Jeff Porter Illustration

Reflection

2012-01-08T22:11:00.001-06:00

After sleeping for about 12 hours I have decided to give this little experiment a rest. Over the past 3 weeks I have been dedicating myself to attempting to sharpen my artistic skills by doing a series of daily routines. I tried to take the momentum that I had coming off of a recent trip to Los Angeles, and even more recent trip to New York City; taking all the raw inspiration and drive I had amassed and turning it into artwork.

The overall goal seems to be success I feel that in the last few weeks I have made some drastic alterations to the way I create and perceive art. Looking back on the art I have made in the past I can look at it with a fresh perspective and see many of the shortcomings. One thing I learned I do not do well is time management or at least allocating proper time to complete a project.

But anyway I just wanted to thank everyone for their support during this little experiment with ASS POWER. And if anyone is thinking about attempting such an adventure I would recommend trying and maintain contact with live human beings, it doesn’t take too long for delirium to set in.

Something Different

2012-01-07T22:03:00.002-06:00

So I wanted to try something new today so I did up these small little concept paintings in gouache just to see how it would work. I wanted to try and get a really strange feel to these, so I tried not to use to much reference and just go from ideas out of my head. Both these images are concepts for the inner workings of the galactic center, which will play into a story I am working on in my space ladies series. Both of these took around 2 1/2 to 3 hours a each.

Day 19

2012-01-06T23:08:00.004-06:00

Today I went with a carpentry theme, I kept the pallet pretty much on the warm side ochers and siennas. This was done in gouache and took 2 hours. It may be the last still life for the next few days, I really want to try some more fun personal stuff to mix things up.

Below are some completely unrelated drawings.

No Rest for the Wicked

2012-01-05T23:25:00.004-06:00

I have really run out of still life ideas due to sleep deprivation, so I went old school. As much as I hate painting still life's these have been good for me, I've learned a lot about light, color, and shadow. This was done in gouache on canvas and it took about 2 1/4 hours.

Study In Light

2012-01-05T00:50:00.002-06:00

Didn't think I was going to get this one done in time, Here is todays still life, and its kind of silly. I wanted to again set up the still life to replicate the light that would take place in a final illustration. For the characters I used a small mannequin and just moved it to different locations, to see how the light and shadows changed. This will be interesting to se how this helps the final Illustration, unfortunately it may be several weeks before I can work on the final illustration.

Below are some of the concept sketches I used to layout the initial layout and character poses.

Tiny Little Head Studies

2012-01-03T21:27:00.002-06:00

I decided to take a break from still life's and paint some tiny little heads. I am doing this Illustration with hundreds of figures so I wanted to get in some practice with heads. This was a really good assignment for me, I tried to focus on blocking in the features in the first minute or two. Measuring negative space and shapes was a key tool for this one (I guess teaching that Drawing 1 class wasn't a total waste). I did this in gouache and it took about 3 hours or so for them all, but I lost track of time due to watching C-span.

New Years weekend Still lifes

2012-01-02T21:25:00.003-06:00

Here is this mornings still life done in gouache and it took a little over 2 hours. I went for the Gorgon/Death/Cutting Instrument motif in this arrangement. I learned a lot about moving color around in this piece.

Below Is from Sunday its a series of anatomical studies in gouache and one Alien. I think I learned the most out from this piece than any of them so far, I really realized that with this gouache you can really push the paint around and hint at anatomical structure and the eye and mind will fill in all the details.

This is From Saturday I wanted to go for the whole secret laboratory look, I don't know that I did the light from the actual set up justice as it was glowing quite a bit more than what I have it here I may have to try this again in the future.

High Elevation Plien Air

2011-12-30T21:20:00.009-06:00

This is a landscape I did today on our little Neoburg outing, it is up the street from the KCmuseum on the edge of a cliff overlooking the train yards. This was done in gouac

he and took about 3 hours.

Below is a drawing from the Hyatt Regency hotel on crown center, we rode the elevator to the 39th floor where there was a window overlooking downtown kansas city. I am trying an

experiment with these posts If anyone is getting sick of these let me know and I will stop.

Day 11

2011-12-29T23:14:00.003-06:00

Here is the quick painting I did this morning it was done in gouache and took about 2 and 1/2 hours. This is the cropped version the first one had the lamp in it, but it was distracting. I think I'm getting better at color, Im not neutralizing it as bad as I did in the past. I'm trying to put in about 18 hours a day of making art, my gosh its wearing me out, luckily I have a stock pile of moon pies I was given for Christmas they really take the edge off.

Dark Eldar Lhamaean

2011-12-28T21:12:00.004-06:00

Today was a good day in the studio without safety incidents, this is a Lhamaean from the Dark Eldar (evil space elf like creatures) faction from the Warhammer 40k universe. I did this in my free time, it was done in photoshop.

Below is my morning still life which was done in gouache and took about 2 hours. It is a portrait of a Space Marine Land Raider also from the 40k universe.

Tuesdays Still Life

2011-12-27T22:43:00.003-06:00

What a day in the studio, had a lamp fall and explode on me, almost started a fire, and temporarily blinded myself, but I managed to get a lot of work done. This is todays still life I again set up a still life to replicate the lighting situation for an illustration I am working on. I did this one in gouache and minus all the interruptions took about 2 hours.

Week Two, Still Life One

2011-12-26T21:08:00.007-06:00

This is todays still life, it is a little strange looking. I tried to arrange all the objects in a fashion similar to an Illustration I'm working on. My hope was that if I could light it similarly to what it will be in the illustration it will help me have an idea how the light will work in the final illustration, we'll see how it works. I did this in gouache in about 2 hours.

This is my painting I did on Christmas morning, I did this on an i-pad using the brushes app and to approximately 2 hours. Below is the painting I did on Saturday, its an image of some of my books, it took 2 hours and was done in gouache.

In Studio Plein Aire

2011-12-23T21:11:00.003-06:00

I decided to just do a painting of my work area, instead of a still life, I found it more interesting. I did this in gouache which I found makes me focus more on positive negatives and shape relations. It took about 2 hours.

Still life 4/ more Society of Illustrators

2011-12-22T21:33:00.003-06:00

This is a still life I did this morning, I tried using gouache just to change things up. The purpose of these is so that I can hopefully get a new take on how to render objects and see light and color which I can then bring to my illustrations.

Below are some more sketches from society of Illustrators in New York done last week.

Still life 3

2011-12-21T21:17:00.003-06:00

This is todays still life done in oil using a limited pallet And I tried to use thicker paint. It took around a two hours, and isn't really my most favorite piece. Some of the items aren't super recognizable that might be why. Below are some character clothing concepts for a story I'm working on dealing with a pair of detectives in the twenty second century.

Carnifex Versus Deathwing

2011-12-20T19:54:00.004-06:00

This is a piece I did depicting a Tyranid Carnifex attempting to devour a Deathwing terminator. When at the last minute the mortally wounded terminator using his chainfist slashes the soft neck tissue of the ferocious creature. This was done in photoshop over a pencil sketch.

Below is the second still life of hopefully many I plan on doing every morning over this christmas break. Again like the previous one I used no blue, relying on a neutralized black to get the greens, it is oil on canvas and took about 1 1/2 hours.

Still Life, Figure Sketches

2011-12-19T21:18:00.004-06:00

This is my first in a series of daily exercises I plan on doing over this upcoming christmas break. This one was a still life done in oil for a period of 2 hours. I Tried a limited pallet using Yellow ocher, burnt sienna, burnt umber, titanium white, ivory black, a small amount of cadmium red, and yellow.

The drawings below are more sketches from the Society of Illustrators New York figure drawing.

New York City Sketch Book

2011-12-18T19:54:00.006-06:00

These are some sketches from a recent trip to New York, from which I am just now starting to recover from. Everything happened so quickly it's not entirely clear to me exactly what happened, but I do know this, it changed the way I will look at, and create art forever.

Some Concept Roughs

2011-11-23T15:03:00.002-06:00

These are some concept pieces I did this recently. I wanted to experiment with a technique of using marker on velum to lay in gray tones. These are some concept ideas for a sci-fi story I have been contemplating.

The Journey Home

2011-11-20T21:01:00.003-06:00

These are a collection sketches from trip back from LA. I was so motivated to draw after this week of lectures, I found myself drawing even as I walked down the jetway to board the airplane.

Escape from LAX

Denver international

James Gurney!

The almost Finished Inventory Screen

2011-10-31T00:09:00.003-05:00

This is the Inventory screen from the game where you can load out you spaceship. the weapons systems will actually change as you chose different weapons.

Space Game Menu Screen part 1

2011-10-17T20:54:00.003-05:00

This is a menu screen for the space based side scroller I'm working on its still in the rudimentary stage but hopefully by the end of the week it should be a little more finished looking.

Brigands of Berossos

2011-10-13T19:18:00.002-05:00

Brigands of Berossos

The Sexy Space Ladies cruising around in their space rover on the planet Berossos when they run into trouble with the locals, and then vaporize them with their ray guns.

New Space Game Sprites

2011-10-12T21:43:00.001-05:00

These are some of the newest sprites that I've done for the upcoming side-scrolling shooter that should be coming out soon. They aren't super impressive most of the work will be done in the code.

2011-10-12T00:05:00.001-05:00

These are some figures drawing/paintings I did at the recent draw-a-thon. Most are pastel one is an acrylic painting.