roaring23's CGPortoflio Gallery

Woojem Attack

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:16:54 +0000

Hi.
Name's Rory.
This is my first ever post on CGsociety.
My drawing depicts an army of alien creatures called woojems attacking a futuristic city of space explorers. The woojems are assembling robots out of junk using electricity and nano-machines while the soldiers attempt to penetrate their force fields with lasers.
Woojems are creatures that my friends and I made up when we were in grade school when we�d do battlefield drawings with each successive character blowing up the character beforehand. Shout out Joey and Dante!
I've got to say that I've seen a lot of you guys on here with fantastic images that they claim to have done in 3 hours or so. Well my hat�s off to you because this drawing has taken me a week working 2-4 hours each night. The original is at 1600X1200 resolution.
I hope you like it.
PS. If there are any photoshop masters out there who willing to share secrets, I have a question:
How do you make your drawings so detailed without scratchiness in such a short amount of time?
I mostly use a standard brush with stylus pressure set to opacity and scale. I often will create texture by crosshatching and then using the smudge tool. I�d love to hear any suggestions about alternatives to this technique?
Thanks �Rory-

Fat Dragon

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:52:01 +0000

I'm really starting to enjoy Zbrush.

I wanted to do a dragon with some personality, and I found that I like him better when he was a little bit fat. I liked the way it made him seem more lumbering and wobbly.

I made this model in 2 marathon 6 hour sessions from concept to final render. This render is a medium resolution z-brush export with a normal map. I used the default scanline renderer in max with a sky light for shading and several colored omni lights set to effect specular for highlight.

Ancient Guardian.

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:34:08 +0000

Ancient Guardian is a piece based on one of my 2D works.

"Potential energy like a boulder on a mountain peak; it may lay motionless for eons but until upon the slightest move, it springs to life unleashing it's terrible fury."

As the name would suggest the creature is an ancient robotic protector of a hidden temple. This was meant to work in the context of a fantasy styled RPG and have been influenced by the retro-sci-fi style I've enjoyed from the Final Fantasy series and Yoshitaka Amano's work.

Ancient Guardian

Sat, 05 May 2007 12:30:30 +0000

Another drawing done for practice. At this point I'm just trying to have fun drawing. I spent so long trying to practice various elements of drawing, and now I just want to forget about trying to challenge myself, and concentrate on just flowing with the drawing. It was a long time before I knew what this drawing was even going to be... but it was fun to draw. I know it could use a bit more polish here and there, but I didn't want to labor over it.

6 hours photoshop.

Time Lapse Videos to Follow.

Comments Critique and Advice are indeed appreciated.

Hover Boat

Wed, 02 May 2007 06:43:58 +0000

I really wanted to just do a fun drawing from the top of my head. After a bit of a hiatus it was important for me to just get something going without beating myself up too much about coming up with the perfect premise. It ended up as a organic hover-boat in a rainy alien swamp.

This is my first drawing in a while. I've been busy with all sorts of other things, and I ended up hardly having a chance to draw for almost a month. Anyway I'm back... for now.

5 hours photoshop CS1.

Time Lapse Video to Follow.

Comments, Critique and Advice are all quite welcome.

Thanks for looking.

Mech Vs. Space Monster.

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:26:23 +0000

This drawing depicts a giant space monster attacking a ship and being slashed by a giant mech's laser sword.

I've been to busy to draw for the last 2 few weeks. Among other things, I went to the GDC and showed some of my work around. Some criticism I received is that I should be bolder in my brush strokes and in my composition, and that i should do more sci-fi. I also wanted to do an original creature, and a scene with some action in it. This is what I came up with.
15 hours in Photoshop if you count the sketches.... which I do.

I hope you like it.

Comments Critique, and advice are always welcome.

Time Lapse Video to Follow.

Snail House.

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:39:22 +0000

"It's not the smartest steed in the world, but we can make good time... that is unless we travel over a carrot patch. Then we usually have to take a little break"

Wardman Sicklepatch - Snail rider.

The idea of this piece was to create sort of a fun fantasy picture of a house built on top of a snail. I also wanted to try a different type of sky then I've done. Sort of a "big weather" day where the there's light rays pouring through gaps in the clouds. It was a little cumbersome for me, and there're some flaws. I felt I had a lot of success with some new texture brushes I made for the snail skin.

Original Resolution 3200_2400. 12 hours in photoshop CS1, 15 if you count the sketches.

Time Lapse Videos to Follow.

Comments Critique and Advice are welcome.

Cold Decision.

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:41:49 +0000

A killer of mechanical precision. He does not feel remorse or regret, just a calculated logic, as cold and sharp as his blade. You will not get his mercy, but you may be spared by his cold decision.

In this piece you are looking through the eyes of a child at a Samurai who is not sure whether or not to kill you. I tried to show this through the prespective and by trying to give the Samurai a questioning and stern look. His sword is ready, but not drawn.

12+ hours in Photoshop CS1. Samurai Armor is COMPLICATED. I can only imagine how long it took to actually assemble a suit.

Time Lapse Video to Follow.

Comments Critique and Advice are all quite welcome.

"TO THE END OF THE WORLD!"

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:26:18 +0000

"I wonder if SHE put that house there ON PURPOSE. She certainly doesn't seem too upset about it.
She isn't acting like a girl who's parents have been crushed.
She turn on the water works when it happened though. Sheesh. I don't even HAVE a house... I never got a free ride.
"To the end of the world" she keeps saying. I don't even know where that is".
-Trumblejobe, Planes Giant.

The idea for this piece is that a giant has stepped on a girls house, and in return she gets to ride him around for a while.
I figure that it wasn't even her house, nor was there anybody inside it. She said that her parents were crushed to guilt trip the giant into carrying her around, and she's loving it.
The Giant on the other hand is getting a little annoyed. I particularly liked it how the boat ends up looking like a silly hat, as if to symbolize the Giant's humiliation.

10 hours Photshop CS1. I really enjoyed this one. By the time it was getting close to done I still had a little energy up for some finishing touches.

Time Lapse Video to follow.

Comments, Critique, and Advice are welcome.

Zombie Woods

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:12:17 +0000

The idea is that there is a forest that creates Zombies. The wood doesn't burn so they have to chop down each of the trees one at a time, and they grow back right away (see the multiple stumps on the trees). After dark the Zombies come out, and there is a fog that seeps from the forest which acts as a sedative. In this drawing there is a guy who decided to take a nap after felling one of the trees and unfortunately for him... he slept past sunset.

10 hours Photoshop CS1. This piece just never came together for me. Just when I was really starting to want it to be done, I enjoyed a rare photoshop crash. This was great because that meant I was done. The image you see was actually rescued from the time-lapse video I was recording.

I tried out painting with color from the start and found that I didn't like that technique very much. This drawing was like running in flippers for me. A lot of false steps, cumbersome, and overall a lot of waisted work. There was a lot of detail that went into the bark that was lost both by the final contrast and by the artifacts imposed by the compression.

Comments Critique and Advice are welcome.

Time Lapse Video to Follow.

Monster Island

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:52:30 +0000

Monster Island

Long before the dinosaurs these rock eating behemoths helped form the continents.

10 hours Photoshop CS1.
Time Lapse Videos to follow.

Comments, Critique, and Advice are quite welcome.

End Game

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:06:46 +0000

I wanted to do a drawing that looked like the end of a video game.

This drawing was quite challenging for me. 6 large figures, many differently colored light sources. I spent 3 days worth of productivity amounting to nearly 20 hours of paining.

Time Lapse Videos to follow:

Comments Critique and Advice are quite welcome.

Cold Bed

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:40:08 +0000

I'm sort of hoping that this one speaks for itself, but in case it does not:

An old man sobs shivering in bed. His wife has recently died, and he is cold and alone.

I wanted to take a short break from videogame concept art type work and try and make an emotional piece. 10 hours in photoshop.

Time Lapse Video to Follow.

Comments Critique and Advice are quite welcome.

Millennium tree.

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:15:08 +0000

I wanted to draw a giant tree, the size of a sky scraper. I also thought it would be cool if it's roots created waterfalls 20 to 30 feel high.

This is another practice drawing. It took about 12 hours to paint in Photoshop CS1 (8 hours of actual painting). It was a challenging piece because of all of the roots. I also think I chose a poor choice of perspective because the drawing doesn't immediately convey the scale I was going for.

Time Lapse Videos to Follow.

Comments Critique and Advice are quite welcome.

Cave Attack

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:27:08 +0000

""it came so suddenly, but it hardly seemed to notice us. It paid us as little attention as a man walking over a line of ants. Unfortunately for the scientists, they were in it's path"

I did an earlier drawing, and... well I just had to draw the monster.

6 Hours in Photoshop CS1, 12 if you count the 1st drawing.

Time Lapse Videos to follow.

Comments, Critique, and and Advice are quite welcome.

The Mysterious Cave.

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:07:47 +0000

"the dry smell of broken earth lingers round the chasm's mouth. The local drifter white with fear assures us there was no hole here. Of course he's been wrong before, like when he said he saw that UFO. The suits and coats have gathered now to investigate this hole in the ground. Who knows what they think they'll find, but this whole thing doesn't feel right."
-Tim Blacktone, united construction inc.-

I made this drawing for practice as usual. The most challenging things about it for me was drawing from a perspective that I am not used to, and in trying to achieve the feel of out-door lighting. I left the creature in the tunnel intentionally indescript in order to persevere some amount of mystery of what's at the bottom of the cave.

6 hours in Photoshop CS1.

Time Lapse Videos to Follow.

Comments, Critique, and Advice are quite welcome.

The King Of The Winter Lands

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:25:17 +0000

"Greater nations are many, and there are more powerful armies in the world, but you'll never find a tougher King than the King of the Winter Lands"

This drawing was a fun quick practice piece.
5.5 hours in Photoshop. 60 drawings in 90 days #13.

Time Lapse Videos to Follow.

Comments, Critiques and Advice are quite welcome.

Thanks for looking.

Necromancer

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:40:19 +0000

This drawing depicts a necromancer who has summoned the spirit of a woman to fool attack our protagonist. The ghost woman is intended to look alluring and disarming, but she's got a knife in concealed in her right hand. The necromancer is supposed to be backed into the corner attempting to hide himself among the curtains and draperies of the background. I tried to provide clues that the necromancer is controlling the woman by giving them each a similar necklace, and by drawing lines of light from the necromancer's fingers to the woman's hair. I tried to show that the woman was a ghost be making her somewhat transparent, and by making her somewhat self-illuminated.

I did this drawing in order to practice cloth and fabric, and also because I really wanted to draw a lich type monster. It took me around 15 hours in Photoshop. 60 drawings in 90 days #12.

Time Lapse Videos to follow.

Comments Critique and Advice are quite welcome.

Dante's Inferno- Gates of Dis and the Infernal Furies.

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:12:51 +0000

"And he said other things which are indistinct
In my memory, because my eyes had drawn me
Completely to the tower's gleaming peak; here my instinct Recoiled at the sudden appearance of three
Hellish furies, blood�stained and obscene,
Female in gesture and anatomy. For belts they wore snakes of deepest green; Little serpents and horned vipers formed their hair, Binding their temples. Of these handmaids to the queen Of everlasting woe my master was well aware, And he warned, as we stared at the sight: "Of these ferocious Erinyes you must beware!"

I had so much fun doing the Beowulf drawing that I decided to do another drawing based on a story. I chose this time to do a story from Dante's Inferno. I found this drawing to be much more difficult for me. Overall I spent 10+ hours on this drawing, and spend another 6 hours on another attempt which I eventually abandoned. I'm still having trouble with lighting. I find myself redrawing the same part many times due to changes in my lighting scheme. 60 drawings in 90 days #11. (I'm a few behind at this point ;P)

Thanks for looking. Comments Critique and advice are always welcome.

Timelapse Videos to follow.

Beowulf VS. Grendel.

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:14:00 +0000

When I was a kid in grade school, we'd often be told a story and then asked to draw a picture to go with it. The story of Beowulf and Grendel was one of my favorites because I could draw someone getting their arm ripped off without getting in trouble.

As the story goes there was a creature named Grendel who had killed 30 people in a hall. They brought Beowulf to try to take care or it, and well.... he ripped one of Grendel's arms off .

6 hours in photoshop CS1. I'm not sure if this is worth mentioning but the 6 hours directly followed the completion of the "sea monster summon" drawing. I'm starting to get the hang of texture brushes, and I now have a few that I use very frequently. 60 drawings in 90 days #10.

Comments, Critique and Advice are most welcome as always.

Time lapse videos to follow. Thanks for looking

Sea Monster Summon.

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:37:00 +0000

"Arise beast from the depth to which I sent you. Your existence owed has now come due."

The story behind this drawing is that the wizard is summoning one of his creations, a sea monster which he had created and then banished to the sea.

This drawing took me about 7 hours in Photoshop CS1.
60 drawings in 90 days #9.

To my dismay the entire time lapse drawing was lost. That's what I get I guess for using a free shareware app. Anybody know of any good screen capture programs?

As always comments, critique, and advice are greatly appreciated .

Task at Hand... Bills to Pay

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:42:29 +0000

"Most people don't like their jobs. Why should a soldier feel any differently. There's a task at hand, and I've bills to pay"

I was trying to get the right expression on his face and I never quite did :( I wanted it to look as though he has something to so but he feels somewhat regretful about his chosen occupation. He's reluctant, but he's about to put on his helmet and get the job done.

60 drawings in 90 days #8

I did this drawing in Photoshop CS1 in 10 hours+.
I tried a 3 tone color scheme, and I didn't really pull that off either. If there's and advice or criticism I'd love to hear it.

Oh For a Demon Proof Gate

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:47:04 +0000

Hello All. Here is my newest drawing.

"My kingdom for a Demon proof gate" depicts a demon centaur breaking down the gate of a fort. The people were not entirely unprepared however and are quick to prepare to fightt. Unfortunately, a carpenter who was making last minute reinforcements to the gate is getting caught and slain by the beast.

I did as part of my 60 drawings in 90 days project. It took me 10 hours in Photoshop CS1. This drawing again was somewhat labored as I wasn't sure what I wanted to draw when I began. I struggled mightily on the position of the demon's legs, and on the pose and expressions of the human characters. I've been trying to incorporate suggestions I've received from various people on this forum on other drawings ive submitted (thanks . I'm trying to figure out ways to use custom brushes. I've got a few that I like okay. One is sort of a leathery cross hatch brush which I used for the demon skin. The others are a clouds brush, and sort of a grainy dirt brush. I am also beginning to try to add color to my highlights and shadows more effectively.

I made a timelapse video of the drawing process.
It is available at 320X240 resolution here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNsrs_cjZH8
and at 800X600 resolution here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4386715274679858049

Thanks for looking.

I appreciate all comments, critiques, and advice.

Ocean Sunset

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:46:45 +0000

This was just a practice drawing. I wanted to have an opportunity to play with custom brushes which I am finally starting to get some use out of, and I wanted an opportunity to practice colored highlights and shadows.

5 hours in Photoshop CS1. 60 Drawings in 90 days #6.

Timelapse making of Videos:
320X240 3 megs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsQCUCml4Rk

800X600 10 megs:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5726549103977371866

Comments, Critique, and Advice are always welcome.

Sleeping Miner gets robbed.

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:32:36 +0000

This drawing depicts a Dwarf miner who has taken a nap by a old tree stump. Little did he know a bunch of tiny bandits would roll up on a weasel and steel his loot.

This drawing was done in 7 hours in Photoshop CS1.
60 drawings in 90 days #5.

This drawing was somewhat labored as I changed my mind about several aspects of the drawing midway through the process.

320X240 timelapse video. 5.5 megs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtF1t__PCFg
an 800X600 timelapse will be added soon.

Comments Critique and Advice are always welcome.

Dragon Hug

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:51:40 +0000

This drawing depicts a woman crying over her slain friend.... a dragon. 60 drawings in 90 days, drawing #4.

It was completed in about 6 hours in Photoshop CS1.

Here is a time lapse video at 800X600 resolution. 20megs.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7691146066982112837
Here is the same video at 320 by 240 resolution. 3megs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0LRrIg4tbg

I apologize, but the later portion of the time-lapse video was lost.

Comments and critique and advice are welcome.

Spider Robot

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:39:23 +0000

A piece done for practice.

It took about 5 hours in Photoshop.

This is a drawing of a nano-gangster, a criminal who's been augmented with nano machines to give him superhuman abilities. He's riding a mechanized spider. The drawing depicts him being looked at by the protagonist who is cut from the same type of cloth.

Instead of agonizing over a 20 hour drawing which had become my habit I decided that the best way for me to improve would be for me to concentrate on doing drawings quickly, figuring that as my speed improved the quality of my work would as well. I intend to do a drawing a day for the next 3 months. This drawing isn't that hot, but stay tuned... They'll get better.

I'm still learning and I'd appreciate any type of advice that you masters out there are willing to send my day.

Thanks for looking. comments welcome.

I've also done my first time-lapse painting video:

Space Battle

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:53:54 +0000

Here's a drawing that I did for practice. It represents a battle in space in which a mechanized moon has been attacked by a large cruiser and only now are reinforcements arriving.

I did in 2.5 hours in photoshop CS1.

Comments and critiques are welcome.

Lure Monster Of The North Sea

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:12:10 +0000

One would think the sailors would have grown wise. I guess no one ever made it back to tell the tale?

Monster Takes a Bride.

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:53:08 +0000

Image was done in photoshop with absolutely no photo reference of any kind. I spent around 10 hours on it over the course of a week.

The idea is that this monster has taken this girl and is beginning to transform her into a monster to be his companion.

Wireless Avatar Work

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:12:52 +0000

This is a collection of 3D avatars I created for wireless applications form 2005-2007