Insomniac artist

[Thaw Naing]

My first post
Been watching the concept art forum for half a year now....i finally finished my degree last week, so now i have a chance to post some work up.

Heres a self portrait I had done for a digital painting class about a year ago.



I'm in the process of touching up all the work I had done for my Final year project, which was a concept design project for a proposed video game. Ill post them once they're touched up.

From, Wellington, New Zealand

[Jeff Lai]

hey man really digging all the texture you achieved,
especially round the hands and shirt areas.
the lightings nice too.

[FIG]

Really nice painting but why so sad?

[Ivan Vegar]

Hey nice work. It looks really well resolved and communicates your idea perfectly. Love the textures and colour pallet.

[FIG]

Well lets see a self-portrait tomorrow where you are happy. Theres a thing tomorrow here.

[Thaw Naing]

Thanx alot Ivan
Hey FIG im guessing you meant to say there was is a portrait thing on the forum here 2mrw? I wont be able to do anything because I'll be tied down with work all day (office work! i know, disgusting) but heres to make it up. Some work from my Final year project.

Its concept art work for a proposed video game based on the life of real life pirate Anne Bonny. The theory of this project was to create a game derived from historical research/accuracy. So thats why you wont see eye patches/parrots...or anything thats cliche pirate.
Heres portraits of Anne Bonny and Jack Rackam (with Ralph Fiennes as cast) and a couple of environments.

There is a keyscene painting I want to show but I'm currently touching up its flaws. About 80% of the project was drawing. Other paintings from the project I'm not so content with. I worked with a 3D animation student as a collaboration project, so I might consider showing u guys what she came up with.

But I guess this is a good enough taste.

[tmyohlaing]

Hi, Thaw Naing, nice paintings. Are you a burmese? just asking cuz of your name.

[Cavematty]

Heya Thaw,
Cheers for the kind words
Great work here! I'll leave you a more helpful comment sometime soon, kinda in a rush right now! But have subscribed to ur thread, so keep posting.

Would love to see the 3D work ur collaborator came up with. Really interesting idea for major! A friend and I toyed with ideas of doing a joint major too, but it never came to fruition

And I love pirates too mate Liked your Peter Pan (?) Enviro you did for digi illus too - spotted it on the forum (incidentally the pencils for that were particularly Alan Lee looking! - not a bad thing). I did a painting of Jack Sparrow for Pauls class. Love the pirates

Cool, catch you round at Vincents

Matty

[daveskogstad]

Hey man i just finished my first year at massey and cant wait to come see the rest of your work after getting this taster!

[Thaw Naing]

sweet dude, come say hi if you happen to run into me at the exhibition. btw are you related to lauren? just asking because of the skogstad

[daveskogstad]

yep i sure am shes my cousin

[JailHouseRock]

Hay mate love the textures, what program did you use?

And great to see another kiwi in the forums!

[Thaw Naing]

i used PS, those portraits were 80% acrylic and I finished off the details in PS, i originally only worked that way to save time, but i like the result
yeah NZ represent!

dave: oh dude thats cute.. hhaha. yeah laurens a nutter! i love how shes so absolutely hardout!

[Jeff Lai]

awesome man
i always loved those portraits, you really got those colour palettes down (and the texture...)
i so don't want to be exhibiting next to you haha
hurray for more NZ pple!

[JailHouseRock]

Cheers ThawNaing

KIWI RULE!

[Thaw Naing]

here are more pics from my final year project...didnt get a chance to touch them up..so they have problems..but a few things have come up recently so i wont be able to touch them for quite a while.

if by any chance you read this Jon Foster, your paintings for National Geographic 'Moche' and 'Republic' were inspirational.

[daveskogstad]

Hey man i went into the exhibition today, was great to see the rest of your stuff, it was very inspirational to see to final year work and showed me lots to work on!

[Nikolai_H]

Great stuff, was definitely one of the stand-out illustration projects- particularly liked the portraits. I actually did that wind turbine that was in the room next to yours (industrial design)

[NathanLong]

Beautiful work. I hope you haven't forgotten Mary Read.

[TGM]

These all really do feel like digital PAINTINGS, which is great.

[Thaw Naing]

Nik : thanks alot man, we had a strong year
Nathan : i never forgot about her, but unfortunately i had a time deadline, and i had to cut her out.
TGM : chers dude, i try to work as close to traditional as possible. working with only one layer, and building upon layers like painting..
i work in a totally different mode (using layers) when i go about trying some concept/matte work. but most of the time i try to enjoy the painting process. the insane thing is, the closer i work to traditional (work from line, blocking in, then details), the more astute my decision making becomes, so the quicker i paint, this took me an inspired few hours max



i have to mention this was a painting i did for my m8 lauren, its based on her characters, so dont credit me with it. she works in a stylized economic-line manner, which i thought would be interesting to depict it realisitically..ill ask her if i can post her artwork up so u can compare...the transformation is seriously hilarious

[Tim_Gibson]

Nice work man, great attention to detail

Keep on keeping on.

[Cavematty]

Thaw, DUDE! that croc one is awesome.
Loved her stuff at exhibition too. Was really great.
Had a decent look through ur workbook when I went back too - geez thats a lot of work budi! respect.

Like Tim said: keep cranking man!

[Shod]

Hey man, I'm new here but your stuff is amazing! I saw it at the Massey exhibition and like the fellow said earlier, your stuff certainly stood out! You could sense there was a lot behind what was on show, so all the extra work and research definitely paid off!
I wanna see more cause that croc rocked my socks, sah.

[Thaw Naing]

cheers guys, heres me trying to crank on the best i can, bday present for a m8, sketch turned painting, the neg space is for text. theres no deadline like a bday present deadline.

[tsimps]

Hey Thaw
You've got some nice work here man- I especially like the works which combine acryllic + photoshop. I'm ex-Massey as well- went through in Cavematty's year. Good to see some quality coming out despite that place not teaching us a lot! Keep it up

[k-sin]

I'm gonna have to go with the popular vote and say your texture work is just awesome.

Oh and Kiwi's represent!

[lumar]

sweet paintings. id like to see more expression in your brushwork, as in less emphasis on getting it to look 'real' and a bit of risk taking.

probably more of a suggestion than criticism

[tsimps]

Hi again Thaw- thanks man, I'm flattered. Yup sure do, check out the links below. My website's a little outdated but planning to get it up to speed soon.
Anyway I'm lookin forward to seeing some more of your work. May catch you at life drawing one of these days

[rt_emily_nguyen]

Awesome paintings! I like how they kind of depict a scene of a story or such.

But my favourite is this one:



I dunno, I just like her eyes; they're so pretty