Woodbot Mk 2.0

Hope everyone out there had a good 3-day weekend! And if you happen to be one of those poor saps that worked, I hope you got time-and-a-half pay. Anyways, between working the gallery, having dinner with the Doji crew, getting my MacBook Pro battery fixed, buying canvasses, catching up on Weeds, running, cooking breakfast & cleaning my house, I managed to make progress on my Woodbot. Progress shot is below:

Most of the work was me figuring out how to detail the leg. I'm pretty happy with what's there so far, but there's a few more details I need to flesh (errr..wood) out. The little guy on the top is there to suggest scale. Hopefully when I'm done and place this guy in his background, it'll be a bit more obvious how large he is. Enjoy!

3 Eye Elephant

Last night I had the pleasure of working on a logo for a new painting super-group called "3 Eye Elephant." This particular group is made up three extremely talented artists: Jeffery Todd, Christopher de Leon and Ichii Ohryin. My part in this equation was small, basically to vector a design that the group had collabed on so they could use it across a multitude of platforms, but it was an honor nonetheless. Here's the end result:

I've considered myself to be lucky enough to paint at the same event with Jeffery and Chris, and I can tell you from experience that this group will produce amazing things! I can't wait to see what comes of it all! Enjoy!

A kinda DM FINISHED!

Got two versions for ya, a dark and a light. Both 1680x1050 if you happen to want it as a desktop. If you want a different size, just e-mail me at nick.trujillo@gmail.com and i'll custom size it for you so you don't have to squash/stretch it. :D

This was a labor of love, and a test for myself to see how detailed I could get with Flash, I plan on making professional prints for it in the future, when I have the bank for it. But until then please enjoy my piece! (Click to enlarge)

A kinda DM part 3

Well... my meticulous nature has turned this 2 session project into a 5 session project, but I'm having fun with it so it doesn't bother me too much. Keep in mind that with my schedule I can manage maybe 3-4 two hour sessions a week, so it's not really enough time to knock out a piece quickly. But I digress, today's update consists of hand, leg and foot detail. Here's how far I got last night (Click to enlarge):

The hands and legs went real smooth. Hands naturally take a long time to get the pose right, but I've gotten used to it over time, so it doesn't really bother me. Trying to keep it simple, I just used 3 blocks of color to suggest light in the skin. Those parts went smoothly:

It was the shoes that kinda slowed my progress to a grinding halt. At first I wanted to keep them lineless and simple, but what I came out with was really hard to identify. There was a lot of little strappy things here and there. And a lot of different surfaces that were hard to identify when they were put next to each other. Also, the background is going to be white, which made it even harder to see. So I outlined it and spent a lot of time detailing little bits and pieces to my likeness... 75% of my 2 hour session was spent on one shoe:

All in all, it's coming together really well, and I can't wait to do the background. I think It'll make for an interesting piece. Enjoy!