Mike's Sketch Repository

Schell 2016-11-13 06:21:46 UTC #12

A WIP for the challenge due tomorrow. Feeling like I'm failing pretty hard on this one, but hopefully I'll be able to turn things around. Going to need to do some landscape studies after this.

Schell 2016-11-14 05:17:24 UTC #13

The site's been down for me the whole day, so I figured I'd make a WIP board instead of posting shots during the day.

Schell 2017-04-05 22:34:26 UTC #14

I've been meaning to keep up on this site, but definitely fell off the wagon, so I will be art dumping for a couple of days to get caught up with things.

To start off, here's a painting I had a lot of fun with. I wanted to do Super Smash Bros. in a style I'd enjoy playing a bit more.

Schell 2017-04-06 04:23:36 UTC #15

I did this up for the monthly challenge over at the Gnomon workshop forums. The theme was "War Helmet". For the final, I assembled my first scene in Unreal Engine, which it turns out, is extremely easy and intuitive for lighting. Definitely a new favorite in the tool box.

Schell 2017-04-06 15:11:16 UTC #16

I was playing a game called Sanctum 2 a lot, and though I would try making of few of my own characters, borrowing from the art style of the game.

Schell 2017-04-06 15:36:38 UTC #17

These were my first attempts with Substance Painter and Low Poly modeling. I was following along with an awesome tutorial by Tim Bergholz. Check Him Out if you're interested in trying Substance Painter.

Schell 2017-04-06 16:40:43 UTC #18

A friend randomly asked me to make him a desktop background. I though a knight riding a bear seemed appropriate.

Schell 2017-04-06 16:58:16 UTC #19

I forgot to toss this one in here from a while back. I've got pretty mixed feelings about how it turned out, but overall feel like I learned a lot from it.

Schell 2017-04-06 17:23:16 UTC #20

I've always wanted to try the whole painting over a kit-bashed model workflow, so with 8 hours left in the Ghost in the Shell challenge, I decided to randomly wing it, figuring I probably wouldn't even finish.

After about 2.5 hours of kit-bashing, 2 hours of installing and troubleshooting Keyshot, 1 hour of rendering (My computer's kinda old and slow), and 2.5 hours of overpainting, I managed to finish with about 10 minutes left.

It's definitely made me re-think what can be accomplished in a day.

Schell 2017-04-06 18:01:07 UTC #21

And this should catch me up. Some of my latest experiments in Substance Painter. This has become one of my favorite pieces of software to play around in.

Schell 2017-04-08 17:01:27 UTC #22

Some WIP for the Overgrown challenge. I've never done foliage before, so hopefully things will go smoothly, and I can get done in time.

lukasz-draws 2017-04-08 17:25:32 UTC #23

Cool ideas - love the dagger painting!

Schell 2017-04-10 03:49:43 UTC #24

It has been done. Going to reduce the blooms before I put this one in the ol' portfolio though.

Schell 2017-04-11 23:53:38 UTC #25

I got some time today to try re-lighting this scene. I think I'm liking it a little better now.

Schell 2017-06-03 13:51:37 UTC #26

Trying out some exercises I've seen in various tutorials.

First two are from films.

Schell 2017-06-06 00:25:10 UTC #27

Another thing, and a work in progress of a thing.

Schell 2017-06-06 00:30:13 UTC #28

Even more things, but with more struggling this time.

Schell 2017-06-06 23:00:19 UTC #29

Apparently on the Substance Share website, you can also share models.
I decided to play around with one by Andreas Stromberg. model

Schell 2017-06-13 16:50:25 UTC #30

This originally was going to be used as part of the Hidden Danger challenge a while ago, but I had too much stuff on the schedule to make it in time.

I decided I'd finish up the creature though.

Schell 2017-06-14 01:22:43 UTC #31

Color and light studies from Dredd for tonight. Love the comic style cinematography from this movie.