Speed Painting 65: Ghost of Tsushima

This game is looking mighty hot, and I had to spend 3 hr drawing 1 of my 2 favorite moments during the E3 demo. Even the music I chose is from one of the best anime/mangas Rurouni Kenshin, which fits badass motherfucking samurais going at it. I used a silhouette of a sumurai before drawing the background. Anyways, I hope yall enjoy this video. :) :)

Speed Painting 61.1: Game of Thrones Season 7 - Heroes

A new season of Game of Thrones and a speed painting to follow. Been doing this on an annual basis now since it's one of my favorite shows of all time. Love too much about it.

I saw a wonderful piece by Even Ventrue that was done on this tone of some samurai character. Inspired me to try the same style on this one. I will be doing a Villains variation next to finish it in the next 10 days and upload it, similar tone and feel.

I did have the right and left with backgrounds, however I ran out of time to create them on the same level as these 5 characters so I removed them (for now). I will work on them and upload them on artstation/dev art and link it at the bottom for all to see. I think once I finish that aspect, the series will look even better. :)

The hype is real for season 7, and my body is not ready. Also, I have not seen any of the main trailers so I go in with fresh eyes. I'm so fucking excited.

Speed Painting 60.2: NBA Finals 2017 Part 2/3

New Guardians movie, so I thought I'd go about it and create a poster type of speed painting for it. Hope yall like it. Star Lord's silhouette making the difference between the galaxy and the rest of the squad. Simple enough concept this time around, hope the execution was good though. Enjoy. Prost.

Speed Painting 59: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2

New Guardians movie, so I thought I'd go about it and create a poster type of speed painting for it. Hope yall like it. Star Lord's silhouette making the difference between the galaxy and the rest of the squad. Simple enough concept this time around, hope the execution was good though. Enjoy. Prost.

Speed Painting 58: The Get Down

One of my favorite new shows last season was a new show on Netflix called the Get Down. I believe it had 6 episodes in total for season 1 and by the last 5 minutes of episode 1, I was in. Story revolves around a group of kids that are going to make it in the music industries from the 70s, but the characters are what sell the tv show.

Anyways, I focused on the main two characters as the focus, my man Shaolin Fantastic & Ezekiel. Added some supporting characters through some creative means, although I wanted to add a few more.. especially the other guys that are part of the crew! Alas, no time and since no one is paying for this, I added as many as I could without the design itself getting clunky nor obnoxious. I hope you enjoy the video and I would highly suggest checking out the show. S2 comes out in April, and see if you're into it by the end of episode 1.  

American Psycho - Christian Bale illustration

Wanted to mess around in a certain style. thought of doing bale since he my fav <3 actor in one of my fav movies after looking at another artist do a similar illustration style. still took 2 hrs longer than I should have, need to get faster   Enjoy.

Speed Painting 57: Horizon Zero Dawn

Hot new game coming out, which I'm playing after my birthday (because I gotta finish this speed painting first smh).  The concept idea about the game is actually really unique and allows for tons of fun actually drawing it.  They have a ton of unique characters (enemies) on top of a stunningly well thought out looking world. 

I used a similar that I've seen around from Edge's Horizon cover and just made it my own style.  Added one of the bird enemies in the middle of two separate background illustrations.  Also the outline of the entire illustration is of one of the monsters the main character has to take down.  Anyways, this was fun as hell to draw and I hope yall enjoy the video I've created.  

Speed Painting 56: Trump & The Last Supper

I've been following the US elections these last few months on spurts. I can't fully concentrate on them full time because of so much bullshit from either side, that it turns it into more of a burden then entertainment. Then again, I'm much more jaded when it comes to politics than most people. There was a national-level incident back in my home when I was a little kid that directly affected my dad and then my entire family, and lets just say it took more than a decade to completely get over it.

Rather than just promises I heard from the left & right (and.. those other 2), it was interesting to see how the population reacted to the entire political process. Trump whether you like or dislike him, is this enigma that has many tuning in to see what he says next. It's almost like he was a tv personality that went into politics and knows how to sell a crowd.

What I noticed which kinda creeped me out more than anything, is this huge distaste and alienation between one another or many groups. Family members no longer speaking to one another because of their political affiliations. People putting themselves in groups and pushing other groups away, sometimes without noticing, instead of all getting together and focusing on making change by putting pressure on the government and the politicians instead.

Speed Painting 41: Halo 5 Guardians

As usual during this time of the year, a couple of massive games coming out.  Even though I'm a Playstation gamer, this looked like a good opportunity to draw Halo due to the color palette and because it felt right.  I started Tomb Raider initially but wasn't feeling it.  As soon as I started making a mock up for the Halo however, I felt inspired and got some ideas.

This idea I may have come up subconsciously being inspired by the cover of Hancock a couple of years back.  The idea here is that you see through Chief's eyes what he's looking at.  One one side, it's the single player, the other side it's the multiplayer red vs blue.  Initial helmet was based off a cool Master Chief concept art someone had created, and I used different images from the game to create the other segments that are in the glass part of his helmet.  Hope you guys like it.  The OST for Halo as usual is Godlike by the way, I had to use Kazuma's work for this.

Speed Painting 40: The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is coming out soon for season 6, so I decided to make this month's illustration about it.  I'm hoping the hype is real and comic book readers have been hyping up some of the bigger villains that are coming soon.  Hopefully that means we get to see them and it doesn't get padded with filler.

This is a simple illustration of Rick and Daryl chilling with a zombie.  All of them getting along for once instead of trying to kill each other.  Rick's beard continues to grow (that season 5 episode does not exist).  Hope you all enjoy it! 

Speed Painting 55: Star Wars Rogue One

New Star Wars speed painting.  Hope yall like it.

Art Exposure: The illustration of The Order 1886

The latest speed painting for February was The Order 1886, a video game on the PS4 created by Ready At Dawn.  Considering I made the topic about a game in a console that I owned, it was obvious that I would buy it.  I did so on the day of release.  The graphics in this game are absolutely incredible, the best I have seen so far.  However what impressed me is the style and feel on top of the wonderful graphics.  In terms of presentation and feeling like this is a world that your mind buys when playing, it's one of the best I've seen.

This blog post is just more about admiring the artstyle with the high graphic fidelity of this game:

Brilliant use of film grain.  Usually it looks tacky, but in this game it adds a lot to the feel of the game.

This is ingame.  In the actual game.  CGI graphics :')

The level of detail here is mind-boggling

For illustrators out there, check this game out if you have a PS4.  Last time I remember constantly stopping to look around and just enjoy the scenery was 6 years ago I believe when Uncharted 2 released.  They wanted to emphasize their cinematic experience, which they succeeded.  You really do feel as you are in this world and the style of the game is incredibly appealing.  You might also have fun playing it.

Podcast Beyond

This one of the 3 podcasts that I listen to as I sit in my cubicle, for those that also need something to listen to.  This one is a bit different, it's about games, specifically PlayStation hosted by Greg Miller, Colin Moriarty and a third chair.  If you have any interest in gaming or PlayStation in general, I'd listen to this when you put your headphones in.

 Beyond!

The good thing about this Podcast is obviously that it's enjoyable.  They have charisma and don't always stick to games all the times like heartless, boring robots.  It goes off the rails most of the time, which is always good.  Ok, I can't really sell this anymore to you.  If you sit in a cubicle, you use headphones and want something to listen to while being a gamer or wanting to be one, this one is a solid shout.  It comes out on Tuesdays of every week.

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