Genetic Defect

Had fun on this one. Found a basic brush I'm really liking. I don't like the legs, I may need to do a lower body study of human anatomy soon.

Harvester, one form of assimilation to another

So I came across an image online, and when I saw it tiny on my desktop I had to do a painting. The original image is from star trek. Check it out.

From this:

to this:

Creation Tale Illustration

"The beginning"

This is an illustration for my creation tale class. This is the mass of creatures that would form after darkness, the first god, began a reaction of fire. This mass would then detonate, and create the sun and all the other heavenly bodies within the solar system.

WIP Bounty hunter

I put this project down after awhile but Eventually I'll pick it up again. Just like all my OTHER pieces I've put down before. It's called simply "Bounty Hunter" A character dressed in western style clothing with a scifi twist to him.

Self Portrait skin tone practice

Bleh, this is based off of a distorted picture I took in photobooth. I was trying to work on some skin tones but it looks a little flat. Lacking alot of contrast. Just posting this because I thought it would be interesting and perhaps I could get a crit from a few people. Took about an hour and half ish?


So I got a little frustrated, and walked away from the piece for a bit. Then I got mad at myself and came back to rework it, this is the next stage of the piece.


Then a little bit of creative freedom.The title of the piece if I continue with the theme will be "The Birth of the First Dragon"

It's Still a WIP...perhaps I'll finish it for next Tuesday.
The first image and the last two images are about 2 hours apart.

Early Eve Miner WiP

Before there were mining lazes fitted to ships. Before strip miners even existed, there was a rugged few who walked the surfaces of asteroids and mined the precious ore manually.

Any new visitors

My contact info: mylesgagne@yahoo.com, or 603-703-9058

To any new visitors, thank you for coming across my page. I've been working with this blog since last year about mid way through and this page has seen quite a bit of traffic. Thank you to all those who periodically come by and offer critiques or a glance at my work.

Keep in mind, a lot of these pieces on this page are works in progress, (basically meaning I'm not going to touch them again but I've pretty much moved on.) Some images are the process images, where others are studies. If you'd like to see a more elaborate portfolio, or are interested in a freelance job, be it logo design, concept art or illustration please contact me above. Thank you all once again, you keep stopping by and I'll keep drawing!

Character Grayscale

Worked on a grayscale study. No reference and now I wish I had. Need some work but I felt like posting it quick.

Fire Fighter

This piece is still a work in progress. A few things here and there I'd like to fix. I'll get to it eventually. As it stands I'm pretty content with it, I need to fix the gun he's holding in his hand among other things but I enjoyed working on this piece.

Robotron Painting

So, I'm a little rusty. I haven't touched any semi ambitious project since school. So I decided to tinker around with a piece I titled rather lamely "robotron" I felt a little nervous because I recorded this using a desktop recoding program to post on youtube. I'm hoping to make a video tutorial series for those newer to digital painting. I'll embed the video here once I get it uploaded properly.

Crits semi welcome, be gentle.

-Omni

Red Samurai

I was watching samurai jack and was inspired. So I created this guy. I dig it, a little different stylistically than I normally do. Perhaps I'll explore it further.

Octoeye or "encounter"

So this is a piece I'm pretty proud of, I still need alot of work on it, but as of right now I'm going to leave it alone. I titled the piece Octoeye at first then changed it to encounter.

Pixel Forest

This is a piece I'm entering into the Applied Arts Student Awards, The title is "The Pixel Forest" there were some color comps up there before but I never posted the finish.

Glib WIP

W.I.P of the stalwart diminutive character Glib! here he calls upon a demon's energy to fight back a group of attacking imps. I've included Glib's character sheet as well.

Glib's Character sheet

Primal Golem-

Basically finished, some fine tuning with the rim lighting on the figure, but I've worked on it alot so I'm taking a breather and coming back to it.

Gun concept sketches. Color wasnt the focus, just an element i tacked on at the end. Crits welcome

-Omni

Primal Golem

Soon to come with this piece is an environmental drawing and a rework of the Fire Wurm. As it stands now, the pillar coming out of the back of this golem is enchanted by magic from a race long since dead. This race put these same pillars throughout an active volcano to stabilize the rising magma and decrease the average Temperature. Neglect and ignorance has caused these pillars to begin to malfunction, consequently allowing the magic to go awry and do things highly unexpected. The pillars have given life to things not meant to move, such as the volcanic rock throughout the region.

(Work.In.Progress)

Wizard's First Rule Book Cover

This is an almost finish piece for illustration. I'm not super proud of it, just mildly content. I think I'm going to try to add more detail into this piece. Input always appreciated.

Note: I worked on this piece today so I'm erasing the older picture and putting up the most recent one. I forgot to put the orange glow onto the face of the cat. When I finish this I'll make sure to do so.

Metal Textures for class

Click and drag to desktop or Right Click (command click) and save.

Be awesome if I could get a crit on this piece, it's due Monday. Anyone willing email me at mylesgagne@yahoo.com or send me a face book message. Thanks all.

Quick Sketches

These are some quick sketches I did in a program called "ArtRage" The weird masked character which I've titled "Gun Rocker" was made in ArtRage 2. "Red Riding Hood" is made in ArtRage 3.
The demo's are free, I'd give them a try. http://www.artrage.com/artragedemo.html


"Red Riding Hood"

"Gun Rocker"

Work In Progress

This is for my illustration class, it's a forest of glowing tablet pens with a traveler standing baffled before them. Any crits welcome!

Pilgram

So in response to a friends charcoal piece of "The Duke" I decided to anwser with a digi version. It's still got some work to do but not bad for a day of work (not 24 hours but a few here or there.)

The Summnoner

Reposted, this is the finished piece for the most part. "The Summoner" I need to work on my faces so I'll be posting some new work soon.

Editoral Piece

Fake Editorial Piece for Cheating in L.A Casinos.

water dragon controversy

So I added some photos of sharks in the background, ones I took off google, basically I just put them on multiply and lowered their opacity to make them recede in the distance. I did SOME painting on the upper right ones, where I thought they might be touched by the light.

water dragon

So I'm stoked, this is one of 6 deity dragons I'm designing, the fire realm is below. (The reason I'm stoked is because I feel this piece is really coming along.) This is the water realm, I've included a detail on the portion I've spent the most time on. Crits welcome and thanks folks.

Stage 1 Portrait

This is a digital portrait of my good friend chris. He's not wearing armor in the reference but I thought it'd be a cool inclusion. This is early on in the stage, I'll repost this post with the stages later.

-Omni

Occupational Portrait

Quick crit if anyone is willing to, send it via Facebook if you don't have a blogspot account. Much appreciated!

This was an Occupational Portrait, It's for the science museum, unfrountally I couldn't coax anyone to model so myself, my girl friend, and my friend chris did the modeling. This is like a self portrait.

Dragon I drew today.

This is a digital piece I did today, I don't know EXACTLY how long it took, I could safely say about 3 hours about. It has a very World Of Warcraft feel to it, which I don't mind. It was inspired by the third novel of "The Death Gate Cycle" called Fire Sea. Written by Margret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Here it is.