Margaret's Sketchpad

pirate girl and psylocke...

2009-12-11T10:43:00.000-08:00

Pirate Girl and Psylocke... it's a sitcom in development. Oh the wacky situations they get into....

Ok, maybe that's not true.

dino z-sculpt done

2009-09-10T16:11:00.001-07:00

Ok, long time, no post. Anyhoo, here's what I've got on the dinosaur sculpt. He's rigged and has a spec map done, so mostly i just need to render him. More to come.

girl portrait

2009-06-06T16:21:00.001-07:00

Girl head with some adjustments to the proportions. Some touch-ups were done in photoshop.

studies and dinos

2009-05-19T18:30:00.000-07:00

The dino is still a work in progress. The girl could maybe use some tweaks.

posting time

2009-05-01T23:50:00.000-07:00

Looks like I'm long overdue for a post. The skulls were homework for a class (there will likely be more skulls to come). The head is a work in progress. Still deciding where to go with it next, after a few minor clean ups.

playing continued

2009-02-05T16:30:00.001-08:00

Still going.

playing

2009-02-03T18:03:00.000-08:00

Needed to unwind from work. WIP

da troll

2009-01-13T18:28:00.001-08:00

Did the skull in ~2 days. Starting the leather armor. I'll texture the eyes next.

2009-01-08T16:06:00.001-08:00

Troll man!

vamp, now with clothes

2008-12-07T15:53:00.000-08:00

2008-12-02T17:02:00.001-08:00

Unreal char continued

2008-11-11T17:12:00.000-08:00

Hey, its been a little while. This one's still a work in progress.

neurotic petshop clerk

2008-09-21T20:19:00.000-07:00

The other work in progress character that I'm working on right now. Hope to get it to a more showable state this week.

Vamp

2008-09-15T20:56:00.001-07:00

The Vamp returns! The yellow eyes look so much more interesting. Gotta work in the collar bone i was playing with in zbrush.

Kid Toonshaded

2008-06-18T21:35:00.001-07:00

kid

2008-06-09T19:36:00.000-07:00

Kid for a project I'm doing some modeling for... more on that later.

troll again

2008-05-06T17:55:00.000-07:00

2 hours worth of zbrush

Troll

2008-04-30T12:19:00.000-07:00

For kicks I started a new model, other than the Vamp I'm working on. This is about 3 hours in.

DW... done.

2008-04-12T21:36:00.000-07:00

I'm going to go sleep now.

DW posing

2008-04-11T23:55:00.000-07:00

DW... so close...

2008-04-11T00:16:00.000-07:00

Here's what I've got for the low poly char so far. It's not looking too bad. I'm going into the production mindset of "what can't I ship her without"? There are definitely parts of her that need clean up, but I'll pose her 1st, and then figure out what desperately needs fixing.

Ok, goals for tomorrow. Rig her, pose her. Then clean up the textures more.

DW paint over

2008-04-04T22:43:00.000-07:00

While I'm doing a final sculpting pass on my girl, I thought I'd do a quick paint over to previs the textures.

DW still going

2008-03-31T22:31:00.000-07:00

DW high poly

2008-03-30T18:56:00.000-07:00

More DW

2008-03-20T11:20:00.001-07:00

DW_sculpting

2008-03-13T19:58:00.000-07:00

DW head painting

2008-03-06T11:05:00.001-08:00

DW concept again

2008-02-21T21:01:00.000-08:00

Ok, the previous design was a lost cause. I took what I liked from it, and made this design. Much much awesomer. Will refine and finish.

DW concepts WIP

2008-02-20T22:34:00.000-08:00

Well, i kinda like this one. needs work. lots of work.

Dominance War

2008-02-18T23:03:00.000-08:00

So, I thought I'd enter the Dominance war competition. It's a game art battle royale with a fantasy theme to it this year. These are my preliminary thoughts for it:

Vampire head studies

2008-02-06T21:52:00.000-08:00

Just a few studies I did for a project I'm working on. She ended up more Joan Crawfordish than I originally expected.

Thurgood Grey's school portrait 2

2008-01-28T21:34:00.001-08:00

Class picture day was always Thurgood's least favorite at alien school.

Thurgood Grey's school portrait

2008-01-27T21:48:00.001-08:00

More alien portraits. I'll finish this one soon.

grand executor II

2008-01-22T22:08:00.000-08:00

Grand Executor Xenoploii II

2008-01-21T22:06:00.000-08:00

There are days when I feel like drawing aliens. This was one of them.

girl portrait: finished?

2008-01-09T20:43:00.000-08:00

I realize there are plenty more things I could do on this portrait, and it if ever gets more finished than this, I'll post it. I'll come back to this one eventually.

girl again

2008-01-03T21:46:00.000-08:00

girl portait continued

2008-01-02T22:38:00.001-08:00

girl portrait

2008-01-01T22:27:00.000-08:00

Once again I'm experimenting with loosely tracing a photo, and then taking it from there.

space clubber continued

2007-12-30T20:49:00.000-08:00

Well, I took some of the suggestions of people on cgtalk. It's still not done. The clothes, especially the pants, and the hands need some more love. I learned a lesson from this piece, though. Even if you roughly trace anatomy from photographs, it still may not look right.

alien clubber WIP

2007-12-28T22:08:00.001-08:00

head continued...

2007-12-17T22:28:00.000-08:00

Finally! Back to that head I was working on. I reworked some of the topology on the face, and I'm a lot happier now. Fixed the up uvs to match it, too. Next to figure out what to do for the hair so I can tie up those loose ends on top...

Mairead WIP4

2007-12-06T21:16:00.000-08:00

Well, I decided to hold off on lightening the skin until I got some better highlights in the clothes. So far, I think that's working out.

Mairead WIP3

2007-12-05T21:51:00.000-08:00

Yes, yes, the skin is too light. I'll bring it down a bit.

Mairead WIP 2

2007-11-25T22:03:00.000-08:00

Mairead WIP

2007-11-19T22:11:00.000-08:00

I'd been wanting to do something with this char for a while. I'm still roughing the whole thing out right now.

2007-11-12T22:14:00.000-08:00

WIP again.

creature WIP2

2007-11-04T19:34:00.000-08:00

Working on my creature dude some more. Not sure about the setting i put him in. i'll work on it some more later.

2007-10-30T22:05:00.000-07:00

2007-10-22T21:58:00.000-07:00

Well, zbrush 3.1 won't let me play with it at all anymore. Hoping I can find what I need to fix it at work. In the meantime, drawing! Gonna color this one later.

2007-10-18T21:45:00.001-07:00

So, it looks like i have to take a break from the model i was working on, because zbrush 3.1 changed things around just enough to frustrate the hell out of someone who was just getting used to 3.0. I'll have to find some tutorials for that. For now, though, a vaguely tauren looking dude.

hunter head in zbrush

2007-10-14T21:05:00.000-07:00

So, sue me. I started sculpting before I put the textures on him. Well, really, i was just playing around because I won't learn zbrush any other way. Need to go to work tomorrow and see if i can find a different version of zapplink, or a different version of zbrush.

zombie hunter head WIP

2007-10-06T22:27:00.000-07:00

While my zombie hunter model is in no state to be shown, I thought i'd at least document where I am with it.

experimenting

2007-10-05T22:17:00.001-07:00

beach girl

2007-09-16T22:34:00.000-07:00

Beach girl WIP1

2007-09-15T19:30:00.000-07:00

2007-08-30T18:52:00.001-07:00

I definitely need some more posts here, so here's one from a few years ago. It's amoung my first attempts at coloring images in photoshop. Pencilled and inked traditionally.

witch WIP2

2007-08-24T21:05:00.001-07:00

Well, I made a little bit of progress, defining the form a lil bit better.

witch WIP1

2007-08-15T21:36:00.000-07:00

A new piece that I'm working on. I'll post more WIPs as I go along.

School Portrait 2

2007-08-14T22:28:00.000-07:00

Sweet, another post! I hope I can keep this up. This pic took about an hour. I'm still fixing up the werewolf, so I'll post him another day.

2007-08-13T21:05:00.000-07:00

Another post? Yes, yes, another post. This one took about a half hour to do.

werewolf

2007-08-13T20:28:00.000-07:00

Havent posted in a while, I think I'll rememdy that. This took about an hour to do.

2007-07-24T22:30:00.000-07:00

WIP

Starting fresh

2007-07-23T20:25:00.000-07:00

Well, it was time for a new, spammer-free blog. And now, straight to posting: