Space port type thing

Sponateous Design

Here is a speedpaint design of a creature. I like this as it was completely off the cuff which isnt something I normally do.

Hmmm

Well I did something, It's oookkkaaayy I guess but kinda looks overworked, which I guess is natural seeing I was trying quite hard.

Help!..

I am suffering from chronic 'subject matter ideation disfunction' yeah that's right I dont know what to draw, well not to the extent that I persevere with something to a near complete state. I have tried for what can be about 5 hours on and off to come up with something more spontaneous be it a creature or vehicle design and I just cant come up with anything at the minute and god knows I've stared lots of things only to bin it, That indeed maybe my problem. But I am trying and I rekon once I get over this 'hump' I'll get back into the zone baby.

40 Min lunchtime sketch

'Invasion'

Hi Peeps, sorry for the lack of action in the last couple of weeks, I've been doing ALOT of drawing and crayoning pretty pictures but alas, cannot post them up at the moment due to the project not being announced. Normally I'm not one to tow the party line on such matters but knowing my luck this one would bit in the arse (or ass for our american cousins).

Anyway, my daily stuff is a little cutesy, vibrant and quite clean so in typical knee jerk reaction I am trying to 'up' my 'concepty' stuff and add more Sci Fi subject matter. Hey it may not be original but it does tick boxes on a portfolio!

"There's somebody at the door...."

Okay, all that's missing is Rod Hull and Emu .....enough with the TV Cream style editorial!! Here is a Stylized windmill.

1 Year on....

Approximatly a year ago my wife just had eachother in Australia. We were marking time until we came home to England. We'd made up our mind that Australia wasnt for us for reasons I wont bore you all with, though feel free to read about it here .

http://jaycedownunder.blogspot.com/

though its not exactly the most uplifting of reading. You have been warned :)

It was on the quiet boring nights that I picked up the virtual pencil and paper (wacom and laptop to you and me) and started redeveloping my 2D skills. Afterall I had time of my hands and thus this blog was born. I quickly found that my real passion lies with 2D work. I'm a fairly accomplished 3D artist and still enjoy it but I think that 2D requires a real talent and flair that couldnt be learnt rather than the technical nous of modelling which can be achieved with little artist ability.

So a year on and my wife and I are back in England and I've been flirting with the freelance scene for a few months. As much as I like the ups, I cannot enjoy them for fear of the inevitable downs that accompany them. With this in mind I began a search for the dreaded fulltime job. I start my new position on Monday. Its a concept art position but doing 3D work when there is a lull in the 2D stuff. Fingers crossed this should keep me busy and interested for some time to come but as my wife will testify I can be quite pedantic when it comes to my work life.

So in short, after year of posting stuff on this blog site I am now of a standard where I am employable for my 2D work yay! I'll still keep my hand in the 3D work as I like to keep my options open and it moves so fast I have to stay current.

Its a week until I start my new job and sods law has struck. I'm trying to do some doodles to get me back in the 'zone' and for some reason I cant draw or paint for toffee, also somewhat ironic as seeing as its a year on I wanted to show some new cool work to say 'hey! look how I've improved' and I have a block.

Anyway here is my doodle, didnt know what I was gonna draw until it happened. Its some kinda a 'concepty-robot-alien' thing.

New Composition

Brrraaainnnnss

This is an experiment to see if I can *do* gritty. The second one was to a brief. Comments and crit all well recieved especially as this isnt my normal fair.

"Leaves on the track"

Just an apology in the lack of 'owt new recently. My head hasnt been in the right place for in as I've got a gazillion things on the go - Redecorating the house (Bathroom, garden and kitchen ouch!) plus I need to get some work freelance or fulltime so I'm kinda stressing at the minute hence the lack of concetration and thus, new work.

I have a few things half done so their maybe a glut of stuff soon :)

Product Design - Kettle

In order to illustrate to prospective clients some of my 'skillz' I decided to go back to my product design roots and design a kettle. Not very glam I know, but it shows that I can do high res meshes as well as decent rendering, so here we have it.

I'll be getting down and dirty with mental ray in the forthcoming weeks so the renders should get better, plus this was done in 'Max' which I have limited knowledge of the renderer, lights and materials etc...thats my excuse and Im sticking to it.

By the way I feel I should tell you that im doing this as an agent told me my concept stuff was strong enough but my 3d needed different types of stuff to make me more 'marketable' to an array of industries.

Expect some loose pretty painting as a direct back lash to this :)

'The Summoning'

This is a 'speed' paint I did for a dragon jam on drawingboard.org - It wasn't that speedy but I'm pretty happy with it .... for now.

Vikings are the new black FACT!

Well there seems to be a lot of ‘Viking’ presence on various art sites nowadays so I thought I'd jump on a bandwagon seeing as it was passing. I thought I'd try and push a 'cartoon network' style concentrating on bold shapes and details that don’t break the shapes' boundary.

Ta - Daaaa....

Okay I know I've been quiet of late, but I've been freelancing doing some outsource work AND some teaching which is very cool but very scary as you just never know what is going to happen.

So when I've not been trekking into the London I've redesigned my webiste. I've tried to keep it clean and simple and easy to add/replace new works.

www.jasonpickthall.com

Most of the new stuff is the content from this blog but there are some examples of my 3d game work and other miscellaneous stuff.

Li'l Gods - Ares

Here is a preliminary design for Ares the main villain of the piece

Li'l Gods - 3D Cyclops WIP

Here is a 3D Interpretation on the cyclops design I did a few months ago. This is not to say that the whole thing is now 3D but I just used it as an excercise in familiarizing myself 3D Max again. Also once I have Mudbox on my machine i'll use to practice adding surface detail.

It's like a jungle sometimes....

About 2 hours worth, Im pretty chuffed with it, well, for the next 10 mins at least.

3D - RP7 Rocket Launcher

I know there is some 3D stuff creeping in here but I thought I'd post it as a means of almost justifying my lack of fresh 2D work. This was a freelance paid job for a 'next gen' game. Not inspirational but hey, it pays the bills.

I'm almost sad to put this up here as it really jars with some of the more stylized and innocent things I've posted here....hmmm

20 Second Scribbles

Okay, I know these won't win any prizes but they were done in china, on the fly, and in probably 20 ish seconds so, y'know, be kind. PLUS they were done with a real biro on real paper, practically stone age technology I know, Tsk madness I tells ya