Tribute to Marvel

I did a little sculpting in Zbrush and participated at the CGHub character challenge. I made this Hulk sculpt. Doing this piece I learned quite a lot and I advice anyone who wants to grow as a 2D artist to try some sculpting either in a 3D environment or even better in real life from clay. It will help you to train your sense of space. You can also get a lot just from observing how the light falls on an object and makes shadow. Great stuff.

Turtle - color study

Lately I've been doing some anatomy studying so to break the chain I did a little color study. Original art is of course by Gil Elvgren (on the left). I'm a huge fan of his work and I think he's a great artist despite the fact that most of his work is known for pin-ups. His girls are awesome and the fact that he can enlighten their faces with such energy and cute mischief is just amazing. I love it. That's why he's one of the greatest.

I chose this particular picture because I wanted to practice color perception, my blending skills, human anatomy,  painterly style and drawing reptiles. Say what ??? That's right. The fact is that most of the guys including me, don't even notice the little turtle fella under the hat. And that what makes this picture so fun. I hope you enjoy it ;)

Black widow

Continuing with my Avengers mini series. This time a famous fight scene with Black Widow.

Bumpy road

Just a simple render of a pinup girl for the collegues at work.

Prometheus - Value Study

Just some value study with a reference image from the Prometheus movie.

Snow White in the Dark Forest

Watched the movie Snow White and the Huntsman and it was quite a surprise. I loved it actually. Started to do some concepts. Here's one that got finished.

At first I wanted to do a tribute to the movie but when I started to paint the Snow White she started to look more like Sarah from one of my favorite movies The Labyrinth with David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. Also the creepy atmosphere and the fact that Kristen played in the Twilight kept pushing in my mind so instead of a forest troll I painted some sort of mixture of a vampire and a werewolf. I hope you still like it ;)

Hulk

Continueing with Avengers mini series. This time the Hulk.