SketchUp tutorial in ImagineFX magazine

smokinbakin · 26 Jul 2009, 01:03

Wow! How long does something like that take you to paint, and how big are the paintings?

olishea · 26 Jul 2009, 16:39

wow crazy stuff!!!!

fefillo · 26 Jul 2009, 20:40

Great stuff!!

Something intrigues me greatly though... is that a real gorilla or a guy on a gorilla suit??

Fefo

Alex Jenyon · 27 Jul 2009, 07:19

It's a real gorillia - his name is Jonte...

It's sort of based on a little sketch I did a while ago of a couple of characters for a story:

But the commissioning editor wanted something 'a bit more sci-fi', hence the hover-car.

Took about 4 days to do the illustration in total - 2 days SU, 2 days paint. I'd normally spend a bit less time in SketchUp, and not really care how messy the geometry was - but this was for a step-by-step workshop, so I had to make sure it looked presentable at each stage.

Oh, and they were painted at twice HD - 3840 x 2160 px

Thanks for the comments everyone...

AJ

andyc · 27 Jul 2009, 11:06

Nice bit of well-deserved exposure for you Alex

Great images. Really nice quality of light in the second one.

cheers,

Andy.

plot-paris · 28 Jul 2009, 13:34

great paintings, Alex. which program do you use for painting? is it all photoshop?

JHuman · 28 Jul 2009, 14:03

Very amazing work! I love it.

andeciuala · 28 Jul 2009, 23:20

Fantastic work! I love it! realy!

johnsenior1973 · 29 Jul 2009, 00:00

@plot-paris said:

great paintings, Alex. which program do you use for painting? is it all photoshop?

He used Corel Painter for those two images. http://www.aj-concepts.net/Concept_art/conceptart.html .

olishea · 29 Jul 2009, 15:17

wow that website is incredible!!

pbacot · 29 Jul 2009, 16:14

Wonderful work. I want to read the book the first one is the cover for.