Couple of days ago my friend asked me to design him a tattoo. A half devil half angel . With some development I've finished the line work guide for the tattoo artist to work out the shading and match the style with already existing work on his arm. My friend really liked it and he is going to have it done soon (:] I am honoured!
22 Jan 2013
18 Jan 2013
Medeine, Baltic Goddess of the Forest
Medeinė (derived from medis
(tree) ), is one of the main deities in Baltic
mythology, She is a ruler of forests, trees and animals. Medeina is depicted as
a young silver-haired woman and a she-wolf; an
unmarried beautiful huntress. Her duty is not to help the hunters, but to protect the forest.
For a long time I wanted to do a painting as resolved as this.Overall, I think it was an excellent exercise in illustration and not as much in character design. I paid particular attention to poses, composition and colour (a great challenge was to avoid the generic blue-wash looks). Again, haven't used much reference here, only for the skin colour under moonlight.
Didn't have so much fun painting like this in ages! ((:]I hope next character from the Baltic Gods family, will be Telovelis...
17 Jan 2013
An Article in Lithuania's Largest Newspaper
A Young Lithuanian Emigrant Creates Portraits of Baltic Gods |
A very cheerful start of the day, reading a newspaper with an article about my own animations! (:]
Few days in 2013 I was contacted by the largest newspaper in Lithuania, 'Lietuvos Rytas' . Editor Dovile Lebrikaite has interviewed me about my character designs and animations, focusing mainly on The Baltic Pixie.
If you can read Lithuanian, find the article here
14 Jan 2013
Shipmen Assistant
This is a sketch I had a while back. A little idea was that in ship-building docks he is key assistant. Carries all the necessary tools, most importantly light. A job, I imagined, wouldn't need much qualification, so much like caretakers, a man could go into his elderly age still working it.
Progress of painting Shipmen Assistant.
10 Jan 2013
Perky Lady Painting
Getting to speed with drawing this year. Portraits are not something I draw often, but I;m quite happy how this one turned out without using any reference.
7 Jan 2013
Sketchbook Pages, 01 2013
12 Dec 2012
Stage Visual Design and Animation
At the end of November I've been involved in an exciting project. The task was to create variations of visuals for stage performance. Key topic asked to develop luscious and bizarre visuals with a performative aspect to it.
I've created some concept images, which inspired the clients to give me freedom with this one :]
The video shows several sequences which were taken apart and looped at the event:
This involvement has been great so far, and it seems there is another project, even more challenging, waiting for me ahead. I'm quite excited.
It is good timing for me, cause few days and I will finish my splendid experience in creative product team, TMS worldwide (Big thanks to Tom, Dave and Bryn!)
I've created some concept images, which inspired the clients to give me freedom with this one :]
The video shows several sequences which were taken apart and looped at the event:
This involvement has been great so far, and it seems there is another project, even more challenging, waiting for me ahead. I'm quite excited.
It is good timing for me, cause few days and I will finish my splendid experience in creative product team, TMS worldwide (Big thanks to Tom, Dave and Bryn!)
7 Dec 2012
Drawing Fresh: Airship
I continue on exploring some totally new fields to me. This time big fat thanks to Tom, for encouraging me to try totally new approach of drawing! I can't recall if I ever even tried drawing an airship too. It has been fantastic day!
JJ.
Little Doodles
Little doodles. Funny enough not quick to do this time. Particularly the one with more facial expresion to him.
JJ.
7 Nov 2012
Sketchbook; November's first week, 2012
25 Oct 2012
Illustrating Life Challenge: Caricature
Today I did something new, a caricature of Megan fox :]. This is thanks to Ruben and Ivana, who set up a page called Illustrating life. There will be two weekly challenges focusing around capturing life.
I drew this image over my lunch break, it took me something around an hour. It was honestly fun, because not ever did I even thought to try out drawing caricatures. They are great glamour busters! (:D (hence the choice of oversexualised Megan Fox icon ).
I drew this image over my lunch break, it took me something around an hour. It was honestly fun, because not ever did I even thought to try out drawing caricatures. They are great glamour busters! (:D (hence the choice of oversexualised Megan Fox icon ).
10 Oct 2012
October's Sketchbook 2012
Some new developments on the way (:] Have some ideas for little series of strange priest/nun characters , Looking rather bug-like . As well as another development for Lady-bird illustration.
I haven't used reference for the pose, so to achieve a rather loose pose.
I haven't used reference for the pose, so to achieve a rather loose pose.
3 Oct 2012
Evolved from Octopus : Air Pilot
As a follow up to previously uploaded sea creature paintings and studies, here is a character concept for the air pilot. the thought was to reimagine a human, who evolved from Octopus instead of chimpanzees. I used this little project to familiarise myself with male anatomy and muscles.
26 Sept 2012
Octopi, Sea Creatures and Air pilots
These are series of study sketches ( with a twist , the colour finishing) for a collaborative character design task . The theme is Air pilots, but they have descended from sea creatures, (shown in images underneath).
They are extremely quick to draw, each taking roughly 30-40 min. I am keen to boldly explore use of colour and some new visual depicting techniques ( Thanks for the tips to Tom McDowell, great artist! ).
Life Drawing at Angel
Yesterday a group of us went to Angel, (a place close to New Designers venue actually) for a life drawing session. It has been a while since I last time did figure drawing, perhaps 4-5 months ago. So I found it extremely enjoyable after such a long break :] Also, to all of our pleasure, we had a really interesting model.
3-5 min poses |
2 min poses |
30 min pose |
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