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Meaningless scramble for ...

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:19:15 PDT

Meaningless scramble for more room

Mary Musth

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:51:51 PST

The piece is the cover art for the "Mary Musth" album by MAGNOLIUS

[link]

facebook : LINK
HP : LINK

speed paint 2012 05 23

Wed, 23 May 2012 01:18:08 PDT

(video got fukked up in the end :/ )

compressed video (from 23 min):

[link]

I start almost everyday with a speed paint to warm up the wacom board. I often film these speedies, to keep track on my process and see what I am doing right/wrong. I thought I might wanna start share these with you.

These are SPEED paints. I have a timer I set for 20 min, so most of my speed paints are around 20 min. If a speed paint takes more than 1 hour, I don't think it's a speed paint anymore, then it's an illustration.

I sometimes use my speed paints as start ups for other work, and it's kind of sweet to have a huge folder with "sketches" to choose and pick from if you're running low on ideas some times.

also, there are always things you see as soon as the time is up, that you realize you should have done different, and there are always loads of stuff you miss or do wrong. But the important thing is just to nail something, a feeling and basic design in 20 min. This one is done in 23 min.

FAQ:

Q: you should have music on your clips?
A: I record these as a quick note. I simply dont have time to put music over it, and edit these. It takes enough time already to make them and upload them on a daily basis

Q: What program did you use?
A: Photoshop CS3 and and a wacom Intous 3.

Q: Where did you get your custom brushes?
A: from everywhere. friends and internetz, a mix

Q: Can you share your brushes?
A. I will try to put together a pack and share/post via my homepage in the future

Q: Do you know when you start what it will be?
A: no, almost never. I go with the flow and it often changes under the process. Thats why it often turn out like poop. sometimes it take 85% of the time to just find some interesting to take further.

Q. at *insert random number* min/sec in the clip, you do this and that and I cant really see what is happening, do you mind to tell me about and explain it all?
A. no I am sorry no (I don't have the time to sit and write x number of ppl personal tutorials etc - further on, there will be properly done video tutorials from me)

Q. You should have commentary over your clip?
A. I will make proper full length tutorial further on. these are just quick uploads.

Q. You should work for gaming Industry?
A. I do

Q. Why just all this speedies?
A. read above info again - for more work:

www.torvenius.com
www.facebook.com/torvenius
torvenius.tumblr.com

SUMMER SALE Siamese Orphan

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:30:17 PDT

*SUMMER SALE*

making room for some new sculptures coming up

"Siamese Orphan, Janos and Sonaj"

Long time since I made any Orphans or I had any of them at home. 2 new critters have however emerged. Dunno when they will come around next time.

mixed media, approx 45 cm high

SOLD

From now on, ALL midgets and Orphans will come with a "Adoption Certificate" - looks like this:

[link]

it will be signed with each Midget/Orphans name and signed by Dr Torvenius himself - to ensure you that each one is unique.

send a note if interested.

Motherfucking Zombies

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:00:56 PDT

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"Motherfucking Zombies!" D:<
06.01.2009
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Fallens

Tue, 08 May 2012 04:55:46 PDT

artwork 2012

Giants and Angels II

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:51:02 PDT

It came for her.
A mass of flesh, limbs, and teeth.
It came towards her, up from the massive void below.
A monster of pure death.
It came to take her away.

Part II of my previous deviation. Phew. What a wrist-breaker.
It's an avatar of Avnas, inside of one of Cyanous' dreams - a frequent set of dreams involving an angel and her death. This is where Avnas appears to take her away.
A concept sketch of the creature can be seen here.
Sountrack for this painting was The Fountain by Clint Mansell.
Enjoy!

Sanctuary

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:04:48 PST

long time no post huh?

Jd'A 3

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:35:35 PST

pastel 82 x 70 cm inspired by [link]

eppur si muove

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:36:43 PDT

pastel 70 x 100 cm

temporarily untitled

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:51:28 PDT

sketch for a poster,pastel 100 x 70

Ethereal Graze

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:30:28 PST

Ink/watercolor on paper
45x45 cm
2012

kikyz1313

Fine Artistic Nude Portrait 2

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:42:23 PDT

Fine Art Style Artistic Nude

Model: Mizz Amanda Marie

Harlequin

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:51:48 PDT

Concept for personal project.... more soon.. =]

Shorts II

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:52:29 PDT

Paint Tool Sai and PS CS3 for textures and adjustments. Hope you like it. The logo was a last time addition, it's not a Coke ad or anything like that, I just thought it would look nice on the wall.

EDIT: Changed the design in the shorts.

Martyr

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:10:50 PST

Inspired by the movie "Martyrs". An excellent movie, watch it if you can.

Done in PaintToolSAI & PS for textures and minor corrections.

Queen B

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:31:06 PST

(B)itch

A gift for a friend.

terra

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:40:46 PDT

Well, another homage to Yoshitaka Amano, this time one of my favourite Final Fantasy games

DEEP sketch: Persephone

Thu, 29 May 2008 23:49:02 PDT

A concept sketch for conceptart.org's Deep challenge, which involves creating a deep sea world. I'm toying with the idea of the deep sea as an underworld, one as huge and complex as our own, with semi-modern cities and wilderness. The dead travel there to live out an alternate life, and they take on a form that reflects the kind of person they were in their previous life (most of them aren't mermaid-like). The entire place is ruled by the dictator god Hades, who I think I'll portray as some sort of crazy eel guy. In any case, if you know the myth involving Hades and Persephone, you'll know that Hades kidnapped her from the world of the living to be his bride. In this case, Hades saw a beautiful girl on a cruise and became infatuated. Instead of waiting for her to die and come to his world, he snatched her down before her time and formed her into the being she is now. Pretty much the same story. Anyway,
I incorporated characteristics of a sea robin and a yeti crab for this character. Most of them aren't going to be nearly as froo-froo, but of course I had to start with the pretty one.

Prometheus's Martyrdom

Sat, 08 May 2010 17:26:39 PDT

"Why should I stop with just your liver?"

_{Time: about 3 days all in all, stopped after the second day, lost interest on piece for months. Today raced through remaining parts for about 12 hours, cause if I had stopped I knew it would take another month to pick up where I left off.
Ref: my right foot.
Music: Glee OST, HALO OST. Good stuff.
Mood: shitty when starting first time months ago, shitty when first returning to this thing, not so shitty now.

Wiki Prometheus if you had no clue who he is.
It's supposed to be dark/poorly-lit.
Wings are eeeeeeeevil.
Might post step-by-step sometime in the future.
It's 7AM here.

DONE. CAN FINALLY SLEEP.
TL;DR
/RANT}

Lotus Tiger

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:31:15 PDT

For the yarn club. based off of a story about a boy who can paint anything into life.
Check out my website[link] and thanks Kate for doing this awesome story for me!

Soe Thans Brush

K. Bachus, retold from Burmese traditional

There was once a boy in Burma named Soe Than.

He was poor, and an orphan, and worked all his days as a laborer. The rest of the time, he
painted.

Soe Than had no brushes, so he used sticks, and cloth, and even with just these things painted
such amazing pictures that people would marvel. Many of his paintings were of things hed never seen,
like tall distant mountains, grey and blue and ringed in mist or wide green rivers all jade green, or tigers.
Always tigers. Most often, tigers.

After his day laboring he would sit under a teak tree and people would come and watch, and
this simple boys fame as an artist spread throughout the village, and even through the province.

Then one day Soe Than was visited by a Nat, who came to him as he painted and swirled around
him all foggy spirit and said I have a gift for you. Paint the world. And when Soe Than woke as if from a
dream, he was holding a golden paintbrush.

Soe Than dipped the brush, and began to paint.

First he painted soup and rice, because he was always hungry and as he painted a warm ngapi
smell rose and when he was done there was a meal in front of him so he stopped painting, and ate.
Then he painted for himself a longyi, and shoes, and put those on in place of his tattered ones. Then
he painted a lotus, and took it in curved hands and set it at the base of the tree where the Nat had
appeared.

The next day Soe Than went through the village, painting rice and fruit and fish curry and sweet
pashu mont and pairs of shoes. These he gave out to the poor like himself, and by the end of the day,
everyone was talking about Soe Than and his magic brush.

Soe Than continued to paint. He painted a water buffalo for a farmer and he painted bangles for
a little girl, and he went through the province painting and giving, but it wasnt always shoes and oxen.
He painted puppets for a puppeteer, that danced and leapt without strings. He painted a green and pink
stick bug for a little boy to play with. He wanted to paint tigers, he missed painting tigers. But obviously
he couldnt paint tigers.

Now, the king heard rumors of Soe Than and his magical brush, and sent his adviser to Soe Than
to command him to paint whatever the king desired.

Soe Than refused.

The king was outraged, and threw Soe Than into a dungeon, without food or water. Soe Than
painted himself meals, and fruit, and little blue and green bugs to play with. Hearing that Soe Than had

made himself perfectly comfortable in the dungeon, the king flew into an even greater rage, and sent his
guards to kill Soe Than.

So the boy painted himself a trapdoor and escaped.

The kings guards pursued him, but he painted himself a horse to ride away on, and fled to
a remote village to the Kachin province far to the north, and tried to live quietly and without notice.
He painted only small and simple things, just enough. Not too much. But one day he grew bored and
forgot and painted a bright green monkey, and the next day the kings soldiers came and arrested him.

They took him to the palace, where the king demanded Soe Than paint him a vault of treasure.
Scared now, and tired of running, Soe Than complied, hoping this would satisfy the king and he could go
and live in peace again. But the king demanded another vault, and another. He painted so many vaults
on top of each other that they all collapsed, but the king didnt care.

Paint me a huge palace, he told Soe Than, larger and more resplendent than any other. So
Soe Than painted him a fantastic palace, with towering spires and marble floors and gold leaf adorning
the walls. Make a garden, the king demanded. The most beautiful garden anyone has ever seen.

Soe Than painted a beautiful garden. It was full of white and yellow orchids, and fragrant sabae,
and huge pink lotus flowers. Make the garden bigger, the king demanded. And all the lotus should be
white. Do it at once! Soe Than made the garden bigger. Narrow paths twisted through it, tall trees rose
up making dark, deep glens.

White lotus! the king insisted. Bigger!

Im finished, said Soe Than. You have a beautiful garden, and a beautiful palace, and there is
nothing wrong with a pink lotus. And he calmly and quietly put away his brush.

Bigger! White! shouted the king and summoned his guards to force Soe Than to do his
bidding. But Soe than had left his paints behind and walked into the garden.

It was the biggest garden in all of Burma, maybe all of the world.

The king followed, and all the guards. Neither Soe Than, nor the king, nor the guards were seen

again.

The palace crumbled, over time, but the garden flourished. Only the very brave will venture into
it to see its wonders, though.

They say its full of tigers.

kissyfish

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:37:23 PDT

I had a lot of fun with this one. Peony and goldfish, and I ever so cleverly put peonies in her hair. Hur hur.

Medium: Micron 005, PSP 5, My textures (~kittonstock)

Reference: I eyeballed some peonies from [link]

concept sketch

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:12:03 PDT

concept sketch sci-fi armor and thanks for watching.

bot sketch

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:23:49 PDT

bot sketch which will finish

Venom Revisited

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:58:31 PDT

Venom Revisited is my attempt to take venom and make him a more realized badass. Make him more menacing! This is my comeback from a long hiatus my bad yall! time to repost! Enjoy

Aliens or Demons

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:08:55 PST

aliens or demons?! go on my blog to find the process! robotpencil.org

Skeletor

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:31:20 PST

Here is a drawing I've been working on for a Skeletor design I'm doing. Thought he should look a bit more bad ass. Got rid of the scepter, but might bring it back somehow well see. Anyways, not done, but I thought hey, its done enough to be viewed!

Predator Sketch Shot

Mon, 09 May 2011 08:20:31 PDT

Sketch Shot Commission

Graveyard Sentinel

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:54:15 PST

Submission to the Podcast-"Comic Geek Speak" Digital art contest. All digital image. Photoshop/Painter.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:16:34 PDT

"Strange case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde"

Originally for sale at Gallery 1988: Melrose, from the "Required Reading" group show which featured limited edition posters inspired by classic novels. The gallery show was curated by OMGPosters & Rob Jones.

18" x 24" screenprint on heavy paper. Limited edition of 50.

The prints sold out quickly at the gallery, but unlike those, my few remaining copies are signed and numbered. For sale here:

[link]

Girl I

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:49:26 PDT

Missed alot painting with tablet, so I've made this one.
hope you guys like it. about 2-3hours study in PS.
reference from xercism.

robot

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:28:05 PST

zaczęłam ten art masę czasu temu przez co nie mam linka do używanych przeze mnie tekstur jeżeli ktoś by ej kojarzył to była bym wdzięczna, jeśli uda mi sie je odnaleźć to dodam linki sama

detale:
[link]
wcześniejsze odsłony:
[link]
[link]

ps: wielkie podziękowania i ogromny dla za linka do tekstur
[link]

N. 23

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:36:25 PST

A concept based on Ashley Wood's limited palette

Liono

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:10:57 PDT

One of my favorite 80's cartoons: Thundercats! My take on Liono. I'm working on a sculpture of this guy as well.

Tom

Walking The Dog

Sat, 09 May 2009 07:47:04 PDT

It's dog eat dog when you meet your rival
and the combat zone it's your means of survival
Gonna get last licks on a suicide blitz
with a broken dagger knife
when the lightning strikes

_{_{A 2 hour 'escape' turned into a full-blown 8+. Too lazy to draw clothes and figured half-nude wimminz + any random macho object = instant win anyway. Photoshop, reference used for the pretty gatling.

Snoopy belongs to Mr. Schulz.}}

100410: Got Snoopy back; print no longer available.

Robocop

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:32:15 PST

1,5h speed paint, painted during a demo at a Sketchgroup meeting in Irvine.

Prenda XXVII

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:28:54 PST

Male Posing

vine charcoal, charcoal pencils on arches 29"x41"

used stock photo from: Morf-stock

Treemonkey.

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:30:55 PDT

Chavant (med)

Bust Concept

Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:01:00 PDT

Another piece for my demo reel. Going for a monster/human flesh/machine pile of crap. I have tons more but a lot of them suck, heres a better one. Also, one of my first ALL PS drawings, getting away a bit from sketchbook.. wacom tablets rock.

HULKKK - 56

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:13:25 PDT

MORE HULKKKKKKKKKKKKK...

All PS CS2

Judgement

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:49:26 PST

my entry
death on his pale horse at the end of the world

Demon sketch

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:18:24 PST

Photoshop, 2hrs.
this one came up while doodling with PS.

ULTIMATE ARMOR WARS 1 Variant

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:30:34 PDT

Variant cover edition (1:15 "Villain" Cover) for "ULTIMATE Comics ARMOR WARS #1" September 16, 2009 [link]

Pencils: Steve Kurth
Digi Painting: me

Before And After: [link]

©Marvel

The Vile and the Shadows

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:46:43 PDT

A goddess with a dual nature, perhaps.

Cherry Lips

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:19:49 PDT

Thesis painting, Full-Jacket book cover for Dracula by Bram Stoker.

The Widowed Mother

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:41:50 PDT

No explanation for this one.

Just had to sketch something for myself.

YellowTape.

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:47:11 PDT

No idea.

satan

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:54:33 PDT

this is done in regualr earth clay, a test head for my satan. kinda stole a bit from blade 2. oh well.

out of nowhere

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:50:19 PST

this is a page of a comic i did, and i colored it this morning. i have 3 pages worth, buts thats about it : [

liquor store story 2

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:26:57 PST

watch it evolve!

now what should he be holding in his palm? HALP!

prev > [link]

ps fazer

Mon, 05 May 2008 12:52:56 PDT

he loves playstation!

amphetamine zombie

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:32:27 PDT

new brush. a little zombie tribute to amphetamine reptile

love them hate them but don't blame them!

Bound

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:09:16 PST

Not a very good copy of this.

Conte on transparent paper.

ENJOY!

i hate meetings

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:16:27 PDT

found this in a pile of forgotten scribbles

i hate meetings ...the ones I was forced into at a job that I'm no longer at....soooooo i would sketch randomness on scrap paper and would generally try to channel my annoyance into the most obnoxious forms of 'life' ....during this pariticular useless meeting I sh@t this out

no likeness of any kind used just random nonsense

stream of consc. 1

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:28:38 PDT

not sure how to describe this..just some random stream of conscience doodles-all straight ahead with ball point pen...then greyscaled with some pantone warm grays...touched up a bit in pshop...

I limited my brain stream to sci-fi animal/humanoids...partly cuz I was thinkin of an old personal project my bro and I came up with

Matricide

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:57:32 PST

A visual rant through use of symbolism. My representation of humanity's relationship with mother earth.

Please view full sized.

shards

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:10:46 PST

This is a fast work I promised to do a long time ago, so finally it's done. It's first illustration for a project I'm working on with few guys, we'll see what comes out of it . Thanks for watching.
Done in Photoshop over a scanned pencil drawing

fallout II

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:05:20 PST

... photoshop + tablet

50 min Speed painting

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:11:52 PDT

50 min speed painting, ( I got carried away ) Photoshop.

see the vid
[link]

Aridren1

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:13:23 PDT

Trying to learn to work with pens and inks better, so just messing around with them a bit.

Ink washes and pens.
11x17