Frank Hong

DailySketch

2011-04-18T01:41:00.000-04:00

Get off my lawn.

DailySketch

2011-04-17T16:14:00.000-04:00

This is a fast one. :)

DailySketch

2011-04-17T03:14:00.000-04:00

a nice girl in a nice seat.

Concept Art_First Encounter

2011-01-03T13:01:00.000-05:00

One of the Concept arts for my film, I will be releasing more information soon. This is a nice little teaser item here.

FH

ARTBOOK KICKSTARTER. at BOILED FISH STUDIOS

2010-12-11T08:17:00.002-05:00

My Friends over at BOILED FISH STUDIOS are putting together an artbook - and it won't be possible without your help! They are taking donations and pre-orders through their Kickstarter website, HERE: [link]

Learn more about the book, please visit their funding page.

“The book is going to be between forty and sixty pages in full color with soft cover - including illustrations, sketches, and process walkthroughs. You can reserve your copies at $30 per book right now, and bonus! - if you pre-order, you will get an exclusive button set and the chance to win a sketch from one of the artists. Books will be mailed out Spring 2011.”

Featured Artists:

ARTIST AROUND THE WORLD PAGE_EXPOSE 8

2010-12-11T08:15:00.001-05:00

ARTIST AROUND THE WORLD PAGE!!!
[link]

My Artworks will be featured on page 117, 180-181.

Excellence Award.

EXPOSÉ 8 —
"The biggest and best collection of digital art in the world just got bigger. With 393 awe-inspiring images prepared by 283 artists from 52 countries, EXPOSÉ 8 showcases more artists in more categories across more pages than ever before. "

Preview here:
[link]

EXPOSE 8 is shipping.

Talents needed.

2010-09-01T13:34:00.002-04:00

Greeting to all painters and illustrators, I’m currently looking for a number of artists to join production on some of projects on going in the studio. Please see the following openings, and if you are interested, please forward your CV, your rate, and a link to gallery to frank.f.hong@gmail.com

or talk to me directly in Sheridan.

Following openings are immediately in need. Oakville/Sheridan local artists are preferred.

Artist assistant (painting)

10hr/week

$10 ~$15/hour

Artist must have the ability to work under direction, and be able to achieve highly detailed realistic renderings. Matte-painting skills is a plus but not required.

3D modeler/UV artist

Please send quote on per model rate.

Hard surface modeling, and UV layouts. Zbrush skills is a plus.

The following openings will be filled in the next few months.

Matte Painter

3D animator

Rigging artist

Lighting TD

Sound designer/Compositor

EXPOSÉ 8

2010-07-28T15:20:00.000-04:00

EXPOSE 8

My Artworks will be featured on page 117, 180-181. Excellence Award.

EXPOSÉ 8 —
"The biggest and best collection of digital art in the world just got bigger. With 393 awe-inspiring images prepared by 283 artists from 52 countries, EXPOSÉ 8 showcases more artists in more categories across more pages than ever before. "

Preview here:
http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/expose/expose_8/

Really exciting book! Preorder is in progress now. should be shipping soon.

Amazon has it for cheaper. a lot cheaper... =)

Art Squared - digital painters 2

2010-07-11T12:54:00.003-04:00

[link]

Available @ www.ragepublishing.com.

With the success of the first book, Art Squared -- digital painters 2 is the second in the series of books produced by the team at ArtSquared.co.uk. Throughout this edition you can enjoy a selection of more than 70 of the worlds best digital artists, showcasing more than 130 images, spread over 172 diverse pages of artwork. Featured Artist in this video: Alex Chin Yu Chu, Neville Dsouza, Gabriel Vera, Henryca Citra, Rado Javor, Daniela Uhlig, Duc Truong Huyen, Frank Hong, Joe Vriens, Oliver Wetter, Vanja Todoric, Marcin Jakubowski

AnimeExpo, Update

2010-06-27T11:24:00.004-04:00

Hey ya. It's been a while since I updated. I don't really have too much stuff I can show these days. Working fulltime at the moment.

I will be attending Anime Expo in LA convention center. Selling off some prints and meeting exciting people.

If you are in the area, feel free to drop by and say hi. I'm located at D - 15

Thanks and all the best,

Frank Hong

Making of Frank Hong's "City of Angels" image on 3D Total

2010-05-24T15:55:00.002-04:00

Here you can see how I uses Photoshop to create my atmospheric city landscape image "City of Angels".

- VIEW HERE -

Alive and Kicking it at SK

2010-05-24T15:52:00.001-04:00

*Developer of Eternal Darkness and Too Human.

I started working at SK as a concept artist

http://www.siliconknights.com/

In the art department, Alongside the amazing STUDIO QUBE

My good friends Sip and Yoyo are great guys to hang around with, amazingly kind people who really helped me to feel comfortable in a rather demanding work environment. Interestingly we share a passion for motorsports among many other thing.

Equally amazing is another one of my colleague Jonathan Standing, Amazing painter & Illustrator. And his British humor is a killing! Very very friendly guy, and very thoughtful. I'm hoping to learn as much as I can from everyone at work.

It's not easy job, but I'm having loads of fun painting away. I'm helping out with a fair share of work including characters, environments and sometimes mattes. I'm getting a good sense of the studio environment now as I often need to cooperate with the 3d and effect guys. The work area is generally quite cozy. It's a proper studio setting. Plus the coffee machine is elaborately gorgeous, it greets me in the morning with a nice cup of hot milk chocolate (makes my stomach feel awkward afterwards). I hope I could take a picture of the damn thing.

It's quite a drive from there and back every day, almost 100km each way, forcing me to refuel once every 3 days. Only good side is that I drive a hard roof convert so when summer actually hits I’ll be able to enjoy the sun a bit more than the usual home dwelling self.

Workshop_City Angel 2

2010-04-08T13:43:00.002-04:00

Workshop Tutorial Image

Imagine FX Issue 56.

Creating an Atmospheric Environment

"Learn how to establish mood early in the painting, and using concept art techniques to refine the painting into a believable world, with Frank Hong"

"I will be taking you through the creation of this painting step-by-step, explaining both technical and artistic decisions I make along the way. I will develop a dark atmospheric feeling for the painting very early in the production, and bring it to life with realistic rendering techniques. Many of these techniques are used daily in both professional concept art and matte-painting, and are essential tool sets to grasp. By utilizing the full arsenal of Photoshop you will greatly improve production time."

"Atmosphere development is the main focus of this workshop, so I’ll be taking quite a bit of time walking you through some of the concepts behind it. It’s important to know the feeling you want the viewers to get when they look at your painting, and carry that through to the finishing strokes. If the mood is correctly established, you’ll have more liberties with designs and layouts without changing the initial concepts."

Check out the Issue 56 for details. [link]

2DArtist Magazine #051 March 2010 issue

2010-03-12T13:57:00.002-05:00

the 2DArtist Magazine #051 – March 2010 issue is now ready, and has just gone on sale (www.2dartistmag.com).

Here's the Gallery portion of this month's features, you may download it here:

http://www.2dartistmag.com/artists/issue051_mar10/galleries.pdf

This Month Features:

David Lecossu
Jama Jurabaev
Mark molnar
Daniel Iulian Vijoi
Bastien Grivet
Santosh Suryawanshi
Frank hong
Jon McCoy
Paul Abrams
Andrei Pervukhin

Garden of Zen

2010-03-11T16:52:00.002-05:00

Garden of Zen

Matte-painting

this is a wallpaper size 1080.

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Copyright, New Horizon. Michal Lysek.

Painted by Frank Hong

Quick mattes for Phantom VFX

2010-03-10T14:27:00.002-05:00

3Dtotal Excellence Award received.

2010-03-03T16:40:00.001-05:00

3Dtotal Excellence Award received.

www.3dtotal.com
3D Total - The CG artists homepage, daily news with links to all the best 3d animations and site. Huge libraries and galleries with free downloads (meshes/textures etc) and amazing artwork.

The kind people at 3Dtotal awarded me this badge, some of my pieces will be included in their gallery, and will be updated each month. I'll be working with them in the next 2Dartist magazine, Hopefully another tutorial piece.

Also check out the "Gift to the Gods" challenge hosted by 3Dtotal right now, the price list is really tempting.(You can get a 3D print!,how awesome is that!?)

http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=74297

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I had lots of works since the end of last year, most of which I can't show here until the NDA lifts. I've gone professional for 3 month now, and with that comes responsibilities. duties I can't put aside or procrastinate. It's crazy because I'm trying to juggle fulltime, freelance, my part-time in Sheridan, and try to pass actual classes. hence why I'm usually in the FML mood.

Sunflower Tower 01

2010-02-24T02:05:00.002-05:00

Sunflower Tower

Piece 01

A project I'm very excited to be apart of, I'm working with a few of my friends on creating an amazingly deep world. I've just got clearance to upload this one, hopefully soon you'll see many more pieces from various very talented artists.

stay tuned for more updates on this project.

"Sunflower Tower"

Offcial site under construction

Workshop Tutorial Coming Up!

2010-02-08T02:14:00.003-05:00

I've just finished putting together a workshop for Imagine FX on how to create an atmospheric environment.

It'll be a while before the book hits the shelves, and I have a couple of other works I'm waiting for show you, hopefully very soon. I haven't been lazy, but with more commercial works nowadays it's hard to keep constantly updating.

2010-01-16T03:02:00.003-05:00

This is a mattepainting for my 3d CG scene that will be released later.

More information on this shot will be avaliable later when I upload my demo reel.

Original Concept art:

A LEGO Steampunk Machine

2010-01-02T10:09:00.005-05:00

Lego modelled by Jeremy Devilbiss

from the maker of this awesomeness, "This was inspired by a piece of artwork I saw on the concept ships by Frank Hong. Don't know if I pulled off the steampunk styling or not, but I tried. The original is here."

For more pictures, check out his page http://mocpages.com/moc.php/176273

Original, this is a piece i finished on June 16, 2008

ConceptArtWorld

2009-12-17T21:08:00.003-05:00

http://conceptartworld.com/

Dec 17, 09
Featured

Monster Hunter

2009-12-13T01:31:00.002-05:00

Rawr...!

CAVE

2009-12-07T00:03:00.001-05:00

Dig Site 2

A finishing of my earlier speedpainting.

I'm glad i took the challenge, and pushed a lot further with this piece. it was a rewarding process to go back and re-analyze everything in the old piece, then recompose the scene with already established mood and setting.

2012

2009-11-19T17:50:00.000-05:00

"2012"

So i was watching the movie the night it came out. and half way through the film i thought to myself, HEY! that's Dylan Cole! that mountain is definatly Dylan Cole!. so i went home first thing to check, turns out i was right. and my mind is blown. and it remained that way for the duration of this painting.

Interview with DeadlineStudios

2009-11-11T00:24:00.001-05:00

My interview for DeadlineStudios, by Serg.S – Serg Souleiman.
along side with Sebastien Larroude a.k.a Rainart, Horia Dociu, Brad Rigney and Hethe Srodawa. :P

Read at: http://deadlinestudios.com/?p=127

If you want to read a few answers to these questions i've been asked.

-Tell us about yourself where are you from and when and how did you get started concept art?

- What inspired you to become an Artist?

- Where do you currently work and what are some of the things that you have worked on?

- Could you take us through your creative process when starting a new concept art piece?

- What are some things that impotent to you when working on a piece?

- What artists influenced your work and whom do you admire?

- Is there anything you'd like to work on if you had the chance?

- Do you have any advice for the aspiring artist out there?

SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

2009-11-11T00:13:00.003-05:00

Dig Site

speedy concept

Really tired today after a long day in school. this is before bed time. A 3 hours painting started as a random doodle. got lucky and it clicked a little.

Spartans

every cger out of sheridan had done at least one spartan painting. so here's mine.

I really need to catch up on school work. damn it.

on a side note:
I lost my harddrive in the school lab A151, half a year worth of work gone. I have no idea who removed it, but if anyone come across a black Hitachi portable drive with leather cover in sheridan. PLEASE let me know.. thanks!

LifeDrawings Fall 09 Renders

2009-10-21T04:11:00.008-04:00

LifeDrawings Fall 09 Renders

5 to 10 mins, compressed charcoal on rough newsprint

LifeDrawings Fall 09 Gestures

2009-10-21T04:05:00.007-04:00

LifeDrawings Fall 09 Gestures

1 to 5 mins, compressed charcoal on rough newsprint

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PS: If you are in sheridan, I'm tutoring every TUESDAY sessions in A126 Animation life-drawing room, from 7 to 10 pm. swing by if you need any help, (please sign up through careers centre). Digital Painting session is now set to every WEDNESDAY in room A151, from 6pm to 8pm, drop in are welcome.

Dragon Age

2009-10-18T18:21:00.003-04:00

Dragon Age

I can't wait for the game, if you haven't seen the trailer, GO WATCH IT. it's epic.

This piece took me a bit longer to do, schedule is getting super busy, so i had less time to work on my own stuff now. no complains though, it's good to have lots of work. and i've been planning to push myself out of the comfort zone, still doing lots of analysis based on pro paintings.

apartment. painting

2009-10-11T03:48:00.002-04:00

Uncharted Waters

Practice piece to render fantasy landscape. I'm planning on taking this one further when i get the chance. Hope to find time to redevelop my style for landscapes since i've now came back to it, and i'd hate to be still doing the same thing.

so this is a warning to myself. yea.

Layout

Apartment design, Outside view

Resonance of Fate, and City!

2009-10-05T03:43:00.004-04:00

Kumo Shuu, City of the High Guardians

done for Faction Wars

All rights reserved.

Resonance of Fate

Pinup! yay

quite randomly started and finished today, all in a few hours of distractions.

Random speedpaint from a few weeks ago.

random updates

2009-10-05T03:41:00.004-04:00

freelance work.

Sakura River Interactive, All rights reserved.

random face.

Polka

2009-10-05T03:40:00.002-04:00

update

2009-10-05T03:38:00.002-04:00

Converse

2009-09-24T03:45:00.002-04:00

Converse

NO! i refuse, i refuse to put more cloth on !

Practice

2009-09-24T03:43:00.002-04:00

Girl Study

referenced portrait study. I NEED MOAR!

Peacock Tail

Master and Slave

speedpainting 3 hrs

more paintings from school sessions.

crap

2009-09-24T03:39:00.001-04:00

crap practice!

speed paintings

2009-09-24T03:35:00.002-04:00

Archangel

Speedpainting, 1 hr

inbetween the frustrations.

Japan

Speed.

Temple of the North

2009-09-13T01:53:00.001-04:00

Temple of the North

Speedie today. 2 hours

a bit chaotic, haven't done a speed painting for a while now, this is good refreshment. how i have to figure out how to push my limits further. I see this piece as more of a color practice than an actual painting. I'm not very inspired these days.

too tired to continue, must sleep.

Dynasty, Shan Shui

2009-09-12T04:44:00.002-04:00

Dynasty

A young warrior ventures forth in her mission to save her loved ones.

very much a different piece from my usual stuff. i'm trying out some interesting techniques, and getting my kicks in rendering. This is aimed for a chinese "shan shui" style visuals with a fantasy touch.

the stamp is my name.

Code Name Husky

2009-09-11T02:05:00.002-04:00

Code Name Husky

Photoshop CS4 5 Hours

Painting in school today. A piece I struggled with, I had to reconstruct the composition a couple of times trying to get it to balance nicely.

I like snowy scenes, and this patrol team looks awfully tame on an unfamiliar terrain. Husky tank is a light armored vehicle designed for scouting and area scans.

Freelance Update

2009-09-11T02:02:00.003-04:00

some released freelance work i've done in the summer

MH Comic

all rights reserved.

Check the web comic out here, it's updating constantly.

http://mhen.comicgenesis.com/

Kryptonite

2009-09-11T02:00:00.002-04:00

Random doodle in class today

not the best.

Live Stream_Killzone and update

2009-09-07T00:54:00.004-04:00

Metal Gear Killzone

A live painting session on finishing up a futuristic piece, and added an extended level of polish. you can check the recording at [link]

It was fun to paint and talk to people at the same time.. haa

school is starting soon, i'll have to work hard again on my portfolio. and hopefully this batch of art will get me a job i want.

Volcano

Speedpainting, 3 hours today. trying very hard to be productive. this is what i do when i'm being isolated in my apartment, difficult to get anywhere without a car. I'm not even trying to complain but what the hell do people expect? am i supposed to work 2 jobs this year with school and get everything exactly perfect? I want things to fast forward to the good part but hey, when was anything that easy.

blah..blah blah..

this one is photoshop, getting the most out of my intuos 3. listen, it's just as good. i see no point of switching to intuos 4 just yet. infact, i have two intuos 3s, and i use them both, one at home one at studio. sure if i have loads of money i'd get a cintiq just for the kicks.

yea i'm back in toronto now, still adjusting to jetlag. I'll write up a journal about FanExpo soon, I'm going with some new prints this time. I have more rants but i'll wait for my next submittion.

cheers

Black widow

2009-09-07T00:53:00.002-04:00

Random morning sketch

Mining Operation

2009-08-22T14:39:00.003-04:00

Mining Operation

A spontaneous practice piece. just came back from my vacation in china, gotta remarry my work and shake the dust off of my tablet. I can't believe how much i procrastinated.

This piece is somewhat influenced by the vivid lights of startrek, it's interesting to go completely dark and spread brights spots everywhere.

Welcome to ShangHai

2009-08-22T14:38:00.001-04:00

"Welcome to ShangHai"

a quick sketch this morning, woke up in ShangHai super early due to jet lag. soo this is what i came up with.

This city is amazing! I got to travel around a bit and look at the seas of people. so many pretty asian girls too. I'm not sure if i wanna go back now.

Beauty and the Beast 3

2009-07-24T13:46:00.002-04:00

beauty and the beast 3

another personal piece, i put a few things i like together, hehe... still really busy during summer, i find myself delaying quite a bit of my freelance works. that's never good. just hope i can switch on overdrive and run through all of them...

Ambush

2009-06-28T21:20:00.000-04:00

Ambush

just to show that i have no imagination what so ever, try to find things you see in this picture that's been done before.

here's i'll get you started, there's MG ray, sand worm from dune, zerglings, samus's zerosuit, battle rifle from halo, biotics from mass effect, any other look alikes?

i should be ashamed

"Developing Country"

2009-06-15T22:33:00.003-04:00

"Developing Country"

photoshop cs3

4 hours. no ref

a quick spontaneous piece. haven't had time for many personal pieces lately. this is a good breather from everything else

thanks!

Angelic

2009-06-10T02:48:00.003-04:00

Hmmm.....

@#$%^&*(

a trial piece.

Feature in Imagine FX magazine

2009-06-09T12:26:00.003-04:00

http://www.imaginefx.com/home.aspx
My artwork will go into the 48th issue of IFX, going on sale 25 August in the UK and 2 weeks later in the rest of the world.

Warzone Game

2009-06-08T18:04:00.002-04:00

http://warzone-game.com/

Something i'm busy with at the moment. I'm not sure how much information I can actually talk about. But the project is looking really cool, it's a next-gen MMOFPS, I'm working with a great team and hopefully this will be a good one.

Beauty and the Beast 2

2009-05-29T04:07:00.002-04:00

Beauty and the Beast 2

Relic

2009-05-09T17:29:00.000-04:00

Relic

speedpainting, 3 hours

slum colony on a distant planet.

Planet Patrol

2009-05-09T04:15:00.003-04:00

Planet Patrol

Photoshop, around 6 hours

I like sci-fi...

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resurgere texture used for reference

City Angels

2009-04-30T01:01:00.001-04:00

City Angels

Matte Painting

This one is inspired by many awesome matte painters and environment artists, always wanted to try a fast city matte painting to test my abilities. I've looked at a number of Andree Wallin's paintings and was a bit influenced in the methods of lightings. this matte is completed in two long sitdowns, head hurts from sleep deprivation.

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stock photos from:
resurgere textures -sky7_2224.jpg -nature17_3400.jpg

cgtextures.com -BuildingsHighRise0063_1_M

DHD Multimedia Gallery -cityscape Nile river tweaked 1 BG.jpg

Ville Miettinen -Shinjuku smog cityscape.jpg

used with permission

skywalk_speed painting

2009-04-20T05:54:00.002-04:00

skywalk

photoshop speedpainting 3 hours

instead of school assignments, i find this more fun to do.

hope i don't fail. haha...

fight me !

2009-04-16T17:19:00.001-04:00

http://aliasjade.mybrute.com

life drawings april 09

2009-04-16T13:42:00.005-04:00

environment study

2009-04-07T03:24:00.002-04:00

Cooking

painting more to relief stress

Earth and Water

a study, trying to push the range of contrast delicately, while still maintaining control. learned a lot from this compositional failure.

figure

2009-04-07T03:19:00.006-04:00

lady, not my favourite.

Morrigan

since i don't think I'll work on this one longer, here it is.

defiantly not my favourite.

speed paintings

2009-04-07T03:16:00.001-04:00

Web

trying my best to pump out some new paintings. getting my hands warm. gonna be hard to keep up with the school project piling up quickly.

I'm hitting a wall right now.. both CG and Life drawing. struggling to improve. I'm trying to explore some alternatives, and going back to the roots to bite some anatomy books.

A speedy doodle,

have been working on a lot of other projects non painting related. tutoring takes quite a bit of time too. realized i'm getting rusty now. gonna post more of these later.

have a few more i haven't uploaded.

ZBrush hand model

2009-03-26T02:39:00.003-04:00

Low res model created in maya, and taken into Zbrush with a OBJ file. final images are zbrush renders, such a cool program. sculpting is pretty damn fun.

took about 3 hours

The Golden Express

2009-03-09T02:06:00.002-04:00

The Golden Express

Photoshop CS3

haven't been active painting for quite a while, i should be back on track now. been busy with a lot of work.

always wanted to attempt a western piece, but adding a bit of a different flavor to the formula. hope you enjoy.

Snow Mountain

2009-02-05T03:34:00.004-05:00

Snow Mountain

Photoshop cs3

after watching Whit brancha's snow painting video, i decided to test my techniques with the newly acquired brush set. it's a much more opaque oil color-ish set, works beautifully with the traditional painterly style. I haven't completely sat through MrB's video yet, but i plan to do that at least once at some point, he talks about a lot of great tips on painting.

You can get his video from ConceptArt.org, downloadable content comes with the brushes. great values if you ask me.

A New Colony

2009-01-30T03:21:00.002-05:00

"A New Colony"

Photoshop cs3

took me a whole day to sit through this one, trying to expand the color palette and go vibrant with plenty of warm and cool contrasts. I think as a practice it turned out quite alright. I want to explore a more solid and opaque style for my environment arts, and being more versatile with rendering techniques to spice things up some times.

Process for "Transportation"

2009-01-05T12:55:00.003-05:00

1) Rough Sketch, a simple quick sketching stage to find composition and color palette. in this case it's no different from a base speedpainting, where everything is being decided on the fly starting from a blank canvas. Working without a sketch means that you have to be loose when starting off a image, don't be afraid to make big changes or sometimes paint over a entire area. never get caught up on details at this stage or you'll hate yourself later.

2) Color Correction, a clean up stage to tighten up silhouettes and define the mood and atmosphere with the use of colors in the image. pay strong attention to light direction and depth of field, colors from afar is filter by air and appear softer and less intense than the colors in the foreground.

3)Overlaying details, when the buildings are in shape, we can take advantage of some matte painting technique of painting from real photographs. 6 photos where used on the building to the left. they need to be edited and most of the times looped seamlessly for use on buildings. Matte painting started as early as 1907, it's used in movies to extend and create scenery that's too expensive or impossible to build. See the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz, or Star wars.

4) Details pass, This is the stage to define most of details. a common mistake is to zoom in into pixels and over work the tiniest spots, what could happen is that, first you are not looking at the full image and might be taking a part of the painting completely out of the palette range, or making that part of the painting stand out so much from the rest that it draws unnecessary attention. most of the times such small details won't show when you publish the painting into a websize presentation. people can only see it if they like it enough to push their nose up aginst the monitor. So by any case, overall feel of the piece should be consistent, allowing the viewer's eyes to travel around the image. there are parts of the painting that's less important and less interesting, it's ok to leave those parts relatively sketchy in stead of super polished. there's no need to super polish every pixel of the painting.

5) Ship Design, this is the part where practice rendering that sphere comes to show, planes and forms needs to read solidly for the object to look right. the light direction has to be consistent with the already established scene. in this process, i'm literaly sculpting out the shapes and form of the ship design, without a sketch it could be a process of trial and error. the initial soap shaped ship looks awful, so that has to be recreated.

6) Finishing touch, a final pass to tie the piece together, some color corrections, smoke and lights to add atmophere, hightened contrast on the silluette of the ship by reversing the tonals (see top of the ship). finally, some special effects like dusts and blurs.

:)

Dissidia Final Fantasy

2009-01-04T02:21:00.003-05:00

Dissidia Final Fantasy

Tina Branford
Cloud Strife
Squall Leonhart

winter break 1

2008-12-29T17:10:00.003-05:00

Umbrella

quick painting for practice, about 3 hours from concept to finish.

another spontaneous composition. trying out new techniques and approach to start off a piece. a lot of fun just pushing paint around trying to get some subject matter.

Witch !

quick sketch

Transportation

Photoshop CS3

started off as a random sketch, and took it home to polish things up considerably. some matte techniques used, but not polished enough to be called a matte painting. this particular one took pretty long, i had to put it aside for a long while to think about what to do next. and if i had the patience i would spend at least 2 more days on this.

gahh...

Prince of Persia eh?

2008-12-07T00:41:00.004-05:00

Prince of Persia

"The light shines brightest in the dark"

Photoshop CS3

A tribute to the new prince of persia, amazing art direction. I bloody want to work in ubisoft.

for Prince and Elika... <3

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Characters copyright Ubisoft Montreal.

Path

Spontaneous painting, done in school lab, about 1 and a half hours. i'd say some Prince of Persia influence, love the new art style.

Day and Night

2008-11-27T00:15:00.003-05:00

LZ

2008-11-25T04:14:00.002-05:00

Landing Zone

Photoshop CS3 about 2 to 3 hours

another spontaneous piece, for study. with custom brushes.

New Dump

2008-11-25T04:08:00.003-05:00

Launch Site

Photoshop CS3 1 hour speed painting

Industry

Photoshop CS3 Speedpainting. 1.5 hours

Guitar hero

Photoshop CS3

3 hours, started in school as a speedy practice.. hated it.. and took it home to polish things up a bit.

here it is. folks... a strange brain fart

Forest

Commercial Piece

Thick, thick forest and hills.

and i've been super busy, as usual. haven't uploaded in a while. hmm... hopefully i'll be able to get a few more pieces in from work later.

Avalanche

Photoshop CS3

3 hours

An environment concept, straight up painting this time, with custom brushes, no ref or textures used.

LifeDrawing Updates

2008-10-25T00:38:00.002-04:00

Mostly here. missing a few, but enough i think...

30s, 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s, and a 10 all mixed...

CG week update 1 "Cave"

2008-10-20T12:04:00.003-04:00

"Cave"

Photoshop CS3 4 hours

My friends had a CG session in school, and i was quite productive. this one is a spontaneous piece without reference or planning.

Thanks.

speedy updates

2008-10-17T10:41:00.002-04:00

"Company"

Another spontaneous piece, i don't like it, i should try something different.

1 hour photoshop cs3

"Jungle Stone"

Speed Painting done while sound editing class.

Photoshop CS3 about 40 mins

staying late in studio today, so just uploading directly from school. hope you like this one.. tho the gamma is a bit inconsistent on these monitors. bugs me...

good news is that i have next week off, hope to put up some longer pieces soon.

cheers.

Park variations

2008-10-13T05:10:00.002-04:00

more commercial works

from the park series

Ace Combat_Fires of Liberation

2008-10-13T05:06:00.002-04:00

"Fires of Liberation"

2 hours speed painting, photoshop CS3

Ace Combat Fan art, Love this game. its like.. MGS in the air. but gets real hard some times.

ahhh....... haven't done a piece just for myself for a while.. this feels refreshing.

enjoy.

Caricature by Emslie

2008-10-03T23:03:00.002-04:00

Nuff Said...

Radio

2008-10-03T12:07:00.003-04:00

Radio

A 1 hour speedpainting done in school

"Invasion"

2008-10-02T01:12:00.003-04:00

Invasion

Photoshop CS3 2 hours

Another spontaneous painting, and heck, what am i doing? i have 2 projects due tomorrow and i just painted this?

ok, i really needed a break from everything. still suffering from tremendous mental issues.. lol

but my friend gave me a very good lesson today, she said :"You'd be surprised how easy the world becomes once you stop worrying about things that won't matter in a year"

and i guess that's true... what's actually gonna matter in a year time?... who am i gonna become in a year? well i'm excited to find out

life ain that bad...

Dawn

2008-09-30T01:37:00.004-04:00

Dawn

Photoshop CS3 2 Hours

A study piece, tried to achieve a more traditional look with this one. quite hard actually.

hope you like it.

Commissioned piece

Took a while to finalize the design, something different from my usual stuff but enjoyed it non the less.

For a game production

"Sakura-River Interactive"

Pride Rocks and tutoring

2008-09-15T01:15:00.002-04:00

Pride Rocks

Photoshop CS3 40 mins

did this one after lifedrawing as a demonstration for my students

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On another note, I'm tutoring for life drawing and Painting. email or talk to me if interested.

Cassandra !

2008-09-01T00:50:00.000-04:00

anyhow.. a fanart..

soul calibur is a good game...

Update! more anime?

2008-08-31T16:30:00.000-04:00

Night!

ACG Mascot

*These are works with compensations. As I may NOT be the copyright holder.

Warlord

2008-08-31T16:27:00.000-04:00

Near completion

concept topic:

gangster warlord in 3000 ad (super tech)

need critiques and suggestions.

about 5-6 hours into production

thanks.

2008-08-26T15:07:00.001-04:00

Blackmage

Photoshop CS3 3 hours

My friends went for a FF week where we design our own characters in the classic FF style, for some reason they all agreed that i'd be the blackmage... so folks. here it is..

quite a straight forward process for this one, was done fairly quickly.

Japanese residential area

2008-08-26T15:04:00.001-04:00

this is a contracted work, or i can't find another reason to paint something this much close to anime. still...

First of many... more to come when it's released.

cheers

Update!

2008-08-14T05:12:00.002-04:00

Oblivion

Photoshop CS3 3-4 hours

didn't use any references or photos for this one, straight up custom brush painting, another spontaneous piece. started as something else floating in the space and completely turned the table around as i progressed.

hope you enjoy it.

Beauty and the Beast

One of the scenarios i always wanted to do but was afraid i might not pull it off. but now i did it anyways. A rather fantasy like finish with vivid lightings. i received lots of awesome critiques from Jo Kim, he also did a paintover for me, really gotta thank him for helping me out with this one. this took about 2 days, counting up to 10 hours i believe. had quite a bit of trouble with it, almost gave up half way...

Screw ups

2008-08-14T05:12:00.001-04:00

Beauty and the Beast

Unfinished work-in-progress

having a lot of issues with this one. fucking way beyond frustration. and did i mention i suck at rendering?

Another Unfinished

and i hate this one more than the previous one. wtf is the matter. I'm really getting pissed at myself and i think it's time for me to stop using photoshop all together.

son of a bitch..

Speedy

2008-08-14T05:10:00.000-04:00

since i posted my wednesday post on monday.. i'm going to post this one to balance things out..

don't ask me how..

"flight"

1 hr speedpainting

not much to say about this one. a little bored so randomly doodled a painting. this one is quite spontaneous, not much planning involved. quite busy with freelance work this month, i should cut down on the gaming.. ha

sketches

2008-08-14T05:09:00.000-04:00

Monster Hunter !

been playing this game for an entire day, the difficulty is quite frustrating. But i managed to gather some materials and made myself a nice set of equipments. Yo leon and jae, we gotta play together again sometime.

Ocean and Under

2008-07-28T21:34:00.001-04:00

Ocean and Under

6 hours

A canceled commissioned piece, i decided to finish it anyways because i liked the start of it. would be a waste not to have this done. So folks, here it is.

client decided to go with a much more simpler cell-shaded design. hmm... can't argue that can i?

Cheers.!

Raiden

2008-07-28T21:33:00.001-04:00

RAIDEN

2 hours, Photoshop CS3

Finally got my hands on the almighty MGS4, and it's better than anything I've experienced. holy ****...

anyways.. after finishing act 2, i decided to do a Raiden fan art.

enjoy.

Vikings

2008-07-28T21:32:00.000-04:00

Vikings

Commissioned work

One of my works with the most characters in one shot. quite enjoyable process, and the client is very happy so it makes me very happy. haa..

anyways... this is going to be printed with wide format, a larger scale poster. he wants to hang it in the living room and show off to friends...

i posted a WIP for this before. i'll have to add something to today's post later. let's keep momentum on its feet.

Enterprise Project_The Making of Concept 1

2008-07-16T10:18:00.001-04:00

Enterprise Project

Concept Art 1

3 hours.

1080p

Docking Bay concept, digital matte painting using 3D model as a base for paint over.

Concept Art 1 (Work in Progress)

1 hour point

Proxy Model

Mental Ray Render

(Final Gather, Global Illumination with Ray-Trace)

Speedy Pieces

2008-07-16T09:17:00.006-04:00

"FETCH!"

Photoshop CS3 ..

about 3 to 4 hours.

hmm... i donno .. kinda look like a halo fan art unintentionally. but that's not a bad thing i guess.. another really rough speedpainting-ish approach. sigh..~

i need to start doing serious pieces.... but this is plain old fun...

Speedpainting
30 mins.

A mood sketch.. rather.. i should come back to do more of these sketches, i was too busy being bored all the time. hence the lack of updates these few days... i'll get back on track.. soon enough..

haah..

well.. um.. i have a bad habit of uploading at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Ship updates, and Environment

2008-07-16T08:21:00.001-04:00

An Update on the ship, Making progress on the low mesh proxy model, hmm... i'm getting close...

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First up.. i give you the finished version of

Elven Falls

photoshop CS3 6 hours

Another painting for the Dragon's Tale E-Magazine from Brazil.
hail the mighty D&D.. yes!..

and "Killing Spree"

Unfinished preview... i don't know where I'm going with this one, not sure.

and "Project Enterprise"

a space ship design sketch, currently modeling this thinmaggigy in Maya. my plan for this project is to create a design, from the very rough sketches to refinments, revisions, and to concept art, mood sketchs. after i finish modeling, i'm going to create a matte painting based on the ship model.

a couple of programs i'm learning along the process: more Photoshop matte, Maya Modeling and texture UVs, Zbrush and displacement maps, Fusion for final composition(if i can get my hands on it), and that's about all...

Frank Hong

DailySketch

DailySketch

DailySketch

Concept Art_First Encounter

ARTBOOK KICKSTARTER. at BOILED FISH STUDIOS

ARTIST AROUND THE WORLD PAGE_EXPOSE 8

Talents needed.

EXPOSÉ 8

Art Squared - digital painters 2

AnimeExpo, Update

Making of Frank Hong's "City of Angels" image on 3D Total

Alive and Kicking it at SK

Workshop_City Angel 2

2DArtist Magazine #051 March 2010 issue

Garden of Zen

Quick mattes for Phantom VFX

3Dtotal Excellence Award received.

Sunflower Tower 01

Workshop Tutorial Coming Up!

A LEGO Steampunk Machine

Lego modelled by Jeremy Devilbiss

ConceptArtWorld

Monster Hunter

CAVE

2012

Interview with DeadlineStudios

My interview for DeadlineStudios, by Serg.S – Serg Souleiman.along side with Sebastien Larroude a.k.a Rainart, Horia Dociu, Brad Rigney and Hethe Srodawa. :PRead at: http://deadlinestudios.com/?p=127

SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

LifeDrawings Fall 09 Renders

LifeDrawings Fall 09 Gestures

Dragon Age

apartment. painting

Resonance of Fate, and City!

random updates

Polka

update

Converse

Practice

crap

speed paintings

Temple of the North

Dynasty, Shan Shui

Code Name Husky

Freelance Update

Kryptonite

Live Stream_Killzone and update

Black widow

Mining Operation

Welcome to ShangHai

Beauty and the Beast 3

Ambush

"Developing Country"

Angelic

Feature in Imagine FX magazine

Warzone Game

Beauty and the Beast 2

Relic

Planet Patrol

City Angels

skywalk_speed painting

fight me !

life drawings april 09

environment study

figure

speed paintings

ZBrush hand model

The Golden Express

Snow Mountain

A New Colony

Process for "Transportation"

Dissidia Final Fantasy

winter break 1

Prince of Persia eh?

Day and Night

LZ

New Dump

LifeDrawing Updates

CG week update 1 "Cave"

speedy updates

My interview for DeadlineStudios, by Serg.S – Serg Souleiman.
along side with Sebastien Larroude a.k.a Rainart, Horia Dociu, Brad Rigney and Hethe Srodawa. :P

Read at: http://deadlinestudios.com/?p=127