Portrait Commissions [OPEN]

LIMITED PORTRAIT COMMISSION SLOTS AVAILABLE [1/20]

Referenced from photograph by Olivia Rose Edvalson

Referenced from photograph by Laura Makabresku

BUST

Shoulders and Up

£75-100

Referenced from photo by Sara El Beshbishi

TORSO

Waist and Up

£125

Referenced from photo by David Sams

FIGURE
Feet and Up

£200

REVIEW LIST

BUST - Shoulders and Up

£75-100

TORSO - Waist and up

£125

FIGURE 

£200

To Add an ENVIRONMENT + £100

All prices cover digitally painted portraits which will be delivered as high resolution source files, ready to print.

To reserve your slot please contact me via Email/IM at michaeldoig@live.co.uk

Hidden Armada

We've counting down the days over on Hidden Armada until we announce our latest game. I've gone a bit mad with the tilt shift blur this last couple of weeks. So satisfying.

Portrait

Timelapse Portrait Study

2 HOURS STUDY PAINTING FROM PHOTO REFERENCE

I saw this photograph of a reconstructed sculpture of an Iceman, a 5,300-year-old mummy also called Ötzi discovered in the Alps and thought he had great character to attempt to capture. I failed on the likeness but it was great fun, and I tried to push the textures in my work a little more than usual.

I picked up a great brush from the Charlie Bowater Skillshare Class which is soft and chalky and great for blocking out loose shapes with softer edges.

TIMELAPSE CAPTURE OF THE PAINTING FROM START TO FINISH

2 hours distilled into 15 mins approx. I hope this is insightful to you. I'm hoping to document these to highlight my flaws and amend my workflow to address them.

Thinking Outside the Box

The Doctor, rising from one storm to meet the next.

PRINTS AVAILABLE ON INPRNT

Available for commissions, contact me if you're interested in custom paintings, or art for your project!

Dragoon Commission, Dungeon Run Concepts, Portraits

Recent work post

Supernatural Cinema Studies

May 4th

This image made it to the front page of IMGUR today which is a pretty cool honour, glad the image was well received and had me super pumped to create its counterpart artwork.

Artwork in tribute for May 4th, Free Comics Day. Hope you dig :D

I was listening to a lot of Judas Priest earlier in preparation for the next Crimson Bloodsports Challenge and the music got me super pumped that it will forever populate my working hour playlists. I've heard JP songs in the past, but it felt like today, I truly listened.

DOJ-CON Experience

Exhibiting at DOJ-CON

I've been attending D-CON/DOJ-CON for all of the years it has been in operation and each year I've thought, or have been explicitly told, 'You should have a table here!' So this year marks a notch in my belt, and I decided to book the table before I was even ready for it. No matter what, BE THERE. Be present.

"Eighty percent of success is showing up. " ~ Woody Allen

Surprising and quite relieving to find I wasn't as nervous as I expected while I was setting up my table, but I was still full of jittery energy without the sinking feeling. My mouth kept going uber-dry as I tried to settle into my 'totally needs a cushion' chair.

I used an A3 sketchbook to prop up my folio display in a stroke of last minute improvisation and Ak secured it to the table via gorilla tape. I was ready. Slight delay in the doors being opened, but holy shit when they finally did. The glacier of people sliding past the table, in assorted eccentric dress was amazing.

Brilliant fun followed while painting live, and while I've not livestreamed much in the past its a pretty solitary experience compared to being able to look up and into the eyes of people watching the monitor. Audience interaction became tactile as I could respond to comments/reactions in realtime, often I was inspired also by the amazing soundtracks being played by the organisers.

I began to settle after I'd sold some prints - my first one being Selling a Luffy print to a Luffy cosplayer. Easy sale!

My aim was to cover costs so I wasn't losing vital income, and to gain some new audience and in this I feel fulfilled. I spent my profits feeding my friends :D I retain a folio full of prints to use in the future which are available to buy for £5, and I carry with me the experience of the event itself.

What I've learned

• I need a larger selection of prints for people to 'browse'. 7 is too low a number. People want moar.
• People like to watch digital art being created when they don't especially understand the medium.
• The most commonly asked question of the day was 'What sort of tablet is that? :D'
• 1 day is not long enough, bring back the weekend event
• Always bring along a monitor / laptop. It kicks ass!

Thanks to those who purchased prints and showed their enthusiasm, its a bolster to my ambitions to succeed as a freelancing hero artist, and to any new followers of mine online Harro! and I was super pumped that the best sellers were my original paintings over fanart.

Many thanks to my visiting friends from Edinburgh who helped keep my company, and made the evening following the event a pleasure.

PS.

Gryffindor woolen sweater for the win!

Doj-Con Artist's Alley

Hey folks,

I'll be exhibiting some artwork at Dundee's DOJ-CON manga and anime festival this weekend on the 13th of April, on the basement level of Dundee Union. I'll be on one of the Tables in the Artist's Alley alongside my friends from Lefay Engraving.

I'll be selling prints of digital paintings, while giving LIVE painting demos, answering questions and fulfilling commission requests. Come by and say Hi.

I'm working on some ONE PIECE artwork at the moment and you can see some of my work posted in my gallery here

Hope to see you all there!

Freelance Work for Proper Games

New work update with some recent artwork for Proper Games' mobile title in development. Here's a selection of WIP environment concepts showing a variety of potential locations.

 I've been working on them in batches like this as it helps me keep the scenes in context with the others.

Map / Level Select Layout Concepts showing a path through single player.

Perspective in environments is something I'm stumbling over, I found a useful vanishing point brush which has assisted me as I've yet to get to grips with photoshops' grid system. Hope you dig :3

Secret Lunch Shu Fanart

Today's painting is a fanart from Secret Lunch's Shu - I really admire what these guys are doing with indie development while in the prototype fund.

You can check'em out on their site, facebook and on steam

I need to study some cloth / drapery / folds to get a better feel for fabric. I noticed on JakeB's sketchbook some full figure clothing studies from fashion etc. looked really useful too.

Feb Sketch Day 4

FUS RO SKETCH!

Submitted for the CGHub 2D Jam - Skyrim, check out the other entries!

Grumpy Cat, from a reference photo. Luffs this cat.

There are a few variations on this cat with additional props on facebook - you are welcome to contact me  for more information on prices for commissions, of a pet nature or otherwise. Portraits, illustrations, and what not.

Cloudscape

A spiral of depression – falling into the abyss – descending into madness – losing one self – however you describe it, I’m tryiong to capture that sense of being lost in an endlessness.

Spirals have played a particular inspiration in doam – living in spirals is one of life’s eccentricities.

Here’s how it’s looking at the moment – I screen-grabbed the vector illustrating lost among the flash file, and I’ve begun painting over it in photoshop.

The perspective is a little distorted because the camera will pan from top left to bottom right eventually. Thus it will hopefully mimic a camera movement following the hatavar – I haven’t tested it yet.

Working by Day, 'Real' Work by Night

So my life is as thus. Waking to the sound of my father arranging and seemingly re-arranging things around 'my' room, all the while huffing and sighing in a regular pattern regardless of what it is he is doing. Summoned over the phone by my mother to agree to paid work she's managed to organise for me, outwith my knowledge. So far it's been painting her fence, with a rather nifty power spray thing, and a whole lot of gardening re-discovering beneath a jungle of weeds and grass. Today is the back garden of the same allotted owner, and I'm timidly looking forward to this job ending. And then it's on to washing cars!

These fill my daylight hours. By night, I'm designing band logos and putting in some solid hours into playing the Xbox 360 while I have the chance. So far my playlist includes Spiderman 3, GTA IV and Lost Oddyssey. Which are fun, intriguing and highly beautiful yet lacking in real engagement yet, respectfully.

This is really making me consider the nature of the career I'm wandering into. Where my true interests at the moment are being reserved for later hours, and where my usual skillset isn't finding me the money I require. I suppose finding a job is easier if you're not specifically offering a particular service and are willing to work under the title of Lackey. I guess it's not half bad to be inexperienced and be learning new skills -while- you're being paid to do so. I know how to more effectively use a garden fork to better effect on soil and weeds, much to the protest of my palms. I really should have considering bringing old clothes, but who could have foreseen my mother's dexterity in finding work like that?

What is my time really worth either way? What is the value of time itself? It's rather dependant upon the one seeking your time, in context time is variable.

So it is on to battle dogs and rabbits in a bid to free a garden path from the onslaught of rabid dandelion spores! Yarrghh! Armed with a spade, and curved knife, gardening gauntlets and a fortitude to outlast weed kind. Suffer the slings and stench of the uprooted tyranny and reclaim the peace of a well kept garden, all to appease the neighbouring citizens disgust, from over yonder fences.



Oh and here is the logo I'm currently attempting to make legible, if any of you can read this lemme know what you think it is meant to say... I'm cautious about the ambigram-ality of it, and whether effective clarity is suffering. While the design itself looks quite cool, I can't tell if it is delivering the right message at the moment. However this is design 1 of hopefully many.

Also Tidan, got any more work on your minotaur yet!? Love to see it. :P