my 2d stuff

admittedly, i don't post here very often, but i'm around almost every day and i like reading what a lot of you have to say.

i'm an architect, currently teaching in university, but i also have a solid background in the graphic stuff. i usually just do it for myself and my portfolio, but i figured it was time to show some stuff publicly, as i'm seriously considering a jump into the games industry. these paintings being what they are, i think my real strength is in level design...but that stuff takes so long that i thought i could just have an outlet for quick stuff i do on the side. so i'll post as i complete stuff i'm happy with.

thanks for looking!

been on a l4d kick lately. bad timing with the comic that just came out, i know.

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and some details

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not 100% happy with zoey, but i limit myself to a 24 hr period from start to finish (though i spend far less time on them), so she didn't really make the cut.

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heh, not shy, just not terribly effusive.

here's what the above is based upon...was a little bit different, stylistically, and is loosely based on a 3 map vs. campaign i've been working on, on and off, for a while:

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left side detail:

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right side detail:

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another variation on the same sort of thing

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left4europe

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more of that theme

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and thanks for the responses. means a lot.

thanks!

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i guess you could say the perspectival distortions are ways of kind of dislocating the center of the image and giving it multiple centers and/or multiple references in time. or, in the case of the image with the pinkish arch 2 up, the perspective does some of the same shifting that the center band of stones does on the street, in addition to setting things up compositionally in the fore/mid/background. for this l4d stuff, pushing the perspective without breaking it hopefully conveys a little unease.

i'm glad you recognize intent in that. not everybody does.

this one relies on a photo pretty heavily, except that the original was taken during the day and contained somebody's wife leaning against the wall (and no zombies running down stairs)...

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details:

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