Catching Up

Been a long time since I've posted, but then earlier this year, the cancer returned to my dad and chewed him up. He died March 7th and I really haven't had much of an inclination to post since then.
Anyways, heres a bit of a sketch-dump of bits and bats I've been doing this year. There are some larger versions of some pieces on my DeviantArt account.

Unfinished SciFi Scene

Started this some time ago - there's a little back story as to what is going on in the image, but as it's unfinished I'll leave it out and see what you think is going on!

Larger version available to view on DeviantArt.

Landscape Sketchdump

Approach

Spec Ops approaching the centre of Norilsk.
Early design.

See http://norilskincident.com for more.

Anomalous Fissure

About an hour.
Larger version on my DeviantArt account.

Marauders

From the Norilsk Incident (see HERE).

An illustrative concept piece of a member of the Marauder faction examining some anomaly amid the rubble of Norilsk whilst his buddy takes the weight off his feet and keeps a lookout.

Support this project by donating!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/norilsk-incident-four-short-novella-board-game

Also a larger version is now available to view on DeviantArt; http://cyrus-crashtest.deviantart.com/art/Marauders-356173999

Snowy Landscapes

You would have thought with the snow the UK has seen over the last month I'd have had plenty chance to get some reference pictures / sketches done for a piece I'm producing for Our Fair City (http://ourfaircity.com/), sadly York hasnt seen much snow and the few days we did have with it I was stuck in with a bad back.

Anyway, I figured I should do some prep, and heres a couple of them.

Living Tomb

Another experimental creature morph / airbrushing.

Initial stages abstracted from stock photography by Marcus Ranum - http://www.ranum.com

Approx 1hr 20mins.

I have a (slightly incomplete) video of the painting as it happened. Will upload when I've sorted it all out.

Larger version on DeviantArt - LINK.

Sketchdump

Lots of different odds n sods I've done over the last week or so that I'm not sure what to do with...

Features brushed by Shifty J - http://shiftyj.deviantart.com/

Flamethrower Acolyte

Another random bit that has ended up looking a bit like something from W40k

Features a stock texture copyright Dom Bailey 2012. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Environmental Morphs

Been playing with some of the awesome stock by  http://legends-of-the-west.deviantart.com/

They've been abstracted from the original stock image - in a similar manner to the Creature Morphs that I do.

Hopefully by this weekend I'll have something more 'finalised' for you to enjoy!

Time: twenty minutes approx.

Ion Freighter

Quick conversion of another piece I did earlier today.

20 minutes.

A Few More Environments

These are for nothing in particular - just me getting used to my new WACOM.

The cable sheared off the last one through general wear and tear - thankfully on the latest Bamboo pen they've managed to sort out tha design flaw with the use of s seperate USB cable. It also has a much larger active area - hence me having to get used to it.

About 20 minutes each.

First four images contain elements of photography copyright Jase Brooks 2012. All rights reserved. Used here with permission.

The image below shows how this piece was done - I did two at the same time and chose to 'complete' this one, rather than continue with both (the other not taking my interest as much, and this one was happening far more rapidly!).

Environmental Roughs

These are for the aforementioned RPG project (LINK), though they're little more than useful for me to get into the idea of the atmosphere, scale and shapes of the environments.

Initial stages abstracetd from photography copyright Jase Brooks 2012. Used with permission.

Around 30 - 40 minutes each.