Last time with the ships

Had to go over some of the ships and make their paintjobs based on animals, which ended up being fun because of the bright colored animals I was told to based them on. Amie did some sweet character concepts for this project so check those out on her blog at http://amiechan09.blogspot.com///.

Dead Diver

I came across some images of old diving suits while doing some reference gathering online and for some reason an image of an undead old school diver drowning modern-day divers came to my head. Realizing that my morbid thoughts could lead to something I would enjoy drawing I quickly did a doodle and threw some color on it before I forgot about the whole thing. I plan on starting to work on this thing later this week. Should be entertaining.

Lots of little space ship thingies

I recently started a small freelance job where I have to figure out what some hover ships look like and it's been a blast. I was in a total art funk until this came along and doing these sketches has re-energized me. Maybe it's because this is for a more cartoony project instead of the usual realistic stuff. The ships are supposed to be put together from pieces of junked ships and some of them are personalized by the users with objects or paint.

Float Plane and some other recent things

After weeks of staying away from the Float Plane piece because I had hit a major wall with it, I suddenly found my way and finished it during the last few days. I had posted a sketch of it back in May and I'm glad I was able to get it done. During my time away from the Float Plane I started to work on Maya again (yes, I did hate it in school but I figured I'd give it another shot on my own terms and not without the stresses of school to interfere). I did a few tutorials and I started to model the train I had drawn a while back because I figured the train would be a lot of simple shapes and maybe it'd be easy for a Maya Noob like me. How wrong I was.....but I'm still enjoying it more than I did in school and this is what I have so far. It has a ways to go of course. The last one is a photoshop painting of a model I built and took photos off for reference. I really enjoyed it and I think it's something I'll do more off with my models.

Tree of knowledge

This is actually the first piece I've considered finished from a bunch of sketches for over a month. Finally got the drive to finish one since I was busy with the website for a while. A take on the tree of knowledge, more evil than good I would say.

Dante's Inferno work

I recently got permission to show just few Dante's Inferno things that wouldn't really give away anything from the game. I worked mostly on environments and props for the game with a few creatures/characters here and there. Above there's really fugly creature that eventually didn't make it into the game, a door guardian (you can see him briefly in the gameplay trailer that's out online), a lava cauldron, and a house which is one of the few things that isn't in hell in the game. There's a lot more but that stuff I'll have to wait to post up when the game comes out.

The Prince

I was playing some DBZ Burst Limit on the 360 today and it all came back to me how much I used to like Vegeta when I was a kid. Never really liked Goku too much, except when he did the teleportation Kamehameha in Cell's face, but I won't get into my past DBZ nerdiness at this time.

Website up!

I finally got a website up and running.....there might be a few glitches here and there but I'm still figuring out the whole Dreamweaver and ftp thing. It runs a little slow on Firefox for some reason, trying to figure that out. Go ahead and take a look, it has most of the stuff you've seen here or on my portfolio blog.

www.arielalvarezart.com