Concept spaceship art by Adel Adili

Adel's cg portfolio.





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New Dog Breed Swag Bags by Art Paw!

Scottie Swag Bag ... Get your Bag At Etsy!

Boston Terrier Swag Bag over at Etsy!

Get your Doggy Art Swag Bags! These brand new little goody bags are loaded with our art gift items. You can purchase these over at our Etsy shop, or purchase any size custom gift pet portrait certificate from now through July and get a free goody bag of your choice. Order your pet portrait gift certificate on-line and then just shoot us an e-mail and let us know if you want our Pug, Bulldog, Scottie, Boston or mixed Swag bag.

Platonic Solid Lanterns Papercraft

These geometric Christmas light covers are the work of the "playful.geometer" at Flickr. The five different covers are based on the five shapes of the Platonic Solids. The lovely patterns on each of the solids are "kaleidoscoped" fractal images. I like the paper lantern effect these have when they are lit up. Templates for each of the five are available here and here. If you are interested in creating your own decorative patterns, a educational math website has some blank Platonic Solid templates available here.

EVE Online concept ship

Nice tip from Morpheus. He writes: "Check out the concept art for the last ship on EVE Online, it looks gorgeous!" Thanks, crazy tight.




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Mosaic Monday/ Robot Dog

"Bingo was his name-o" 

Work in progress © rebecca collins

This is the project I have been working on over the weekend.  There are tons of digital collage layers on this. I have 2 sheets of sheet glass under this top mosaic layer that have paint and paper collage elements.  The story is simple, a robot is walking his robot dog, while the dog dreams of being free riding on a rocket ( see collage element at top). The dog is a bit frumpy and I cut his little rubber wheel to give it a used and worn look. I also enjoyed making the walker's posture look as though he is being pulled by the robot dog.  I am hoping that the multiple layers will add depth and not get lost once I grout.  The yellow moon surface at bottom had a lot more detail before I started cutting and gluing the final layer. I chose to frost some of that glass though with acid etch cream. I was hoping that if it was mat the main characters would pop out more and they would be more grounded. The overall design is very busy.

Joon Ahn concept ships

Joon's blog and CGHub art portfolio.




















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"Leaf silhouettes"

A botanic vector garden. A nice set of plants and leafs.
Author unknown. Only for personal use.
1 AI : 1,5 MB

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"Thank you in different languages"

Thank you in 10 languages.
Author unknown. Only for personal use.
1 AI : 2 MB

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"Europe and world maps and globes"

Some nice vecotr globes and map of the european union.
Author unknown. Only for personal use.
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Talking About Your Art

In college we were encouraged to learn how to talk well about our artwork in college during critiques. Some students were naturals and enjoyed the task while those of us that were a bit more shy felt pretentious and goofy trying to put words to what we were doing. Often we did not even know what was behind some of the work that sprung out of us. Over the years I have gotten a bit better at communicating in general and much better at talking about my work. It is however hard sometimes to really dig deep and offer up true insight into the conceptual process at times.

Yesterday I posted a link to my youtube playlist of artists talking about their work. If you are an artist reading this I encourage you to check out a few of those videos again and in addition to enjoying their stories try to grade the speakers in your mind. Look at some videos of well known successful artists and look at other people you may never have heard of. I think you will find that when it comes to "talking about art" we are all on a level playing field regardless of talent, fame and recognition. By watching others try to communicate their stories we can better understand that we are all just people, and we all have stories to tell. When you share your art by talking about your process or talking about your inspiration you are not boasting or "selling"... instead you are being generous, you are "sharing yourself". Below I have embedded Tim Burton, and someone I just discovered recently, Jana Demartini.

Tim Burton Video:

Jana Demartini Video:

Frankenstein Monster Paper Toy

Here's a Frankenstein monster paper toy by a German comic artist that likes to go by just "George". The title of this paper toy is "Hippenstein's Monster" presumably because of the "hip" clothes he is wearing. :) The one page, six part template for the monster may be downloaded here.

Finding Art Inspiration At You Tube

Use You Tube's Play List Feature:

I have had a youtube account since 07. In the last few years I have uploaded a few promo videos and also favorited a couple dozen videos and subscribed to 43 channels.  Last night I was looking for interesting artist videos and found so many I decided to use the "create playlist" feature to organize my favorites.

By creating a playlist I do not have to weed through my favorites that might contain singing dogs and cute kittens doing silly things in order to find the cool artist videos that I may want to revisit or share with friends. I can also easily post my playlist link right here and share that play list with you.

Who I discovered:

I discovered a huge variety of artists with interesting videos. The people and the art at Youtube is widely diverse, from cute and perky Claudine Hellmuth, to the crusty old street wise Mosaic Man in New York.

I'll post a few video embeds below, but be sure and check out my entire Visual Artist Playlist over at youtube.









Tomorrow I will post a couple more videos and I want to talk about "talking about"  your artwork. Enjoy the clips!

Video for dog photography fans

Late night and I am trapped in youtube land. Just found this stunning slow motion film shot for a pedigree commercial. I am totally not hawking their brand or anything, but ya gotta love this video.

Vote For My Pal Emmitt

I have been meaning to tell you guys about a calendar contest that is happening that will help DFW Pugs Rescue. Check out the voting page and place a vote for my pal Emmitt. Each vote is just one dollar, you can donate $10 and specify that your giving 10 votes to Emmitt Langer. You can read more about the contest on his Mom's blog.  Or just go on over to the DFW contest page and scroll down to find Emmitt & vote... all it takes is one dollar to help some pugs in need.

Fred Gambino concept ships

I can't believe how much love and support I'm getting for the conceptships project lately. Thanks so much!
Fred sent me this image titled "Escape from the sun" he did for the album cover for the band Operahouse. Thanks Fred...The scale is massive! Check out Fred Gambino's weekly header.



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Frank Frazetta concept spaceship art

This being the 500th post here on conceptships, I wanted to do something special and highlight someone amazing. Frank Frazetta passed away recently on May 10th, 2010 and it saddens me that I will never meet the legend that is Frank Frazetta. Whether a fine artist, industrial designer or a computer graphics professional, he has influenced our art and our lives in some way. Thanks Frank, for leaving behind so many inspirational images for us to enjoy forever. You will be missed!










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New Boxer Dog Art

"Jamie" ( see all proofs)

© rebecca collins / artpaw.com

"As a white candle/ In a holy place, / So is the beauty/ Of an aged face." -  Joseph Cambell

I always enjoy getting in photos of senior animals.  I have had clients ask me to color their aged pets to look a bit younger and then I have had just as many people want to see each and every one of those grey hairs.  As a pet owner that has lost too many pets at too young an age I really adore a grey muzzle. Our Big Tommy is getting more and more grey each day and I celebrate those light hairs and I cross my fingers that he will be snow white before he leaves us.

Concept ships by Pascal Blanché

Our friend Pascal's blog Derelict Planet. More on robots!




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The Artwork of Walton Ford

Lola came in to work today talking about the artist Walton Ford, and a book she is coveting over at Borders. We looked it up on Amazon, and she can save a bundle ordering on-line. I have an older book by him that is out of publication. Used copies of that book are selling for $150 to $384 (Walton Ford : Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction).  His newest book is called Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra, I'll post a link below.  Before we could even start the day I had to show her a video about him that I have in my youtube favorites.  I always feel cool when I am already in the know about someone that younger artists are into, it happens rarely, but when it does you feel slightly less ancient.  Anyway, check his work out, it is quirky and stunning all at the same time.

New Chihuahua Dog Art

Over the years I have worked from a few black and white photos. While I prefer high quality color photographs it is always exciting to see the transformation when I do have to color something from scratch.  I really like how bright Shesha turned out.

"Shesha" ( see all proofs )

© rebecca collins /artpaw.com

MechWarrior 4 Zeus Papercraft

Here's another 1:40 scale MechWarrior 4 paper model by Shiftdel at the Mech3.org forum. This particular model is of the Zeus, known in the MechWarrior world for it's excellent long range sniper capabilities. A download of the template (Pepakura PDO format only) is available here. The original model comes in a snow camouflage color scheme, but MechWarrior fan, CMOSturm, has created twelve additional skins for the model, one of which is shown on the right. Sturm's skins are available here.

Related Papercraft:

MechWarrior 4 Vulture

MechWarrior 4 Cargo Truck

MechWarrior 3 Shadow Cat

Concept spaceship art from BLIZZARD entertainment

Tons of Blizzard concept art.

















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Colonel Sanders Paper Toy

Of the two paper toys of KFC founder Colonel Sanders circulating on the Internet, this one is my favorite. I think maybe it's the bucket of fried chicken in the Colonel's hand in this one that wins me over. ^^ This paper toy was created by the folks at didactoteca.com and may be downloaded here by clicking on the photo of the template. For the curious, the other Colonel Sanders paper toy mentioned is one of the many paper toys offered at the toy-a-day blog which is located here.

Related Papercraft:

Burger King Paper Toy

Domino's Pizza Paper Toy

Mosaic Books and a blog Widget

Ok let me see if this code is going to work. The books below are a small sample of titles from Amazon. All if these books are by Emma Biggs, the instructor that taught the workshop I attended last week. Sherry (one of my art blogging pals) had mentioned wanting to do mosaics and so I wanted to try out this cool widget from Amazon.  I have been a member of the amazon affiliates for years. It is a great way to share book titles with your readers and you can earn a few cents here and there if someone buys through your link . Unless you work it hard across many websites it is pretty tough to earn any real money off of affiliate programs like this, but every now and then I may earn enough to get a $25 check per quarter. More than anything else it is just a great way to provide an interesting reading list with easy to use embedding tools.  The widget below is one layout option among many choices. You can get one that will fit the entire width and height of your menu column.  Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy looking through the book titles, I know there are a few I want to place on my wish list.

Concept ship art by Dei Gaztelumendi

Awesome character design work on the deisign blog.












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