The last piece was done as a paintover of zBrush sculpt, with some photographic sources added in, and lots of tonal adjustments and reshaping. The sketch next to it was a study from a still, and the first two sheets are just sketchbook pages, some were done with reference, some without.

This large dump should make up for the lack of updates this year. Here are the studies and sketches from the past two months or so.

And here is something different – this is the poster I did for a short film by Juan Reinoso, called Flowers For Norma, after Stephen King’s story:

And some other junk: Cathrine from Jules et Jim

Some framing / mood exploration in black and white:

And some more imaginary heads, except for three that were done from reference, but I’ll let you guess which ones are those:

Then it was just wire:

And then there’s other junk, mainly lacking any reference, which still shows, but not as much, I hope…

And another noodie:

…and I hope there’ll be more after happy happy Thanksgiving break.

Here are a few other sketches I did this week:

Here’s the sketch I did last night for the CGTalk daily sketch forum. The theme was The Tourist and time limit for it was 45 minutes.

On a side note, I changed the theme for the FogLog today and I’m liking it much better now. The old black and orange theme got… well – old, so I had the urge to change things around. This theme is created by Pink & Yellow Media. I changed a few things around: added the display of custom fields and the corresponding styles in the main stylesheet, removed the display of child pages, added link to portfolio and made it so that the fogmann.com redirects to FogLog – no need for that splash page with links to everything that is already here. I also sized down a lot of the images that were larger than the width of content box so that they don’t overlap the sidebar menu if they appear on the top of the page. Cool thing is that the new version of Lightbox2 now automatically pops up when there is a link to an image from an image embedded in post, so I don’t have to manually add lightbox tags to images – SWEET!

I might change this theme further and add some graphics and color, but for now I’ll leave it as is. I hope you’ll like the new look.

Warlord (50 min)

Stalker (60 min)

Alive (30 min)

Geek Love (50 min)

Snow (40 min)

The New Girl (~90min)

It’s been fun and I hope to continue doing these little sketches.