving this with some actual sketchbook work. Going to try and be more consistent with this in 2012.

Jeff Parrott · Dec 2011

Here's my last one of the year. Hard Rock Live at Universal Studios.

Armageddon · Dec 2011

jeffro wrote: »

Reviving this with some actual sketchbook work. Going to try and be more consistent with this in 2012.

I love those two landscape scenes on the right, what did you use to color those?

Jeff Parrott · Jan 2012

Thanks! I used water soluble colored pencils and then a wet brush.

Jeff Parrott · Jan 2012

Did up a concept for a new project idea.

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Jeff Parrott · Jan 2012

Decided to make it a KISS totem pole.

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Jeff Parrott · Feb 2012

Amulet concept

Jeff Parrott · Feb 2012

and a koi pond little bridge idea

Pix · Feb 2012

You have improved really fast, your painting is better now compared to last page, I also enjoyed the video, nice idea with those totems.

Jeff Parrott · Feb 2012

Thanks Pix! Been working at it a decent amount.

Jeff Parrott · Mar 2012

Here's a grass texture. I need to redo this and ScreenFlow the process.

Jessica Dinh · Mar 2012

omg niiicee grass *_* but you would do that again just to screencap it??!

Jeff Parrott · Mar 2012

Thanks Jess!

No just to record the process of painting that.

Krhiven · Mar 2012

Cool, like your work and your blog write ups. Thanks

Jeff Parrott · Mar 2012

Thanks Krhiven! Glad someone digs the stuff.

Here's that walkthrough of how I did this texture. It's not the exact same one so it might look a little different. But it's the identical process.

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Krhiven · Mar 2012

No problem, thanks for taking the time.

Stoop_Kid · Mar 2012

Thanks for the tutorial!

I appreciate it!

Pix · Mar 2012

Gonna try out this method for grass texture if I do I'll post result

Jeff Parrott · Mar 2012

Please do Pix! Just a heads up make sure to spend some time (more than I did for the video) on the blade of grass or a few blades to get them looking awesome. That reduces any heavy art lifting you have to do later.

Jeff Parrott · Apr 2012

Quick skull sculpt in ZBrush after watching Bobo's vigilnights stream.

Jeff Parrott · Apr 2012

Read some Avenging Spider-Man the other day and got really inspired to make a weapon. Might take this in ZBrush at some point.

Jeff Parrott · Apr 2012

Jeff Parrott · Apr 2012

Going to model up these pieces and make these.

Daven · Apr 2012

Digging this latest stuff man; you're really improving a lot. The one thing I can say is that I think you're relying too much on black for your shadows. I'd say experiment a bit more with adding color into your shading and see how that works. I also could be completely full of shit (most of the time I am).

Jeff Parrott · Apr 2012

Thanks Max. I mainly work in grey/grayscale for a portion of time. That's probably where that's coming from. I'll try to start with color from step 1 on the next piece. Hopefully that will fix that issue.

In the past I've had trouble just with value let alone colors. So I decided to just get a good handle on values then work in colors. Thanks again for the critique.

Jeff Parrott · Apr 2012

Few doodles from today. Trying to get better about painting/sketching/sculpting every day.

Alex Pointer · Apr 2012

I like the style, very unique. Also, the grass is looking good.

Pix · Apr 2012

I was trying to make this grass texture in past days, but I don't get such good results, but I found the technique very useful for other types of textures, spreading rocks, making full base texture by only using small bits from photo texture, which is very useful indeed.

Jeff Parrott · Apr 2012

Thanks Alex!

It can take a few tries to get the grass right Pix. Try keeping the grass interesting but not a ton of unique details. Spreading rocks, etc is a great use of the technique too. Good call!

Sketchbook: Jeff Parrott

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