Thumbnail sketches before bed. :)

Practicing color from memory, each one 15-20 minutes. I gotta try juicier colors.

Not Dead.

Added my sketch page, working on something with both Ivy and Harley on my off time. I've been looking at very elaborate dances for reference and listening to some heavy techno music for this set, more to come :)

I'm in Playboy!

I didn't get the operation, so settle down ;)

Playboy: Girls of Gaming 2009.
High quality render/illustration created by Pandemic/EA's Render Team.
Chris Hunt, Shao Zhang, Benjamin Liu, Justin Lewers, James Kennedy, Huan Phan, David Durry Allen, Jason Hazelroth and I. From Concept to Final, it was a blast to lead this one to the finish. :-)

This is a larger version for all the folks that put in amazing work creating The Saboteur, more art on the way!

First set of art from The Saboteur

Hello!

These are the first of many pieces created for The Saboteur (hits U.S. store shelves this Dec. 8th).
It was my pleasure to Concept alongside the many talented Artists and Engineers at our Studio; we had the unique opportunity to recreate a war torn and brutally occupied 1940's Paris painted in the Film Noir tradition; resulting in a harsh yet alluring Black and White representation of the world. I had the great fortune to work very closely building these environments with our Design and World Building Leads, Tom and Erik respectively, and through this process we've created some of the most detailed and referentially dense final art I've seen in a game.

Along with environments, Concept got to take a shot at lending a hand to our in game User Interface-providing artwork for the perks and economy systems. This opportunity to help out lead to our Concept group contributing greatly to the final product. it was a blast to see this vision through with a whole lot of style from beginning to end.

Lastly, our Concept team had a great time adding to the wonderful marketing initiative headed by our internal marketing group. Creating promotional images for the San Diego Comic Con 09, print features in Playboy: Girls of Gaming issue 2009 and many others. If you haven't gotten and chance to take a peek, swing by Jason Hazelroth's blog for a feast for the eyes. His efforts for showcasing the action to be had in The Saboteur are exciting illustrations that I'm sure will make your desktops a lot happier :)

First set of links to contributors to this set of artwork:

Jason Hazelrorth
Bryan Norton
Allen Im
Chris Hunt
John Burnett
Erik Jakobsen
Joe Myers
Tom French
Michael Marzola

Thanks for taking a look and letting me yarn on, more links and art coming soon :)


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Coming Soon

US release date December 8th :)

New Trailer for The Saboteur!

Video Games | The Saboteur | Just Getting Started UK Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

First trailer out to you great folks cut in house with a lot of TLC :)
More Videos and Artwork from this project coming soon, I have some never before seen art that will flip your wigs! ;)

Stay tuned!

The Saboteur and some new gameplay videos :)

Finger painting on the ipod

I'm trying to get the hang of this little ipod app called Brushes.
This one was all thumb :P

HIBM dollar Campaign

HIBM dollar Campaign-

My roommates have worked tirelessly on this project and it's an amazing effort to say the least. Give it a look and read the stories of some of the patients afflicted with HIBM-one being my friend Kam who is a daily inspiration to be around :)
Full website: http://www.hibm.org/arm/home

From my pal Jason:

"With ARM we have created this dollar campaign with the hopes of raising 1 million dollars to enable human therapeutic trials to fight HIBM. We are asking for two things: First, go to WEBSITE (http://www.hibm.org/arm/dollar:home) to donate $1. Second, send this email on to all your friends and family.

In the Internet age, reaching one million people in that amount of time is surely do-able. If you are interested in becoming a bigger influence in this campaign, host your own dollar collecting campaign in your community, church, workplace, among your friends and family and donate what you've collected as one donation. Or you can post this story and image on your own blog and Facebook page. The more people we can reach increases the awareness of HIBM.

HIBM (Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy) is a progressive and debilitating muscle-wasting disorder caused by a gene defect. It touches those between the ages of 20 and 40 and, although progression is slow, it typically leads to total disability within 10-15 years. Studies suggest that HIBM may be easier to cure than many other disorders or diseases, the only limiting factor is funds.

Thank you for your support,

Jason Hazelroth "

Saboteur

Finally will be getting to show some work from my 4 + year project with the great talent at Pandemic Studios. I bring you the first of my efforts for Saboteur, this one is a concept made to catch the mood of our protagonist.

links to some press our project is getting...
Kotaku
IGN
Games Radar

Stay tuned, fun things ahead :)

Oh, and keep your eyes on Jason Hazelroth's blog as well. He's gonna drop some artwork that is not to be missed.

Still alive :P

From our Concept Challenge at the big P. Steam Punk over the Wizard of Oz-I picked a flying monkey :)
2 hour speed painting/sketch.

Figure studies :)

Some quick figure studies from last night, I had a great time getting back into it :)

long time no post :(

But we're back! Did this quick sketch during some downtime (I really love me some Shadow of Colossus), hope to put some more goofy story stuff in :) I kinda want to paint monsters all day, so maybe some more tonight or some pirate ships trying to steal this mama's eggs.

updated: just added my lunch time thumb from my DS, that colors app is really great :D

J.C. Leyendecker study on the DS :)

A quick study of a great sketch by J.C. Leyendecker. Trying to get a little more painterly with the Colors Application. After seeing Rodney, Mindy pimp on their DS's I figure it was time I try something a little more "meaty". The Colors site has a great gallery feature where it does the playback just like the DS...
kinda kooky seeing it played back

I'm sure its different for everyone, but for me painting always feels like digestion. Good food and friends, some laughs, digestion.

quick painting on the DS!

A quick study of a couple at the local Pho place :)
I really like this colors app for the DS, great for quick studies and observations.
And another quick one from the park last night.

might be a little early but...

A quick sketch from the journal...

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i'm old greg!

inspired by a story smitten adventure, with pirates and gooooooooooold booty.





p.s.
and a word from your friendly neighborhood love ninjas, READ A BOOK ! B-O-OHKAY!


much love...
aesop and DA hancho esquire

some face stuff and a quick painting.

Trying something new :)
Using color on the brush filters to color over value, seems to do the job.
The boat scene was a fun 20 min exercise, gonna try and do some more in this vein.

self portrait or me = lazy :P

A quick head painting of a fishman. I had fun rendering this out, basic surfaces to play with and was a fast 40ish minutes. I've been pretty busy lately so its good to just sit down and do something goofy :P

before bed face painting...

Its 1 am and I'm just cooling off a little. Its fun to do a face before bed, very relaxing. More to come I hope, seems like a good habit to make :)
(edit) added some more done on sunday afternoon.

artwork from my journal, some old, most new :P

Here are some samples of some of my journal work. I tend to keep this to myself but recently have been asked to pimp it some in the new Lang Magazine in Detroit. So here is an assemblage of some personal stuff :P. I think keeping a journal is a good habit, either to jot down whats on your mind or even to cope from time to time. Hope you get a kick out of it.

quicky, 15-20 mins

thanks rodney for the new technique! its fast and loose and fun and and and...
added another quick one of an interior. i'm really liking the fidelity you get with edges using this technique.

some more panels in flux

doing some stuff, early pass at these shots. i'm hoping the saturation stays up through revisions, i kinda like that hollow glow in the blue :) more to come, need to keep practicing this stuff.

a quick colorful concept and some early pages.

Steve Huston is my new god... sounds pretty serious don't it :D

a quick study from a Steve Huston sketch. this study is two fold, 1) i have to do this more often (and will) and 2) i needed to learn what art rage was good for (art rage is a program that fakes oils really really well, and its free-ish). i'm gonna go through my Huston file and do some more studies this weekend, some backs and knees and hands and, and, and... i'm pretty excited about it actually :D

edit: the ones on the top are new! thank you mr. Huston!
edit2: the girl images above are from hong ly's photo stock on characterdesigns.com. a great resource, especially if you put the viewer on slideshow and on a timer so its a gesture fiesta!