Snorkeling

I tried Snorkeling for the very first time and it was incredible. 

Heist Gone Wrong

This a personal project I worked on with my friends Rodrigue and Kolby. We never finished but it was still fun.

Mass Effect 3!

I just wanted to thank http://conceptartworld.com/ for featuring me today.

I am out of town currently so if you'd like to check out my work that is not on this blog, please check out some of these links, thanks :)

http://benbot.cghub.com

http://benbotport.blogspot.com/

Portrait Studies

Portraiture is a big weakness of mine, I've been trying to practice every morning. I'll be uploading more of this hopefully daily. Right now, I want to focus on the structure of the skull especially around the eyes. Still needs a lot of work. The pictures I've been using is just stuff I find off the internet, both from screencaps and from Deviant Art!

Sketches and studies

This is a personal project I've been working on. More to come later!

These are just quick sketches I did as warmup over the last few months.

Sketch dump

I just wanted to take the chance to upload some sketches. I wanted to keep working on a lot of these, but just forgot about it.

Space man/Space woman

I felt like doing a painting closer to what I do at work. (character design stuff) I'll put more process pics of this later!

Hands Study

Just a quick weekend doodle. Trying to figure out how to pack in more detail in an elegant way...

Hello, Dexter Morgan

Again, best show on earth, Dexter season 4. My goal on this piece was to improve my compositions a bit. I still got a long way to go. Any other Dexter fans out there?

Reboot

I need a reboot, lately I've been doing a lot of concept/production work and very little illustrative work. Sorry :( I wanted to post work that reflected my current goals but I was worried to do it on this blog since it was mostly my illustrative work. I pretty much never update this blog because of it. Anyways, I want to be a little more free about what I post and talk more about my processes.

These are a set of color thumbnails for a storyboarding study I'm working on. I want to improve on my shitty composition skills so I took a movie and tried to dissect a sequence. I'll upload the final product later.

My goal here was to study composition and also atmosphere.

This one started out as a environment study of a shanty town. The technique I wanted to try out here was to thumbnail, use Google Sketch up to set up a rough model forperspective, then pencil and detail it in PS. I find that in a production environment, using Sketch up helps a lot to speed things up. It's free and very easy to use but very limited compared to other 3D apps. This limitation is actually a plus in my books because it stops you from leaning on 3D too much.