Overgrown!

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

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

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

Supernatural sketch!

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

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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

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

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

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!)

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More environments sketches! More! Mooooore!!1!

Environment sketches!

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!

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

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!

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

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn

Stuff!

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!

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

The fluffs worship the Great Fluff!

Scary Witch

Uh oh, she's not what she seems!

Boardy boardy board board

Here's the board for the animatic below :)

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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

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

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