March to Betterness

[JuiceHS]

WOooahhhHHHH!!! very impressive work!!. This has become one of my favorites threads . I really appreciate the whole animation process you demonstrate for most of your works. Personally i enjoy watching the first sketch unfold into your final piece. Awesome work! keep posting plzz

[tbaldree]

JuiceHS - thanks so much! I'll make sure to post a process on this one too once complete.

snatti - thanks a ton for the vote!

Jesus Food - heh, Kevin Costner, cinema's tryptophane

Gabrieldnc - Creativity is just looking at your accidents and finding a way to use 'em. Your sketchbook is already hot!

MrScribbles - thanks again! Your SB is really charging along too-

Here's tonight's CHOW work. I think I'll wait on it a day and then look at it with fresh eyes before doing anything else. Lots of adjustments and changes in today's, want to make sure they sit well.

[PeteJ]

You really have a great collection of work here, even your oldest stuff looks good

[kayrouz]

Just found you through the your Zodiac warrior concept. It's one of the strongest pieces with a bold statement out of what I've seen so far. I have enjoyed looking at your entire sketchbook as well. Inspiring for sure. Will subscribe.

[tbaldree]

kayrouz - thank you very much!

PeteJ - thanks a ton

Update - various anatomy fixes from today, thanks to some helpful crits from Artfix-

[tbaldree]

Epic animated progress gif of work thus far.

[in2eternity]

Wow, this last work is very cool! It's amazing how it changed from the sketch to finished version.

[tbaldree]

in2eternity Thanks!

Here's my CHOW final - ready for the next one! This one was a blast.

[JaneMag]

Yes yes! I thought of shutting off my pc for the night now, but after watching your stuff in here, I need to do a bit more. This was inspiration on a silver platter. No wait, golden.

And by the way, it was your sb avatar that drew me in here, so don't go changing that now! The Zoey poster ended up in my 'memorable conceptart.org-pictures' that I keep for inspiration.

[tbaldree]

JaneMag - thanks a lot - super kind of you

I think I might do the Disney Redesign challenge over at CGHub - a first little scribble to get some ideas going.

[tbaldree]

Update-

[tbaldree]

And another update. Reversed the lighting, reworked dagger, detail work in clothing, general cleanup, a better treatment of the lamp, so on and so forth. I kind of like this one! Has a neat, old-fashioned vibe.

[Mr.Scribbles]

Looks old school. I like it. Did you use some kind of grain filter to top it off?

[Velocity Kendall]

that is a sweet dagger. i have an indian dagger on my desk made of paper machet and a bit of car door, its good to threaten with people if they disturb me, so i always like to see a good dagger. poison-tipped knowing jafar..

[teapo]

bwahahaha... really dig your aries design for CHOW :3 you update so much that i haven't been able to keep up

good luck with the disney redesign challenge! i'm sure you'll do well-- thought i should stop by and check out the other entries ^^"

[tbaldree]

teapo - thanks again, man!

Velocity Kendall - heheh - yeah, I need some more props on my desk to look at

Mr Scribbles - thanks! I have some photos of some weathered blank canvases that I use at a low % with soft light to add some grit, and then work it in a bit

Made an evil Vizier. Gotta have a Genie. A quick scribbly thing for fun tonight.

[tbaldree]

Genie with lovin'.

[Voodoo_Mama]

woow that genie looks scary. In a cool awesome epic way.
Awesome redesign with Jafar by the way. he looks like an evil wizard from lord of the rings.
Cool stuff!

[tbaldree]

And now for something completely different. Maaaaaaybe I'll work on this for CHOW this week. Maybe. But I've pretty much been blank for inspiration for 'Steampunk Aphrodite', and this doesn't really fit the brief that well I don't think.
1 hr wip.

[tbaldree]

Why god, why! Too....much....pink!

[tbaldree]

All right, I think I can cross this one off. Got the cute out of my system I hope!

[in2eternity]

The last one is cool, I like how you can so easily switch between different styles )

[tbaldree]

Hoo boy. Too long since I've posted. Swear, I've done some art in the interim! I switched gears a bit and worked on my iPhone game for a bit (check it at my blog! whoo! )

Trying to get another CHOW under my belt. After a false start, I scraped a starting sketch together tonight.

Not even close to done, but I gotta post somethin'!

[tbaldree]

Update for the evenin'

[tbaldree]

WIP 1 for this week's chow. This one has been fun and gone pretty smoothly.

[Fetsch]

whats up man, great works, love the firemage design!

[shambok]

Lovely work! Dig how much tightness you achieve in your paintings with out going over board with the detail! Very nice ... cant wait to see more!

[tbaldree]

shambok - Thanks!

Fetsch - thankya sir!

WIP 2 of my CHOW for this week.

[tbaldree]

Thinking about a Rapunzel/Medusa mashup for the CGHub challenge. First scribble, no ref.

[tbaldree]

Color update and brought the shoulders down. a little fine tuning to structure here and there as I go. Trying to get a feel for the light.