Cliff man

ONWARD!

This was supposed to be a quick doodle but, I spent a few hours on it.  I'll upload a process video to Youtube later.

Take care!

-G

Edit:  My screen recording software didn't capture anything!  Don't use Mirrilis Action.  It's let me down for the last time.  I'm going to use Bandicam from now on.  So no process video unfortunately.  Sorry about that.

-G

Another alien planet

Profiles

character sketches inspired by an upcoming game idea.

Hallelujah!

Hey everyone, just another sketch from tonight.

Don't forget to follow me if you like my updates.  That way you'll know when I post new work.  the button is hidden over on the right.

Take care everyone.

-G

Rock Fish

Messing around with another art app called Krita, I've been hearing about it a lot lately.  I first heard of it back in the day when I used Linux exclusively and I was looking for Photoshop alternatives.  Anyways, I don't remember trying it then, but after taking it for a swing today on Windows.  I have to say, this program is a real contender. I've come away very very impressed!  Very artist friendly.

Definitely worth checking out.  

As if that wasn't enough, the program is FREE!  Crazy times we're living in!

www.krita.org

Take care folks,

Gavin

TVPaint Sketch

Glowing character made in TVPaint.

Making of King of the North image

Hey everyone,

Here is a video of me making the the last image 'King of the North'

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

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

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

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

Spaceman Spiff

Did this a little while back...

-G

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

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

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

Painting exercise

Here I was trying to take a simple sketch and create an interesting composition using a limited colour palette.

I also wanted to experiment with lost and found edges between shapes.