ArtRage paintings

ArtRage is a really fantastic little app for Android, that I use almost constantly. It’s an app geared at people with a Samsung Note Tab or Phone, because it takes great advantage of the pressure sensitivity of the Note pen, but I believe it can be used with fingers as well, easily enough, though I myself have never tried it that way.

Until now, ArtRage is the best app I could find for painting, because it enables the user to use a variety of tools that mimic traditional mediums, like pencils, felt tip pens, watercolours and oil paint —my favourite by far.

When I am waiting between lectures at uni it’s the perfect tool for me to pass the time.

Here are the latest examples of paintings I did using ArtRage on my Galaxy NotePro tablet:

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Lord Diarmat – Progress report 1

Lord Diarmat is a minor character from the Chronicles of Elantra fantasy book series, written by Michelle Sagara. He shares the same universe with the Eternal Dragon Emperor, Dariandaros, from my previous post.

Lord Diarmat is one of my absolute favourite characters, ever. He prises rules, respect, proper behaviour, diligence and dedication above all. He does not tolerate tardiness, laze, disrespect or favouritism. Such character types immediately grab my attention. Thus, despite appearing seldom in the books, Lord Diarmat has managed to create a fascination —bordering on obsession— in me, that has lasted for 5 years now… and it’s still going strong.

Over the years I have drawn him numerous times and I knew, one day, I will create a 3D character of him.

Artwork of Lord Diarmat and Kaylin Neya (main character of the series), in a non-canonical relationship.

I have now finally started work on this project.

Unlike previous characters I have created, I decided to go about this slightly differently.

The Eternal Dragon Emperor – Making of

Back in February this year, during the 2nd semester of my 2nd year at University studying Computer Games Art, we started a module called “Creative Portfolio Development“. Ignoring the fancy title, in a nutshell this module was all about doing one project that interested us and helped develop skills in our chosen fields. The subject could be anything we wanted. Needless to say that, to date, this was my favourite module at Uni.

Wishing to be a Character artist, my project’s focus was the creation of a high quality, animation friendly game character.  I have chosen the Eternal Dragon Emperor, Dariandaros from my favourite urban fantasy book series; “The Chronicles of Elantra” by Michelle Sagara, as the star of this project.

I got a bit ambitious and decided to also create a 3d environment for him in my spare time. Though I love environment art greatly, I do not feel the same passion for it as for character art, and thus, I often neglect it, even avoid it in favour of doing more character based work. I felt this was the perfect opportunity to force myself to focus on the environment as well as, the character.

 

Boy, was I fooling myself. I did not factor in just how extensively time-consuming my other module, “The Journeyman Project” would be. What spare time? I barely had time to even finish Dariandaros, much less work on an environment. So though the environment was started, and is about 75% finished, it never actually got finalized. Not yet, anyway.

 

But I digress.

As with every project I started sketching out ideas. I mainly focused on the robes of the Emperor. The style, the cut, the colour scheme. I created many variations on this to try and get a sense of what might work best for an immortal dragon Emperor.

RedBubble Printing

Some time ago I stumbled upon a website, called RedBubble, that —among other things— print custom artworks on T-shirts. Their t-shirts are of really lovely quality and the printing on the fabric is sharp, clear and lasts long with the proper care during washing.

Thus, a few weeks ago, I started work on a couple of designs of my own for printing with RedBubble. Using their guidelines I created the following three designs:

 

 

Two of the designs are of Transformers Prowl (IDW version) and Soundwave (TF Prime version), as well as a design of  the White Walkers from Game of Thrones. I am a great Walker fan and firmly in the camp of the undead. XD

With the designs done, I ordered my t-shirts from RedBubble.

The tees arrived promptly and the printing was fabulous. The colours were

Purpose…

The purpose of this blog is to share my artworks, but most especially to have a place where I can post my works in progress, sketches and other development materials. I do not wish to clutter up my other galleries with these WIP’s, or artworks that I feel aren’t just up to my usual standards, so I have created this Blog for them and for the occasional rambling post about my interests (e.g. books, movies, games, etc.). 😀

To summarize, this blog will mostly contain:

1. Works in Progress
2. Screencaps of WIP’s
3. Sketches and other dev-materials
4. Finished artworks
5. Artworks that will not be posted to my main galleries
6. and some rambling on different subjects of interest.

That said, let’s get started.