The Crabshack Gallery » Art

Paint it Black

MashPotato — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:03:21 +0000

Woo, I’m on an update roll! School’s almost done, and I’ll be going back on Project Zomboid fulltime :)

I quite like how this one turned out, especially as I did pretty much all of it in one day :) My favourite painting in a while.

The Little Mermaid, Part 3

MashPotato — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:55:14 +0000

The exciting conclusion to the Little Mermaid trilogy! It’s like the other two, but bigger with more explosions! ;)

The castle of the sea king, based on coral. I really tried throughout this project to keep everything very organic.

The Sea Witch’s lair. Once again with the organic origins: her chair is a dolphin skeleton, her cauldron is a giant clam, and the lights are little phosphorescent fish trapped behind films (which you can’t really tell in this picture, but that was the idea behind it ;) )

The Little Mermaid, part 2

MashPotato — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:05:35 +0000

Here’s more selections from the Little Mermaid project :)

Character expressions:

Character poses:

Maquette made from super sculpey:

The Little Mermaid, part 1

MashPotato — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:19:52 +0000

So… I’m back ;)

For anyone who visits here but not The IndieStone (and why would you do that? ;) ), the update of Project Zomboid has arrived! It’s not fully official yet (we’re still squashing bugs), but if you can’t wait, you can download it here.

So here’s some stuff I’ve been up to on the non-PZ front in school: some concept art based on The Little Mermaid. I went with the original Hans Christian Andersen version, which is really a beautiful story and makes me cry every time ;) I decided to make the mermaids more fish-like; a bit monstrous, but pretty in their own way.

Here’s a character lineup: the little mermaid (based on a copper-banded butterfly fish), the sea witch (angler fish), generic merman (royal blue tang), and the human form of the little mermaid.

A character rotation of the little mermaid:

And a closeup action shot!

More to come later!

Looooong Necks

MashPotato — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:02:54 +0000

Some giraffes with loooooooong necks!

Traditional ink with one of those fancy metal nib dip pens. Those make me feel like a proper artist ;)

Three Pages

MashPotato — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:55:27 +0000

Well, here I am at the end of my semester, and I find myself updating for the first time since it started. This blog format was supposed to make me post MORE :(

Here’s a sequence of 3 pages done for a children’s illustration course in which we illustrated an Aesop fable. I did the North Wind and the Sun :)

All the Noise, Noise, Noise, Noise!

MashPotato — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:15:58 +0000

Illustrator work from last semester :)

Ahoy thar!

MashPotato — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:31:22 +0000

Wheee, end of second semester, and two more to go :)

A character design for a bloodthirsty harlot-turned-pirate. I have more of her, but I like this one best :)

Putting the “Crab” in “Crabshack”

MashPotato — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:21:48 +0000

Something I did last semester and only got around to scanning now. My second use of ink and washes :)

Pie

MashPotato — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:50:11 +0000

For a school assignment I had to mess around with halftone stuff, and inspired by Neil Gaiman’s Rule of Pie, I decided to go all retro with a slice of delicious pie ;) I was thinking cherry rather than strawberry, though.