CharReed's Portfolio

Feral

CharReed — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:00:29 GMT

Feral

Perhaps the Alpha of her pack or a lone wonderer, this manner of beast should be heeded if a lost soul is unfortunate enough to come upon her in the depths of the night....
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I thought that sexy werewolf chicks were sorely under represented in the fantasy community! So I decided to help remedy that. When working on this piece, I really wanted to make her eyes stand out, gazing with a peering wolf eye wrapped in human form. I added some subtleties such as the fur texture and the wolf-like rather than human-like eyelashes. I had to be told that her eye markings were WoW night elvish, that was totally by accident I just meant for the markings to indicate she's a werewolf when in wolf form. Convergent ideas are funny

CartoonConceptweb.jpg

CharReed — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:59:31 GMT

CartoonConceptweb.jpg

I have been chugging away at a professional artist portfolio to show potential employers. This was the third piece I finished for that portfolio, I hope to have a total of 9 pieces by the end of it (to be completed asap, so stay tuned).

This piece was done to demonstrate a more "cartoony" style, based off of the character design for Frontier Development's Wii title: Lostwinds.

Hope you guys (and potential employers) like!

Ancient Temple

CharReed — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:58:49 GMT

Ancient Temple

Trekking up through the hot rainforest, early dawn breaks out over the horizon as I peer up through a break in the foliage. The archaeological find of the century lays before me... But wait? Did someone already find it?
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I have been chugging away at a professional artist portfolio to show potential employers. This was the second piece I finished for that portfolio, I hope to have a total of 9 pieces by the end of it (to be completed asap, so stay tuned). This piece was a demonstration of the landscapes I can do when pushed to do them This was quite a fun piece to work on! Always try something different or new, you might just surprise yourself

Hope you guys (and potential employers) like!

Hippogryph

CharReed — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:56:54 GMT

Hippogryph

I have been chugging away at a professional artist portfolio to show potential employers. This was the first piece I finished for that portfolio, I hope to have a total of 9 pieces by the end of it (to be completed asap, so stay tuned).

Hope you guys (and potential employers) like!

Rioxia Cheetah Portrait

CharReed — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:44:17 GMT

Rioxia Cheetah Portrait

I finished my portrait of my character Rioxia. I've had this picture sitting on my desktop for the past week and I just never really worked on it as much as I should. Mostly I'd gotten the Holiday Laziness bug, fortunately it's over now and I'm on a mission to get as many pictures finished before the break is over.

Surprising maybe, but no white was used in the making of this picture. And no blue was used. All the colours are various shades of red or pink, except the eyes. I was curious if I could accomplish this in a picture. Hopefully it looks alright. Crits and critique welcome, as always.

Thanks for looking.

Alpha Mare

CharReed — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:01:56 GMT

Alpha Mare

The alpha mare charges up and stares at you with her cold blue eyes, posing as a warning- Are you friend or foe?

Well, a piece that has been laying around as a sketch for about a year is now finished. I worked on it for about a week I guess, some 1-4 hours at a time after work. The perspective was definitely a challenge and I had a reference for the girl, but through a computer upgrade and a move across an ocean, somewhere along the lines, the pic got deleted. And damned if I could find another reference in the same position. I found a few that were close for shading.

Some things I like are the perspective. I think That it came out well. I also like the fur detailing, though I might try a different technique next time.

Some things I don't like are the color saturation. I tried to tone it down, but it's very difficult for me to master. Also the shading was pretty difficult. Especially since she is meant to be a roan coloration which means she has a light hide. I didn't portray the coloration as well as I would have liked or that I imagined.

HORSE GEEK ALERT!
(Don't say I didn't warn you...)
As I mentioned, she is meant to be a red or strawberry roan. I decided to go with the wall eyes because they look cool! So she's not just blue eyed because humans can be, but she's got the freaky look of a horse with ice blue wall eyes

It's me! As a caricature!

CharReed — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:13:35 GMT

It's me! As a caricature!

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to show off my latest creation, started and completed tonight. I've been massively massively inspired by the likes of Bobby Chiu and Joe Bluhm recently, and it's definately given me the inspirational lift I believe that has pushed my art to the next "level". I have to give out a special shout out to Bobby for taking the time out of his busy schedule to respond to an email I wrote. It really inspired me, and even though it wasn't a huge long email or anything, just that he responded was a great pick-me-up.

I am pretty proud of how this piece turned out. It's my first completed caricature. I'd greatly appreciate any critique even though I have called it finished. I hope you all like. Thanks for looking!

Here is the reference this piece was extrapolated from -> http://www.charrartist.com/Art/CharRef1.jpg (I was trying to make a funny face!)

Char

In the moonlight of the night....

CharReed — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:46:09 GMT

In the moonlight of the night....

Or... something like that. I would have been smart to write down a few of the titles I was thinking of while I was working on this piece. Probably one of the more in depth pieces I've managed to do in quite a long while. This took about a week and a half to complete. I didn't really want to show any work in progress because even though I really appreciate crits and critique, I wanted to really gauge my own level. I wanted to note where my skills lie in their own right and see where I stand. How do you know what to improve if you never know where you stand? I wanted a solid, completed piece for people to critique me on, because sometimes a WIP, the line seems to blur between what is the idea you want to convey and what idea others want you to convey- even though a good critic will concentrate on the facts of the piece, not necessarily the subject matter.

Well- here is my werecat, loosely based on my character as well as my character in Oblivion. That game really inspired this piece to come to life. I first worked in Open Canvas and soon got frustrated with the lack of sure power of the program. I believe I wanted to move the sketch over and couldn't figure out how to do so without rotating the whole canvas - which I found a useless capability. I dragged it over to Photoshop and turned it into quite the project. Originally just a line drawing, the linework I created in OC was not satisfactory. So I turned it into a lineless piece and I like it much better for it.

Seeing a smaller version makes me realise that the character is a bit bright and I could possibly push color contrast and just regular contrast more in the piece. The light from the front of the character is a bit bright. The piece does not overall have a lot of dark contrast. I guess I got a bit intimidated when all the darker colors I was choosing were near the lower left (black) corner, making me hesitant to choose it. I guess the lights are too light and the darks are a bit too dark. Aw well. Live and learn. I did learn a lot from this piece. Hope you enjoy.

Rioxia

CharReed — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:59:46 GMT

Rioxia

This is a character sheet I did as an excersize in fur detailing using Painter 8.0. I started this as a sketch in Photoshop. The character it's is an oddly colored leusistic king cheetah, just to be different.