ArtRage Character Painting: Mathew Goldberg

Took a break today from the watercolors and made a quick digital oil character sketch in ArtRage. The character is from my Wakefield project. He is sort of a darwinian-intellectual-mathematician-carpetbagger type who gets pulled along on Wakefield’s adventures. I’m still flushing him out at the moment so nothing is too solid. Even the name is temp but I thought I would give a nod to Rube Goldberg I’ve always been fond of his illogical logic. Those charming qualities will hopefully be present in this young scientist as well.

nerdy math guy

A bit of a know it all but a gentle spirit.

I recorded the event as a script so afterwords I was able to make a time-lapse recording. It plays back at four times speed.

Ideas are Dangerous

skull lightbulb

Ideas are Dangerous

“Ideas are Dangerous” is the label given to a band of seafaring pirate monks in my Wakefield story. The monks travel the world coping important texts and codexes which they believe are valuable treasures. For this they are branded criminals and chased across the ocean blue. The monks embrace their trouble maker image and sail the high seas in search of the greatest treasure of all, truth. No library is safe.

I doodled their pirate logo on a piece of scrap paper today and thought I’d share.

a horse inside

Broken dreams

A few more pages from my sketchbook. More Wakefield story doodles. I’m having fun with this sequence so I think I’ll just keep going until it all falls apart. On a technical note, I really need to get a scanner. The photographs I’m posting here are fuzzy and the color is off. I’ve tried to correct it but you can only do so much.

Cardboard Wakefield

drawing

cardboard wakefield doodle

For the record, I have had this wax pencil & cardboard doodle of Wakefield sitting over my desk for a few years now.

Malgor rover painting

Red Rover

In honor of the Mars Curiosity Rover safely landing on Mars this afternoon I thought it would be nice to share some of these old Space Chimps rover concept drawings. It was fascinating to watch todays events unfold . I can’t help but reflect back to when I was in high school and watched Sojourner land on a dial up with my old mac tower. Moments like these really spark the imagination. Congrats to everyone at JPL.

Malgor rover painting

a detailed breakdown of the Chimps rover and all of its parts.

the claw

the claw animation sequence.

Unfloding rover

The rover unfolding sequence.