Tex Mech - Sheriff Junk

Here is an ilustration I created for Crimson Daggers Bloodsports 9 challange - "Tex Mechs". My idea was to build a steampunk-like robot from some rusty, metal junk pieces. I asked Bjorn Hurri for crit and he said, it's a bit hard to understand how those pieces on the arm and stomach work. I guess I made it a little bit too random. I'll think about functionality more next time.

Environment speedpainting

A piece I created today. Took me 40 minutes. I'm still a little confused by all these custom brushes in photoshop. Till recently I painted only in gimp using basic round  (mainly soft) brush like 95% of the time. I downloaded 30 day photoshop CS3 trial and some custom brushes of known artists. Now I test them and sweep out those I'm not comfortable with to keep it as basic as I can.

Some WIPs and a speedpainting

Here are some WIPs I plan to finish soon.

The first one is a concept created for Crimson Daggers Bloodsports challange. I didn't make it in time, but certainly learned a lot.

Some facial details (this piece will be crazy detailed) click to enlarge:

This one is a character design inspired by Mayan culture:

This one is an unfinished illustration of a "Scary Forrest" aimed at children. I will probably place some characters in it.

The last one is a 3 hours speedpainting I did for Royal Fellas challenge (portrait of one of 7 deadly sins - Greed):

More stuff soon (I have some more WIPs, but they are secret :)

Archdemon

I wanted to implement a powerful narration and interesting mood. I should probably refine it a bit more, but I need to move forward with other stuff. Hope you like it, though.

Forest man

A portrait of a man/creature made of plants. I could push it a little further but I felt like I have to stop already.

Some studies and speedstudies

Wanted to make them quite fast. Some are done within 30 minutes, for others it was around an hour. I'll probably post some more studies soon.

Musing elder

I experimented a bit in this one. I’m very satisfied with the result but I may return to this later and refine it a bit.