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At work the character artists are trying to get back into a groove of doing quick sculpts for fun. About an hour and a half. I want to finish it off, but not sure the direction yet.

First SuicideGirl sketch in nearly 4 years.
So much for that one a week.

Started on my Wacom Companion, finished off on my real machine after I got too frustrated.

Comicon 2014 WIP

Another GameArtisans.org comicon contest.
I'm trying to do King Conan.

Its fun doing personal work again, but I don't really have much free time.

uhm. wow... so i've done stuff

Been almost two years since I last posted? Damn, so much for that.

Most of that time was filled by the game that came out - Skylanders Swap Force.

I was the Lead Character Artist on the project and got to work on both the in game characters and the toys. It was a hell of a lot of fun, and I'm proud of how the game/toys turned out.

Spring Inking

Last night I had this idea for a story pop in my head when I was laying down to go to sleep. I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I had to wake up and sketch out a handful of characters for it.

Today I tried to refine one of them. The idea for the story was in comic form, so I tried to do a comic-book ink. I haven't really done this since college, and never really tried digitally. So it was fun.

Around an hour, was going for more of a "real girl" look than most comic book heroine's look.

Blowing the Cobwebs off

So tonight I cancelled my account for Star Wars the Old Republic. Fun game, but I've realized after far too long that I can't accomplish the goals I want for myself as an artist and play any sort of MMO.

Did a quick and fairly lame sculpt tonight, but felt good to get back to it. 30 minutes, dynamesh.

blood for the blood god

A few of us at work have been getting back into painting mini's again. It started with a 10 man dreadfleet painting contest, then we are trying for a longer term thing. Personally I'm trying to get my Warhammer 40k Chaos Army finished.

I finished my first new squad I will be proud to put on the table. Khorne Bloodletters.

The photo's aren't great, still need to learn how to shoot minis, but I've been having fun.

And yes, I do know how much of a nerd I am.

Word Bearer WIP

Based of off a painting by Karl Kopinski.

Very WIP

Spy Done

Spy WIP

Mini 3d contest on GameArtisans.

1250 tris, 512 diffuse texture only.

Polypainted the base colors and shading, now refining in Photoshop.

Something for Nothing

Bad day all around today. Was in a miserable mood tonight, so decided to just draw something without it being for anything. Not for work, or as a study, or a contest. Just a drawing to get some of the blahs out.

Bela Lugosi's Dead

Quick painting for a GameArtisans contest. Do a portrait of a horror character like an old fashioned portrait.

I did Bela in one of rembrandt's poses, I tried to do brushwork like Frans Hals, but don't think I nailed it.

Comicon 2011 DONE!

Finished and submitted with half an hour to go. I'm pretty happy, think it's better than my last model, which is always my goal for these.

Comicon 2011 WIP

Model and textures are pretty much finished. Made a background this weekend as well.

Next up is rig/pose, light and render.

Comicon 2011 WIP

Testing out color variations.

Comicon 2011 WIP

Some progress shots from the Mephisto I've been working on for the Gameartisans.org challenge. There's a week and a half left, I'm pretty much on target for finishing.

Face Details
Finished Sculpt
Low Poly with Normals
Starting texturing and placing alpha cards for hair.

CC2011 WIP

Started this years Comicon Challenge over at GameArtisans.org

Check it out here: http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25920 if you want to follow the progress.

Quick sculpt

Playing around in zbrush, based off a little doodle from last year. About 2 hrs, recorded it in timelapse mode.

Untitled from Kevin Dobler on Vimeo.

New Personal Project Starting

Warhammer 40k Chaos Space Marine.

Just did a real quick pass in zbruh to get heights and scale.

The guy all the way on the left is my height (5'6") the Marine is the 7'6" the various 40k forums seem to agree is the "official" height. He looks positively massive compared to a normal person.

Xoliul Shader test

Late to the game on this one, great little viewport shader http://www.laurenscorijn.com/viewportshader

5 minutes of fiddling.

Default Max DirectX on left - Xoliul on right