DShyshkin blog

Biomechanical Loader

2011-02-09T10:51:00.000-05:00

Biomechanic Loader airbrushed

Biomechanical Loading machine. Game character concept art.

Graphite pencil hand drawn sketch on paper(below), than scanned and painted and airbrushed in Photoshop.

Machine has a human brain and eyes, equipped with basic voice system. Its shown on the image in shut down state.

Biomechanic loader sketch

Merry Christmas

2011-02-08T08:50:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas. Oil painting on hardboard.

Lone man drinking and staring at Christmas greetings card.
Same colors used as for "Man behind the mirror" painting - red, black and white and I only have a low quality image, enhanced with Adobe Photoshop.

Man Behind the Mirror

2011-02-08T08:28:00.000-05:00

Man behind the mirror. Oil painting on cardboard.

My oil painting from 1999. Three colors used - black, red and white. The original is somewhere at my mother's place back in Ukraine. My mother sent me this low quality image of this painting which I tried to enhance with Adobe Photoshop and make it to look as close to original as possible.
Painted in one of the dark periods in my life.

Skull drawing

2010-11-25T10:00:00.002-05:00

Skull drawing from 1997. Charcoal. I dont remember what was the idea and what people's silhouettes are doing in one of the eye sockets.

There are two desktop wallpapers available for download from my company blog, based on this drawing.

Elephant Throne

2010-01-08T11:11:00.002-05:00

The idea to create a chubby woman arose when I was browsing CG artworks. The vast majority of artworks are the underdeveloped females - knights, sorceresses, superheroes. I understand this is a matter of fashion these days to draw Japanese hermaphrodites when looking at them one can't figure out if that's a girl under 10 or boy, wearing makeup.
Elephant Throne drawn completely in Adobe Photoshop, no stock used, no overlay textures. Design of the throne came out in the process of creating the painting. Non-explicit version is coming soon to replace one on BGArtworks.com.
Artwork and details are available here.

Monster Sketch - 1998

2009-11-11T10:13:00.010-05:00

Back to my old drawings. Graphite pencil sketch of a monster. Probably my first attempt to create concept of a character.

Personal website

2009-09-09T20:52:00.003-04:00

My personal website is online again. It's a front page with links to all my pages which Im constantly updating, including this blog. All links there are working except "Prints". Im working on to launch my print store.

Personal website

2009-09-03T11:12:00.006-04:00

My personal website is down for an upgrade. It will be online again sometime next week.

Isis and Anubis - 1997

2009-08-30T15:21:00.006-04:00

Ink drawing of ancient Egyptian gods Isis, goddess of motherhood and fertility, and Anubis, guide of the deceased to the netherworld. Isis holds cow's head, which was stitched by the Thoth in place of her human head.

Veteran - 1997

2009-08-30T15:16:00.008-04:00

Graphite and ink drawing of drinking disabled veteran. A little bit of photoshop for old paper look.

Personal website

2009-08-23T18:29:00.007-04:00

Finally, after a year or so Ive managed to complete my personal website. Almost all of my sketches, drawings and paintings uploaded there - dshyshkin.com

Dead Cat - 1996

2009-08-22T09:56:00.006-04:00

Graphite pencil and Indian ink drawing of a cat I saw beside the road back in Ukraine. Made for rock band CD cover.

Crippled Homeless - 1998

2009-08-21T08:03:00.005-04:00

Drawing of the crippled homeless drunk, wondered around central squares in Kyiv, Ukraine. Graphite pencil, Indian ink, pastel, sanguine.

Unfinished Drawing - 1998

2009-08-18T07:48:00.006-04:00

Another unfinished drawing I made while listening a professor's speech in my university. Graphite, black ink. 1998.

Skull and Lizard - 1997

2009-08-18T07:45:00.001-04:00

Unfinished drawing from 1997. I dont think Ill ever finish it. Dont even remember what was the idea.

Siamese Twins - 1997

2009-08-16T15:31:00.004-04:00

One of my first sketches, done with graphite and black ink back in 1997. Inspired by Siamese Twins song (The Cure) and Edvard Munch's "The Scream". The "A" letter is missing and I decided not to change this in Photoshop.

As this is my first entry here, I named the blog after it.