Letting Things Go

I have been reworking another speed paint I liked, but decided things weren't clicking just right. The perspective has some deep rooted issues, and the composition ain't great, so I'm letting it go at this stage:

I've also started polishing my Silverhawks, but that's also a bit on hiatus, as I figured I need something showing more progress as expected from a concept artist, utilizing my contemporary skills. I want a minimum of last year's work in my portfolio ready for GDC Europe. (Waiting for volunteer applications to open up for 2014, I've already booked my flight and hostels, with a couple of days in Dusseldorf.)

A Dieselpunk vacuum tube night fighter is the idea that came to mind. I just love aircraft and I'm going to have fun with the lighting. Here's where I'm at so far:

 

 Speed Paints:

Miss Big Booty

Miss Big Bottom is a speed paint (I'll post on the bottom as usual) I've enjoyed more than some of my other work and decided to flesh out further into possible inclusion into my portfolio.
I've been working on it a little at a time and I think I'm ready to call it done (even though I'm not sure the legs actually match each other.)

I've also been keeping up with the Silverhawks characters. There are a few more characters I could tackle, but I might just end it with these and go back and polish them.

Speed paints:

(This was my most popular Tumblr post ever, no idea why)

More Silverhawks

Lost my job a couple of Saturdays ago, as my boss can no longer afford the control room. Mom is naturally concerned and hoping I would find something else, even though she knows I'm planning to go to Germany in August and South Korea in September.

I'm enjoying being unemployed though, so I'm not sending out resumes with much enthusiasm.

You would also think I would spend more time on my portfolio, but I tend to procrastinate as usual. Never been very good at working from home.

Been working on more Silverhawks redesign stuff, from adding more characters to working on the Miraj - from more thumbnails to a painted model.

Also did a page of random landscape thumbnails when I didn't feel like working on Silverhawk stuff

And as usual, speed paints:

Partly Metal, Partly Real

Almost ready to order those new business cards. As 250 cost about the same as 100, I'll order the larger amount.

It's important to periodically change the design, as it may be the first of my art someone sees, so there's going to be pressure to get rid of these as soon as possible, which could be a good thing. Try to leave them all in foreign lands with my planned trips towards the end of summer.

Finished watching all 65 episode of Silverhawks, and began my new project to redesign the franchise as an exercise in concept art.

Started with characters, struggling to find a direction at first:

But came upon something I liked with this version Steel Heart, which I continued to a few of the other characters:

Now I'm changing direction to keep things interesting, exploring shapes for a redesigned Miraj. This vehicle feels so awkward to me though, I'm going to try some other ideas that aren't "airplanes in space"

What do I have in speed paints that's good?