Vacuum Tube Night Fighter

Made a basic model of the dieselpunk night fighter in 3ds Max, threw mental ray clay and glass materials on it, composed it the way I wanted it and gave it the photoshop treatment until I reached that point where I'm not sure what more I can do with it, so I called it done. Need to go back to my Silverhawks.

I always started something unrelated to portfolio work on the side, more of a color theory and animation exercise, working on it off and on.

Seems the external HD where I stored all my photos has failed, or is close to it. Maybe I can manage to run it for just a bit longer and save as much of it as possible. Damn shame.

Reworked a speed paint... but despite the positive comments on facebook, I don't think it's quite up to standard.

Speeds:

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: