Asti's Art

Vote!!

2012-01-20T18:12:00.005Z

Allo guys n gals! I entered the competition for Florence and the Machine - it was to design a single cover; the winners are put on vinyl and then auctioned off for charity - cool, eh?? So here's my entry - please vote me, I'd love it and would send you imaginery cupcakes <3

http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/afb0de173960ff5b5ed2dc9611377d46/383

Here's what it looks like below :)

My Big Fat Update!

2012-01-09T18:03:00.010Z

'Appy new year, everyone! Let me start by saying 'oh dear oh dear oh dear' - what an age it's been since my last update! Apologies...*offers cupcake*
Buuuuuut - what we have here is an 'Epic Update', or 'My Big Fat Update' :) I've decided to post many of the little tests I worked on (not saying who for ;) and also the many canvas paintings I've done for various gifts :)

First up, a character I was asked to design and a mock screenshot :)

Next up, a small weird hut (I decided on a Hut of Sacrifice!) and also a little cutesy princess design. (They look nicer as .swf files, but can't upload them here)

Next is a fashion style character, as well as a strange chair prop, and ad banner.

Also, a Christmas version of an existing game, and small icons/props to accompany it.

And lastly we have a series of different canvas that I made in recent months. Sorry about the picture quality on some, they're photos on the canvas in different lighting! :)

Phew! See, I'm not just sitting at home playing Skyrim all day ;)

Cthulu Pumpkin!

2011-10-31T15:13:00.006Z

Just a lil update! I was contacted a few days ago by someone who liked an old Cthulu pic I did aaaaaages ago, and asked if they could use it to make a pumpkin carving; well of course I said yes! And what a great result too!! Check it out :D

So here's the old pic it was based on:

And here's the results - coooool! Well done to Nick. :)

Kebab's new friend

2011-10-27T12:49:00.004+01:00

And so a new pic featuring Kebab, but also his new friend that he met in my last pic! Done in Flash this time, just doing it a bit more vector-style. :)

Kebab's dreams...

2011-10-25T18:58:00.003+01:00

Kebab the hedgehog only has 1 thing on his mind... I like drawing these 2 characters :) Can draw cool animal hats for the boy and a spikey little hedgehog :D I imagine more pictures of these 2 in the near future....

The gang

2011-10-21T16:17:00.003+01:00

A little gang of characters; cool colourful clothing and a kid with a pet hedgehog!

Wow it's gone super cold here in Frankfurt!! Winter's started, it feels like! I love it tho - blue sky and very 'crisp'; we'll all be drinkin gluhwein and munching on yummy christmassy food before you know it ;)

Viking girl

2011-10-19T10:37:00.002+01:00

Did a more polished version of the viking girl from the sketches in the previous post :D
Don't mess with her. : |

Animal hats!

2011-10-18T14:11:00.004+01:00

Yay, update!! Sorry it's been a bit slow, this will change again :) So, as the cold weather starts, the cool funky hats come out to play! Animal hats last year were quite trend, and I reckon it'll continue this year! So I started doodling some more animal hats (and cool winter clothing!) of my own in a cutesy way :D I love the animal hats trend - yes it's silly, and that's why it's fun!

So here's the final version of them, and below that is the initial doodle in my sketchbook, in case you wanna take a look. :) (note the unused viking girl ;)

Happy Monster!

2011-09-27T17:23:00.003+01:00

Happy monster time! The sun's been shining here in Frankfurt and it's been unusually hot for this time of year - so a happy monster appears! There's been a lack of updates recently as I've been doing a few little tests, but more will come, you'll see! For now, I must mentally prepare myself for Oktoberfest and then Stockholm...:)

It's aliiive!

2011-09-08T13:52:00.004+01:00

Oooh look! I did a little animation in Flash! Just a simple one, a little monster dude holding a balloon (why not?) - he's very pleased. :) Trying to get better at this, it really has been awhile...gimme Photoshop anyday though, it at least *behaves*....mostly. ;)

Time for Flash

2011-09-07T12:28:00.002+01:00

Quiet on the update front! Been slightly busy, but just sharing a small image of a little guy I made using Flash - I'm trying to get familiar with Flash again, has been ages since I used it. So I'm gonna try and give him some little animation, once I familiarise myself with it all again!

Zombie Cat!

2011-09-01T23:21:00.003+01:00

Time for a zombieeeee, raaaaawwwwrrr! It'll be Halloween before you know it! I fancied drawing a zombie version of my cat Chalky, aawww :3 I'm sure he'd appreciate it, I mean it is rather flattering, right??

Fluffy

2011-08-31T16:47:00.002+01:00

A day without an update? I don't think so! :P More playing with a texture brush and some silhouettes of fluffy things. :)

Doodle time!

2011-08-30T17:23:00.003+01:00

Doodley doodley, a meaningless doodle. :D Well.....actually I was kinda practising shading skin a bit, but then this green flying cute monster appeared, and my mind went blank after that - I have no memory of what happened, just that it was finished. : |

Obligatory closeup!

Creepy time!

2011-08-29T18:40:00.005+01:00

Is it me, or has there been a lot of cute stuff on this blog recently? There has! The balance must be swayed to the creepy side...so here's a non-cute pic. ;) Was imagining this creepy figure reaching out for...another creepy figure. It's a bit Giger-esque, and was a lot of fun - I love using nice texture brushes. :)

Thought I'd show some closeups from the panels too:

Blue monster warrior!

2011-08-29T10:19:00.002+01:00

The mighty blue fluff monster has been made a warrior! : | I think I like his 'Gentleman Assassin' look best ;)

Monster girl!

2011-08-26T01:08:00.006+01:00

This girl is wearing the sort of monster costume I dreamed of wearing as a kid ;D Wanted to practise a stylised girl figure :) It started as just a random sketch that then evolved and became 'more' - was just practising some shading in the first pic. She looks like a happy child, doesn't she? :P

Next I did a full body version, in a more vector style - to the left is the more plain one, then a slightly tweaked version next to it. :)

And next is a closeup ofc! :)

Fish! (and chips)

2011-08-24T19:47:00.007+01:00

Gah...I just can't help it...I did more character sheets ;) I'm loving it so much though, is it a crime?? So after the ipad characters, I decided to explore the colour/shading/pattern of the big round fish :) Just going for different effects, looks with this page.

Then I thought I'd put one of them in a kinda background - just wanted different texture to the smoothness of the fish, I imagine a rougher, more faded bg actually.

And then............CLOSEUP!! Raaaaawwwr!! Fear the round fish!

Sun, sea, ale and monsters!

2011-08-22T22:07:00.006+01:00

Orrite! Back from my holiday of sun, sea and ale, back to a way-too-hot Frankfurt; I am not meant for heat like this, send me North to the ice and snow!
Sooo...I know I said I would do more environments, but a friend has asked me to collaborate making creatures for an iphone/pad game - cute monsters was the brief, and here are the results so far! There will ofc be environments soon..;)

This first one is shaded slightly:

The second version is completely flat. Not sure which version I prefer...

I didn't use a black outline for these latest images, will see how it goes. :)

Dragons, raaaawr!

2011-08-03T00:54:00.004+01:00

Draaaaaagons!! Can never have enough dragons, right? I don't think so, anyway (just as you can never have enough shoes, scarves, jackets and pina coladas) These were made for a friend - she requested cute dragons, so voila! Can't decide which one I like best... I decided to go with very 'in your face' colours for this - so bright and clashing that you almost need sunglasses to view them. : |

Probably my last update for a little while, as I'll be on holiday for a bit - never fear, my sketchpad shall of course be accompanying me :)

Griffin!

2011-08-01T10:54:00.003+01:00

Here's a pic I finally finished that I'd started a little while ago - a griffin! I don't think these 2 guys stand a chance...It would be quite cool to have a pet griffin, I reckon, would beat taking the u-bahn or tram :P

Cuter environments :3

2011-07-31T16:19:00.004+01:00

Update time! Been practising some more cuter backgrounds for a change. :) So first off we have 3 fluffy guys on a beach, in search of coconuts! Tho 1 has found 1...

Next is a girl in a shop, I drew the sketch for this whilst sitting in Starbucks, staring at all the food, nom nom...

Lastly a weird cave with glowing flowers - why not??

Follower of fashion!

2011-07-26T14:56:00.003+01:00

Ok, back to super stylised. :) I'm liking this tho, tis fun! So here's a bit of a fashiony one, the top row were more kinda 'normal', and did some more stranger stuff the bottom row. :) I love designing clothes related stuff, sometime wish I'd pursued that, but I'm pretty sure what I'd have designed wouldn't have been able to be worn down the street, hehe.

And here's just a random late night sketch - I always wanted white hair, how cool would that be to have pure white hair?? (and young - I *know* i'll get it eventually ;p)

Creepy stuff

2011-07-23T15:27:00.005+01:00

More stuff! I needed to do something a bit more nasty after all the cute stuff, so how about a creepy market? :) Why's everyone staring at you? What's that flying thing in the sky?? I reckon it's controlling everyone.....:O

And then to finish everything up, a cutesy pic! Some clothing designs on the same figure. Want to do some more!

Cuteness continued!

2011-07-21T16:48:00.003+01:00

Continuing with the cute - bear with me :P This is something I don't get to draw so much usually, but I love it. :) I want to do an environment in this style too...and then back to something nastier again. ;)
So here's a little gang of mice creatures (aside from the bushy tailed one) Bit of an assortment, just fun to play with. :)

Now for something a bit different :)

2011-07-17T16:01:00.004+01:00

Now for something a bit different :) Trying simplified cute fluffy creature, with cool patterns. Am attemping a vector style look, flat and sharp lines. Which one's your fave?

Also a black and white version of a slightly different one, not vectored but more painted - this guy looks a little bit meaner. : |

Don't look! It's Medusa!

2011-07-12T20:09:00.003+01:00

On a fantasy creature roll! Here's one of my fave, Medusa - the guy in the middle's got the right idea with the shield though. ;) I was always really terrified of Medusa due to the old Clash of the Titans film - her scene was absolutely terrifying - those eyes and that snarling face! Fantastic :)

Creepy Minotaur's coming to get you!

2011-07-10T12:10:00.003+01:00

Creepy Minotaur's coming to get you!! I wanted to do a taller, less muscular Minotaur than you usually see; these soldier guys better watch out, I don't think it's gonna be so easy to kill. :o
I used to have nightmares about Minotaurs when I was a kid, just find them really creepy...

Sunday sketching!

2011-07-03T16:54:00.004+01:00

Sunday sketching :) This started off as a random doodle, then I 'accidently' started working into it, and ended up with a girl with 2 snakey things. :o

Also, Crytek was just featured on a cool german gaming website, and I have a lil interview on there! Es ist auf Deutsch aber interessant ;D

http://www.gameswelt.tv/21316/insert-coin/sendung-69.html

R e a l paintings, oh my!

2011-06-29T22:27:00.005+01:00

In the past few weeks I've done a few canvas paintings for friends to celebrate birthdays, graduations and babies being born, so I thought to share them :D Apart from the long landscape one, they're all quite small canvas, and all painted using gouache. Veeeeerryyy different from what I do at work, but they're simple of fun, have done tons of these the past few years. :)

These are 2 seperate canvas (my friend owns 2 bunnies :)

Chase that elusive golden butterfly!!

Again, 2 seperate canvas, a cat and a pug!

Not what it seems...

2011-06-19T16:21:00.006+01:00

Dear oh dear! It's been an age since I last updated! In between the last time and now a lot happened - my twin sister moved to Vancouver, I found a new apartment and moved in, and Crytek moved to a new office too - intense business! So hey I have an excuse. ;) Now I have the lil Cintiq to myself, and got round to doing a quick environment. :) Here everything is not as it seems...

Crysis 2 update!

2011-04-26T21:29:00.005+01:00

Oooooohh, a Crysis 2 update! Sooo....the game's been out awhile now...you all played it right? Right?? Good. :) As a word of warning, some of this work dates back to 2009, so it's kinda oooold. Me and my twin sister worked together on the storyboards and a concept or few. :) Here's a little sample, the rest you'll have to checkout here at my website!

http://www.artcastles.com/astrid/Crysis2.html

Spikey waterfall of doom

2011-04-21T16:17:00.003+01:00

Allo allo! A new environment piccy - it's been awhile. :) It's a bit of an odd one - just imagining huge spikey rocks, with a giant flowing river, that also generates glowing particles that help to light the small dwellings on the 'islands'. :) Didn't go too rendered or anything, just a quicker one.

Also, I will do a Crysis 2 update, finally! I'll post 1 or 2, and then the rest you'll have to view at my website ;D (how sneaky!) Stay tuned!

Sci-fi tank!

2011-04-14T15:36:00.004+01:00

Guten Tag! Time for an update, a bit different from the latest ones - cos this one includes a tank ;) It's good to try different things...and vehicles for me are dead hard. : O So here's a sci-fi tank!

It was based on one of the thumbnails, found here -

Fluff gang

2011-03-28T19:47:00.005+01:00

A Monday evening sketch...just felt like drawing something cutesy and B R I G H T for a change, ahem ;) Trying to give it an 'Illustrator' look, but in Photoshop. Here we see a little gang of fluffy garden creatures, marvelling at the blue cat - all hail Blue Cat! : |

Crysis 2 is out now!! I hope you have bought a copy and are playing it, you won't be disappointed :D

Cat doodles

2011-03-24T22:41:00.005Z

Crysis 2 is out, woo hoooo!!! Finally :D So great to see how well it progressed, from there being just a few sketches and white boxes to the fully polished game we see now. :D We're all super proud at Crytek. :)
So right now, Truds is playing through the 360 version, and as I was watching her play, I did some doodles. Felt in the mood for some silhouettes and something a bit silly, so here we have a lineup of odd cat-like creatures. :)

R E A L painting!

2011-03-15T17:01:00.005Z

Allo allo! Here's an actual real canvas painting (omigodwowthatscrazy) that I did for some friends in Sweden, for letting me stay with them at their apartment when I visited the ever-stunning Stockholm. :) Very different from my 'normal' work, when I do canvas paintings, I love simplistic, silhouetted work that's kinda cutesy. :) Used gouache btw, in case anyone wonders!

And since I was in Sweden, here's a few pics *tourist mode*

Overgrown mech - coloured

2011-03-03T22:30:00.004Z

Sooooo, here's the colour version of my overgrown dead mech - now with more green! ;)

In other news, I got myself a little Canon camera (IXUS 130) and it's bright orange - love it :D Have already started obssessively taking photos of my 2 cats ;)

Overgrown!

2011-02-28T21:11:00.004Z

Been trying a technique my colleagues have been doing and showed me, recently. :) Starting with a basic shape, then fading it slightly to add more complex detail to it, then shading. :) So here's my over grown dead mech..creature..thing. :) Poor guy, he kinda died standing up! Coming soon will be the colour version. :D

Crysis 2 and Crytek video time!

2011-02-21T12:58:00.003Z

A video update! Get a load of this - me and my sister Truds were interviewed by RTL (one of Germany's biggest tv channels) at Crytek, about our jobs :D Can view it here - sorry, is ofc in German, but hey you can hear our voices - dubbed! ;D

http://www.rtl-hessen.de/videos.php?video=13227

Next up is the Crysis 2 story trailer, and is absolutely fantastic!

More Crysis 2 (Nano Edition) Videos

Thumbnails!

2011-01-31T20:47:00.005Z

A new year! I realise I say this as we are moving into February - oops! Better late then never, ay? :) So here's this years first update, and it's a few little speedy thumbnails I did in my spare time, just practising composition and depth. :)

Incidentally, I also started a new blog, based on my other habit - drinking pina coladas! I'm sampling the delights of Frankfurt and its many cocktail bars, and rating and reviewing them (the good and the bad!) Check it out here: http://astispinasblog.blogspot.com/

Crysis 2 mega cool pics!

2010-12-16T13:01:00.006Z

Orrite! Nearly christmas, yay! Hope everyone enjoys themselves and relaxes/has fun :D Just thought I'd post the latest images released for Crysis 2 - these 2 here I made the initial sketches of :D

Next year I promise to update my lonely lil blog a bit more regularly - gonna be lots more environments too! Seeya next year!

Glowing Ball of Doom

2010-12-08T17:17:00.003Z

A new pic!! I have no idea what's going on with this one, to be honest..I was just playing around with some textures and lighting, when suddenly this floating ball appeared! :O It looks very solomn...but what is it? Some say it's an ancient god...others say a demon, trapped in the cave, waiting to be awoken. It looks peaceful...but I'm not sure I'd trust it. : |

I just got the new Color and Light book as a christmas pressie from Dennis and Vikor - what a great gift!! I will definitely be reading this over the holidays, and hopefully can apply it to my own stuff more :)

Zombiiiieeee, argh!

2010-11-28T16:23:00.005Z

Orrriiiiiiiiite guys n gals! Thought it was time for a character pic, so here's a beautiful zombie lady, who was on her way out to a party, when she got bitten....oh dear. :/ Either that, or she had a very rough night, haha! Didn't spend too long on this, fancy doing a longer piece at some stage...Thought I'd add the black and white version also.

And here's a close up of her lovely face ;p

More to come! I have a pretty weird environment pic I shall upload soon :D

Unfinished pic

2010-11-18T17:38:00.005Z

Just posting an unfinished city piece I was working on...have given up on it now tho, got bored with it, hehe ;)

Supernatural sketch!

2010-11-11T22:13:00.005Z

Just a quick sketchy pic I did this evening whilst watching the tv show Supernatural....hmmm! There's nothing in it that looks like this (yet! I'm on series 4) Just playing around with a lil technique Truds is doing too atm, pulling images out of textures and shapes, tis fun. :)

On saturday I am on an adventure to Amsterdam with a few mates from here and London, plus meeting other friends there, yay! Hopefully it'll inspire me for more crazy pics :D

:|

2010-10-08T15:00:00.003+01:00

Just a lil character pic - this girl is ready to do battle with anyone who's crazy enough to try and take her fluffy toy. :

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Qvick sketch

2010-10-04T12:08:00.003+01:00

Ooo forgot to put up my quick sketch - did this late on friday evening; no point to it, was just playing around with textures, and then suddenly this lady with Flea riding in her hat emerged! :O Fun to do quick sketches, always end up with somethng you didn't intend or expect. :)

Environment piccy

2010-09-29T17:23:00.001+01:00

Allo again - here's the environment pic I was talking about :) A nice happy, quiet market...with 2 cats having a little roam around. :) Why is the white one following the black...?
Will do a more bleak one next, this is almost too 'cheerful', hehe.

Monster sketch

2010-09-28T00:13:00.003+01:00

Oops! Bit of a gap from my last update - naughty me. Buuuuuut...I have been ultra-busy at work, doing tons of environments, which I *really* wish I could show here....maybe 1 day. :) I'm working on a nice environment I can post here at the mo', hopefully will make an appearance in the next few days. For now, here's an experimental sketch I did, just playing around with different shapes and texture brushes...til it formed a monster :D Eeek, bit of a nightmare figure...Would like to try and finish this (after the environment though!)

!!

2010-08-23T08:53:00.002+01:00

More environments sketches! More! Mooooore!!1!

Environment sketches!

2010-08-22T19:32:00.002+01:00

As I mentioned before, am trying to do better with my environment stuff, and have been (at work tho, so can't show here, bah) But I *have* been working on little environment sketches, thanks to amazing artist and co-worker Dennis Chan, who suggested this little exercise. :) Work on a pic for less than an hour, specifically environments for me. Am loving sky images right now! I have a few more I will post at some stage. :)

Blue fluff monster vs Flea!

2010-07-27T17:20:00.003+01:00

Uhoh....there's going to be a huge fight here, and nothing's going to stand in their way!!....Or...maybe they are meeting for a chat?
Have been trying out environments; this is a slight rework of an image I did aaaages ago, but now that I'm concentrating on environments, could make it much better :)
Last post for awhile, am going on holiday soon back to 'sunny' England, yay! :D

Creepy creepy

2010-07-15T16:11:00.003+01:00

Time for an update :) Just a lil pic I did in my spare time, of a creepy lady with even creepier hair and 3 weird horns. I used to love designing head dresses like this in university...*nostalgic sigh*

Cthulu ftagn!

2010-07-05T10:44:00.003+01:00

A lil Cthulu pic I did for a drawing jam over at cghub! LOVE Cthulu.

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn

Stuff!

2010-07-01T16:39:00.005+01:00

Orrite! Well, first things first, the Berlin MADE event was amazing, great fun and very instructive.

Secondly, the website is up! Can be found here: www.artcastles.com

Me and meine schwester Trudi are sharing :) And lastly, here's a little thumbnails silhouettes sheet I did some some biped weird looking robots.
Enjoy!

Website!

2010-06-16T15:11:00.003+01:00

As Truds mentioned, as of next week we shall have our own website up and running - will post the link to it here too :) Am off to Berlin soon for the MADE concept art workshops, yay!

Fluff Gathering

2010-06-07T08:56:00.001+01:00

The fluffs worship the Great Fluff!

Scary Witch

2010-06-04T08:27:00.002+01:00

Uh oh, she's not what she seems!

Boardy boardy board board

2010-06-01T09:52:00.002+01:00

Here's the board for the animatic below :)

!

2010-05-31T16:48:00.001+01:00

Time for a new animatic! Wanna do millions upon trillions more!! :)
This one is about not interrupting or going against your instructor ;D

Enjoy!

Monster Hill

2010-05-26T19:27:00.004+01:00

Time for another update! This is the latest monster for the competition over at CGHub - the idea behind this one is a monster that's masquerading as a hill, digging into the ground and then anxiously waiting...It lures unsuspecting creatures/humans by the bright flowers that sit on it's face. Closer they get..closer...then SNAP! I hear you ask 'if it's so big, why doesn't it just walk around and grab and eat what it wants? Why the pretense?'...because it's much more fun ;D

Character stuff!

2010-05-10T14:19:00.000+01:00

Orriiiiite - been inspired to do some character stuff, so I thought I'd do a little series of sci-fi clothing designs. I wanted her to look feminine yet not too skimpy (tho one of them might be ;p) These were very quick to do, just flat colour and tiny bit of shading, if any..Would be nice to maybe do a more rendered version.
Incidentally, my fave is the first one!

Don't be alarmed, it's the Armour Llama!

2010-05-07T14:49:00.000+01:00

Armour Llama! Back again, this time with the girl featured in my last animatic/storyboard :) Are they friends? Is it real? Is she real? The Armour Llama comes to those in trouble, though the girl looks pretty calm and pleased now. :)

Attack of the Centaur!

2010-05-05T14:11:00.000+01:00

Orriiiiiiiiiiiite.....this is an evil Centaur, attacking a small village - the Guardian has summoned a demon (Flea) who will protect them! This is for a competition over on CGhub to design and electrical centaur thing, and this is my entry. :) Just for fun! I need to practise shading more though....and environments...blah blah blah ;D

Armour Llama!

2010-05-04T14:31:00.001+01:00

New post, just of an Armoured Llama! I love llama (and alpacas) they'd make interesting battle rides ;D Anyway, not happy with this picture at all, I started to hate it halfway through colouring...but thought I might as well post it anyway. Might see more on this theme anyway when I put some proper effort in. ;D

Raaawr

2010-04-16T15:51:00.000+01:00

Creature! Needed to draw something weird :) This is a ram/goat/lion thing! I like it's spindly little legs, it isn't a creature made for fighting despite trying to look intimidating - maybe it's it's defence mechanism...

Stuff!

2010-04-14T16:27:00.000+01:00

Some little bits and pieces - first is a room with lots of pc screens and general mess (perfect!) and the next is a quick sketch of a crack in the ground, yay! Need to do more, moooore

The Forest

2010-04-12T17:25:00.000+01:00

I know I said I would do more environments, but here's an animatic and storyboard to pass the time, hehe! No epic story, just a meeting in a forest that leads to violence...

Experimenting...

2010-04-09T16:13:00.000+01:00

Orriiiite! Gonna start trying out some environment pics, as it's my very very weak point, and I need the practise :) Will try and put up little sketch versions too. So this first one is a little play around with textures and framing. The one after is a sketch of a lab room, with something creepy in a tank in the corner and a nosey cat. :)

Speedy piccy

2010-03-18T17:30:00.000Z

Here's a lil speed paint, was more about playing around with some nice texture brushes we were given by a co-worker (danke!) No real story to it..some fortress tower thing, holding a glowing light that the guy and his companion on the hill are gazing at...maybe they want it? :O

Flying Monster Board

2010-03-12T17:34:00.000Z

Orrite! Here's the board for the Flying Monster animatic from last week (meant to update it sooner, gah!)

Video post!

2010-03-05T18:01:00.000Z

Allo! Here's my latest board, in video form :) (I will put it into a board to view seperately too) It features a deadly monster, of which many hunters have tried to kill...will the latest hunter succeed?

Since I've now figured out all this embedded videos stuff, thought I'd post the other videos from my other animatics - enjoy!!

:D

Fluff

2010-03-04T12:59:00.000Z

The fluff monster - this time lots of them! Here's the storyboard for it below, but click on the youtube link, and you can see it 'animated' and with music! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/user/ArtAsti?feature=mhw4#p/a/u/0/jp6o0lKjBU4

Weird creature

2010-03-03T11:55:00.000Z

Weird creature! Did this using a technique Truds showed me; drawing a weird shape in marker pen, then turning the paper over and making a creature out of that shape. Is a nice idea, as it helps you to draw shapes I wouldn't normally. :) So I showed the little sketch it's based off of to. Excuse the neon colours, but I had to ;D

Zbrush fun!

2010-03-01T09:38:00.000Z

Like meine schwester Truds, I am also trying out a bit of zbrush! Really fun tool to use, and nice to learn too :) So I tried out doing a human head very roughly (yes, he looks like he needs a good meal or 2!) and also the Fluff Monster! Would like to do a 'proper' one at some stage.
There's something about the clay coloured 3d stuff that always looks edible to me...like chocolate. :)

Flea's Trials

2010-01-19T16:47:00.000Z

Hallo! Latest update is a storyboard I did, called 'Flea's Trials' - young Flea must complete his trials at the old tree by the cliffs, in order to grow up and be a...thing ;p

Made an animatic for it too, located here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ArtAsti

Creepy thing!

2009-12-18T17:02:00.000Z

I decided to draw something a bit creepier this time, as there's been a high percentage of fluffiness! So I thought I'd draw something I wouldn't want to bump into down a dark alley. Not really a chrismassy theme to end with, but Merry Christmas!

Solemn Red Panda

2009-12-16T21:25:00.000Z

The Solemn Red Panda....very serious. -_- (Red pandas are my latest obssession, just checkout a video of them, they're amazing!) Just a quick morning drawing. :)

Christmassy card :)

2009-12-08T16:39:00.000Z

Orrite! Did this pic for my fellow Crytekkers at work - it's a big fluffy monster destroying Frankfurt, aaaw. :3 Merry Christmas!!

Speed pic

2009-11-05T17:25:00.000Z

Quick half hour speed pic of an alien mech thing ;D A kind of spindly ornate mech, that carries around a big eye in the middle of it (well why not? ;) Want to do more speed pics,....or maybe a nice big finished painting. :)

Sketchy sketch sketch

2009-10-13T19:44:00.000+01:00

Orrite! Just a really quick sketch pic update here - was playing around with different brushes and not relying on a texture to do an alien-inspired creature here. I hate the 'background', but I just wanted to stick something in behind.
Would like to do some more quick sketchy drawings too. :)

Canvas painting!

2009-09-30T09:02:00.000+01:00

Orrite! This new update is a scan in of a canvas painting I did for a friend. It's relatively small (so it looks cuter that way ;) and is of some rather extravagant deer crossed with a monster. :) I love doing silhouette work....it's painted in gouache, which is another fave of mine.

Beowulf and Grendal

2009-09-20T00:25:00.000+01:00

Time for an update! I have been lazy recently with updating, so here's the latest pic I have been working on, for a Red Snow project on Beowulf and Grendal. :) We were free to come up with our own interpretation, so I wanted Grendal to be especially both ornate and nasty. :D

Timmy!

2009-08-18T17:36:00.000+01:00

This is Timmy, a co-workers dog! (Complete with small fluffy orange monster ;)

Evil red fluff

2009-07-16T10:35:00.000+01:00

Just a lil' update - this is the nemesis of the blue fluff from previous posts, rwar!

Es ist sehr heiss

2009-07-02T22:41:00.000+01:00

Guten Tag! 3 new random pics to take a look at :) There's a weird goat creature, a lizardy thing, and a gangly robot, all rather fast images. :)
Cheers for looking!

Fuzzy

2009-06-25T21:51:00.000+01:00

A profile pic of the city-destroying(?) fuzzy monster! Raaawr!

Uhoh...

2009-06-24T23:06:00.000+01:00

The big fuzzy monster again! Not yet attacking, but the human forces are taking no chances...

Tree of Doom

2009-06-23T19:06:00.000+01:00

Tree of doom! (with Flea hiding behind it :)
Just a little experimental piece I did.

Rawr

2009-06-22T22:37:00.000+01:00

This is the latest monster to come rampaging through the cities!.....But will it go crazy? It appears calm at the moment..

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Priestesssssssss

2009-06-16T18:04:00.000+01:00

Another little update, this time with a random warrior priestess lady. :)

Sci-fi lady

2009-06-16T17:55:00.000+01:00

Just a quick lil' sci-fi themed lady I drew up :)

The Call of Cthulhu!

2009-06-15T21:56:00.000+01:00

I love HP Lovecraft, and especially the Great Old One Cthulhu :D

Queen

2009-06-15T21:45:00.000+01:00

Here's a Warrior Queen design I was doing, in bold outlines to show specific details, as well as the thumbnail ideas. She's not feminine enough looking here though, needs bigger hips!
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First post! :D

2009-06-15T21:12:00.000+01:00

Orrite!
My first post here, about time I had one of these blog things. ;)
First up are 2 '1 hour monster' exercises I've been doing - firstly create a bunch of thumbnails, then work into the chosen thumbnail, all within an hour. It's really good fun, encourages you to work fast and maybe draw how you wouldn't usually. :)

Here's my second attempt, I've included the thumbnails this time too. :)

Expect to see more of these! :D