“Rover.” A creature sculpt work in progress. (c) 2014 Michael J. Barnes.
I have had a real urge to create fantastical creatures. I have also had a lot of time on my hands recently. This is “Rover.” He’s not quite done, just yet. Rover, here, is a ZBrush work in progress. I thought it would be a good idea to post my progress on the project as I progress. There is also a video to show the sculpt in progress.
“Seeing Red.” Digital Line Art Illustration. (c) 2014 Michael J. Barnes.
I am currently working up a series of email ads for a prospective client and this is the first of a set of line art illustrations that I am proposing to appear in the ads.
I have called this illustration Seeing Red. The concept of the ad is to buy the client’s product to help you ” Stop Seeing Red.”
I haven’t done a lot of line art work recently, so it was good to get back to my illustrative roots.
“Aviator.” Character Bust. (c) 2014 Michael J. Barnes.
I decided to taking a break from creating aliens, and monsters, and sci-fi characters and draw up something new. I am in the process of a new illustration for my portfolio, and decided to produce a new character for its. This new characters is called “Aviator.”
With this character, I learned a few new techniques. These techniques mostly involved the leather helmet and goggles, and I am really pleased with the results. I ran a search for “leather healmets” and found images online, and based the sculpting of the helmet and goggles on the images I found. I wanted to create an old-tymie looking pilot for this illustration.
This character bust was created in ZBrush, and composite produced in Photoshop. This 3D Model has been added to my 3D Modelling gallery. You can also view my other works in my Illustration Portfolio.
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— Mike Barnes is a professional graphic designer and illustrator with over 15 years of experience. His online portfolio can be viewed at www.lookingtodraw.com.
“Edgar.” (c) 2014 Michael J. Barnes.
“Edgar” here is my latest character sculpt. He’s another alien set to appear in an upcoming illustration. Created in ZBrush and composite produced in Photoshop.
“My First Futuristic Flying Car.” (c) 2014 Michael J. Barnes.
“My Second Futuristic Flying Car.” (c) 2014 Michael J. Barnes.
As a kid, I was a big fan of the Jetsons, and later of the Star Wars series. In both of these shows, they featured “flying cars.” To this day, I am greatly disappointed that we don’t have flying cars today, as I hoped we would when I was young. Well, fear not, the flying car is here. These images above show two of the concepts I have created for production. I just need to come up with the “actual” technology to make these vehicles airborne.
Actually, I have created these to be background elements for a future illustration. These “flying cars” were modeled in ZBrush with composites produced in Photoshop.
“Eleanor.” Digital Character. (c) 2014 Michael J. Barnes.
So, this is Eleanor. My latest alien creation, just an average middle-age female. Eleanor will be a feature character in an upcoming illustration.
This character was digitally sculpted in ZBrsh, with the composite produced in Photoshop.