God of War III- new sculpt 5.16.10

[cannibalcandy]

It's been a LONG time since I posted. Have a few new personal paintings, and a couple not so new. Busy with working, you all know how it is...


Been spending a lot of time studying downes syndrome physical traits. Fascinating stuff.


A digi paint out of the head, done in the style of Gary Myer's class studies back at ACCD


Wacky Self portrait speedie.

Thoughts, suggestions, improvements, towering jesus based rage?

[Matsign]

The happy-handicapped kid in the bunny suit is quite a piece, its great. If I were to see a disabled person in a furry suit this would be it. Nice illustration.

Nice wide use of colors on the girl. Red green and blue stand out to me the most.

[KenJ]

Loooooove your style, fantastic stuff!

[Kir Nuyts]

pure eye candy :>!

[character]

hey dude, nice stuff. i'm digging the figure in the center the best. really nice rendering style you've got going on. where are you from? i see it says so cal. there's a couple of us here in the LA area and we get together every once in awhile if you're interested in hanging out sometime.

[kaktuzlime]

*loves 'em

[cannibalcandy]

Thanks, guys! Glad to be well received. Here are a few more paintings looking to be critted.

character-- gimme a time and place. I am always down for sketch seshes.


A speed paint to try out my new laptop!


A character challenge myself and some of the art guys at my company gave ourselves. Basically we had to come up with a design for 'Minotaur' that wasn't the classic concept that we all know and love. So I did this deformed giant greek contract killer. Was a fun project, I'll prolly post the sketches that led up to him in a sketchbook, if I ever get one together on here.


Just a revisit to an old character concept of mine. Playing with lighting, and fast rendering in a painterly fashion.

Thoughts, and suggestions?

[Phuzion]

Izzy is psyyyyycho!!!
Heh heh, great stuff brotha! Yeah, I dig the kid in the bunny suit, but I always have a special place in my heart for the girls. However!! Overall I like the self portrait the most. It's got that David Luce Drawing Concepts sort of feel, which is great. It's all about just f@ckin' around and having fun with mediums, traditional or digital.

On this second post, the dude with the orange jacket feels really stiff, but I really dig the colors. You know, for someone who leans so far towards the dark, twisted and f#cked up, you sure like your bright colors. I think you should do a Thomas Kinkade Izzy Style painting, and show that hack what he SHOULD have gotten out of Art Center. You know, naked amputees floppin' around in the magic hour light and pretty pink flowers

Peeeeace!

[Justin.]

Wow- Awesome work.

[Sartell]

I LOVE it when I look at images and actually wonder what their thinking, great paintings~* Looking at your website you apparently
do just about everything which I also applaud

[cannibalcandy]

Heya Daniel! Thanks for the props! The Minotaur, orange jacket fellow is stiff indeed. I may have over done it, but I designed him to be horrifically bodily disfigured, he's got the worst case of scoliosis I could design. I dunno if it comes through. I think I would tackle the sort of awkward subject matter in the happy scene more, but I think it's gotten into the realm of Ryden, and that is a zone I try DESPERATELY to avoid.

Sartell, thanks for visiting! I will have a new site up, hopefully by the end of the week, it's been a month in the making, and will be updated MUCH more faithfully.


What do you do when you have a few months of hyperspace to travel through?


A sort of early digital experiment for me. I have this nasty habit of painting ala prima with my computer. Which sort of defeats.. well, painting on a computer. Ha! But there you are.


A book cover commissioned by a highschool friend. Young adult. So I went for a sort of squishy rendered look. I don't know if I pulled it off, but it was a rush job.

[cannibalcandy]

An older painting, but I never posted it. Acrylics on masonite. The character concept was a shaman fellow, "The Bone Reader" it was done for a culture creation project I worked on my last term in school.

[strych9ine]

Fucking great work man! So good f-bombs needed to be dropped. Your figurative work is so damn nice.

[asoir]

More man...I need my hit.

[Layil]

nice! I love your colors and ideas. keep rockin it!

[Infinit]

great variation of themes and colours!

I like them a lot

[cannibalcandy]

Hey guys, glad you liked the stuff. Here's a new one, three or four hours with acrylic. Enjoy!

[j a k e]

looooovely.

[Tyranx]

wow, awesome stuff!

[Simon Boxer]

Great work! Love it.

[Arne S.]

wow, great work, great colors! i like the girl with this octopus-hat!
inspiring stuff.. -more!

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WORKING CLASS HERO

[Carnifex]

ohsnap. damn you've improved from what i remember of you. the colour choices,subject matter,everything hurts so good. more please.
hah,whenever i see someone with an octopus on his head i can't help but think of dogfood and red_rook

[cannibalcandy]

Hey guys, thanks for commenting!

I'm glad some improvement shows, Carnifex. Been workin hard lately! ^_^
If you all are interested in more work, some sketches and a tiny bit of my professional stuff for GUN check out my newly redone site! www.mercilessdesign.com

[Carnifex]

whoa man,those pencilled heads are crazy good! are those from guns?

[cannibalcandy]

Yeah, those are a few samples of the characters I designed for the GUN poker game.

[poopinmymouth]

Wacky Self portrait speedie.

This is what Izzy would look like in the matrix. Mind's eye and all.

Looking real nice dude, glad to see you get your site all online and such.

I love your color work. If I were to have one crit, it'd be that your color shifts from specular highlight down to deep shadows is always predictable. It definitely makes things "recognizably Izzy" but it also makes most things read as similar materials. I'd try to work on some slight different applications to really nail the different material looks.

[cannibalcandy]

Not even in the Matrix. Ha!
Thanks for the crit, that's exactly the sort of thing I need. Do you have anything in the way of tutorials, or examples of how I can switch it up? Or artists that have a mastery of different materials?
Cheers mang!
Z

[velinov]

Great works, mate!!! Love the lying girl... Great colors!

[cannibalcandy]

Hey thanks, V! I'm a fan, man. I went through your site, and noticed we have very similar color and subject interests! Any suggestions? Books, or anything you think I oughta check out? ^_^
Cheers!

[Drin]

The acyrlic ones are especially great!