StoopidFish

Adding to Caleb's blog

2011-04-04T13:00:00.000-07:00

Been a while...Having some fun in Zbrush.

So Caleb doesnt get too lonely

2011-03-14T23:01:00.000-07:00

This is something I did in my free time not too long ago. Needs a little work, but I like it.

this is turning into my blog :(

2011-03-09T22:01:00.000-08:00

rocks?

2011-02-24T22:50:00.001-08:00

trying to break out of my rut

2011-02-07T22:50:00.000-08:00

more Gameartisans sketch challenge stuff.

2011-01-21T10:18:00.000-08:00

ive been slackin

2011-01-07T19:40:00.000-08:00

Rapper Commission

2011-01-02T03:34:00.000-08:00

A New Jersey rapper found my deviant account and had me make him an album cover, he wanted a subway door that opened from the center and inside is a pic of him in the subway, he also wanted a full body painting for a poster.

Practice Head Model Finished

2010-12-15T00:24:00.000-08:00

EDIT 2: REDO! Don't know what crack I was smoking before...

EDIT: fixed some details that were bugging me and added the sculpt to the presentation.

This turned out to be a fun practice run through the pipeline. Next up, a full character model. I can just finish one of the many, many unfinished characters I've started...

Art Drop 2

2010-12-14T10:55:00.001-08:00

Mostly stuff from weekly topic paintings

ZBrush practice

2010-12-05T17:50:00.000-08:00

Workin hard at getting better in ZBrush. Doing final details now, including layers with surface detail. Soon I'll get to retopping the low poly, baking normals and AO, and heading to texture painting. I'll post more progress when I get further on this. I've got a full character I'm also working on, I'll move on to that after this model is done.

Hilarious!

2010-12-02T10:52:00.000-08:00

Because it's HILARIOUS. Was going through some old files when I went to AIS and found this render of a terrible looking model I made for an Unreal Mod Class project I worked on with other students. So so so bad. Thought I'd share, because ironically I made another villa that happens to be in the same position with similar qualities.

Painting Time Lapse

2010-11-30T10:01:00.000-08:00

Made another time lapse video.

Facecomic Portraits

2010-11-20T22:06:00.000-08:00

Anywho.. only 80 more to go! Feel free to join on Facebook if you'd like. I'll be updating more of them more regularly on there then on Stoopidfish. :)
So, many of you already know, but for those of you who don't.. I started a little project I call (thanks to Elaine) Facecomic. I made a public promise that the first 100 people to "like" it on Facebook would get facecomic'd. Well, I got a 100 and now am cracking down on it. I dont have many other side projects going on besides this so i thought i'd post it. Here are the first 20. Some people you might recognize, being that they're gripto's.

2010-11-10T19:42:00.001-08:00

2010-11-01T23:17:00.001-07:00

2010-10-29T11:54:00.000-07:00

I thought you guys might like to see this since the original sketch was done for Friday painting last summer. A few more details are viewable at http://pimpleberry.bigcartel.com

2010-10-23T22:40:00.000-07:00

2010-10-21T18:24:00.000-07:00

2010-10-21T01:07:00.001-07:00

Zombie Nurse 2

2010-10-19T01:22:00.001-07:00

2010-10-11T22:49:00.001-07:00

Its been way way too long. Going on a month without a speedy. (Just under an hour)

Layton Comic

2010-10-11T10:06:00.000-07:00

Martian Arch Outpost

2010-10-09T19:31:00.000-07:00

Ghoul

2010-10-03T15:34:00.001-07:00

Pushed myself hard on this one and repainted details a ton. I think it paid off.

Cosmonaut

2010-09-30T10:37:00.000-07:00

Zombie Adventurer

2010-09-26T13:06:00.001-07:00

brash

2010-09-22T20:16:00.000-07:00

Not sure if I'm going to "finish" this so I'm posting it here for now.

Art Dump

2010-09-22T01:23:00.000-07:00

Bully

2010-09-19T14:02:00.001-07:00

Long time no post. Here's a big bad bully.

Sick of Vampires...

2010-09-16T14:43:00.000-07:00

... but I doodled one anyway...

Pirate Chick painted

2010-09-16T00:13:00.000-07:00

Did this for a little contest. Because of my awesome procrastination skills, I rushed through the paint job quite a bit. Might go back later.. if i feel like it, but this is what I turned in.

MOOOOOOOOOO...

2010-09-10T09:47:00.000-07:00

...vie posters. Did these for poops & giggles...

2010-09-06T10:01:00.000-07:00

woo, scary scarecrow thing! It feels good to paint. :p I doubt I'll do much more with this, it was fun though!

You Guys Miss Me Yet???

2010-09-04T00:43:00.000-07:00

Friend of mine plays this free game online and they're having a little pirate-art contest. He wanted to do a collab-project with me. I do concepting/texturing, he does the zbrushing and modeling. I liked how the concept turned out and thought I'd share with you guys.

COOL CHARACTERS WOW

2010-08-29T15:36:00.000-07:00

I'm working on a sports-themed Facebook game, here are some characters I came up with. Drawn entirely in Flash, if I have time hopefully they will animate a bit.

Sea critters

2010-08-27T11:26:00.000-07:00

fishy seahorse clam things :)

Speedpaint Colab W Christine

2010-08-27T10:52:00.000-07:00

done with a 20 minute then pass rule.

More Render Practice

2010-08-27T02:32:00.001-07:00

2010-08-25T14:33:00.001-07:00

Thanks for the invitation Dominic, I painted this today after looking through Justin Gerard's illustration blog, which rocks!

More Painting Practice

2010-08-25T01:26:00.001-07:00

More painting practice, I redid that last pic I made of Terry Tesla

Space Gurl

2010-08-21T04:57:00.001-07:00

Practicing brush work

*Fixed Some Stuffz

Bunny Runner

2010-08-16T01:08:00.000-07:00

Yet another DAC challenge, this was to make an owner that looked like their pet, and no lines for caleb.

'Desoulate' version 3

2010-08-11T05:35:00.000-07:00

This was a re-paint of something I did long ago just to see what I could do with it. It's been a practice board to try out some new stuff with no real goal in mind.

DAC challenges

2010-08-09T13:47:00.000-07:00

This was a DAC challenge to make a chair, then a character that would sit in that chair, it was fun doing someone washed up :P

Another shape challenge for DAC (design a character)

Dorothy Stratten

2010-08-04T11:23:00.000-07:00

This is a practice piece based on a photo I found of Dorothy Stratten, a model, actress & Playboy Playmate in the late 70's/early 80's who was eventually murdered by her husband.
I found the photo here:
http://theworldsbestever.com/2010/06/08/babes-of-yore-4/
Not sure who to credit for taking the photo, but thought it was awesome, so arted it up...

Grumpy Stoner

2010-07-31T11:15:00.000-07:00

Doodles - Round 2

2010-07-15T10:59:00.001-07:00

Doodles...

2010-07-14T11:44:00.000-07:00

I've got about a billion new pieces in the works.
Until they're done... doodles.

3Dz

2010-07-14T10:27:00.000-07:00

Pan's Labyrinth. Sculpt done in Zbrush. *Gabe walking in as I type this out and is pouring water on my desk cuz he's a jerk* Low poly done in Topogun. Current texturing in Photoshop and am trying to learn the CS4's 3D painting projection stuff. It is prettttttty slick.

Helen Honey

2010-07-06T02:46:00.000-07:00

Havent really been posting here anymore, seems kinda dead :P anyways, here is a new character I came up with for a DAC challenge (the challenge was to create 2 enemies), been having fun with her, I have some ideas for enemy flower soldiers I will whip up soon

ZOMBIES... from last week

2010-06-28T00:40:00.001-07:00

So.. last week I put off the zombie painting theme thing till pretty much half an hour before the meeting... bleh. Felt all bad, so I'm continuing with it. Totally copying Dom, cuz I too, am a L4D junky. And yes... there is also ANOTHER smoker grabbing ZOEY.. yet AGAIN.. but that's ok... cuz there's a story behind this one... well not really..

... If you play L4D a lot on versus, there's always going to be some A**hole smoker who grabs someone at the last possible moment gunning for the helicopter.. ALWAYS.. that or the elevator in the hospital. Anyway, thought I'd make that intense moment that always seems to happen.

Still needs some work.. but Hoping i can get it nearly completed by Thursday.

Zombie Pix

2010-06-20T22:33:00.001-07:00

dump from the last couple of weeks.

2010-06-19T15:00:00.001-07:00

Speed Painting

2010-06-16T18:32:00.001-07:00

Working on speed again. I dont remember how long this took, but I think around 45 mins, maybe? Meh.. anyway, it's of that famous National Geographic photo.

Terry Tesla 3

2010-06-14T01:10:00.000-07:00

Just another pic of that character I made up for a speed painting a couple years ago

Fire

2010-06-11T14:57:00.001-07:00

Updated after crit session

Study, study, study.

2010-06-05T17:49:00.000-07:00

I've been doing a lot of studies recently. It's like exercising, after a while it feels great after each time you do it. Here's a few I my recent studies. I spent around 30 minutes to an hour and half on each of them.

Sea Beast

2010-06-03T23:53:00.001-07:00

Sea Creature

2010-06-02T23:30:00.000-07:00

I told myself I was only going to spend an hour on this, which is all the creature took... then I kept adding and adding, until I spent about 4 and a 1/2 hours on this :P I dedicate this to caleb since he likes my bloody patapon imitation style :P also was inspired by the how to train your dragon concepts.

Abandoned Building 1

2010-06-01T23:24:00.000-07:00

Started as a building study... ended up throwing the dead dude in there.

Merman

2010-05-31T13:13:00.000-07:00

For this week's Art Topic of the Week at work.

Beer Bottle Viking

2010-05-31T04:10:00.000-07:00

For this week's DAC

Monkey Business

2010-05-27T09:41:00.000-07:00

So, been working as a freelancer for this dude in Boston, that wanted some mascots for his company and asked for some character designs, and then some t-shirt designs of those characters. I've been done with these for a long while, but over some confidentiality stuff, wasn't able to post work. But in light of a new project he wants me to work on, I struck a deal with him, which enabled me to share the work I did. Hooray! Thought I'd share with you guys.

DAC challenges

2010-05-24T00:54:00.000-07:00

Been catching up on DAC (design a character) challenges this week, zombie nurse's theme was "a character that is out of place", girl of war's was "take an existing character and make them the opposite gender", and the butcher was "design a character then give 4 different facial expressions with them"

Some Stuff

2010-05-21T05:30:00.000-07:00

Nothing against Stoopidfish, but I tend to forget to post stuff on here because I post stuff on my other blogs. If you wanna check them out...
My personal Art blog
And I'm doing a little web experiment, seeing if I can make those comics I've been making at least somewhat popular.. so it has its own blog too... named by Elaine!
Facecomic

But.. some stuff I've been making the last couple weeks... (but if your my facebook friend then you've probably seen these already)

Balcony

2010-05-15T21:09:00.001-07:00

Random

2010-05-14T00:09:00.000-07:00

Made this for the DAC challenge, it was to create two characters that were buddys, rivals, or partners, and to compliment eachother's character and personality, so I made these two, I made them in the idea of being the rivals of that Polly Apocalypse character I made before

No one has really been posting, so thought I'd do something quick, this was a whiteboard drawing I did on Alex's board, I added the union jack cause I thought he looked like a british rocker :P

Seaweed

2010-05-02T03:45:00.001-07:00

This week's DAC was to make a caricature of a photo

Composition study gone to far.

2010-04-29T23:02:00.000-07:00

at work sketch

2010-04-29T18:48:00.001-07:00

Life drawing and marker sketches

2010-04-28T20:46:00.000-07:00

I went out and bought a little 8x5 sketchbook and some fine point markers. I've been keeping it near me all day and just doodling in straight marker and pen. I'm hoping to improve my accuracy, looseness and decisiveness. So far so good.

Head sketch

2010-04-27T22:43:00.000-07:00

I promise I'll be more creative next time, but for now here's a space marine.

nother one

2010-04-25T13:05:00.001-07:00

quick and dirty

Thomas Ediphant

2010-04-25T05:42:00.000-07:00

one of my old friends wanted me to make a character mascot to represent their band Edison Orange, they asked for a charicature of Thomas Edison as an elephant cartoon

Speedpaint! 30 min

2010-04-24T13:33:00.001-07:00

Going to start doing regular speedpainting while this project is in full swing to try and keep some sanity

Life Drawing 4/21/10

2010-04-22T04:51:00.001-07:00

Drawings from today's Frazetta themed session. Two, five, and a couple tens. Such great poses!! I'd love some crits & tips on how to do better, quicker gestures.

The Face-comic-book

2010-04-18T18:20:00.000-07:00

Haven't stopped bye in a while... kind of ... forgot.. But anyway!

FACE COMIC BOOK!

Ok, so I haven't really come up with a catchy name, but for those who don't know... I started a little project where I use amusing comments from my Facebook status (or others) to script out a comic strip. Though the dialogue is word for word, the context tends to change. Plus I turn the friends that have made the original comments the main characters involved in the comic. Anywho, Since the last 2 comics I've made feature a couple of "Griptonians".. thought I'd share!

(Elaine Eudy)

(Sean Epperson ... not some Asian dude according to Dominic!)

First one I made, but not Grip-to's

Random March sketches

2010-04-17T13:10:00.001-07:00

RandomGen'ed Lunch sketch!

2010-04-12T14:06:00.000-07:00

Raaaaawr!!

Druid

2010-04-12T02:10:00.000-07:00

Matt wants to make a mod for torchlight adding a druid character, he is going to model and texture it and wanted a concept, here is my idea, if he likes i'll make a front and side shot.

Rococo Skeleton

2010-03-27T03:58:00.000-07:00

This week's 'Design a Character' challenge was to make a character in rococo fashion

Quick Sketches

2010-03-26T14:49:00.000-07:00

Just a quick montage of random quick tablet sketches I made, including today's robot crab speed painting (i did not have a full hour to make it cause of stress on the project, so I just made a 10 minute sketch)

Quick sketch!

2010-03-25T22:46:00.000-07:00

it really doesn't make any sense.

Lifedrawings

2010-03-25T11:40:00.001-07:00

Here's the little bit of life drawing I got done yesterday.

2010-03-24T17:27:00.000-07:00

life drawing from today. post yours up too if you went :)

2010-03-23T23:01:00.000-07:00

Got the idea from Christine's class at FuturePoly. Done while watching Fringe tonight over the course of a 40 minute episode.

Feeding the Space Octopus

2010-03-20T17:35:00.001-07:00

Spaghetti Snake

2010-03-16T00:30:00.000-07:00

This week the challenge of DAC (design a character) was to make a character out of something around you, I chose a spaghetti spoon.

WILDCARD!!!

2010-03-15T00:40:00.000-07:00

Charlie from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

Environment concept

2010-03-14T23:01:00.000-07:00

A concept i put together of an environment i'm attempting to make in 3Dzzz.

Speedpaintin' tonight

2010-03-10T23:23:00.001-08:00

Made Man

2010-03-09T00:07:00.000-08:00

been playing Megaman 9 and was inspired to make some of my own robot masters, here is the first one, have a couple more I wanna finish

Stevel Knievel

2010-03-08T11:03:00.001-08:00

Albuquerque: The Unknown

2010-03-06T15:50:00.000-08:00

So this isn't really a drawing or painting or anything. But in order to shamelessly promote it, I've decided to post it here.

I mean... It is the reason I haven't been able to get my kart picture done. So, I figure, in some way it's fair to say that, lately, this is the art I have been working on. Although, I use the term "art" loosely. =)

Anyway, check it out if you're interested, hopefully you dig. If not, I'm sorry. I'm so very deeply sorry.

The password is: abq

Bubble City Speedpaint

2010-03-06T14:09:00.000-08:00

Key

2010-03-03T09:16:00.001-08:00

Punchout

2010-03-02T23:43:00.000-08:00

Made a punchout style birthday card for a friend, we run on Alki occassionally

Submarine Port

2010-02-28T17:48:00.001-08:00

Just for good measure.

Gripkart: Finally

2010-02-28T17:41:00.000-08:00

I promised myself long ago that if I ever had to design a racing game, I'd try to make it involve people surfing on top of Winnebagos. This painting is hopefully as close as I'll ever get.