United Way Calendar - August

At work we're doing fundraising for United Way, I got the month of August, this is what I did.

It was either this or some kids swimming in a pond...I tried doing that, but I just ended up spending more time doing this.

Cheers,

G

Bball Player progress

Every good basketball player needs a nickname, I think I'm going to call this guy 'The Preacher'.

Going to add some more tattoos, fix his shoes and socks up some more...fix the back, possibly revisit the hands and maybe the hair too.  Neck and trapezius could use some attention too.  I will likely tighten up the face a little more also.

Lots to do still, not to mention retopo, proper texture maps and rigging.

Should be fun though.

Take care,

G 

More progress!

A bit more progress...still need to do the shoes, just a rough to get a sense of the face with colour.

Take care,

G

Some Cloverpaint doodles

Hey folks,

Anyone who knows me knows I love trying out new art applications and hardware, well there's one I've been using for a little while now called Cloverpaint, which is an AWESOME painting app for the Android.

I've been using it along with my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and it's been the closest thing to working with Photoshop on a tablet that I've experienced.

It's got fully customizable brushes and pressure sensetivity...it allows you to program the buttons on your stylus and the different buttons on your tablet (vol up, vol down) which is great for workflow.

The UI is a bit confusing and in certain places clunky, but the brushing and overall performance, not to mention the sheer amount of customizable features is pretty impressive.

With the new Wacom Android tablet coming out and the new Note 3 phone, this application will be a must have for a lot of people.

Anyways, here is some art that I've created using the application on my Note 10.1

Progress

More progress...Rendered in Keyshot

Bballer progress

Some progress on my bball dude...did some work on his hands and changed his nose.  Also started working on the shoes...Still need to work out the texture on the hair and polish up the back, as well as some overall polishing and refinement.

Paint demo

Here is the youtube video, for some reason there are black bars going across the screen, not sure why that happened, but I'll fix it for next time.  Audio also was not the greatest.  Again, I'll look into it for next time.

Hope you find it helpful.

-G

Minion

This is a character from a game I'm working on.  I did this painting from a sketch tonight it took me about 2 hours in Photoshop.  I also recorded a video of me painting it, which I'll post on Youtube.

I hope you like it.  It's so late right now, I can't even tell how I feel about it.

Take care folks,

Gavin

3D Coat sculpt to test out new brush engine.

Testing out the latest version of 3D coat, the sculpting experience was very nice and smooth...I felt like I was just thinking and the program was creating what I intended.

Pretty neat...I highly recommend it to 2D people interested in branching out to 3D.

-G

Bballer 3D practice (WIP)

Some sculpting practice in 3D Coat, still needs some work, especially on the hands and back, but I like the direction so far...It'd be nice to get some input though.

Let me know what you think and maybe I can find time to make some adjustments.

Cheers,

G

Doodle of the day

Quick sketch done in TVPaint, it's a pretty nice program just for drawing...It's cool that it'll record my drawings too.

Take care,

G

Valentine's

New illustration for Directory of Illustration ad.

Sketch

It's been a while since my last update!  I'm still alive, just busy...I will try to post more frequently.

Peace,

Gavin

Oodles of Doodles

Just some doodles I did during a meeting at work.  Blue ballpoint pen on paper with some photoshop colour adjustments done.

-G

Spaceman Spiff

Did this a little while back...

-G

Some 3D W I P

Been working a lot in 3d lately with Blender and 3D Coat.  It's still a work in progress, but hopefully soon, I'll be able to do something nice.

Here is a work in progress of a mesh I'm working on in Blender.  I did the design in Back too..I also have a side view which cannot be seen here.

I'm realizing that you almost have to put on your design hat once you get into 3d, because the reference images (front view and side view) might not turn out that great in 3d.

Peace out,

Gavin

Angry girl

A sketch I painted with Easy Paint Tool SAI

More concepts - cancelled project

Cocktail Waitress - cancelled project

Hotshot - cancelled project

Casino Owner - cancelled project

Character from a cancelled project

This is a bellhop design from a project I worked on that has been cancelled.  It was a lot of fun.

Goldfish?

Quick doodle in TVPaint...I guess it's a goldfish!

Shadow man

This is a new piece that I submitted to the Nelvana winter art show...I changed the format slightly though, the one I submitted has the top extended to fit a 13x19 paper.  I kind of like it both ways.

Hope you like it.

-G

Sketch (Digital)

Sketch in TVPaint from photo reference.

Sea Creature done in Open Canvas 5.5 RC4

Testing out the new version of Open Canvas...pretty cool software for a great price.

K'naan

Was pretty into K'naan a couple years back when he came out with his big single  When I Get Older.

I Did this piece back then when I decided to stop bootlegging software and was using GIMP because I couldn't afford Photoshop at the time.

I found out that GIMP does some stuff pretty well and offers a pretty good amount of control over key mapping some of the more advanced brush features like rotation and aspect ratio which I thought was pretty cool.  Also, it can do image hose brushes and animated brushes which Photoshop can't do.

My time with GIMP was short lived though because shortly after I began beta testing TVPaint for linux which completely blew my mind and I now use it more than Photoshop for painting, drawing and animating.  But I'll discuss TVPaint more in depth another day.

Take care,

Gavin

MUDPIT!

These are the final approved concepts for the Teletoon show Mudpit.  I think I mentioned it a couple posts back, but I did these a couple of years ago when I was with Guru.

The concepts were coloured by my friend and colleague Jasper Ng.

Take care everyone.

G

Chris Bosh

Some CB4 sketches from back in the day.  From his first couple of years in the NBA with the Raptors.

Rock Zombie!

Before I forget to post this, I know I said I'd post a couple days ago.  But somehow I got sidetracked, anyways here it is.  There was one other concept that I really liked and would have liked to colour.  That was the guy to the far right.

Take care,

Gavin

Mudpit - Rock Zombies

I did this sketch when I was working on the Mudpit television show a couple years ago.  I had to design a 'Rock Zombie'  These are the concepts I put forward.  I'll post the finished concept that was chosen tomorrow.  Which one would you have picked?

Take care,

Gavin

Bball!

Azania art

Some more art.  It's all been posted elsewhere already, but I just thought I'd put them up here too.

Hope you enjoy.

-G