tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21379848695974842072024-03-21T01:23:09.639-06:00Jon Neimeister ArtJon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-29370773978559666252014-03-12T19:06:00.000-06:002014-03-12T19:06:08.214-06:00Whispers of Death<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I wasn't sure I'd make it, but here's my finished piece for the Diablo 3 contest on dA! Had a ton of fun with this one and am quite pleased with the outcome. The wizard's armor was a blast to paint, haha.</div>
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Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-1951024265457578902013-09-28T14:28:00.003-06:002013-09-28T14:28:53.788-06:00Pathfinder Characters<br />
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Here's the rest of this set of Pathfinder characters, all from adventure paths 73 and 74!</div>
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<br />Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-25619016396696161872013-09-24T15:00:00.002-06:002013-09-24T15:01:32.612-06:00Baphomet Cultist and HosillaHere's a couple characters I did for Pathfinder RPG by Paizo Publishing! Since Adventure Paths 73 and 74 have been released I can show them now and will be posting a couple a day for the rest of this week!<br />
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Had a lot of fun with these two, experimented a lot with process and techniques and think I found some interesting pros and cons to working super painterly vs. being very clean and organized with layers and selections.<br />
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<br />Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-25105833612317841692013-08-20T12:33:00.001-06:002013-08-20T12:33:26.017-06:00Cloud Spin released!Hey guys! I just wanted to give you a quick heads up, a game I worked on just got released in the app store and if you have an iPad 2 or mini you should totally check it out! <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloud-spin/id633283236?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4">[Link]</a><br />
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The developer put a ton of effort in to working on this and it's a crazy high quality game, and I spent the past few months doing texture work on it. You can check out the trailer below to see it in action! :D<br />
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So yeah, if you or anyone you know wants to have some high-speed fun for just a couple bucks be sure to check it out, you won't be disappointed! :BJon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-64343109594577657392013-07-23T16:34:00.000-06:002013-07-23T16:34:50.212-06:0020% Off Artistic Development Series!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.youandthemat.com/">You and the Mat's Website</a>Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-19282323428222502332013-06-11T12:01:00.001-06:002013-06-11T12:03:45.446-06:00Advice for Aspiring Artists Pt. 3And now for the dramatic conclusion to the epic trilogy. Heroes will rise, bad habits will fall, in this last chapter we'll discuss how to focus your efforts and learn the most and improve quickly with your studies. If you missed them, click these links for <b><a href="http://andantonius.blogspot.com/2013/06/advice-for-aspiring-artists-pt-1.html">Part One</a> </b>and <b><a href="http://andantonius.blogspot.com/2013/06/advice-for-aspiring-artists-pt-2.html">Part Two</a></b>. And now for...<br />
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<b>WISDOM NUMBER THREE!!! Work smart and leave your comfort zone.</b> This part is my qualifier for art school, tutorials, and educational resources in general, because they <b>can</b> be good, but only if you make them good. Once you've gotten in to the habit of drawing consistently, it's important to start being mindful of what you're drawing, how you're drawing it, and why you're drawing it. A key ingredient of success is hard work, but if that work isn't purposeful it might not move you along very quickly. For a highly nerdy analogy, think about a video game; generally speaking a player with the strongest weapon or the largest army is going to have a serious advantage and likely to win the game, but if that player just goes around attacking things at random then a smarter player with fewer resources has a good chance to win the game. It takes not only resources and dedication, but also a little bit of strategy.<br />
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To translate that to art, if you're drawing all day every day but only draw the same front-view character that you've drawn a million times already, chances are you won't learn too much. Sure over time that character will start to look pretty awesome because you've ironed out so many mistakes, but what happens when you're called upon to do something else? To be a successful artist you must be a master of principles that can be applied to any situation; if you just follow the same 3-step formula every time you're not going to be able to deliver when an art director asks you for something you've never drawn before.<br />
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Now the problem here is that there are different ways to draw the same thing, and a lot of the times beginners will practice, but they do so in a way that doesn't strategically help them with their immediate needs. For example, if you go on any art forum ever and ask for advice, I guarantee you someone will drop this bomb:<br />
<b>COPY BRIDGMAN!!!</b> and the crowd goes wild! And I can tell you that I've seen a lot of sketchbooks with pages and pages and pages of Bridgman copies that the artist learned absolutely <b>nothing</b> from, mine included. But why? How can this be? Because it is copied with the wrong things in mind; people open their book, grab their pencils, then start copying angles, try to get the same texture as him, draw fun swoopy lines, and notice that he has a little zig-zag shading and they completely miss the point. They are copying Bridgman by observation, not realizing that he's meant to be copied by construction; not by using the same angles, but by understanding that all his drawings are <b>forms</b>: cubes, spheres, cylinders, and cones that are welded together to form 3d representations. Now, if you copy Bridgman with the mindset of form and perspective, you're going to learn a whole different ball game, and odds are your figure drawing is going to jump 10 levels in the coming months because you're not not just drawing lines on a page, but you're learning to create 3D space on a 2D surface.<br />
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Because of these dangers, you must seek out good information to help you in your quest. If you're trying to walk to a store, you can walk up and down every street until you find it and you'll eventually get there, but it's easier if you just get directions beforehand and go straight there. Similarly, you'll improve faster if you seek out quality information and use it as a compass for your artistic journey. Now don't get me wrong, because that does NOT mean finding a magical figure drawing tutorial that instantly makes you great. Rather, use your good judgment to analyze whether or not the information you're ingesting is actually educational or if it's simply fun to watch. A big one here is time-lapsed speedpaint videos; digital art is great, but these videos are the bane of beginning artists of today, because they leave people with the impression that if you just use texture brushes you should be able to create awesome art in 20 minutes. But what people miss is that the artists who can actually do that have such strong foundational skills that they're able to condense the massive amounts of information they have in their mind in to a few simple brush strokes. You can watch 10,000 speedpaint videos and download all the custom brushes in the world, but you will never learn as much from that as you will from a solid lecture about vanishing points and how to place cubes in perspective.<br />
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And lastly on a similar note always remember that you have to have the courage to leave your comfort zone. You improve by doing the things that cause you trouble; so if you have trouble with drawing dynamic figures in crazy perspective, don't try and sneak your way around it and always draw the same one point perspective and hope no one notices. Rather than shirking and avoiding, charge that shizz like a bull and just get it done and get it out of the way. If you can draw great figures from photos but as soon as you try to draw from your head it falls apart, the solution probably isn't to keep drawing figures from photos. Take off the training wheels, put on your helmet and ride. You <b>will</b> fall down, scrape your knee, try not to cry, cry a lot, but then you'll get over it and try again and eventually you'll figure it out, and once you do it will never cause you problems again. You don't want to be 30 years old still riding a bike with training wheels because you're just not sure if you're good enough to ride without them. Of course you're not good enough, that's why you need to take them off and fail a few times, because ultimately that is how we learn.<br />
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I hope this series has been useful to you, I'd like to do more things like this in the future, perhaps weekly and with some better editing and presentation, so if there's something you're hungry for feel free to suggest it. Beyond that, keep drawing, don't give up on your dreams, and go kick some ass! :)<br />
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<br />Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-10806449877886842092013-06-10T11:52:00.000-06:002013-06-10T12:22:47.231-06:00Advice for Aspiring Artists Pt. 2Here's the continuation of yesterday's journal discussing the importance of hard work. If you missed it, <a href="http://andantonius.blogspot.com/2013/06/advice-for-aspiring-artists-pt-1.html">click here!</a><br />
In part two I'm gonna talk about one of the biggest roadblocks I hear from artists who are having difficulty getting in to good study habits, so without further ado...<br />
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<b>WISDOM NUMBER TWO!! Don't wait for perfect weather and stop making excuses.</b> So often I hear things like "I don't want to waste paper" or "I don't know what to draw" or "I haven't found a good tutorial" or "I don't want to study perspective" or any number of things along those lines. I'll be blunt and just put the answer out there now: <b>get over it.</b> If you want to be an artist, you have to do the work, end of story. And with all the time you've spent thinking, wondering, being uncertain, and searching for that magical art secret of power, you could have filled 10 pages in your sketchbook today and increased your skill by an exponential amount.<br />
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Paper is not "wasted" by being filled with bad drawings, that's what it was made to be filled with. In fact, what even is a "bad" drawing? One of the literal definitions of the word bad is "Not working properly", something that's not fulfilling its purpose. Well, if you're drawing in your sketchbook with the goal of improving, is a "bad" drawing a drawing that doesn't look like Rembrandt drew it? Or is a "bad" drawing something that didn't teach you anything, because that was your goal in the first place? If you fill an entire sketchbook with drawings you couldn't pay people to hang on their walls, but you learned from it and are now a better artist, then you have a sketchbook of very good drawings!<br />
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As for not knowing what you should draw, it's a lot easier than you think. Look around your room and draw the 3rd thing you see; spending 30 minutes drawing a stupid sock will increase your skills much more than scrolling through 80 different tumblrs for 3 hours trying to find the perfect, quintessential reference to draw from. If you run out of socks to draw, then be a little more thoughtful and try to analyze weaknesses in your work. Do you have trouble with hands? Draw your own hands, google image search hands and draw the first 50 results (50?!?! Remember the hard work part?). Like I mentioned in part one, having great resources and a meticulously planned curriculum does help, but if you don't have that then don't let it hold you back from drawing. Drawing something for 30 minutes a day is far better than trying to decide what to draw all day and never actually drawing.<br />
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Now for something a little tougher to digest, which is that you must be self-disciplined enough to study all aspects of art. If you don't want to put in the effort to study "boring" subjects like perspective, anatomy, color theory, etc. then I guess you don't care enough to become a great artist, because those are the prerequisites. These things are the push-ups you do before you enter the boxing ring; they're boring and repetitive, but you do NOT want to go in to the ring without having done them.<br />
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And lastly as far "I don't have time to study." goes... Well, simply put if you don't have time to study, you don't have time for success; and how much time do you spend on facebook each day? Watching TV? Playing video games? If you spent just one tiny hour (about 1/16th of your waking consciousness) every single day studying and drawing, you would progress faster than 80% of other people claiming they want to be a professional artist someday. Also remember that consistency is as important, maybe more important, than quantity; drawing for an hour a day every day is far better than drawing for one 8 hour stretch once a week.<br />
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I know this part probably comes off as a little rude and blunt, and it is, but remember this: Firstly, I'm not judging anyone; this journal is for me as much as it is for anyone else, I need to get my arse in gear and get disciplined too, so don't hear this as the criticism of the high and mighty. Secondly is that I think a lot of beginners need a reality check when it comes to art; it's become a very flowery discipline where everything you do is awesome and all your relatives think you're just the greatest, but the cold, hard truth of it is that it's hard and it takes a lot of work. If you really truly want to master it, you'll have to steel yourself against all excuses and get started immediately. Heck, if you want to prove your dedication, close your browser right now and draw for a solid 2 hours, you'll be glad you did.<br />
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More tomorrow in part three. :)<br />
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And some more studies, too:<br />
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<br />Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-29642052453594219732013-06-09T15:39:00.003-06:002013-06-09T15:45:05.255-06:00Advice for Aspiring Artists Pt. 1So this has been on my mind a bit lately and I was just struck with the sudden urge to write about it. It's a bit long so I've broken it in to three parts, but if you're a beginning artist I would recommend reading through it, it might just get you aimed in the right direction. :)<br />
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This started a couple days ago when I was trolling facebook and someone had posted some artwork, and one of the comments was something along the lines of "Nice! What tutorial did you use for this?" which prompted an immediate and violent facedesk on my part. I hear things like this all the time and would like to help dispel some myths about learning art; so after 9 years of drawing and 3 years of hardcore education and study, here's what I've learned about how to get better at art:<br />
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<b>WISDOM NUMBER ONE! Getting better demands consistent, hard work.</b> That's it. That's the magical secret that great artists never seem to get to in their tutorials; it's that one pivotal thing that makes the difference between us and our heroes when we're using the same brushes and layer modes as they are. Having good tools helps, having education helps, having good peers and a mentor for advice helps, good tutorials help, good books help, good gnomon DVDs and classes and reading inspirational blogs helps... but all of that is <b>multiplied by your own hard work</b> and no matter how big the number is, if you multiply it by zero the results will be zero. The person who has all the best resources in the world and puts in half effort will pale in comparison to the person who doesn't always know what to do but does everything with complete dedication.<br />
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The reason I say this is because I think the #1 thing that holds beginning and intermediate artists back is that they spend all their time constantly searching for something that just isn't there. No one ever got wealthy by finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, and no one ever got good at art because they finally found the right brush, the right technique, the right program, the right video tutorial. There are a lot of great artists out there, a lot have gone to art school, a lot of them haven't, but the one thing that they <b>ALL</b> have in common is this: they have a shelf of filled-up sketchbooks, a closet full of painted-on canvases, and a hard drive full of psds. You know what else that have in common? Is that 80% of those sketchbooks, canvases and psds are really, <b>really</b> bad. But because they got all those terrible drawings out of their own brain and safely locked away between front and back covers, they are now free to create all the things they've been dreaming of all these years. Not that art is now easy for them or they never make bad drawings, but they've learned how to push through that and find the great drawing a few steps ahead.<br />
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Now comes the preachy part, which is that if you too want to get on the road to becoming a great artist, you (and me too!) will have to stop procrastinating, stop trying to find the perfect tutorial, and start filling your own sketchbooks, painting on your own canvases, and crowding up your own hard drive. Great artists are the artists who draw all the time; it's about that simple, so if this is a goal you want to achieve, start setting aside time <b><u>every single day</u></b> to study and draw; you'll be amazed at how much progress you can make in a month.<br />
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More in part two tomorrow. :)<br />
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And also some studies I did yesterday:<br />
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<span id="goog_625720106"></span><span id="goog_625720107"></span><br />Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-69148666143101481932013-03-02T20:00:00.002-07:002013-03-02T20:00:27.941-07:00Repel the Tides, Magog, Studies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: start;">Some good ol' classic Warcraft art, a Night Elf Hunter kicking some Naga nads in Azshara!</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">This took two crazy weeks to finish in between freelance, probably the most complex piece I've done to date, and I think it's much improved over the last piece I attempted like this. I've been trying to focus more on the composition and drawing stages of my images lately, and I think it's resulting in much better finishes.</span></div>
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Then here's a character design I've been working on, a redesign of an old Heroes 3 character that's kind of gone in its own direction. :P</div>
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And lastly some studies too keep the ol' drawing hand in action. Aww jeuh. </div>
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<br />Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-75302367580999411342013-02-01T15:24:00.001-07:002013-02-01T15:24:31.520-07:00More Game of Thrones!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: center;">Here's some more work I did for the new Night's Watch handbook for the Game of Thrones RPG!</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">This first one is Ser Waymar Royce facing off against a white walker, this one is probably one of my favorites of the set! The translucency effects were a blast.</span></div>
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This one is of Harma and Rattleshirt, a couple notable wildlings, getting in to some territorial shouting matches. :P</div>
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And lastly a character lineup of some of the new characters in the expansion! The Defeated Sellsword, the Spearwife and the War Leader.</div>
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I've also been doing a bunch of figure studies to get my draftsmanship game up. Practice practice! </div>
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<br />Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-79183226464273605972013-01-22T12:14:00.001-07:002013-01-22T12:20:30.280-07:00Big Ol' Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Here's a bunch of stuff I've been working on lately; I haven't updated cause it's all mostly been studies, but I have some finished stuff to drop now so here it is all at once!</div>
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The first piece here is one of the ones I did last year for the new Game of Thrones RPG handbook, the Night's Watch! The book has been released, so I'll be posting the pieces over the next few days.</div>
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The second (the merdude) is a remake of a piece I did in 2006 and 2010, pretty fun to compare. :P</div>
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Then here are a few portrait studies I've done from photos.</div>
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And lastly here are some figure drawings from photos and life, trying to focus on painting directly with color rather than starting B&W and adding washes of color later.</div>
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That's all for now, more updates on the Game of Thrones stuff over the next few days! Thanks for looking!</div>
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<br />Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-72951862918924886602012-11-29T16:18:00.001-07:002012-11-29T16:18:40.689-07:00Lady Sanguine + Warmup<br />
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Here's a personal piece I just finished to add to the ol' portfolio. I had the idea for the headdress and kind of built the rest of the character around it, pretty pleased with the outcome! I tried a new process of jumping straight in to color rather than doing value and adding color on top, which was a lot of fun, definitely gonna stick with that method for future pieces.</div>
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Then here is a gif showing the process of creating the piece, and a warmup character I did experimenting with a little bit more of a stylized direction, inspired by Torchlight 2 concepts.</div>
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Thanks for looking!</div>
Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-70917135757759072522012-11-13T12:32:00.005-07:002012-11-13T12:34:59.804-07:00Aliens, portraits and a gypsy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My my, November already! Next thing you know it it'll be December and the world will end, just when I finally learned to tap-dance too! (I do not know how to tap dance)</div>
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Oh well, here's some artwork to look at instead. The first is a commission for a friend on dA, had a lot of fun with the slimy skin on that one! The second is a portrait I started for practice but it ended up getting a little more finished. I don't think I'm quite done with it yet, still have some things to touch up and tweak, but it might be a while before I get to it.</div>
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Then these two are some photo studies; the left one is a friend of mine who made a super awesome costume that I just had to paint, and the portraits are studies of some famous people and a random lady from google, need to keep working on my portraiture. If you can guess them all you'll get a private tap-dance lesson! (You will not get a private tap-dance lesson)</div>
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And that's it for now, thanks for looking and happy Thanksgiving! :)</div>
Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-68702899815226949762012-10-19T22:28:00.000-06:002012-10-19T22:29:52.804-06:00Ponies, Purification and Studies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Yikes, been a while since my last update! Alas, but here is some stuff regardless!</div>
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These first couple are some recent finished works; the cultist burning one for a client on dA and the merpony the result of a hilarious bet/dare/collab between me and another artist. She did the drawing and I painted it. Needless to say, my little pony + mermaid = win.</div>
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Then these here are just a couple studies, the first to try and practice more deliberate markmaking and lost edges, and the second to get a feel for drawing birds which I'll be using in a future piece.</div>
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And lastly here's a bundle of sketches, these are mostly studies from photos. I'm trying to better understand costuming and design and also improve my line quality; killing two birds with one stone! These are also a ton of fun to do, and don't take much time, so I think I'm gonna start making it a point to do these daily, cause I can already see them improving my work. Fun fun!</div>
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And that's all for now, thanks for looking! More to come soon!</div>
Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-4358878710220853072012-09-01T13:25:00.001-06:002012-09-01T13:27:09.011-06:00Character & Studies<div style="text-align: center;">
Moar stuff! Here's another character commission for a friend of mine over on dA, had a lot of fun with that one, crazy aliens with energy wings are always good! And then another chunk of figure/portrait studies, gotta get that draftsmanship up! Gonna try and keep cranking out as much of that kinda stuff as I can in between all the other mountains of work.</div>
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Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-45750247318285795392012-08-24T00:27:00.000-06:002012-08-24T00:27:18.034-06:00Quick studies<br />
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Here's a couple quick studies, figures and environments! Just the usual practice to keep the ol drawing arm in shape, really trying to focus on my gesture and foreshortening with the figure stuff. All between 2 and 10 minutes.</div>
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Got a metric bundle of images for today! They say it's never too late to fix a mistake in your piece; well how about a year and a half later? The first piece here, floaty space lady, was a piece I did back in January of 2011 and it's stuck around as a favorite since then, but had some pretty glaring errors, so this week I went back in and revamped it, fixed some stuff and brought it up to snuff! Was an interesting experience to see how differently I paint now. And the second one, demon bro, was a 'gah I can't draw!' doodle that ended up being worth finishing, so that was fun! It's probably not a good thing that horrific face-eating demons are the things that most readily emerge from my subconscious, but oh well.</div>
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Then these two here are another couple character commissions for the lovely folks on dA, I think these two are some of my favorites so far! The water on the first one was a blast to do.</div>
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And to finish it off here's some sketches and studies. The first one a quick still life that I just had an idea for and had to get out of my system, the second the obligatory figure study (this time in oil!) and the third a quick study of the lovely Colorado National Monument, which used to be only like 20 minutes away from my house. Fun times!</div>
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And that's all for now, thanks for looking! There will be blood... I mean more, more artwork... and probably some blood involved in the process of making it. Cheerio!</div>
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Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-75355290105488528052012-08-05T23:26:00.001-06:002012-08-05T23:28:11.473-06:00Hand studies!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcss7MLRns3AzA9WOw6FQ9mAhi6iKbUFJ7fTr2yMK2wjQhBQ1oVyIHbxLHtr132UF2k5zj9_9NfXLDJZXRhuQt0JNSS1VLBDCRmggcMIyCYgWu6rJDwO8jxzTBxBRCIoTEPxSV9BnkkOo/s1600/HandStudies001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcss7MLRns3AzA9WOw6FQ9mAhi6iKbUFJ7fTr2yMK2wjQhBQ1oVyIHbxLHtr132UF2k5zj9_9NfXLDJZXRhuQt0JNSS1VLBDCRmggcMIyCYgWu6rJDwO8jxzTBxBRCIoTEPxSV9BnkkOo/s320/HandStudies001.jpg" width="320" /></a>A batch of hand studies; the left 4 from Sargent and the right 4 from Bouguereau. Done to keep the ol' drawing arm in practice and get some more subtlety to my hands; I feel like I've understood their structure for a while but mine always came out feeling rigid and constructed, doing these is definitely helping understand the subtlety and rhythm they have, and how to portray it without rendering each and every plane which makes them look overdone.<br />
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Art! Gaggles of it! Here's the stuff I've been doing recently, the characters below are illustrations for commissions I'm offering over on dA. The first one was done for fun as an example, and the following ones are the commissions themselves. Having a lot of fun with these and enjoying rendering new kinds of surfaces; always fun to have a go at someone else's character that's different from what you usually do!</div>
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And these two are a couple figure studies, trying to focus on subtle color and edge control mostly, which has been a lot of fun. I'm currently working on a similar one in oil that hopefully should be postable next week or so, we shall see!</div>
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And that concludes the month of July! Stay tuned for more!</div>Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-10564053225483112962012-07-12T17:09:00.001-06:002012-07-16T19:45:21.977-06:00Besketchings!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Good golly, it's been a downright while since I updated, things have been crazy busy lately! I've been working on a project that I'm really excited to share but it's still NDA for now, so hopefully soon I can start showing stuff! In the meantime, here's all the new stuff that's been mulling about waiting to get posted!</div>
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Here's two are figure paintings done in Ron Lemen's figure construction class, pretty happy with how they turned out! </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">And these are a set of figure drawings done from pixelovely, gotta keep the ol' drawing arm in practice!</span> </div>
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Some various portrait studies from movie stills, around 20 or 30 minutes each, except for the top middle which was probably a couple hours.</div>
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And lastly, anyone remember this guy? He's the first part of a very lengthy series I want to do that I'll probably spread out over the coming months to gauge my progress in terms of drawing, dynamic posing and design. Props if you recognize him!<br />
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And that's all for now! More to come, and more frequently! Cheers!</div>Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-62378814753269752872012-04-30T10:29:00.000-06:002012-04-30T10:29:37.048-06:00Well of Souls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a piece done for our illustration class as well as the Diablo 3 Portrait of a Champion art contest.<br />
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Had a ton of fun working on this and I think it's a benchmark for my work in terms of complexity!<br />
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Will post up a walkthrough soon.<br />
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Cheers!Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-34023892700571841032012-04-05T10:23:00.000-06:002012-07-16T19:45:26.406-06:00Figures & Thumbnails<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Then here's about a 2 hour figure painting done from life- we're going to start focusing a lot more on using oils in our figure sessions at the studio, I'm pretty stoked! I think this first one came out pretty good- still need to work on my construction and ability to render form with paint, but I think these are some of the best fleshtones I've done in oil.</div>
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Then this one is about an hour long plein-air painting I did a month or two ago; I was trying to capture the glow of the sun which didn't quite work out but there's parts of it that are working pretty well for a quick sketch.</div>
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And then these last two are some thumbnail development for the group IP we've been working on in class, doing character and environment design. I think the Victorian Teslas are some of my better character concepts, need to keep cranking out a ton of these thumbnails to keep working on my design sensibilities. Lots of fun!</div>
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Da trees, da trees, da trees are on fire!<br />
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Been sitting on this one for a while, finally got some time to polish it off and clean up the last few things it needed to finish it.<br />
It was an assignment for our Illustration class, where we did faux magic cards.<br />
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Pretty happy with how this turned out overall, though I definitely see some areas I went wrong and where I would do things differently next time, feeling some breakthroughs coming in my work. :)<br />
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And then these are a lot of torso studies with some arms and hands sprinkled in. Gonna try and fill up my sketchbook with these babies!Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2137984869597484207.post-61526853467547862522012-02-22T23:21:00.000-07:002012-02-22T23:22:28.096-07:00Figures and magic!<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Here's some more recent work, this one's a figure painting I did today for fun and to experiment a little bit with digital markmaking, trying to get a more oily, painterly quality to my work. I had a lot of fun with the process and like how it turned out, so I'm probably gonna apply this to my next illustration. Excited!</div>
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And then here's some more good ol' constructive figure drawing; still focusing on simplifying the human form and observing it in rhythms as well as form. Learning a ton from these and they're a lot of fun to do!<br />
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And lastly here's the thumbs for an upcoming piece; this one's a faux Magic the Gathering card for our Illustration class. Super excited for this one! I'm probably going to roll with either #1 or #5. Will update this one soon!</div>Jon Neimeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254660415764906034noreply@blogger.com0