Sketches

Pre-painted sketch of the lovely lady.

While I'm at it, here are some more simple sketches.

Character Sketch/Painting

Quick painting I did (20 minutes probably of actual paint-time) of a character sketch. Just wanted to throw it on here.

Atlas' Revenge Premiere

Last night was the second ever UCF Digital Media Premier Gala Event for the Visual Language track, where the short film I took part in creating, "Atlas' Revenge," premiered. As of now, the film is not available online in its entirety because of a hopefully successful festival circuit, but hopefully it will be in the near future.

However, we made a short, fake "making of" featurette which can be seen on the semi-official website for the film. Check it out in the link below!

www.atlasrevenge.com

A Snail's Pace

This afternoon I decided to try something that would help refresh my illustration techniques, which - I have to admit - have gotten a bit rusty of late. I wanted a simple composition, cartoony and character-focused, which is something I haven't really done before.

I chose to use Corel Painter X instead of Photoshop for this one, not only to get even more familiar with the software but to give the piece a more painterly look. After about two hours, I had a goofy looking airborne snail.

Hopefully more stuff like this to come soon.

To see a full-res image, click the image.

Regarding the Creation of a Blog and Such Things as Objectives

Maybe I can thoroughly irritate any potential visitors with pretentiously long titles like that. Probably a bad plan.

Welcome, potential visitor. Let me begin by saying that I'm not too sure what the point of this post is, exactly. I know why I created this blog - to display pieces of artwork I've deemed suitable for viewing, or pieces I've worked on little enough to not be ashamed of - but this post is not one such post.

Is it taboo to post something worthwhile in the first blog post? I thought so. That's why I'm filling it with these words instead. Dumb, I know. Forgive me for not knowing proper blogging procedure. I've pretty much decided, also, to run this blog simultaneously with a blog at my portfolio website (which you, potential visitor, are welcome to visit): www.richardcarlton.net

I'll try to retroactively keep the two blogs similar, though I'm sure that won't work out at all. Who knows what else I'll add to this. That's why I added "such things" to the blog title: I know, I am a dubious fellow.

Thank you, potential visitor, for potentially visiting and such things. I promise not to make a habit of using run-on entry titles or the phrase "such things." Maybe.