Environment thumbnails

These are thumbnail sketches for environments for my illustrative drawing class. With these environments, I focused on a mostly green/red orange split complementary color scheme to achieve a sense of warmth.So far, the three thumbnails to the right have been taken to a more finished level, so stay tuned for those.

self portrait (1hr)

photoshop, 1hr, painted from life. 

Sunrise (1hr)

Wow, it's been a while since I updated my blog, so to the very few people who actually visit this blog, I'm sorry. It will never happen again. Ok, it might happen again, but who cares?
This piece was actually a class assignment. In my illustration class, we were asked to create an environment using repeating shapes inspired by nature. So I was inspired by a conical shell to create this environment in which the repeated cones are quite apparent. I started this in class, and after one hour, we were asked to show the class what we had at the moment. this is what I had at that moment.
Right off the batt, I could fully envision what the more finished version will look like. All the information is already there. All I had to do at that point was to render it to death. and I somewhat did that. The more finished version can be found here

Tribal Bot

In class today, we were asked to paint one of our sketches in photoshop, and here's what I came up with. took me about 4.5 hrs.

Above the cliffs

Just another quick concept painting I recently worked on during my free time. In this painting, I spent a lot of time experimenting with my newly made custom brushes for leaves, foliage, and trees. 

rhyhorn

At my school, all the illustration majors decided to sketch a first generation pokemon. I dont know anything about pokemon, so I randomly chose Rhyhorn. 4 hrs later, I came up with this.

Residential Mountains

This is a concept for a planet where the intelligent lfe forms live mainly in mountainous areas. The people in the planet can jump really high distances, so they keep their doors highly elevated from the ground to keep other animals from getting into the house. The roofs of the houses are able to open up in order for the residents to fly away in their mini-ships.