The World of Mooshu

Been a little while on Pirate or Wizard updates, so I wanted to get something up. This recently hit the facebook page so I wanted to get a higher rez picture up for everyone. Enjoy!

Gallery1988 Show - Arrested Development

Wanted to post some work for the upcoming Arrested Development show @ G1988. If you've never had a chance to watch that amazing series, I recommend you do so! One of the best series to have ever been created. Here is my contribution and its based off the episode "Mr. F", which was during season 3. Bring on George Michael vs. The mole ;)

The exhibit will open on June 29th, with an opening reception from 7-10 PM.

For more info about the show:

Gallery1988
Gallery1988 Melrose:
7020 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038

Valencia

Hey all, wanted to toss up a quick image before heading out on vaca for the next week. Have a great memorial day weekend!

More Pre-Production art. Very busy lately, but I will try to keep the images coming. Enjoy!

Trainer Witch Dr. Vadima

Another trainer, for the witch doctor class. Enjoy!

Avalon Released!

Last week, wizard101 released it's most recent expansion, with Avalon! I gathered up a few images that were created in the process of designing this new world. Enjoy!

Little free time during lunch hours

Just wrapped up a piece I finished up during the past couple of lunch breaks. I started this I believe last week or so. I've only now realized that I keep drawing random girls in the woods with strange animals surrounding them. Something I may have to look into down the road ;)

BG Background

Here is the full illustration that lays in the background for pirate101 website. At first creation, we wanted the viewer to see more of the image, but in the end, most of it gets covered up.

There is also a large topic I want to sit down and write about also in the next few days. The topic is portfolio presentation, specifically to the game industry, but I am sure it will hit on portfolios for most job situations. I have to review quite a few portfolios on a daily basis, and there are just basics, that people seem to miss over and over. If it can help just one or two people in the creation of their own portfolios, then that will make me happy. So check back for that hopefully this week!

Yes, another update ;)

To keep the art posting going forward, here is another pretty quick concept done for Pirate, also posted on the website.

Pirate101 Splash Page

This image was created as the visual for the Pirate101 Website. I worked with the web team and creative to help piece this together so it could be animated in the end. All the ships were layered out properly, so web could do what they want with them. Was a fun image to work and showcases some of our star characters.

Buccaneer Class Trainer + Swashbuckler

Going to release these little by little over the new few months. You can see this work on the pirate101 website.. but I wanted to just showcase some higher res. work.

Buccaneer Class Trainer

Buccaneers are sturdy warriors who rely on brute strength to overcome their enemies. They wear the heaviest armor and carry the biggest weapons. What Buccaneers lack in grace or finesse they make up for with raw courage. Withstanding enemy attacks is the key to a Buccaneer's strategy.

Swashbuckler Class Trainer

Swashbucklers rely on speed and finesse in combat, sneaking up on their foes and striking by surprise, then dodging the enemy's attacks when they finally arrive. They are deadly with a blade, but not nearly as tough as a Buccaneer, sacrificing toughness for damage.

Pirate101 Announced!

Finally after over a year of concept work done, we have finally announced Pirate101 due out this year. It's been a great process and the amount of concept work piling up for it has been staggering. Be sure to check out the website @ Pirate101.com for more info! There is some concept on the site.. some of it my own.. and some scattered other members of the team. Hopefully I should get approval soon to post some of it right here! in all its full rez detail ;)
Looking forward to the months to come.

Dave.

An amazing project to support - The Banner Saga

I felt I had to post in support of this amazing project by local artists / designers here in Austin. Looking forward to it, and wishing them all the best with this one!

Just click the link below!

The Banner Saga

Small Update

Sorry it's been so long since an update.. been super busy with a ton of work. Expect a large dump of work very very soon. (in the next month or so).. very much excited to show off some recent stuff. Here is something quick done for wizard101... quick mockup of an arena in Dragonspyre.

APA

Austin Pets Alive Mural

Just wanted to update with some real life happenings. I have quite a few paintings in progress that I hope to get to galleries in the next 6 months, so that's taking up quite a bit of time. I will definately update the blog with any progress on those as they are happening. I have had time though to do a volunteer mural for the new Austin Pets Alive facility that opened up downtown recently. It's for the kitten nursery and it feels great to be able to just spend a little time to do something for such a great foundation and program.



Small update for now, this is going to be a crazy year as far as work is concerned so expect alot of painting updates ;)

Wizard Zafaria Update

With our recent launch of Zafaria, I've finally started digging through some pieces that can be released out into the depths of the interwebs. I didn't get a whole bunch of time working on this expansion pack so the amount of pieces will be a little limited for now. It should atleast fill an update or two.

First up was creating the new level 68 Death Spell "Katzenstein's Monster". Most of the concept itself was just creating the monster and the animation team would take care of the rest. Katzenstein was already a mad scientist cat already created for the game... so this was basically just an addition to his madness. They wanted a pretty basic Frankenstein vibe with less gore and as always, more kid friendly.



Here is a video with all the finished spells..Katzenstein is I think the 3rd spell used. (I also concepted the Basilisk, which I will upload later.)

Wizard101 68 Spells

Next piece was just establishing a look for the zebra mobs. We had pretty specific african tribes we were looking at for each of the animal species in the game. These zebras were probably the first concept I tackled for zafaria. Was alot of fun making these guys pretty stubby, but looking like they could hold their own.



Might as well finish off with one quick enviornment piece that was done for Zafaria, which was a large entrance way into the Elephant graveyard. Basically just wanted to mock something up for color and mood to give to the designers.



Still a ton of work I wish I could release at the moment. Time is flying lately and it won't be long before the flood gates open.

Hope everyone has a solid xmas this year, lets hope 2012 is full of a ton of new work.

A start of something new.

Been awhile since the last update, but things should be picking up pretty soon. As I said previously some months ago, I started at a new gig down in Austin that I love. Content is slowly starting to be released, which means I can finally start posting some of the work. Once large expansions come out, there will be very large updates of work. So right now we just have a recently released double player mount for Wizard101. Was a quick concept that went straight into production. Each piece will need specific approval but I will do the best I can. This type of work is really letting me stretch my boundaries and have alot of fun.

ALOT more to come in the next few months! (atleast 30-40 new images that I feel are post worthy)

Dave.

About Final

This is about as final as I want to take this piece. I think it fulfills what I wanted out of it. Doesn't blow me away, but I had a good time working on it. i would like for my next piece to be alot brighter and not so clouded in darkness. I hope to start the next piece tommorow!

Carriage Day 3

Who knows who even sees this stuff, but I will continue to push these out. Here is day 3 working on this painting. Still going back and forth detailing things out. I don't want to hide alot of detail in shadows but the piece is pretty dark, and I feel like I really need that foreground contrast.

Still alot to add and tweak, possibly another assassin, the lady in the carriage and so forth.

Updated Carriage Painting

Here is a few days worth of work on the mosst recent painting. Taking my time and thinking about alot of minor things while working on it.

Everything so far is basically the base im going for. I still plan to have a woman in the carriage, about 3 Skele assassins. Alot of work to go, but wanted to post!

The wacom inkling!

Wanted to bring this bad boy up. Recently announced from wacom and available mid september.

Wacom Inkling

This will definately be an item I will be purchasing. Not only will this give me an added incentive to produce work in my sketchbook, it may even get me posting more daily sketches up on this blog.

Not to mention I usually despise scanning in sketchbook pages, which in turn makes it so 95% of all my sketches never even hit the internet.

I'm looking forward to the community embracing this thing and getting alot more work online!

Also great youtube video for it.

Wacom Youtube Vid

I am alive! Trust me.

Been a semi crazy summer so far, company in town in Austin, flying to MA for a wedding, and everything in between. I have managed to make myself sit down and tackle some more serious paintings though.

I wanted to get away from the 1 off, 1 sitting paintings of a character and do some more in depth "scenes" if you will.

Just started blocking this one in yesterday, having alot of fun with it. I would like to get very detailed with this one.. even carving out the small details of the carriage.

Posting it here will make me finish it ;)

Small post

Wanted to throw up a quick post since I seemed to go afk from this blog for a month or so. Getting some projects wrapped up and hopefully gearing up for another big show in september, so hopefully I should be able to toss some info up on that asap!

Dave G.

OO Game of Thrones.

Just sitting at work today thinking back on some of the Visuals of HBO's Game of Thrones, an awesome book series and equally amazing show so far. This was just a quick 25 Min Sketch during some downtime today. Mostly just based off the Night's Watch, not exactly.. but of the same idea.

Gogo Prints now for sale through my online store.

12x15
Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Numbered and signed out of 50 (only 10 are available through the store).

Very limited run of these prints this time around.


http://myelectronicdays.bigcartel.com/product/gogo

A royal speed painting.

Here is a quick 1 hour speed I did today, I would like to dedicate it to the royal wedding ;D .. I saved off one chunk so there could atleast be some progess to look at. I think what's hurting me lately is I'm starting to paint with no direction to go in. I don't know if I am going to paint a character, a landscape, or the back of some dudes head in front of me. I think in the future, I am going to atleast set some kind of goal. here is the final. I really just have two steps saved that were probably at the 20 minute interval and then a bit later. I stopped myself at the hour mark on the dot.. even though I felt this one could use alot more.. time to paint faster!



Here was the first brickout.. where I had completely no idea where I was going. I was basically smacking down some muted color and and a way to dark of a shape. During this phase I flip and shift the image like crazy till I can find something that catches my eye. I try to keep everything as middle tone as I can for as long as I can.. then once I start punching value in, everything comes to life.




Have a good weekend!

The Oasis

This was the first verson of the Oasis done for Homefront.. it was a first pass and and the final doesn't even resemble this at all. I was handed a brickout of the space, a brief description and that was about it. More to come!

Went way off.

Final of the most recent speedy.. which turned out to not be a speedy at all. I changed it about 30x over. Had fun in the process and started exploring all new brushes while spending time to tweak and make my own. This is about as far as I want to take this one.. would rather start on something new. anyways, enjoy.

Non-speed update.

Adding color and starting to slow down to actually figure out shapes and composition. long way to go!