Bike crashes, concept art and Elara Blair + Alloy Ash !

Sooo, I was run over by a van goin' to work on my motorbike a few weeks ago, great times.  The bugger turned left from the middle lane without lookin' and clipped me, got my foot tangled-up in the bike as well.  If it weren't for the cop who happened to be behind us pryin' my foot free from the metal I don't think I was gettin' loose from that one.  Don't remember the guy's name but lucky he was there really.

An extra three cop-cars, fire truck and ambulance later and the van-driver also ended-up with a reckless-drivin' ticket, apparently that went down well (ya).  In all the confusion I somehow failed to notice the batman sign up in the sky.

I'm pretty lucky considering : x-rays showed I managed to avoid any broken bones again, "you just have to wait through the pain"... Almost there now, and after having to sort a few things out, the insurance is gettin' her fixed so hopefully I'll be able to make up for lost time before the end of the season.

Speaking of bikes, my two current obsessions : 

::Lucky Monkey's kawasaki z750b::

::and "Vince" himself::

In brighter news I've been switched from illustration to the concept art team at work, pretty damn chuffed about that.  Can't post anything of course, but this is definitely good news.

I've also been asked for some artwork by two lovely models : Elara Blair and Alloy Ash (go check them out !!).  Finally made time to paint these ladies, and since I hadn't done anything "comic-booky" in a while I decided to feature them both in a made-up cover of my fancy :

Long time no blog...

Been a while.  Been up to some of this and some of that.  That being said, here's some sci-fi/fantasy goofin' around I finished recently, Lady McSquid for lack of a better name :

IDW#160 Charon's boat across the river Styx

Managed to crank this one out last minute for the Industrial Design of the Week over at ConceptArt (Charon's boat).

I reckoned it would be cool if the souls that couldn't pay their way would simply be thrown into the river. There they serve Charon, moving his boat across the river Styx, condemned to spend eternity under the surface of her waters. And so Charon needs no paddle, no punt, no other tool than the bell which he rings to call the helping hands of the dead. In this way the boat moves in complete silence, only the bell's toll can be heard from across the mists.

Drop by and gimme a vote ! : IDW#160

Doombots !

My entry for this week's Industrial Design of the Week (#158) over at ConceptArt. We were supposed to come up with a robot that had wiped-out an entire planetary population. So instead of goin' with the guns & missiles routine I figured it would be cooler to have these robots corrupt and brainwash the aliens into extinction, have annihilation insidiously come from within rather than from some blaze of fireballs you could actually confront.

Here's the link (gimme a vote if you drop by !) : http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=212850

GameArtsans Comicon & ConceptArt's EOW

Long time no post.  Busy with all sorts of, well pretty much useless bollucks...  Regardless, since the last post I've learned I pulled in second place in the GameArtisans Comicon Challenge (with my Old Man Lobo set), pretty damned sweet.  Unfortunately the advertised prizes have been dropped, I can't help but feel cheated.  :(  Still, must say I'm quite chuffed about it all.

I've also gone back to ConceptArt after a long absence and tried out one of their weekly challenges to practice my environments (don't get to do too many), and I pulled in for a tied first place.  Makin' progress looks like hehe

Couple of easily-spotted mistakes on 'er but in the end that's how you learn :

Study 04 - Anna Lee 02

Another sketch gone awry : I liked the way the study came out so I kept goin' and put in a little extra time on it.  Still, finished it in pretty quick order, so I'm makin' some progress :)  Then again there wasn't much guess-work involved : the top part was ref'ed from a Dwam photo without much change (but hey to be fair this is a study so I'm not bothered).

For those of you (?) paying attention, yes this is AnnaLee from Suicide Girls again.  She said she liked the earlier sketch and wouldn't mind seein' more so I reckon if I'm learnin' somethin' and it makes someone happy as well, I'ld have to be a touch daft or spare not to oblige.

All digital this time (no head-aches with the scanning !)

Gamelofted

Sooo, this Monday I started the new job at Gameloft.  I'd let 'em know a while back I wanted to wait for my contract to end with ODD1 before I made the switch & keep things cool with the old employer, and now here I am.  It was a pretty cool first week, I'm thinkin' I'll like it here.  Of course my introduction to Gameloft was their Christmas party the Friday prior, with their live-band, big loft & generously stocked open-bar, so things started on the right foot.  Nothin' says "hey folks, I'm the new guy" like showin' up at a get-together where no-one knows you & doin' shots with your future team hehe  Good fun in the end.

And what about all the hullabaloo over at Dominance War ?