Dwarven Lighthouses?! Believe it.

I decided it was about time to try something new in 3d. How about a building? Sounds good. Here's a couple renders of a little modeling practice I did over the weekend. It is a Dwarven Lighthouse, and is based off a concept from WAR which can be found here. The poly count is somewhere around 2,800. I'm not sure if that's good or bad as I've never actually seen anyone make a low poly building/environment. Textures should come eventually.



-Zachariah Bauer

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.

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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

Sketch Explosion!

Hello! Its good to see you here! Its about that time that I post something on here to prove to myself that I havn't been sitting around doing nothing since my summer classes got out. One thing that I have been doing a fair amount of is sketching! The images that follow are just that. Hooray!
This is one of the many spreads I filled in my sketch book of Lobster Johnson drawings while I was trying to figure out just how I wanted him to look. This is the drawing that pretty much set it in concrete, as you can hopefully tell by the speech bubble.



This here is one of the sketches I did recently for Hercules. I'm planning out another painting to do based more on the story this time. We'll all have to wait and see when that piece gets its turn at being painted.



My favorite cowboy monster hunter, Willem Lockhammer! I'm going working a lot more on him and his story in the coming months. I also have a friend thats going to be helping me blast out some stories for to be made into comics. Yeah, I'm pretty pumped about that. A full line of character concepts will be blasted out before that happens though. They should be around in the somewhat near future, after I get some other things done.



This is just a Viking that decided to stop by and remind me that I had to watch Good Will Hunting for class the last weekend. Worry not, it was watched, and a paper was written on it. He was pretty fun to draw, and he, just like every other sketch in this post, isn't really finished due to my terrible judgement as to placement on the page. Moleskins are officially too small for me.



And lastly, a little sneak peak as to what piece I'm cooking up right now. This is just a detail sketch I did for the glove that this wild man is wearing. It looks way cooler in the painting. I still enjoy the sketch though. It's the only part of the painting done not on the computer. I'm enjoying Photoshop more and more now. Maybe it's due to my lack of room to paint, maybe it's because I like not having to spend so much time cleaning up afterwards. Or maybe it's because I finally feel like I got the hang of my tablet. Only time will tell.

I'll be posting the finished Lobster Johnson piece and something completely new, but related to that glove, some time at the end of next week. Untill then, stay gold.


-Zachariah Bauer



p.s. I almost forgot! Here's the finished version of that Superman sketch that I was working on before.

More Soon

No work to post currently. I went on vacation to visit my parents in Connecticut for the past 5 days, and before that was finishing up the last bit of my summer classes. I have been working on some pretty cool things though. Once they're all done I'll post them and maybe some progress shots mixed in. I'm going to try and streamline this posting process a bit more in the future so instead of some in-progress posts and then a final post, it'll all be together at once. I like the sound of that more.

On a side note, this is pretty much my favorite animal right now. I present to you the Golden Monkey, or the Chinese Snub-Nosed Monkey:


-Zachariah

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

Keep on keepin on

Hey everybody. Just wanted to let everyone know I'm still working on stuff, and not just 3d. I had been thinking about this eskimo-type character for the Guild of Huntsmen comic for a while. I did some drawings, all of which were either bad, or worse. But during my art history class yesterday I noticed these two small ovals that had made it onto the page of my sketchbook some how and thought, "Hm that would be a sweet head to beard ratio." Exact words, i swear. And it turned into the head and goatee of the small guy on the top left. I finally did something i liked for this guy. I'm probably going to settle with the look on the right, or something close to it. A complete drawing will be posted whenever i get around to doing character mock-ups for everyone. I have someone thats going to help me write a story for a complete series. Its going to be epic. Yetis will probably be involved in some way.


This next drawing i did while sitting at the laundromat today. I was pretty upset with myself for not working on something for the project rooftop "Superman: Man of Style" challenge. So this is a quick, half hour in my sketch book drawing i did. Maybe I'll finish it? what do you think? The bottom of the drawing is the bottom of my sketch book, so it'll have to be finished digitally. Which would be sweet because I'd then have a good reason to get some digital painting time in. Yeah?

And lastly, an update on the Hercules model. The head is actually almost done again after a crash i had. It always seems to crash when i get into a modeling trance and forget the whole "saving your work" idea. Anywhoo, its a bit further along than this, but i don't have a more recent screen grab so this'll have to do for now. More to come later in the week, time for some literature class writing. Hooray!

Z Bauer out!

A Dry Spell

Hey everybody. My apologies for being so neglecting to this thing the past few weeks. Moving, finding a job, and everything in between have kept me from producing much artwork. But all that is now over. I'm all moved in, started making money again, and am back doing what i love. I just started making a 3d model of Hercules. I've spent just a couple hours so far, getting back used to edge pulling again. Heres a screen grab:

I've also been slowly working on finishing up the textures on Camulus, along with starting some new and exciting digital paintings. Updates on here should be back to normal in the next couple weeks. Woo!

-Zachariah