Rayph's Art Blog

Sneak peek

2012-01-21T12:15:00.000-08:00

Some sketches for a design tutorial I am working on...

Environment sketching

2012-01-19T11:55:00.001-08:00

Playing around with some new technique processes. Really focusing on speed and shapes.

Death Helm finished...or is it?

2012-01-18T00:36:00.000-08:00

Finally got around to throwing some spit-shine down on this. Unfortunately it kept getting sidetracked by other projects I had to take care of and by the time I came back to it I kept finding so much wrong I really should have scrapped it...oh well...

Quake ladies pinup wallpaper

2012-01-16T00:17:00.000-08:00

A quick space jockey scketch from the other day:

Thought I might post up a progress shot of a fanart wallpaper I am workin on based off quake3 characters.

A quick space jockey scketch from the other day:

Some more stuff

2012-01-03T15:41:00.000-08:00

Some speedpaints and pencil sketches, enjoy!

Sci Fi speedpaints

2011-12-17T10:58:00.001-08:00

Some quick little speedpaints from some morning warmups at the office, enjoy!

Gears of war fanart contest

2011-09-28T22:40:00.001-07:00

Here is my entry for the deviant art gears of war contest. I found out about it way to late so I had to scramble at the end...do plan on polishing further still.

I really wanted to go for an old war painting vibe...

Epic Space Battle!!!!! pew pew

2011-07-10T17:38:00.001-07:00

Dug this thing up...ill be damned this will get finished!

Almost there...

Kabal finished

2011-07-02T13:37:00.001-07:00

Finally finished my kabal redux concept

Morning speedpaint

2011-06-20T09:04:00.003-07:00

Another quick environment. Did this one more or less as a demo

Another quickie for the burn pile

Just screwin around this morning warming up, nothin to fantastic.

CGHUB challenge Swamp thing

2011-06-14T08:05:00.000-07:00

Final image for the contest (will most likely polish it out later as its still very rough)

Update 6-17-11

Update 2, still plugging away and for some reason my swamp thing likes cigars.

So cg hub is running a character challenge for designing a swamp thing for live action film, the deadline is a bit short so this will be a bit rougher than usual for me...

Quick illustration (work in progress) for fun

2011-05-05T14:44:00.001-07:00

Update 6-1-11

updated 5-25-11

MK update

2011-05-01T00:43:00.001-07:00

Mortal kombat!

2011-04-28T11:36:00.000-07:00

Inspired by the polycount brawl challenge I started a concept re-do of Kabal from mortal kombat...

Dom war Shadow vs Corrupter update

2011-01-10T11:23:00.000-08:00

*updated 1-11-11*

Getting the values under control, going in now and handling local value/details. Gettin close to the end!

Still pluggin away at this train wreck

Mo' booty sketchin

2011-01-04T11:27:00.001-08:00

Just a little render practice, might finish it out...

Sketch Dump

2011-01-02T22:48:00.000-08:00

Some recent, some older various sketches and such...

Dom War 5 pre challenge: Shadow VS Corruptor

2010-11-28T22:12:00.000-08:00

*update 12-29-10*

Been a crazy few weeks with the move to texas. Finally got a lil time to go back to this. I ripped apart the image a good bit and re-worked the composition. Hopefully its for the best :)

*update* Chugging along on my final

Quick scribble for a start on my final

Pre Dom war sketching

2010-11-18T22:03:00.001-08:00

*Update 11-27-10*

Moving onto my final composition. Some quick value thumbs and a rough lay in for the final piece. Although line can be harder to read initially I like using it to establish strong flow and get all my dynamics in place.

*updated with refined character sketches*

So the new dominance war is about to begin...

Some quick thumbs for the pre challenge mmo character: 'Corruptor' and 'Shadow'

Pimpin ain't easy

2010-11-06T14:03:00.000-07:00

So after contacting Paul Richards (autodestruct.com) he was nice enough tolet me do a tutorial for his ever growing site http://babelab.blogspot.com/

This is an amazingly insightful art blog with great tutorials on drawing women so I really can't urge everyone enough to see all the awesome on there and I really am still shocked I got to contribute.

Anyhow enough blabbin...

Desert punk

2010-10-21T15:47:00.001-07:00

Finally finished up this fun little thing. Was a blast to work on.

Demons and stuff...

2010-10-03T21:37:00.001-07:00

Here are some quick sketches for my next sci fi character I will be getting on soon. Feels good to go back to some robots and stuff...love fantasy but whew wanna draw some lazer guns already :)

Viva la Brute!

2010-09-08T20:21:00.001-07:00

So here is a character concept for a big bruiser type of monster I have had floating in my head for a while now. Was alot of fun to do!

-Rayph

Death

2010-08-31T11:08:00.000-07:00

Been a while since my last post...blah.

Anyhow here is a character concept I did loosely inspired by the art of Darksiders.

Gameartisans comic-con mini challenge

2009-09-30T14:02:00.000-07:00

Here is my entry for this years comic con challenge, everyone's favorite 'predator'

I initially intended to stray a bit further from the original design then I did for the final but so much of what makes the character iconic once it is removed/altered really isn't the same anymore. So instead I went with pulling the creature into a bit more exaggerated route and gave him bigger feet for gripping/climbing and what not. Anyhow, hope you enjoy!

Dominance war Mini Challenge

2009-06-02T05:51:00.001-07:00

So here is my 'war general pet'. I tried to tie him into the war general I did previous 'General Zisa'

Mo' stuffs

2009-05-04T13:36:00.000-07:00

Been a while so here is some new stuff...poor neglected blog

Finished the 'demons vs dragons'

Dom war 4 mini contest 'war general'

Some Hot WoW lovin...

New year coming, new art!

2008-12-22T20:34:00.000-08:00

Gameartisans.org recently hosted a 'death knight' mini challenged sponsored by Blizzard that I decided to enter and lo and behold I actually won!

Here is a progress shot and final for my piece...

So a running joke debate we have at work is a question of whats cooler...Demons vs Dragons. Obviously I tend to side with demons and aim to illustrate why they are better :P And yea...this piece reeks of ultimate cheese, but an absolute guilty pleasure to work on.