Material Study

For CGMA digital paint class. another great exercise.

Film Composition Studies

done for a digital painting class at CGMA. Great exercise, will definitely do more of these. First two are from Kurosawa movies, third from "Prometheus"

Djemila: Roman ruin study

study from a photo. I did a line drawing, then a value study, then a full-on model, zbrush sculpt, and texture. Rendering from zbrush. Eventually, I'll pull this stuff from zbrush and render with proper lighting in a finished environment (that pic to be added later)

Ctrl+Paint Vase Study

If you want to learn how to paint in photoshop, and you haven't yet, you must head over to http://ctrlpaint.com Matt Kohr is the author of the site, and tons of really concise, clear, well-thought-out instructional videos. While it is mostly free, he does have some "premium content" stuff that is a whopping $10 per lesson. This is an exercise from one of those, called Basic Rendering. Matt did a drawing of the vase, I rendered it. Pretty obvious, but just in case: reference is on left, painting on right ;)

This was a pretty big turning point for me in learning to paint digitally, and I can't thank Matt enough for his generous teaching.

Mag Lev Train

A quick sketch to start building some Design muscle.

observed objects

Trying to get used to drawing in photoshop. all the cool kids are doing it these days.

Env Sketches

done about a year ago, I think. Started using contours for landscape. Done for Environment Sketching class at CGMA