Farvus craft

2011-08-06T10:20:00.000-07:00

Hello. I've been lately focusing on forums. Especially conceptart and sijun. The blog got a bit forgotten which is a shame. I'll try to post some more decent images out of big pile of exeriments.

I got a bit more interested in animation as I did some small animation work at job. My ambition was always to some short movies in realistic style you could see in some european comics. What definitely sparked my inspiration for doing this type of stuff was watching animated documentary "Waltz with Bashir" which has unique way of putting images into motion and yet it comes out pretty natural. I also discovered some techniques that would allow me to animate more painterly images.

Here's one test.

Trying out some tech.

Latest environments and narrative speedpaintings.

2011-03-15T17:17:00.000-07:00

Environment sketch. I tried pushing the contrast between soft/loose and sharp/detailed.

I'm still alive :)

2011-02-16T11:39:00.000-08:00

Hey.

Lately painting in my free time has been taken away by freelance job. I'm doing some illustrations for Wildfire which is the best known for CthulhuTech RPG. This world is really succesful combination of science-fiction and horror. I'll post some images once there's a chance for that.

Meanwhile here's some latest work that didn't appear on this blog.

I started to break my personal art into single projects that slowly grow along side. It really doesn't matter whether I get them finished. It's much easier to invent new image when I already have few from the same world/setting. The more I have, the richer the whole idea gets. I can go back and revise things as I discover something new about the overall story.

Here's just few of my latest images which seem to go on the same track. The whole thing started from being inspired by my city. I wanted to create imaginary, more fantastical one based on it and describe people living in it a bit.

Some random ideas not related to anything. Urban and weird fantasy environments.

Robo design.

For the past year I was doing simple shape focused composition exercise which I posted in Fine Art section of the conceptart.org forum. Finally I finished composition number 100 which means the end. The whole thing was good experience. I think I'm now a bit more conscious about many aspects of design.

2010-08-16T12:21:00.000-07:00

Gritty texture enviro.

2010-07-21T11:30:00.000-07:00

Trying to depict some simple scene from my favourite science fiction book "Perfect imperfection". Not entirely true to description beacause I had to change it for the need of engaging composition.

2010-07-03T10:24:00.000-07:00

Latest quick doodles worth posting.

2010-05-09T14:12:00.000-07:00

Hey! I haven't updated for a long while beacause of several things happening. I got a job at small game studio in my city and it will take a while to accomodate and get into some sort of routine. Also I had some sort of creative block in those last few weeks. I dedicated that time to researching things, reading more books again etc. Getting some new resources and discovering new inspiring artists gave me some new energy to paint.
Here's some quick sketch just for relaxation.

2010-04-06T11:01:00.000-07:00

Some new stuff that's worthy of showing.

Quick sketch in old Frontier game vibe. I used to play it a lot.

Experimenting with masks in Photoshop.

Asteroid space station.

This one was inspired by "Solaris" book. The part about expeditions to explore the planet.

2010-03-16T13:18:00.000-07:00

New sketch. I tried starting as messy and spontaneous as possible. I want to reach a point in my skills where I can resurect image after the most horrible start.

2010-03-06T01:48:00.000-08:00

I haven't painted characters for long while. Here's some just to warm up. By messing with colors more than usual I managed to get some sort low-key palette that almost works.

2010-02-17T06:28:00.000-08:00

Playing with Color Dynamics setting in Photoshop. I often color pick from my own brush strokes so it added a bit randomness to palette. Sometimes it's surprisingly good results, sometimes not really.

2010-02-15T04:47:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since last update.

I've been going a lot into more graphical direction in those last years. With these below I tried to abandon all rendering and focus just on interesting shapes and silhouettes. Turned out to be much easier than I thought.

2010-01-03T05:31:00.000-08:00

Playing with smooth no texture look and braking away a bit from horizontal canvas.

2010-01-02T09:12:00.000-08:00

New speedy enviro.

2009-12-30T07:34:00.000-08:00

There was no update here for long time. Some black&white speedpaintings to keep this blog alive.

2009-10-04T02:20:00.000-07:00

Something Western-like this time.

2009-09-30T03:54:00.001-07:00

I had this type of composition on my mind lately. It was tempting to see how it would turn out.

2009-09-16T11:44:00.000-07:00

This was supposed to be quick doodle but as usual I ended up struggling with this for longer while. I tried few new techniques and tricks here.

2009-09-12T08:53:00.000-07:00

Something quick. Sort of early morning light.

2009-09-10T12:55:00.000-07:00

Bunch of new environment pieces. I'm trying to get rid of habit of using really dark values. I also started organizing my brushes differently so that it would be easier to use them.

2009-08-26T12:32:00.000-07:00

Here are several photos I did on a small trip to world's largest brick gothic castle situated in Malbork and founded by Teutonic Order.

The Tower

2009-08-16T14:16:00.000-07:00

Some more experimental pic. The technique is a little bit of felt tip pen, watercolor pencil and Photoshop.

2009-08-15T13:38:00.000-07:00

Environ from sketchbook thumbnail.

Drawn environments

2009-08-14T07:15:00.000-07:00

I'm lately trying to introduce more contour in my enviros. It's something inspired a bit by background art in Tatsuyuki Tanaka's "Toujin Kit" animation. These are pretty quick paintings.

2009-07-19T04:15:00.000-07:00

Hey. Here's some observation stuff I did some time ago. First is watercolor pencils + ink, second is different black inks and the third was inspired by Nathan Fowkes studies. Different light observed from my room window.

Hello and welcome!

2009-07-08T15:06:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my new art blog!

It's going to be place for various different sketches, speedpaintings, finished art from time to time and maybe photos if I get the chance to shoot some. I already have tons of threads on different forums specifically for regular updates but blog feels more personal and independent. I hope laziness won't win and I'll keep putting some fresh stuff.

Here's my latest artwork. I was testing some new brushes and it ended as some quick speedpainting.

Thanks for dropping by!