jeff solway art blog

Monster film critic

2012-01-24T21:50:00.000-08:00

;)

evil lizard alien

2011-12-24T10:27:00.000-08:00

Desert Creature

2011-12-19T09:28:00.000-08:00

some older lines I decided to color

Villian Guard

2011-12-18T20:09:00.001-08:00

inked in sketchbook pro

Fishy Fishy

2011-12-14T16:51:00.000-08:00

photoshop test

experiment with an old sketch

2011-12-13T20:08:00.000-08:00

test

Mustached Spacemen

2011-11-30T10:32:00.000-08:00

female dynamesh block in

2011-11-26T12:40:00.000-08:00

tried to block in a female figure with a dynamesh, I inserted the ears and hands, I still don't understand zbrushes

scale and move tool very well, I had no problem placing the ears but major problems scaling and moving the hands

WIP_Lurch redo 2

2011-11-24T21:06:00.000-08:00

Built the basic form of the jacket with a Dyna mesh, then retopoed in Zbrush, took it into Maya and made some tweaks, back into Zbrush to finish the sculpt. I also built the shoes and pants from some old geo I had

hopefully I can get to that soon,

cheers

more Zbrush practice

2011-11-23T20:45:00.000-08:00

messing with an old mesh I found, this one is not a dyna mesh

zbrush practice

2011-11-17T22:05:00.000-08:00

dyna mesh again, this was done from a sketch from my sketchbook to see if I could pull it off, for the most part it went well.

WIP: Weary Wanderer

2011-11-16T23:10:00.000-08:00

some more progress.

WIP Beast Dog

2011-11-13T23:04:00.000-08:00

Made with a dynamesh in Zbrush. I thought I'd show the progress as I'm having fun with this one, However I made several mistakes also. The first was I started with a Dynamesh sphere of 128, it is a little too hi, I think a 32 or 64 would have been better. The second was as I was pushing and pulling and control dragging to reapply the dynamesh as I was going and somehow I got out of it and if I reapply it, it is too fine, basically the
front paws do not have enough polys too form them the way I want.And Third I got too excited to do the head I did not focus all around the sculpt as I went thus the back legs have not progressed.
Learning lots though. I am primarily using the Move Topical Brush

Dynamesh Sculpt

2011-11-11T22:53:00.001-08:00

Messin around with a dynamesh sphere

WIP_Lurch redo

2011-11-11T16:04:00.000-08:00

Decided to try it again, So I took one of the lower levels from the old one and Dynameshed it and started there.
I'm liking the new one better., I haven't gotten to the hair yet.

More weary wanderer progress

2011-11-06T00:01:00.000-07:00

Built his head gear today in Maya, It's been a while since I cracked that open.

WIP : Girl

2011-11-02T00:01:00.000-07:00

Messing around with a girl model

WIP: Weary Wanderer

2011-10-30T20:27:00.000-07:00

I decided to basically redo the head to be closer to the concept. Still using Zbrush and a dynamesh.

ZBrush Dyna Mesh

2011-10-10T19:30:00.000-07:00

Trying Zbrush's new Dynamesh with an older concept I have always liked. I'm happy

with for the most part, the shapes are there, I just need to go in and refine them.

Mark Walberg Zbrush progress

2011-10-06T21:05:00.000-07:00

More practice in Zbrush, most of the reference came from the movie Fear

Sophia in progress

2011-10-05T23:52:00.000-07:00

working in Zbrush seeing if I still know how to model

Flying Fish

2011-08-06T23:05:00.000-07:00

Shark Week

2011-08-02T15:19:00.001-07:00

Andy Samberg is the host

Maleficent Rough

2011-08-02T06:18:00.000-07:00

Bear

2011-07-28T07:14:00.000-07:00

bear

Mr Zurkon from Ratchet and Clank

2011-07-24T23:07:00.000-07:00

rough Mr Zurkon

2011-07-23T21:00:00.000-07:00

Ratchet & Clank's Mr Zurkon

Bird Wizard

2011-07-17T18:42:00.000-07:00

Desert Creature

2011-07-14T22:49:00.000-07:00

To quote a Monty Python "I'm not dead yet!"

Character Idea Generator

2011-04-25T10:59:00.000-07:00

Hey check this cool Character generator if you stuck for ideas. Brett Bean posted the link on Deviant
http://itscharacterdriven.blogspot.com/
cheers
jeff

Creepy Fancy Tail

2011-04-04T21:50:00.001-07:00

water tail

Creepy Angel fish Recolor

2011-04-02T22:10:00.000-07:00

recolor the other one looked like neon barf

Creepy Pink

2011-04-02T13:04:00.000-07:00

possibly wearing rose colored glasses at the time of this digital photoshop colorization

Creepy Angelfish

2011-04-01T23:34:00.001-07:00

don't ask where those colors came from

Creepy Eel

2011-03-30T06:53:00.001-07:00

some happy accidents with this one

Creepy Seahorse

2011-03-28T22:21:00.000-07:00

colored up

Shark Fish

2011-03-27T01:01:00.000-07:00

colored one of the creepy sea fish up

Creepy Sea Creatures 2

2011-03-21T21:31:00.000-07:00

some more experiments

Creepy Sea Creatures

2011-03-19T12:54:00.000-07:00

messin around with some salt water DNA

Street Fighter: Balrog

2011-03-15T10:40:00.000-07:00

just colored over pencils instead of inking

PDF Art Book for Sale!

2011-03-02T11:20:00.000-08:00

I have a PDF Art Book selling over at Dani Jones's " the Illustrated Section

" http://theillustratedsection.com/art/right-between-the-lines

Check it out

Alien hunter with a raygun color

2011-02-15T16:44:00.000-08:00

color version

Hunter with a Raygun

2011-02-14T21:24:00.000-08:00

alien hunter

Alien Creature

2011-02-06T23:54:00.001-08:00

alien

Feb_2011_sketch_3

2011-02-03T18:18:00.000-08:00

I'm trying the sketch a day at SatelliteSoda

Rifle Girl

2011-02-01T21:29:00.000-08:00

This girl keeps popping up in my sketchbook. I decided to see if she would clean up good

Zbrush_Lurch

2011-01-21T01:27:00.000-08:00

zbrush 4 test with my concept of Lurch, I did the nose too big other than that boo boo I had a lot of fun doing this

Thor_Viking_color

2011-01-10T14:06:00.000-08:00

colored an older drawing

color test

2011-01-09T20:19:00.000-08:00

experimenting in photoshop with an older drawing

more practice with light box 2

2011-01-03T15:44:00.000-08:00

more goofing around with the light box

more practice with light box

2011-01-02T19:24:00.000-08:00

screwed up the feet, too excited again oops

pencil & a lightbox practice

2010-12-30T00:18:00.000-08:00

practice with my light box and a 2H mechanical pencil, scan was darkened a bit. didn't get the flow and shapes I wanted in the design but I was too excited to give the light box a spin

Addams Family color

2010-12-19T16:57:00.000-08:00

all together

Grandma Addams color

2010-12-15T22:47:00.000-08:00

different coloring technique I found the black lines over powering on some of the previous Addams family members

Grandma added to Addams Family lineup

2010-12-15T11:01:00.000-08:00

finally got to do her and add her to the line up

Spiderman

2010-12-02T15:33:00.000-08:00

my little brother's Christmas present

Fester : Addams family

2010-11-26T00:29:00.000-08:00

Uncle Fester

Pugsley : Addams Family

2010-11-25T02:15:00.000-08:00

colored up

Lurch : Addams family

2010-11-24T02:03:00.000-08:00

You Rang!

Wednesday Addams

2010-11-18T22:44:00.000-08:00

colored another one

Gomez & Morticia Addams

2010-11-15T19:30:00.000-08:00

colored these two up

Quick Color Test

2010-10-04T03:14:00.000-07:00

testing some brushes and technique in photo shop

Addams Family Lines

2010-09-25T10:50:00.000-07:00

practising some character design

Character: Colette

2010-09-16T20:49:00.000-07:00

main character for something I have brewing

Beer Knight

2010-09-09T19:54:00.000-07:00

working from a drawing in my sketch book

Space Dude

2010-09-07T02:58:00.000-07:00

Star Wars: Yoda

2010-07-11T19:43:00.001-07:00

messing around with Yoda

more sketchbook fun

2010-06-10T05:41:00.000-07:00

don't know where the shark came from

dudes and a couple of jokkers

2010-05-22T13:10:00.000-07:00

sketches

dudes and a batman

2010-05-16T19:18:00.000-07:00

more sketchy goodness

Dudes & a Vamp

2010-05-16T10:38:00.000-07:00

more sketch book stuff

sketch book dudes

2010-05-15T10:56:00.000-07:00

sketch book stuff, dudes

the vulture

2010-04-27T22:07:00.000-07:00

not sure why but I just started drawing the vulture for some reason

Orc dude

2010-04-10T15:48:00.000-07:00

trying to get back in the swing.

sketchbook pro lines mermaid

2010-03-14T12:03:00.000-07:00

I thought I would post some lines from the book, since don't have anything new to show, these were done in sketchbook pro on a cintq.

Krakken

2009-11-04T09:36:00.001-08:00

Another image from the book, I'll try to get some new artwork up but I've recently decided to try some more Zbrush work and its taking a little time getting up to speed.

Werewolf

2009-10-06T07:28:00.000-07:00

One of my favourites from the book

Selkie

2009-10-04T17:10:00.001-07:00

Selkie for the book

Mermaid

2009-10-02T07:05:00.001-07:00

mermaid

More sea monsters

2009-09-29T07:08:00.000-07:00

Maritime Monsters is out today!

Maritime Monsters:Shep

2009-09-19T11:26:00.001-07:00

Steve Vernon the author of the book is throwing an opening party today in Halifax which due to being in BC I cannot attend, I thought I'd throw another illustration out to the deviant and blog world for my own celebration.
cheers

Maritime Monsters

2009-09-11T21:56:00.000-07:00

This is the cover to the children's book I did for Nimbus Publishing. It Apparently comes back on the 15th from the printers and will be in stores on the 25th of September. Chapter/indigo all ready has a page you can order from. Cool!

Batman

2009-08-23T23:58:00.000-07:00

Experiment in Photoshop with a sketch I had in my sketch book

Dog Boy come home

2009-07-25T13:05:00.000-07:00

more practice with sketching and using sketchbook pro

Warrior_2

2009-07-21T07:06:00.001-07:00

more pratice

Panthro of Thundercats fame

2009-07-18T12:35:00.000-07:00

more practice, traditional take on panthro

Warrior

2009-07-14T23:54:00.000-07:00

just practicing

gunfighter girl

2009-07-12T22:02:00.001-07:00

still trying to do the female form

Some Female Figure Drawing

2009-06-30T06:08:00.000-07:00

Some sketchy poses, I will work up a few of these when I have more time.

still alive and well

2009-06-02T22:29:00.000-07:00

I'm still alive but very busy, quickie done in sketchbook pro

horn_coloured

2009-02-17T22:31:00.001-08:00

trying some colour

Buffy #2

2009-01-04T17:51:00.001-08:00

I didn't like the first one's pose, this one came out a little better

thor

2008-12-26T17:45:00.000-08:00

some more practice

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2008-12-17T23:25:00.000-08:00

First off I luv Buffy, I just bought a Buffy statue from Electric Tiki that I probably drooled over for months before I bought it. Its the red and black one,( that's where I got the colors from.)
I've been trying to work with drawing girls more so that's where this Buffy came from, not the greatest pose but it was fun.

Horn

2008-11-23T18:01:00.000-08:00

took two sketches from my sketch book and combined them,
head and body. final sketch done in sketchbook pro

Quick Sketchbook pro test on a Cintiq

2008-11-16T15:15:00.000-08:00

this was mostly done with the pencil tool and a bit of marker and airbrush, I gotta say I'm digging it

Scribbles_11

2008-10-31T19:50:00.000-07:00

some Sketchbook stuff

Harley Quinn

2008-09-13T21:48:00.001-07:00

finished so to speak

Spear

2008-09-01T14:46:00.001-07:00

a mom getting ready to send her kids back to school
hee hee

Another One

2008-08-07T23:00:00.000-07:00

another one