Yeti/Lockhammer and The Pain of Being Dead 2: BALTIMONSTER

Here's a new painting I just recently finished. All digital again. Its a constant learning experience right now every time I work in photoshop. I recently picked up painter, so I'm going to try messing around with it soon, there will be updates when something of note comes out of that. Coming up, I'll also be starting work on a 36x48" oil painting. I'm super excited about that. I haven't seriously painted in oils since my freshman year at MICA, and even though I got into MICA with all oil paintings, I feel like I'm going to be learning the medium all over again. It should be fun/challenging/rewarding, which is the best way things should be.

Oh, I almost forgot! For those of you that havn't heard yet, my work is going to be on display alnong with a bunch of other fantastic artists in a show titled The Pain of Being Dead 2: BALTIMONSTER. The painting further up in this post, along with the Golden Yeh Rén and the Five Fingers of Olympus painting are all going to be up. Here's the info straight from the gallery's write up:

Pain of Being Dead 2: BALTIMONSTER ! Art show, live music and costume contest: Friday, October 24th, 8 p.m. at The Echo, 14 North Ave, directly next to The Windup. 14 North Avenue is a gigantic gallery space (with 6,600 white-walled feet!!!) directly next to The Windup on North Ave. Pain of Being Dead II: Baltimonster! is one of the first events to be held in this forthcoming exhibition and performance space. The only instructions contributing artists were given was, "make it monster." Come check out the mad resulting endproducts and hear some scary live music from The Survivors of Camp Crystal Lake, We Are the Seahorses, and Mr. Moccasin. Enter the costume contest, for best overall and best monsterfied Hon, and experience Halloween in a new space! DJs Action Pat and King Gilbert will be providing the spooktastic monster jams to kick your undead boots to. Artists include:
Brian Ralph
Alex Fine
Daniel Krall
Nolen Strals
Daniel Albrigo
Josh Sisk
Curt Eichelberger
Dan Janssen
Scott Archer
Jeremy Zombie
Ghostfreehood
Sam Bosma
Kevin Sherry/Squidfire
Rick Kercz
Toddfather
Kali Ciesemier
Jimmy Giegrich
Anthony Weber
Adrian Painter
Mark Kubat
Claire Painter
Justin Gilman & Tami Churns
Michael Anderson
John Dyer Baizley
Rich Marafioti
Monsterarm
Gus Bowman
Paigey!
Ramsay Antonio-Barnes
Rob Brulinski
Zachariah Bauer
Andrea Kalfas
Mike Riley
Brady Starr
Jereminus
Peter Goode
Sean of the Dead
Zachariah Bauer
Kishin

There will be an opening night of the show on Saturday, Oct. 11th where you can see the art and talk to the artists. BYOB on the 11th only.

And here's the flyer for the show closing. Complete with sweet illustration by Alex Fine.

The Golden Yeh Rén and Lobster Johnson

I know I promised these a little while ago, but here it is! New stuff! I've been working more and more with my wacom and its just been super convenient and enjoyable. Anyway, this first guy is a member of a tribe of ape-men called the Golden Yeh Rén. They live deep inside mountains near lava flows, and are the hated enemies of the Yeti. This was entirely digital, except for the sketch of that glove (read previous post for explanation). More on these guys to come in the future. He's super fun to draw and I already have some ideas I'm interested in persuing for other members of the tribe. This guy is the keeper of that long handled sword and glove. They're probably magical.




Up next is the finished front and side view of Lobster Johnson's turnaround. I'll probably eventually do a back view. That'll come whenever I feel like modeling him. I'm not to big on doing fan art, so spending a long time on something like this gets a little taxing. I really like him though, but its time for some new hotness to come out of the ol' creative juice factory.



It's pretty late now, and past my bedtime. In the future expect an update on the job situation, diploma status, a finished Hercules 3d model, and a painting featuring Willem Lockhammer from the Guild of Huntsmen. Its for a gallery show I'm going to be part of that opens in October. More on that later in the week.

Thanks for stopping by.


Zachariah Bauer

Lobster Johnson

Just a small update of what I've been working on so far for the Comicon competition before i go to bed. More to come in the next week. Everything is due on the 11th! I've got a lot more to do.

Edit: More progress!
Front view... done! Side view in progress still.

There's the Claw!

So I entered the Comicon Challenge over at gameartisans.org, my entry can be viewed here. I chose Lobster Johnson as the character I'd be redesigning/having fun with. For those that don't know hes a pulp crime fighter/paranormal investigator from the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. comics. He pretty much rules school. This is a cropping of the turnaround I'm working on. I have a bunch of sketches in my sketchbook that need scanning, but I'm currently on Karoline's laptop in the UMBC library and away from any sort of scanner. I'll post some of my Lobster sketches when I get near one.

Also, I've been working on the Hercules model a bit more when I have some free time from classes, their subsequent homework, drawing, and the ultimate time vacuum of night time video game relaxation. I'll post that also when I get back home. Until next time.

-Z Bauer

Camulus Textures continued

I've worked more on the textures for this guy. They're almost done. I've left out his cape, as it covers up a whole lot of his body in the turnaround. Rigging him is going to be super fun, I can't wait.

-Zachariah

Camulus Textures!

I started getting some work done on the textures on this guy finally. They're all flat colors at this point. But its also got Ambient Occlusion, and some intensive Normals. I can't wait to get him finished for reals. He'll be done next tuesday!

More updates on things later in the week.

-Zachariah

Energy Drink

I realized I never posted anything about this energy drink I designed the packaging for last semester. So here it is! Its called Brain Booze, a Russian coffee flavored alchoholic energy drink with enough caffeine and sugar to make your head pop.

here's the sketch:


Everything was looking pretty good in the sketch, so the final was a pretty easy process:


It was finished entirely in illustrator. I don't really use illustrator that often, but when I do it usually works out pretty well. Its a tedious process, but the great thing is that i can print this at 20 feet tall if I wanted, and nothing would get lost. Totally great!

Heres a self portrait i did in illustrator as a sketch one day:Expect more later in the week! Now I'm off to get my portfolio printed for my seminar presentation tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Cold Feet Cover FINISHED

So I decided not to add the comic company logo and tag, and went back into the colors and text. This is the final version of the cover. I'm pretty happy with it. I'm really enjoying inking like this. I just wish I had the time to do a full comic, and not just 5 pages. Speaking of which!






So thats it, theres the five pages of my first comic ever. Its pretty much the most epic super short comic i know of. Tell me what you think, I would love some solid feedback on this.

Cold Feet Cover Color

The cover is almost done being colored. Tell me what you think, I'm going to add a fake comic company logo in the top left corner along with a price tag. Now to go spend some time on 3d Modeling


-Zachariah

its been a while...

I havn't scanned anything in a while, nor have i posted. so heres some more sketches from the vault of last semester. these are a couple of early drawings of hercules, right after i took a bunch of reference photos of my friend kyle.

an this is a sweet knight i drew for part of a poster for the young playwright's festival.

And this is that same guy I did in the last post, but for a different project in digital illustration. It was about the backgrounds of nursery rhymes, can you guess which one it is? Now I'm working with him for my 3d Character Modeling class, and hes way more bad ass. He just keeps getting better! more on that later.

-zachariah

Celtic War God

Update! Heres a sketch for a piece I'm working on for the final in my digital illustration class. Its based off of Frank Frazetta's first Conan cover.I then lightboxed the small sketch onto a bigger piece of paper. (Still in progress.)
Scanned in the drawing and went to work with my poor-mans photoshop skills. (still in progress)
More updates to come as it reaches completion!


-Zachariah Bauer

First real post! hooray! I thought I should finally post some of the stuff I've been working on this semester up on this blog o' mine. So here goes.


Here is the first two spreads in my sketchbook for Thesis. I started thinking about how I wanted the art for my project to look.



This is the turnaround for the main character in my senior thesis, Herculese. (spelling intentional, and coloring in process)


A sketch I did for the Hydra character. I had a lot of fun coming up with a look that wasn't just a serpent. I wanted it to be a sort of underwater human. So i combined a squid, a large-mouth bass, and a slight samurai armor feel to come up with the look for him. When herculese fights him in the story. Instead of growing more heads, he makes mirror images of his body. So herculese is eventually fighting a small army of fish people.


I'll post some more things soon. After i get the good stuff scanned in.

-Zachariah Bauer