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Life Painting Process…

Bigham — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:01:42 +0000

This is still in progress – still want to take another session to clean it up (I’ll post that half as well). If anyone has any specific questions as to whats happening feel free to ask. Enjoy!

3 hours.

Bigham — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:10:05 +0000

Life Paintings – 2 1/2 hours

Moleskine – January – February 2010

Moleskin March-July 2010

And so approaches the end of another year…

Bigham — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:27:40 +0000

Wow what a crazy past few months. Andrew, Steve and I have been having to juggle some crazy website issues ranging from being hacked on Halloween (and a couple times after) then the reemergence of the spam bots on our comment service. So commenting has once again been disabled until further notice sadly…

In other news i just realized that it has been almost 4 months since I last post something. yikes, how time flies. But I’ve still been drawing, in fact learning tons taking a few courses while working full time. Since September I’ve taken to trying to learn anatomy which i foolishly neglected back in school. Here’s a slew of posts from these classes and my sketchbook.

Also I’ve updated the website with these and some minor organizational items.

I’ll try and do some actual finished work before the year is over. Thanks for watching so far everyone.

Poop

Bigham — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:01:36 +0000

This post is a bit all over the map. It starts with a finished version of a capitol ship i sketched in an earlier post, then a completed turn around that i had 1/2 done for school for a run cycle (hooray cartoon characters). A couple of in progress characters I’ll be pushing further and rendering out in the next couple weeks to boot then we have a study of the work of Sargent I think I’ll be doing more of these master studies to work my colors further… Then there’s my bus/lunch break sketches for the month, enjoy.

WCB = lots of progress on stuff

Bigham — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:10:28 +0000

I’ve been pretty busy the past few days courtesy of being kept off work thanks to a self inflicted fractured toe – HIGH FIVE! But seriously. I was able to go back to a few projects I’ve had on the back burner or have been meaning to start up. So here we go. To start I’ve decided I’m STILL not done with the big daddy redesign and may even have a couple more beyond this to go and have started on the back view – I’ll post that in the coming weeks. Anyways in the new version the pincer arm is now fixed up to be more bad ass and the weird part of his left arm above the gun has been tubified.

Remember that horrible spaceship i whipped up to try and apply to bioware with? It was pretty sloppy and I’ve been milling over a redo of it for awhile now. So I took the time and sleeked it out into a cooler starship. It still retains some reference to Mass Effect ships – but made sexier…

Also if there’s one thing my portfolio is seriously lacking at the moment its women. So here’s another prelim sketch I’ve started for the heroine of the sol-fungus story. She’s a military trained translator who belongs to the human survivors of the epic ‘sol-fungus’ incident in which a self replicating biological singularity occurs on earth and devours the solar system. Armor and such is kept to a minimum but features a pressure suit/flak jacket combo just in case things get crazy.

And here’s a bunch of sketches from my joyous bus rides downtown to work every day.

Environment speed paintings

Bigham — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:16:23 +0000

If there`s one thing i need to start working on its color for environments. So I`ve started an attempt at one to two speed paintings a day, when i have time. These are all done from photo ref between 40 minutes and an hour. I`m trying to train my eye to recognize and choose colors without having to use the eye dropper – though i did cave in a few times… More of this speed painting stuff will follow soon – with the ultimate goal being 15-20 minutes per.

Poop.

Bigham — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:28:09 +0000

Pluggin away for another day i guess. Just about finished the Franklin Wendigo… and have another set of sillouettes which are the final batch before i start the final. Progress updates on that will start soon.

Falling Man Storyboard tease

Bigham — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:59:40 +0000

Here’s a little taste of a long term project I’ve been working on for my storyboarding class. As I started coloring the 18 frames I adjusted the coloring style to more of a cell-shaded animated show look in order to save time and avoid rendering. Unfortunately this was done 8 frames in so i have to go back over the older ones (which were rendered). Seems to be going well so far, I’ll post the whole thing here when its done in another week and a bit. Anyways, here’s a couple scenes shots from the final showdown scene. You can also compare the rendered version with that of the new cell shaded styled one.

Fruits of more free time

Bigham — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:17:43 +0000

I haven’t exactly been working as much as I have been previously, so it’s allowed me to finally pump out a few more character studies. The first is the result of a little motivation project Andrew and I have cooked up for one another where we choose characters and elements of a fantasy universe to define in great detail then I illustrate. The time limit for each character is roughly three days from development to final rendering. Lets start with a short rundown of the universe and a bit of a rational for the characters outfit:

This would be the hero of the story we’re developing for our ‘character-project’. We narrowed it down to him being a new recruit aboard an airship – so this is kind of like a fantasy Moby Dick (though its only a small part of the story we’ll expand it as we go on). Our hero’s a relatively young man, obsessed with the typical cravings for adventure and riches – and what better way to do that than on board a flying ship hunting enormous airborn beasts for their magical organs? Since the airship spends most of its time at high altitudes hunting its prey, his clothing is a scraped together outfit to allow him to operate in the extreme cold and high winds. The ship that he’s working on features an intricate spiderweb of safety wires which allows the crew to navigate the open main deck with relative safety. Each crew member is outfitted with a heavy duty safety harness and a large supply of ropes and belay’s. Expect more of these very soon:

The next one is just a rendered alien scientist concept. He’s pretty physically weak so he has to roam about in his exo-skeleton armor/survival suit. This guy’s been prone to previous ‘incidents’ as seen by his cybernetic arm.

Sick…

Bigham — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:34:44 +0000

Been totally out of it the past little while thanks to the latest strain of the common cold, so here’s a little look what i’ve been up to. First off there’s a final touched up version of the High Nuclear Noon poster that i’m finally getting around to uploading (if you want a copy drop me a line). The second is a little preview for what I’m working on at the moment.

High Nuclear Noon on the Radiation Range
28″x 20″ Photoshop.

I’ve also gotten Andrew and Simon (my roomate) to help come up with ideas for the Windego story so he may post some of that as well as that mini-project progresses.

Character Concepts and brainstorming…

Bigham — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:36:23 +0000

I figured that since I’m wanting to be a character based illustrator i should start making some of my concepts to look finished. Here’s a dog-man with sparse fur which was subconsciously influenced by Joy Ang’s original character. More of these are on the way with hopefully a range of friendly and enemy creatures along with some human designs.

I’ve also gotten interested in the Algonquian myth of the wendigo and have been doing some sketches involving that. This was kind of tough considering the body type described in the myth heavily resembles that of the pale man from Pan’s Labyrinth. So in an attempt to push it further ill be doing things like contorting the body more and making his head more teethy. Also i’m trying to play with the whole distended stomach but push it more. More on this one soon purhaps.

On a side note, the gallery section should be up and running soon – lots of thanks to steve.

Nuclear Noon Portraits

Bigham — Tue, 15 May 2007 06:46:53 +0000

Here’s a quick preview of the portraits that will be featured on the poster. First there’s the spacefarring Asian narrator, then a super mutant villain, the hero, and finally a mysterious albino cowboy who could be friend or foe. Still have to go in and adjust the linework so they’re consistent for each, touchup colors then apply textures. This is gonna be quite a rush to get this all finished by this weekend…

Progress…

Bigham — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:18:23 +0000

Another small update – things are beginning to solidify and i’ve applied some of the suggestions I’ve received.

High Nuclear Noon in progress

Bigham — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:48:30 +0000

This is a little in progress shot of the High Nuclear Noon movie poster I’m making for Andy. The basic bits of it were already hammered out during a pulp fiction cover assignment from earlier in the year. Now I’ve had to change up the monster (still being constructed into a worm-thing), insert the damsel in distress and the portraits of potential villains/characters. I think the basic layout of the poster is still in the works as things will continue to move around and such in order to nail that proper hierarchy im looking for. More on this soon.

1984 Comp

Bigham — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:47:44 +0000

Semester two of year three has rolled to and end for me, which means more time for my own stuff and more time to make the monies. Here’s one of the 4 pieces i submitted for my final for Figure Illustration class, which was supposed to be a mood study but instead turned into a bunch of landscape studies. I chose to do just environmental shots of Orwell’s classic 1984 and just show my interpretation of a city eternally aglow with the ever-watching eye of the Big Brother.

I’ll be going back into this one soon to clean it up and make it more of a digital painting and more mini-poster sized.