Skyrim Trailer: Elder Scrolls V

Click above on the title of this post for the Trailer...

Everyone here at work has been hammering out this epic dragon slaying , rampantly smitey, monster filled, strange architecture encrusted bit of real estate for quite some time now. My part?
Drink lots of coffee, turn up the music and draw enough to fill volumes... that are hopefully inspirational enough for everyone to work on for a couple of years. Well, here's the results of everyone's blood, sweat, tears, and collaboration.
Enjoy.

And yes, we do get into arguments about elves.

http://staging.elderscrolls.com/

Dr. Sketchy's

www.drsketchysbaltimore.wordpress.com
Need I say more? Look for one near you. I'm always happy to proselytize this kind of thing.
5 minute poses, ink pen and watercolor. See link above for more info, they 'splain it better than me.
cheers.

Works In Progress

Continuing to work on these sculptures, and a couple more not shown.
Short attention span theater... Also not digging on the paint job on the centaur, which has been taking a beating and been a decent sport about it....

post apocalyptic weapon design 101...

Here's the originals for Fallout 3. Not to be megalomaniacal since everyone here made this game happen, but these two weapon designs are very special and dear to me... 'Scuse me, got something in my eye here, 'snif, snif'.. Ahem. See below for the continued magic as people I've never met in faraway places actually went ahead and fabricated them so they could be gleefullybrandished in pleasant public settings.
I hope they weathered up that hotel lobby with some empties....

Proud Moment....

When someone goes to the trouble to build one of your designs at home... Well, It's like Christmas morning. On a personal level, this is the best kind of award you can receive for working on a game.
For the uninitiated these weapons were initially concocted by me and the team for Fallout 3. The shishkesword had my brain in knots for weeks, and several trashcans full of wadded up drawings later getting that one was a real eureka moment... To say the sculptors in these pictures did them justice is a vast understatement.
Hats off for an awesome job done with... Love For Absurdly Wicked Weapon Designs! Thank you Thank you Thank you. See that Red Stripe next to the Laser Rifle? Next one's on me.
Cheers,
-Adam A

Sketchbook Unplugged!

Recent drawings without editing out the parts I think are cruddy... Which kinda defies the point of "sketchbook", it should be more indicative of your thought process on a bumpy train half asleep. Here's more.

Shameless SelfPromotion Bit....

This is my interview on G4, doing my best to wax coherent on the art of Monstrology. A nice lady came by and put makeup on me. Click on the title to make it go!

Metro Life Sketches 22409

More drawing on my morning commute....

cardboard fun continues....painting it

Focus! I think the title for this is something like "Cyclopean Crabmonculus With Panther Chick Robot 3000 Drive". You betcha.

Video Game Idea Made For My Pals...

In Colorado. It's a videogame version of pachinko with a little main character hitting things. This was the Idea I wanted. It is brilliant and genius like. Now it's a part of my coffee table and covered with...filth. They went with a monkey. Which is cute and nice. I however, prefer cute and slightly menacing. With shrunken heads. On fire! And vaguely potty humor like names. Hmmmm.... Somehow the title needs to fit a toilet function.
Voodoo Hole Lava Blast! There, that's better.

Watercolors...

Dragging my sorry ass to the drawing table and doing a watercolor a night. More like start 3 and improve on them all during the week best I can. The goal as always is to improve my draughtsmanship and lay down color and value right off the bat with confidence. And yes, I will do a whole series of "beer under different lighting conditions" paintings. Form, and function. Cheers!

detail....

cardboard fun continues

this one's getting the rusted metal treatment....

More Cardboard Fun

the sculpture is getting more layers of Magic-Sculpt, which I like because it becomes hard plastic in about an hour. you gotta work fast, but it's pretty conducive to large pieces that'll hold together when you pile on more stuff... and yeah, the medium is about as toxic as you'd imagine...

Metro 4/29/08

Some repeats. I like drawing these with the Zig disposable rapidographs because they are filled with india ink that will not smear if your sketchbook falls into a pitcher of beer. Also, when I grow up I want to be as accurate and loose as Hokusai. As Richard Schmid says in his video

"Sometimes I like my paint to look like I threw it from across the room at the canvas, and it landed in exactly the right spot." Sargent compared painting to fencing, "have at you!", and I'm liking these analogies. Drawing is like chess to me sometimes, you make a move, and hope it works.

Metro 5/20/08

More ink, and..... I need to add more color to this bloggishness. However, the best I can do is post my attempts at capturing the likenesses of people crashing out at 7am on the train. Again, if I'm culling what I consider the better ones out of the bunch. I apologize for any repeats....

Grandpa

I love this guy. Cthulhu Now needed its heroes to fight the Lovecraftian monsters and he's the perfect foil to the Punk Girl with the Zippo Hairnet flamethrower. The idea was for her to rescue him from the BPO Elks Lounge, and far from being helpless would essentially be in video game language a "power up" in terms of booze, ammo and mistaking monsters for Normandy Beach Nazis. I ran the idea past Quinn about making an action figure that you could load caps into that would fire when you wheeled him around, the torso would swivel also, of course. Note the martini survival kit in the back of his ride.
Little Rascal indeed.

Mostly Robots

while drawing people , I try to stay on top of my robot designs...
it's important to stay on top of robot designs.

Fun With Cardboard...

the head is going to incorporate a bark-a-lounger pilot's chair...

I'm doing this as part exercise from Eduoardo lanteri's Modeling the human Form book.

He's got one on building horses that is as exhaustive as any Hanes Manual for automobiles.

Fun With Cardboard...

Short attention span theatre here. I keep starting new ones. I'm going to coat them with cellu-clay, a paper mache pulp that hardens over night into freaking concrete. you can get it at the Compleat Sculptor. Ask for Peggy Weitzmann and tell her Adam sent ya....They owe me, ha ha!