Discarded cakes

 

Cake Illustrations from the last project I worked on. All of them had been OKed - then I took off for the summer. When I returned all my work had been scrapped.

Doesn't feel great but at least I can share the illustrations here.

Corona Isolation Illustration #2

Second one - Chicken, or maybe a Rooster made in Illustrator.

Corona Isolation Illustration #1

Working from home and doing some social distancing, I decided to get started on my pile of sketches and ideas for illustration I have lying around.
Sketchbooks have never really been my thing - the paper is just too nice, so instead I got lots of post-its and scrap pieces of papers all over the place.
Anyways here is the first one;
I have had this sketch of a cow for a while now - and the idea of making it in an old rubber hose cartoony style. Made in Illustrator.

Giraffe Zbrush Head Sculpt

So it has been a while since I last did a bit of zbrush sculpting. I have just watched a youtube video - the Flipped Normals guys on how to improve your sculpting faster - and I thought it would be a fun little evening assignment.
20 min sculpting an animal, I chose a giraffe. First sculpt from memory, and then a new sculpt this time with the use of reference images. Can you guess which is which? 😄

- Two 20 minutes giraffe sculpts - 

Illustrator Penrose Triangle

 - penrose triangle created in Illustrator -

I am trying to get back to creating on my own time, and to that end I have started going through a lot of Illustrator tutorials on youtube, just trying to pick up a few tips and tricks and get some inspiration. And then add just a little twist to the final image so it is not just a total paint-by-numbers kind of thing.
Eventhough I think of myself as quite well versed in Illustrator there are still new tools and new ways to approach your work. 
This penrose is a nice little excercise and it can be found here; penrose tutorial

Cartoon Bird

Here is a little cartoony bird I have been working on. The finished picture alongside some images of the process; the sketch that went through several iterations, the base shapes and finally the "finished" picture. I say "finished" because I am not 100% pleased with how the feet turned out, so I might go back and changed them eventually - it is both a blessing and a curse when working digitally - you can always go back and change every little detail.

another zbrush sketch

another little zbrush sketch I made. He started out as a devil/dracula-thingy - but I cut of his horns an so he evolved in to his goblin like creature....maybe I should have made his skin green?

Zbrush Sketch Velociraptor

So I just finished the latest project at work, and so I had a little time before I had to move on to the next thing - so I opend zbrush (it's been too long) and started sketching a velociraptor using zspheres. I didn't get to spend too long on this one, think maybe an hour total, but I might take it a bit further and make a more finished model. 

- the raptor base created using zspheres -

- started fleshing out the raptor -

Inktober 2017 #1

Inktober 2017 is here. Drawing # 1 - it's a bird!

- sketch and line art, on not very good paper -

- added a bit of ink wash, again not the best paper to do that on -

Le Chef

A couple of images from the last project I worked on; "Le Chef" set in a small french bistro/restaurant where the head chef also is the waiter and the one doing the dishes.

Another 2D project, done in Photoshop, trying to get a bit more painterly texture into the artwork it got me out of my comfort zone ( I do like vectors...) but using shapes in Photoshop allowed me to create a clean more controlled overall shape, and then be a bit more lose within the shape creating the textures.

- early look test at a time when the style was not yet determined, done in Illustrator -

- final image; Cake -

- final image; Cheese -

- final image; Croissant -

- image was not used, but I really liked it -

- final image; Soup -

- Italian Vine in the french bistro, Fino Vino -