Jeremy Kool's art blog

Cthulu-Crab Turn-Table

2012-01-15T16:04:00.001-08:00

Flying Cthulu Crustation

2012-01-12T23:00:00.000-08:00

I think he's just about done. Will do a turn table I think!

Whigwham

2011-11-30T16:51:00.001-08:00

Early render of a creature I'm creating for a freelance gig. A fair bit of detailing to add...

The Paper Fox Project

2011-09-03T21:25:00.000-07:00

The Paper fox project has been kicked off on Pozible.com.au and is going far better than I could have hoped! Click on the image below and have a look, maybe even buy a print or two to support the project :)

Yeti! grrr argh

2011-08-17T19:17:00.000-07:00

Creature concept for a game :) Just a bit of fun.

Basemesh WIP

2011-08-16T22:22:00.000-07:00

Started on a male basemesh. Haven't done any sculpting for a while so it's nice to get back into it.

Abstracted

2011-08-01T17:18:00.000-07:00

Created this for the hero image for the new Current Circus site. The crosses are spat out of a particle emitter. T'was fun to make :)

More sketchbook

2011-05-16T18:41:00.001-07:00

Life Drawings

2011-05-08T00:35:00.000-07:00

Got around to photographing some life drawings in this weekend.

New book

2011-03-14T02:53:00.000-07:00

Christened my new book:

Old book

2011-03-13T18:20:00.001-07:00

Some sketches from a recently finished moleskin:

Front-end hi-res fun

2011-02-14T17:47:00.000-08:00

Here's some recent stuff from the game I'm working on with the funky cats over at Current Circus. These are hi-res meshes, rendered for front-end screens. The game has a sci-fi / steampunk vibe:

I'm back!

2011-02-14T17:25:00.000-08:00

...well, I never really left - but have been a little preoccupied with a new little person in the house. His name is Megatron Underpants McTavish and he's 13 weeks old:

... my wife didn't approve of a name with "underpants" in it, so we opted for Griffin Alexander ;)

ChoW#217 : The Underground Tribe

2010-10-13T17:29:00.000-07:00

My character for the underground tribe, the shaman. Didn't get this in to ChoW because I had some other stuff on my plate, but it's a good motivator.

1000 Mettle Folds

2010-10-05T18:18:00.000-07:00

My sister's first published novella! Artwork inspired by Dexter's blood spatter analysis.

Available here! Only 150 in the first edition run, get in quick.

Ogre render

2010-10-03T20:31:00.000-07:00

Rendered in Mental Ray.

Ogre Sculpt

2010-09-28T23:43:00.000-07:00

Just about done with this fella.

WIP - Ogre Sculpt

2010-09-27T20:54:00.000-07:00

A WIP sculpt for one of my best friends who will be making a mask based on this sculpt. Quickly slapped on some Polypaint in my lunch break to pop out some details.

The cardboard fox

2010-09-19T16:44:00.000-07:00

Game idea that I'm working on. Fantastic Mr. Fox meets paper craft!

Massey Render

2010-08-18T15:06:00.000-07:00

Finished. :) Will be doing a turn-table soon.

More Massey

2010-08-16T04:49:00.000-07:00

Modeling is pretty much done. A few final tweaks here and there and then BAM, render town.

Massey: More detail

2010-08-12T20:44:00.000-07:00

Now with seat, gearbox and a steering wheel. Engine block detailing next up.

Massey Update

2010-08-09T15:22:00.001-07:00

Massey update. With only short bursts of time to play with this, it's coming along slowly but surely. Working on the engine block next.

Massey: small update

2010-07-18T20:41:00.001-07:00

Working on the chasis. Won't spend much more time on it and will move on to blocking out larger areas.

New project: Massey Ferguson 1963

2010-07-14T20:36:00.000-07:00

Something a little different. Building up the high-res first, then going to bake it out to a low poly.

3d Model: Medusa Finished

2010-06-27T19:52:00.000-07:00

Turn-table coming soon.

3d Sculpt: Medusa update

2010-06-23T20:33:00.000-07:00

3d Model: Medusa

2010-06-14T20:21:00.000-07:00

OMG! Update. Yes, I'm still alive. I've been busy helping a mate out on a project, which has just been wrapped up. Back to it. Modelled better snakes heads and added metal bands.

3D Sculpt: First pass Medusa

2010-04-15T16:49:00.000-07:00

First modeling/sculpting pass on a new bust. Will start to work on the snakes next.

It's a pig-man, Jerry

2010-04-14T19:51:00.001-07:00

Just a quick one.

Sketches: Night Rider redux

2010-03-25T20:50:00.000-07:00

After some great feedback from Rich Lyons - I worked up this sketch. Used heavy ref for the horse and created a more dynamic pose for the rider.

Sketch: Night Rider

2010-03-20T21:22:00.001-07:00

Got this finished for the week's deadline, but will be coming back to it. Rich gave me some great feedback on horse anatomy & the character, so I'll be re-working it for good practice :)

Posed: Pikeman

2010-03-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

3D Sculpt: Pikeman Update

2010-03-15T23:08:00.001-07:00

3D Sculpt: Pikeman Update

2010-03-14T20:49:00.001-07:00

Almost finished Zbrushin'. Will start working on weapons + details next.

Sketches: Cyber punk

2010-03-11T21:23:00.001-08:00

Sketch group topic: Cyber-punk gang member with at least one cybernetic appendage. I was going to give him a massive robotic arm but I already have something like that in the blog... So I decided to go for something a little understated.

3D Sculpt: Pikeman Start

2010-03-10T16:00:00.000-08:00

Started modeling / sculpting the pikeman concept for shits and giggles. Going to put a bunch more detail, straps/buckles and whatnot.

Sketch: Wastelander + Colour + Rim

2010-03-06T14:59:00.000-08:00

A quick colour treatment for the wasteland scavenger. Thanks to Mike and Dave for giving me some great lighting tips! :D

Sketch: Wastelander

2010-03-04T13:54:00.000-08:00

Sketch group weekly challenge! The topic: The last survivor (at least he/she thinks itself is the last) of a nuclear holocaust, wandering around the desolated cities.

Sketch: Final Dwarf

2010-02-26T13:35:00.000-08:00

Just a quick tonal rendering to finish this sketch off. Will focus more on the rendering next time > better lighting > rim light!

Sketches: Crazed Dwarf Pose

2010-02-25T18:39:00.001-08:00

Crazed Dwarf full body sketch. No where near done. He's quite grumpy.

Sketches: Crazed Dwarf

2010-02-22T23:31:00.000-08:00

Joined a sketch group! This week's topic is a crazy ex-lumberjack dwarf, out for revenge. Some prelim sketches to give myself a feel for the character.

3d model: Dino - Pose Two

2010-02-21T00:05:00.000-08:00

He looks a little pissed.

3d model: Dino - Pose One

2010-02-21T00:04:00.001-08:00

3d model: Dino Rigging / Skinning

2010-02-21T00:01:00.001-08:00

Finished skinning the Allosaurus and started posing it today. I didn't mind the skinning process; I thought it would be a nightmare but weight-painting was surprisingly relaxing! Big ups to Dave & Ian for helping me out with the rig - that would have sucked trying to remember that solo :)

3d model: Allosaur, now in 3 flavours!

2010-02-17T03:49:00.001-08:00

Lit the model and have applied 3 different diffuse maps. I like the green, but the white works as well.

3d model: Allo New Colour

2010-02-16T03:55:00.000-08:00

I was asked to changed the colour... so viola! Colour changed. Finally got the displacement map working in maya... what a headache that turned out to be. Thankfully Matty was able to give me some life saving tips. Binge has also been a life saver on this little project of mine. Big ups to those boys :)

3d model: Allo render SSS

2010-02-14T03:29:00.000-08:00

Spent today getting everything imported into maya and messing with the sub-surface scattering shaders. After a bit of trial and error, it started looking ok :) Now... to rig. :/

3D Model: Allosaurus max render

2010-02-13T05:27:00.000-08:00

Low Poly model with normal map, quick render in max. Low poly cage = around 10k Tris.

2D Concept Art: Pikemaster

2010-02-08T03:10:00.002-08:00

And the last of the set:

2D Concept Art: Pikeman

2010-02-08T03:10:00.001-08:00

2D Concept Art: Blacksmith

2010-02-08T03:09:00.001-08:00

2D Concept Art: Butcher

2010-02-08T03:08:00.001-08:00

2D Concept Art: Mayor (final)

2010-02-08T02:55:00.001-08:00

The first of the set.

3D Sculpt: Allosaurus w/ Colour

2010-02-07T17:34:00.001-08:00

This is a week or two down the track from the sculpts I posted earlier. I changed the proportions, focussing on musculature and polypainted the mesh in Zbrush. I will bake the normals, cavity map and diffuse texture from this and rig it up in maya. Fun times!

2D Concept Art: The Mayor

2010-02-07T16:42:00.000-08:00

Character concept: This guy is the town mayor. The challenge for me was to keep his clothing archaic but give him a regal air. The final product was quite different to how it began. Based on feedback I was given, I exaggerated the proportions and gave him more expression. I drew a few other characters for this, so I will post them also!

Art Dump: 20 Minute Robots

2010-02-07T03:05:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple of robot sketches. I gave myself a 20 minute time limit for each and approached each differently.

Art Dump: Older piece

2010-02-07T02:45:00.001-08:00

This is an older piece. I illustrated this for one of my best mates, it was a 30th birthday present. I wanted to create something that could either be perceived as foreboding or beautiful.

3D Sculpt: Allosaurus, first pass

2010-02-07T01:57:00.000-08:00

This is an early sculpt of my current project - a theropod dinosaur, the Allosaurus. This is the second round of sculpting after retopologising the first sculpt to get a cleaner mesh. As I'm going to be animating it I had to get the mesh as clean as possible. More on this to come.

Art Dump: Dino-dig shirt

2010-02-07T01:34:00.000-08:00

I did this drawing for the back of the 2010 Dinosaur Dreaming T-shirts. They thought it would be nice to have it appear as if the dinosaur was climbing up the back of the shirt.

3D Model: Escher inspired

2010-02-07T01:31:00.001-08:00

An Escher inspired building I made to get my head around mental ray. About 3 days work. May go back later and give it another lighting pass.

3D Sculpt: Goat

2010-02-06T15:32:00.000-08:00

This is a Zbrush sculpt I made late last year. I've been using Zbrush a lot more recently and it's become one of my favorite and most powerful tools. I will post up more sculpts as time goes on.

Art Dump: More cyber-punk

2010-02-06T15:25:00.000-08:00

Unfinished, but I kind of like it that way. I like the contrast of colours and the sketchy line-work over the soft brushes. I will explore this style a little more I think.

Art Dump: Tattoo Design

2010-02-06T15:16:00.000-08:00

This is a commissioned tattoo I created for a mate of mine. His girlfriend is a writer and the brief was simply that it had to contain a fountain pen. She chose the middle one.

Art Dump: The Angels

2010-02-06T14:56:00.001-08:00

This was a quick one. I wanted to draw a character that looked like it belonged in a bizarre fighting game - bayonetta meets street fighter 4.

Art Dump: Dentata Daemon

2010-02-06T14:50:00.000-08:00

Drew this a couple of months back for one of the conceptart.org creature challenges. I'll have to do one of those again when my plate clears, having a 1 week deadline was a nice motivator. Everyone who saw this told me his face looked quite vaginal :/ ... and that's how it's name was born.

Art Dump: Space Punk

2010-02-06T14:37:00.000-08:00

This is an illustration I finished a few months back. In recent months I found myself in a cycle of sketching a lot but taking none of my sketches through to fruition. This illustration represents one of the first pieces that broke that cycle. ps. Cyber-punks rule.