art by rsek

Jack, for Freckles04 by ~rsek

for Freckles04. her vision of Jack a few years after the conclusion of Mass Effect 3.

tools: mypaint (and a little GIMP, a little krita), wacom intuos4 4x6

reference: [link]

(via Jack for Freckles04 - WIP 4 by ~rsek on deviantART)

progress shot of a painting for Freckles04. her vision of Jack a few years after the conclusion of Mass Effect 3.

home stretch atm. i mostly just need to do her tattoos and add some colour

tools: mypaint (and a little GIMP), wacom intuos4 4x6

Jack for Freckles04 - WIP 3 by ~rsek

progress shot of a painting for Freckles04. her vision of Jack a few years after the conclusion of Mass Effect 3.

playing with colour some before i go back to rendering. her face is pretty much done but everything else needs attention and i need to plan out her tattoos, too.

tools: mypaint (and a little GIMP), wacom intuos4 4x6

Tea Time at the End of the World by ~rsek

Littlest talon out, dandelion-plumed helm set at a jaunty angle - it was the end of the world, but there was no reason he couldn’t be civilized about it.

so i picked up Fantasy Genesis: A Creativity Game for Fantasy Artists, which is a fun little dice game to generate ideas for fantasy and sci-fi art. this sketch is my first crack at it.

for the curious, here were the results that spurred the piece:

Major Form: ”wild fowl, duck” “grass, dandelion” “cracked clay” “cups, plates”

Minor Form: “raven, sparrow” “desert cacti” ”molten lava” “machine, engine”

i didn’t follow them exactly but doing a little word association is part of the game, eh? i rather like this guy, who i’ve dubbed mamduck (because he is a duck who is a mamluk, obviously), maybe i’ll do something else with him later. perhaps he has a mechanical raven or sparrow friend.

Tools: MyPaint under Linux Mint 14, Wacom Intuos4 4x6. no reference used (and boy, does it show >:[ ).

Valt by ~rsek

i completed this about a week ago but forgot to actually post it, whoops.

this is a commission of ark’s D&D character and his fancy dimension-dooring sword.

[commission info]

Tools: wacom intuos 4x6, myPaint (with a little post processing in GIMP) under Linux Mint 14

Reference: [x]

Sword runes: Korohanza, by Dave Bastian

The heron pattern on his armor is knotwork i made in http://sourceforge.net/projects/knotter/

Fiagai in 9:33 - WIP 2 by ~rsek

portrait of a friend’s Dragon Age OC. work in progress.

this is a shot to show how i break down complex armour/clothes (like the Grey Warden armor from Dragon Age 2) in to something more manageable.

it’s not especially glamorous, and the actual painting itself hasnt changed - this is more about planning. takes a little while, but saves me a LOT of time and frustration in the long run.

the awful mess in red and blue are construction lines on their own layers; they’re different colours so that it’s easy to differentiate which objects should be in front of which. my next step will be to block in the rough forms using them as guidelines.

Valt - WIP 4 by ~rsek

WIP of a friend’s character D&D character and his fancy dimension-dooring sword.

the red dots are just me planning where the rivets will go (in a colour that’s easy to see)

todo: scabbard, general detailing, cleanup, colour

Valt WIP 3 by ~rsek

WIP of a friend’s character D&D character and his fancy magic sword.

ended up getting to about this point on the head a couple times then scrapping it entirely and redoing it. so there’s a couple WIP shots missing, technically, but i will take them to my grave.

todo: scabbard, detail shadowed areas, improve sword glow + ripple effects, general detailing, colour

software used: mypaint 1.0.0+git and a little gimp 2.8, on linux mint 13 KDE

the runes are actually a freeware font, Korohanza, by Dave Bastian - [link]

pose ref - [link]

Fiagai in 9:33 - WIP 1 by ~rsek

working on a new portrait (because i look at his old one and it LEGIT BOTHERS ME, OK) theangstmustflow’s Dragon Age OC at Warden’s Vigil

tasmen’s suggestion of aidan turner for a face claim MMMAAAYY have played in to it too

Devlin in 9:33 - WIP 1 by ~rsek

ive been meaning to do a new portrait of Freckles04’s dragon age OC, Galbraith Devlin, for a while. right now he’s significantly less hobo-esque than his last portrait

~2 hours or so in mypaint, a good-sized chunk of which was me getting ahead of myself with the face (again)

reference - [link]

memo to vaia: look at him. what are you even doing. make up with him already.

havent done a ton of art lately, been dealing with various desktop problems

but here’s a small WIP of the colours on that piece of my dragon age oc, vaia.

ruined stairway speed paint by ~rsek

i can count the number of landscapes ive painted in the past two years on one hand, so im trying to get some practice in. gratuitous texture brush usage ahoy :v

might throw some colour at it and use it as a background for a portrait im doing.

time: about an hour

tools: myPaint, wacom intuos4

reference

vaia grey warden portrait WIP 6 by ~rsek

i think the rendering is about done. im gonna sleep on it before starting colour tho, see if anything jumps out at me as needing fixing. maybe ill do a background too??