May 23rd, 2010 by Paul Burrow
I was asked to do several Avatar pictures. The concept was simple, take a photo of an existing person and transform them into an Avatar character.
The first one I did was of Travis Barker, drummer for Blink 182. I was provided with a great photo to start with from http://www.blink182.co.uk/
I kept most of the photo from the jawline down the same and just coloured it. The top half of the face was reworked a lot more.
I widened the head and the gap between the eyes and created an avataresque nose. I used transparent layers to paint the facial patterns on and just kept going until I was happy with it.
Tags:
Avatar,
Blink 182,
digital art,
James Cameron,
Photo manipulation,
scifiartist,
Travis Barker
April 26th, 2010 by Paul Burrow
Here are 2 more aircraft designs. I call them sketches as they’re not finished pieces but they are cleaned up with the rough lines removed. The obvious advantage of drawing digitally is the time saved as there’s no need to scan from my sketchpad plus you can improvise and alter the canvas size to fit the drawing.
The first is a fighter jet type craft.
Fighter jet digital drawing
The second is a cruiser the tiny dot under the shadow represents the scale to 1 person. This is a basic drawing which is quick to do but still shows the form of the craft without having to draw too much detail. I find this ideal when playing with different shapes to create things. I find it easier sometimes starting with a dark block and deleting areas out instead of drawing dark lines on a white background.
Space cruiser digital sketch
Tags:
Concept Art,
cruiser,
Sci-Fi,
scifiartist,
sketch,
spaceship,
work in progress
April 22nd, 2010 by Paul Burrow
Spaceships on patrol
Here’s a new illustration based on one of my spaceship sketch designs posted earlier. This is a digital painting showing several fighter craft leaving a spacestation ready for patrol around the blue planet below. Click on the image to see a larger version.
This is the original design below which inspired the painting.
Original sketch
Tags:
Concept Art,
digital art,
Sci-Fi,
scifiartist,
spaceship,
spacestation
April 10th, 2010 by Paul Burrow
- Spaceship sketches
Spacehip pencil sketches from my sketchbook.
Tags:
concept,
Sci-Fi,
scifiartist,
sketch,
spaceship
April 10th, 2010 by Paul Burrow
- 4 vehicle design sketches
Here a 4 more pencil sketches from my sketchbook. 4 more vehicle designs.
Tags:
Concept Art,
Sci-Fi,
scifiartist,
sketch,
spaceship
April 5th, 2010 by Paul Burrow
Squat robot sketch
This is a squat little robot sketch. This is a fussy little bot that’s always complaining and causing mischief.
Tags:
Concept Art,
robot,
Sci-Fi,
sketch
April 5th, 2010 by Paul Burrow
Aircraft/Spaceship design sketches
Here are 4 more aircraft/spaceship design sketches. These are pencil drawings from my sketchbook.
Tags:
Concept Art,
Sci-Fi,
scifiartist,
sketch,
spaceship
March 31st, 2010 by Paul Burrow
Mabot robot boss
Here’s an update on the robot I started earlier in the year.
This is a mean boss robot that has a lot of drone slave workers working for him. He works them all sorts of stupid hours just expecting it without question.
I’ll post some worker robots soon. This is still a work in progress.
Tags:
Concept Art,
digital art,
robot,
scifiartist,
work in progress
March 30th, 2010 by Paul Burrow
Another spaceship sketch
Time to update my portfolio and there’s no better way than getting into the sketching habit again!
This took about 20 minutes. Pencil sketch in an A5 pad.
Tags:
scifiartist,
sketch,
spaceship
March 30th, 2010 by Paul Burrow
Spaceship sketch
About time I did some more sketching.
This is a pencil sketch of a space craft.
It is permanently in space it’s not able
to land on the surface of a planet.
Tags:
scifiartist,
sketch,
spaceship
