New Blog?

Lu Vazquez — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:42:23 +0000

Decided to give Blogspot a try, since it kinda ties in with my Google mail and apps et al, and I don’t do enough free corporate sponsorship anyways, eh?

Yea, it means starting from scratch, but this blog’s still early in it’s inception, and I’m not really losing anything if I do decide to stay with the new one. Check it out..posted new artwork there as an incentive Seeya there.

New Blog

-Lu

They’re heeere…!

Lu Vazquez — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:32:09 +0000

Full bodied version of the Alien Gray, though a variant of the three fingered kind. This was a fun mini-project for myself; trying to re-create an image based on alleged actual autopsy reports and first hand witnesses. For something surprisingly featureless, there was alot of subtle detail happening. Fun fun!

Slow Goings…

Lu Vazquez — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:57:43 +0000

I know…I know. I need to update this blog more often. Still working on learning the process of making images digitally. As I get more confortable with what I’m doing, I’ll post more frequently. Meantime…figured I’d toss up the latest… an Alien Gray. I tried to do this concept as close to the ‘actual’ autopsy descriptions as I could. This one’s in Painter, roughly an hour to knock out. Feeling a little better about using painter as time goes on.

Learn that poem…

Lu Vazquez — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:05:18 +0000

Been trying to keep busy with the painting, just cranking them out and hopefully pulling together a portfolio from the best of them. Photoshop seems to be the ‘go-to’ software…it just meets so many of my needs without too much headache. Still, I love alot of Painter’s features, and at this point I’m still experimenting with both. So…I’m posting 2 images, one done with photoshop, the other in Painter.

The first is a Night Elf Rogue from World of Warcraft, finally finished. The second is a quick concept sketch of a Man-Shark, done in Painter.

Whew

Lu Vazquez — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:29:18 +0000

So ArtOrder had another interesting challenge…this one a full spread Book Cover. How could I refuse? I only had 2 weeks to do it though, and the concept/sketch stage just took waaay too long. So in the end, I got maybe about a week’s worth of actual paint time, sans life’s daily requirements. In the end, I’m ok with the results. I know I need to work on my backgrounds a bit more, and I really need to shoot reference for my figure work. Still…it was a fun challenge and I had a great time doing this one.

Busy busy…

Lu Vazquez — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:18:26 +0000

So I finally finished this Demon pic I’ve been working on, kinda off and on. It started as a concept art sketch, but I ended up wanting to finish it. Then life happened, work, etc and the image ended up taking a back seat to just about everything else. I had some brief downtime this weekend so…

Dragons! Earthquakes! Oh my!

Lu Vazquez — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:35:35 +0000

My entry into the Weekly Challenge over at ArtOrder. Great place…wish I’d known about it alot sooner. It’s an Earthquake Dragon…fun challenge, though I stumbled upon it 2 days before the deadline…oy! So for those of you living in earthquake prone areas, well, now you know what’s giving you the shakes.

Ta-Da!!

Lu Vazquez — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:48:32 +0000

So…while I work on getting a new domain name, I figure I’ll give this Blog thing a toss, and see where it goes.

I’m currently working on honing my digital painting skills, and I gotta say, it’s no easy task switching from traditional media to all digital. My portfolio is literally going to have to be remade from scratch, and it’s going to have to be a ‘learn as you go’ process, since I’ve already been out of the illustration scene for too long as it is.

This is what I’m working on at the moment. It’s based on a the World of Warcraft setting. It’s a WIP…background wall needs a bit more work, the trophy heads needs shadows and the central figure needs a little more tweaking, but overall I’m liking where it’s going.

Seeya soon.