Cityscape - Speed painting

Speed painting. Photoshop

Orc Fortress

While the Gnomeo & Juliet campaign design is keeping me busy I haven't had time to paint... until now!
Photoshop & Painter

Tech environments

Following the theme of environments and inspired by the soon to be released film TRON, here are a couple of speed paintings just for fun. Photoshop

Lost Temple

Another quick painting following the theme of Inca architecture. Photoshop

Arctic snowscapes

The weather here in the UK has suddenly become colder, it isn't quite snowing yet but it's inspired a series of chilly Arctic snowscapes... Brrrrr! Photoshop/Speed paintings

The General

'The General' was designed as the main antagonist for the WWII project.

The Blitz

This production painting was designed for a project that's been put on the back burner. The story took place during the Second World War. Photoshop

Rainforest

This is a composite study using found imagery and custom brushes, quite an efficient way of working. Photoshop

Lost Temple

I've been really busy recently working on an interesting project which I'm looking forward to sharing with you all. But for now, here's a sketch painting I completed recently.

Captain America

Speaking of Marvel's Captain America, here's a title logo concept. Illustrator & Photoshop 

The Thing!

With a wave of super hero films in production such as Marvel's Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America and The Avengers, I've been inspired to design the logotype for The Fantastic Four character 'The Thing'. Illustrator & Photoshop

Big T

Hadn't designed a creature in some time and really needed my fix!

HellBoy

Sticking to the plan of developing my skills in ZBrush, here's another character sculpt of the demon that is HellBoy. As with the Hulk sculpt he aim was to capture the characteristics of the 2D comic illustrations in 3D without becoming too photo realistic.
ZBrush & Photoshop

Stealth Angel - Final design

Stealth Angels - Character design

The initial idea was to redesign the 70s hit TV show 'Charlie's Angels' by applying a 'cybertech' approach. However, I actually ran out of time and only managed 2 of the 3 characters... I'll be back with the other soon!

Burp!

ZBrush sketch, experimenting with new custom texture alphas.

El Macho - Collectors Annual

The legend that is...

Just incase you guys didn't make it to my site here is the legend that is 'El Macho'! ZBrush & Photoshop

Character doodles

Inspired by my own observations (generally during lunchtime), I've been experimenting with different illustrative cartoon styles... and all just for the fun of it!

EL Macho logo

Following a quick cartoon character illustration I recently sketched in Photoshop of a Mexican Wrestler called 'El Macho'. I decided to develop the character further by designing his logo in the form of a brightly coloured Wrestlers belt using a bespoke typeface designed by yours truly. The finished character design can found on my website:
damianjonesdesign.artworkfolio.com 

A Monsters Tail

Had an idea for a childrens book cover the other day... just need to come up with a story now!

ThunderCats - Ho!

Managed to find time to conclude the  Panthro character design, my intention is to work on Liono next - stay tuned folks...
Photoshop.

The Incredible Hulk

Sticking to the plan of developing my skills in ZBrush, here's a character sculpt of everyone's favourite superhero 'The Incredible Hulk'. The aim was to capture the characteristics of the 2D comic illustrations in 3D without becoming too photo realistic.
ZBrush & Photoshop

Big Ears

I've had time this week to add the finishing touches to Big Ears by designing the skin graphics and colouring.

Big Ears (WIP)

More ZBrush practice, inspired by a freakish little trophy dog I saw today.

ThunderCats - continued...

Before I start the paint work 3 ZBrush variations of Panthro sculpt. I've purposely ignored the super fine detailing like skin pores and creases, my focus is on the shape and form for this study.

ThunderCats - Ho!

Hadn't designed a character in some time and really needed to get some hours under my belt with ZBrush, I decided to redesign Panthro form the 90s animated TV series ThunderCats. Here are my initial Photoshop sketches, reference and ZBrush sculpt.

Lasso Painting No.5

Apple announces new store to open in Covent Garden

Left hanging

A photograph a good friend of mine recently took at the Fiona Banner exhibition in the Tate Britain inspired me to paint this image. As a starting point I came up with a typical scenario of our 'hero' pilot being locked in a deadly air combat finale with the stories 'villain'. In brief, the back story of our hero's aggressive and reckless nature has unintentionally cost the life of his wingman during an ill-fated combat mission. The guilt and anger he feels for the loss of his wingman has become evident through his own irresponsibleness towards his life - he looses his faith. The hero eventually overcomes and defeats the enemy force only for his fighter to sustain heavy damage in the process. Loosing altitude and descending towards the ground our hero attempts to eject but a systems malfunction occurs trapping him in the cockpit, the only option left is to reverse thrust and deploy the braking parachutes. Preparing for impact he crashes through the roof of a church only to be saved by the planes parachutes becoming entangled amongst roof joists, stopping the jet just inches away from a certain death. His faith is restored.

Lasso Painting No.4

Route 1 Shack

Lasso Painting No.3

Route 1

Flying wheel

Key frame painting from the Dirt Racer series. Photoshop and Painter 

Lasso Painting No.2

Golden Gate by night

Lasso Painting No.1

Golden Gate by day

Lasso Painting

I've always had an appreciation for the Looney Tunes background artists of the 40s and 50s, One artist who springs to mind  is Paul Julian. Julian's use of colour and  perspective resulted in a truly cinematic and engaging stage for characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck Porky Pig and many others.

So, what's that got to do with Lasso Painting? A recent summer trip to California I took with my wife seems to be inspiring a series of paintings based on the 1000s of photos we took between us. I enjoy painting the detailed and generally more time consuming illustrations, but for practice I've decided to get into the habit of quickly illustrating less complicated backgrounds/characters using only the Lasso tool and a single brush in Photoshop. Stay tuned for 'Lasso Paintings'

Dirt Racer

This Key fame painting is part of a series of designs I'm currently working on. The idea being the cars compete in an endurance dirt race where anything goes - the last car standing wins. The 'Hero' car featured is based on a 1966 Ford Mustang, I'll be posting developed ideas soon so stay tuned...

Mr. Toad

Following the theme of Off Roaders, this painting was specifically inspired by a shot my wife took in San Francisco of 'Mr. Toad's Tour bus' and the 7hr drive to Vegas - Photoshop

GO FOR IT!

I've always been fascinated by cars and speed ever since my Uncle bought a radio controlled Tamiya Sand Scorcher 2WD Off-Road Racer back from art college some 30 years ago! Yes, it's been that long Jeff!

The Red Planet

I painted this landscape after taking a helicopter ride into the Grand Canyon during our American road trip.

Bird's eye view

I started this painting on my iphone flying to California this summer but never got around to posting it - later completed in Photoshop.

SWAT

Speed painting, Photoshop.

Lunar Surface

I did this speed painting last week, but never got around to posting it. I was trying out a new Palette Knife brush in Photoshop.

Pixar toy packaging concepts

Some time ago I set myself a series of illustrative packaging projects based on the theme of my favourite Pixar films. I'm working on few new packaging ideas at the moment so stay tuned...