Sculptor & Quarry

This is a painting I'm just now finishing.

It's oil on linen, and pretty large at 5 feet across by 4 feet high.
It's in the same series as this one and this one, although done in a limited pallete, especially compared to this one.

I've been creating these elaborate characters and scenes in Maya (a 3D design tool that I use on the side for making computer games). Once I've built out a world, then I render studies and maquettes to work out the design. The process is evocative of making a movie or game, but bent towards painting instead.

It's a combination of a 500 year old art form and perhaps the most current one. A strange hybrid, but a promising one.


(click to enlarge)

Elsewhere in my blog you can find both 3D renders of this guy, and some earlier portrait studies I did of him while designing him.

(updating with a cleaner reproduction)