The Art of Blake Henriksen

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Critters

So here's the final of my four pictures that I did over my summer break. I wanted to design a character which was more cartoony and I hope that I achieved that.

This was a fun picture and took 6 hours and 45 minutes from start to finish to design in Photshop CS4.

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Bully

So this is the second of four pictures that I did over my summer break. I thought that it would be fun to do a picture that depicted the literal appearance of it's written name, hence a bull dog is a half dog, half bull mixture. This was a fun pic and I learned a lot from it.

Total time 13.5 hours from start to finish in Photoshop CS4

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Pirate

This was the second picture which I painted entirely in gray scale and then colored. While that has some great advantages I think that I prefer just coloring from the bottom up.

As far as the character herself she's part human and part bloodelf (hence the shorter ears), created in the vein of World of Warcraft and a pirate at that. There's more to her but I'll keep the details to myself for now

From start to finish in Photosho CS4 23.5 hours

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Midnight

Here's my rendition of a modern day dark fairy. 13 hours from start to finish in Photoshop CS4.

Liberator

So I wanted to design a character that would be in the vein of World of Warcraft and I thought that it would be interesting to do a dark elf (cause everything is more fun when you put dark in front of it

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From start to finish in Photoshop CS4 15 hours.

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Haunted House Matte Painting

This is my first matte painting and I actually found it to be pretty fun. I liked trying to find a bunch of unrelated photos and trying to cut and paste them together and then make them look like they weren't. Anyways, still learning but it's a fun process.

Around 14 hours in Photoshop CS4.