I'm under the 30 Day Artist lens for this month. I did some painting over the last three days and today prepared these ones for a preview of what I'll be coming up with this month. It's kind of difficult to explain exactly what I do. I often post art at my livejournal (http://tomacmuni.livejournal.com), which is more or less what I show when I submit for work. Now I am doing some game design art for an online game, so that's another thing starting right now. I'll probably post some of the second hand work from that here. This semester I'm teaching 3D in Dongseo University, here in Busan, South Korea. If it's appropriate I'll show some work coming out of there - I like to draw on a whiteboard, it's really fast and smooth and easy to erase. Most of the drawings shown here were done digitally over either a pencil (aquarelle) or whiteboard drawing. I recently bought a 60cm whiteboard from Homeplus and enjoy drawing storyboards on that and photographing them to pump them up a bit. I'll do a lot of that this month, not so much oil painting or whatever. Well, we'll see.

I may be a little different from those other 30 Day Artists whose work I've seen - I love fine arts but also comics and game art appeals to me (within a certain range of highly personalised taste). At present I'm getting into stories set in bubble dimensions or artificially constructed worlds - I'm trying to develop some original intellectual property based around something like that. After all, the real world seems to be exploding, dissolving, and diffracting in a big rush, I'm not sure what I can contribute.

I'll be doing a bit more work on most of the following. Tips would be great!

These are my studio and me wearing a hat I got last night (compulsion purchase).
In the studio you may note the central positioning of mosquito spray and there's even a little mosquito medicine from Thailand in there somewhere. I'm a blood magnet for those suckers. There's a big forest nearby and they grow really big there, but actually there's fewer in Busan than in Moscow in Summer.







These are some character/creature ideas, colour draft stage. Whiteboard markers first, then digital colour.






This is to show my 60cmx40cm whiteboard - such a cutey. It's great for sketching.

I have to do some 3D today, so I can only make a storyboard style picture with this just now. It's kind of attractive for me though already. I wanted to make a rope bridge by a waterfall, then I thought, why not view it from below, then I thought, I'll add another waterfall on top to raise the stakes. The next pass will be to make it look like an anime, something like Q Ring, with bouncy adventurers back and forth on the bridge.

Today I had a stab at colouring, and the computer crashed twice.
I opted to use pastels, and made this foresty picture.
It's half sized here - the pastel texture looks nice enlarged on computer.

You can link to the full size file here:
http://www.30dayartist.com/images/bimg/oct06/30days_forest_big.jpg

I had an idea for a chase scene where the baddies are running along one cliff edge and the good guys are running on the other. I remember a picture by Oscar Chichoni which showed an amonite stuck in a rock, so I thought, I'll add that into the rocks.
The line art for this was on the whiteboard, and I decided to colour it as a night scene. The idea is that the whalers (bad) are rushing to get to a big harpoon before the whale escapes to sea. The boy on the robot are trying to get to a crane on the pier which will lift a cargo load and block the aim of the harpoon (to help the whale). In Korea there's whale available in some fish restaurants - when I found out it was when my colleagues bought a mixed platter - they said it's from a commonly available whale which isn't endangered. I still protested, and mentioned that in New Zealand we're against whaling. I don't know what Koreans would think of a game with two whalers as comedy baddies - that's them chasing the girl and boy in the other picture (just a rough sketch).






The blog's picture size is a bit small, so to undertsand all that chat, you
can see the full size file here:
http://www.30dayartist.com/images/bimg/oct06/30days_chase_big.jpg

I've often wanted to try this kind of style for doing an RPG map. To double up the size and do a really exhaustive object by object detailing. I'm not sure this will
get approved for further development though, but I like the mood it suggests.
It is a concept design for a whaling station - it goes with the Day 4 image.


You can get the bigger version at http://www.30dayartist.com/images/bimg/oct06/30days_station_big.jpg

These were biro drawings from my sketchbook that I painted over to give them a bit of development. They're nevertheless very sketchy and just meant to indicate a vibe.
I ran out of time in the day painting a bigger image, which hopefully will be here tomorrow (well, later today as it seems). They used to put murderers in blocks where they could not reach their face to eat or groom themselves, and had to stay like that for a few years. The doodle is a reminder to make a story out of that.

There seems a problem with uploading and viewing, so here are the links direct:
http://www.30dayartist.com/images/bimg/oct06/30days_balloons.jpg
http://www.30dayartist.com/images/bimg/oct06/30days_windmama.jpg
http://www.30dayartist.com/images/bimg/oct06/30days_murderer.jpg