Joels Sketch Blog

2012-02-13T14:43:00.000-08:00

Some 20 min doodles

2012-02-01T11:06:00.000-08:00

40k fanart, wooo emperors champion!

2012-02-01T11:02:00.001-08:00

Tree sketch

2012-01-26T13:21:00.000-08:00

Recharging mah mana.

Force

2012-01-20T18:58:00.000-08:00

Yep, big ol Capcom hands.

A sketch before bed from a doodle I had saved that I thought had potential. Keep doodles!

Battleship

2012-01-12T19:14:00.000-08:00

Fire everything

... the battleship opens fire with its TRI-BEAMS!

Some photo bashing, some fun and just over an hour in photoshop.

2012-01-02T10:28:00.000-08:00

Inspired by a recent road trip down to wales for the New year.

Happy new years everyone!

Winter

2011-12-04T09:34:00.000-08:00

A quick doodle in photoshop.

Sunset

2011-11-30T12:48:00.000-08:00

A painting done with no ref, inspired by the views we had from university.

Bird Castle

2011-11-27T08:41:00.000-08:00

Finished this a while back, but I don't think I've posted it here yet. It has changed a lot from the original colour scheme. Pretty happy with it overall, but it's a bit flat. At the moment I'm trying to add more depth to my paintings.

2011-03-16T19:29:00.001-07:00

2011-03-16T18:34:00.000-07:00

2011-03-15T09:16:00.000-07:00

2011-03-14T16:25:00.001-07:00

2011-03-10T16:14:00.000-08:00

Been playing some Mass effect, I really hope they bring back some form of refined planet exploration in ME3, it could be so cool if done right.

About an hour and a half.

2011-03-10T10:23:00.001-08:00

Employing new techniques to speed up speedy painting.

Just over an hour for this.

2011-01-02T14:27:00.000-08:00

Aboot 45 mins.

Don't cross ze beams!

2011-01-01T16:07:00.000-08:00

^YOUR DOING IT WRONG

Quick painting, around an hour. Perspective is pretty messed up. I will fix it next time.

I also watched Legends of the Guardians tonight in good ol super HD. My eyes nearly exploded it looked so good. Battle Owls for the win!

Speedpainting is sometimes just an exercise of laziness.

2010-12-30T12:47:00.001-08:00

2010-12-30T11:52:00.000-08:00

2010-11-11T22:28:00.001-08:00

2010-10-26T09:33:00.000-07:00

Mountain painting

2010-09-26T14:50:00.000-07:00

around an hour, photo ref used without colour picking.

Brushes

2010-09-02T18:12:00.000-07:00

Some sweet brushes on RAMÓN MIRANDA's blog. You can find them here

This is what I did while playing around with them.

2010-09-01T17:01:00.001-07:00

Next thing I'm working on, 30 min sketch and some rough colours. For this one I want to have the colour's more subdued and have a lighter watercolour feel. But we'll see how it goes.

Emperor's Champion

2010-08-26T18:06:00.001-07:00

Whew, it's gonna be a tough fight.

The REAL fight begins now...

2010-08-18T12:23:00.000-07:00

Wondrously cliché! Still a work in progress, about 60% of the way there. This is my first time really using the whole, paint it in black and white first, then add colour (ignore the fire, subject to change without warning).

2010-07-22T11:28:00.001-07:00

New concept for The Orion Project I recently completed, I'm trying to go for armour which looks more realistic/practical than my previous concepts. It's just like that masterchef dude init, hur hur.

WIPS

2010-06-26T18:02:00.000-07:00

Last one is pretty much there.

2010-06-16T16:37:00.001-07:00

Freakin Thor - updated with video.

2010-05-17T17:59:00.000-07:00

1 hour, although I think I could have done it about 20 minutes faster, spent ages trying to get his face looking right.

Some stuff from the past week.

2010-05-13T16:05:00.000-07:00

2010-04-12T17:25:00.000-07:00

Racer speedpaint

2010-04-07T13:11:00.001-07:00

40 mins- started as a doodle, but quite pleased with how it turned out.

2010-03-09T16:06:00.000-08:00

1hour 25mins

2010-03-03T20:02:00.000-08:00

Cargo Ships

2010-03-01T14:27:00.000-08:00

PEW PEW

2010-02-28T15:51:00.000-08:00

Ref used... 30 minutes

Extreme Fishing

2010-02-28T15:47:00.000-08:00

No ref - 50 minutes I think

Mountain Estate Speedpainting

2010-02-28T15:44:00.000-08:00

No ref - 45mins, Practising wut i lernt.

Speed paint: golden

2010-02-22T13:21:00.000-08:00

Used ref, 45 mins, no colour picking. Ref from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/malik_braun/3338550410/

Snowy Mountain

2010-02-20T18:16:00.000-08:00

2.5 Hours. Painted alongside Whit Brachna's environment tutorial video, it was cool getting an insight on how an experienced concept artist goes from a thumbnail to a polished finished painting and what you have to keep in mind when painting a scene like this.

2010-02-19T11:08:00.001-08:00

Having some fun taking a break, about 1 hour with no ref.

Float

2010-02-13T14:43:00.001-08:00

25 minutes speedpaint.

Futuristic Overgrown Ship Sketch

2010-01-20T14:26:00.000-08:00

WIP speedpaint 50 minutes in.

PULSE

2010-01-13T15:23:00.000-08:00

35mins

Roll

2010-01-11T17:38:00.000-08:00

Speed paint, 45mins

Tree Lookout

2010-01-11T16:01:00.000-08:00

Quick painting before bed to relax.

Speedpaint: CASE

2010-01-10T14:30:00.000-08:00

45 mins in Photoshop/No Ref