Something different

Today I spontaneously did this thing. Inspired by Eytan Zana
and probably Z. Beksiński. Thank You Sieciech for
encouraging me to add details to it

Evening goblin sketch, archaeological drawings

Just a really quick goblin assassin sketch,
done while listening to my brother's music
(www.nikolakolodziejczyk.com)

By the way, if anyone's interested how a documentation of ancient pottery looks like, I've made a small plate:

I've made thousands of such drawings. Thousands, man

Leshy, the king of the forest

Playing with different card illustration styles

Small update on still life practice

an update on the scene :) auto-tone helped, but now it's flattened.
Time for the detailing...I'm thinking about cutting all the pieces into layers.
Should've done this from the start

Just a super-quick sketch, thought I'd share.
Must do more of these

Some still life

Preparing the elements for the boardgame for beta-test version printing! In the meantime, chatting with my cousin through Google Hangouts and some still life painting. This one I started in July... finally managed to work some more on it. To be continued!

Doodling

Apart from working hard on finishing the test-version of our boardgame, I try to sketch daily nowadays.
I strongly recommend visiting http://www.fusroda.com/ site and checking the hangouts there. You can connect with 9 other artists from the world to share screens, talk and chill.

Some more doodles are on the way I hope. Cheers

Trip again

I recently visited my family again, and managed to do some more ( too quick :/ ) plein air tryouts!

And also some ( even too quicker ) speed paints

Doodling

Some sketches

Starting from today's "I-have-no-idea-what-I'm-doing" sketch (with steps shown), through some older crap and finally some even older character sketch which has some potential, but I never succeeded in finalizing it (It's actually my player character from older version of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead roguelike - http://pl.cataclysmdda.com/ )

Some books

I made simple 3d models for presentation of book covers made by myself!

The newest cover is the one with animal skeletons
The rest of them presented here are done during my work at Profil-Archeo Publishing House, which is focused mainly on Archaeological publications.

Additionally, that pottery bowl visible on one of the covers is a 3d reconstruction I made last year after such a small fragment [it's bronze age Pomorska (pomeranian) culture, also for Profil-Archeo.

Visiting

I just got back from a trip to central Poland, essentially for my brother (http://music.thinkbay.net/)'s concert (trumpet, two typewriters, two sewing machines, woodwind quartet, trombone, vocal and piano jazz trio!). But in the meantime I managed to pull off some sketches.

Speed portrait of my cousin, alongside whom I made the other sketches too.
We practiced using random pose generator from posemaniacs.com,
and also the lowest pose is a random photo from quickposes.com.

30/90 second generated random poses from www.posemaniacs.com

just a random speed mech

what a luck!
first random photo happened to be of a guy
dressed as early medieval warrior
(sort of, the belt is kinda awkward)

WIP Kurgan

I wanted to share news on a (work-in-progress) 3d reconstruction of a burial from southern Siberia (Altai Mountains). The burial of a young woman with a child, accompanied with a bronze knife and, presumably, food, was put inside a stone chest, covered with two layers of slabs and a rock mound.

Troll

Just a speed troll fun for the evening today

Plein air tryout

I always wanted to try plein air painting using a tablet and a laptop! During the weekend I finally had a good chance, but only for a speed painting:

I also started another photo-study of a girl's face (sic!) but I couldn't resist turning it into a bearded dwarf portrait :P

Portraits

In the meantime I tried making a selfportrait painted on my Wacom Bamboo tablet, Photoshop from a square mirror. Obviously it's still unfinished, I'm planning on continuing it some evening. It will definitely not end up on this one

I was awed by a photo of my friend who is a stylist and a model, and decided to make a small study of the photo, and here's the outcome:

( no color-picking or overpainting was used, I used PureRef for placing the photo on-screen )

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And here is her Facebook Page

Zbrush learning + shaman concept

I finally started learning Zbrush by making tutorials (The tree is the one made after Zbrush 4 Scuplting for Games book, the rest is just experimenting). I must say that after switching to Zbrush from years of playing with Blender, I was overwhelmed at first. Getting used to the controls and way of orienting the model, and the 2,5D and subtools stuff was a harsh time for me at first. But now, when I finally got to sit and work with it for some time, after learning the basics it became more and more simple and fast to use. I won't say it's user-friendly, especially the noob-user friendly, but after spending some hours in it, preferably with someone more experienced or with a tutorial of sort, it now turns into super-powerful tool :)

From the 2D stuff I also made that (WIP) character, again for the tabletop game mentioned before. It's a concept for a shaman character, one of five the players will be able to choose from, each connected to different pawn color (blue here)

Event, cards, links

I recently was in Warsaw where I met great people including ones I mentioned in the post below - Michał Kuś (http://www.kus-art.com), Darek Zabrocki (http://daroz.deviantart.com/gallery), and also other young but already developed CG artists, such as Mathias Zamęcki (http://mathiaszamecki.com)   Wojtek Fus (http://wojtekfus.tumblr.com) and many, many others. It was during a nightly event organised by Polish Digital Art, which included live speedpainting and also an auction of computer graphics printed on canvas and Zbrush sculpts printed in 3d! (Auction will take place on 30.05.2014)

There is little news about our board game, since I finished color test-cards a while ago, yet we need to prepare the board and few other things before we can give the prototype of the game to our friends for testing.

The event I mentioned gave me big boost in terms of painting motivation, so prepare to be flooded with some sketches soon!

Also, when posting other people's page links, I just have to link two people whose CG work is at the moment my favorite:

Theo Prins: http://www.theoprins.com/

Eytan Zana http://ezdraws.blogspot.com/

Test cards for the board game

I am continuing the work with the board game cards for the first official tests. I still have load of work to do. Here is a glimpse of newest event card design (secret passage in the forest), traditionally with a step-by-step process. Traditionally, not finished :)

Silhouettes before sleep

Today I managed to finally sit and draw for some time, starting from speed dwarf portrait, then turning to silhouettes - conceptual thinking training, inspired by one of the Feng Zhou's incredible videos:

In the meantime, I am totally overwhelmed by amount of great art being produced by talented people, especially seeing many works at Daily Spitpainting Facebook group

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People like Arnaud Pheu, Darek Zabrocki, Marek Madej, Michal Kus, Goro Fujita, Jakub Różalski, Dimitar Marinski and others are throwing in such massive amounts of decent art there. Some people even started picking up better works for an online art network
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So, again, I'm really glad I started doing some sketches, at least

Long time no post

I haven't had posted anything in a while. The reason for that is laziness and resulting lack of anything to show, apparently. I was kind of busy with work, a small part of which is shown to the left and below - an animated process of making one of the book covers' illustration (it's about an early-medieval fort, or gród/gord/burgwall), and a vectorization of Linda Schele's drawing depicting a stucco facade-mask from Group H in Uaxactun.

I was also trying to develop one particular style for the illustrations of the board game cards I mentioned in the previous post. I will probably try to achieve the simplicity and mysticism one can see in Ivan Bilibin's paintings (I strongly recommend searching google images for them!). One quick try for a forest nymph or rusalka:

Board game cards, book covers

Recently I had to finish the rough sketches for all the cards for our board game (more than 30 different graphics at the moment)

At the same time I was asked to do two archaeological book covers (anthologies consisting of articles in fact). Unfortunately I can't share the work yet. Instead I throw in some old crap.