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My Art Work pt:1


On 05/17/2013 at 10:36 AM by Chunopo

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It's been a real pleasure becoming part of the community here at Pixlbit, Just when I was starting to feel the blues from the closure of 1UP, Broken H let me know that this place was shaping up to be something special so I quickly had a look and decided to roost here with many other 1UP vets.

On 1UP I posted a few blogs based around a new interest that has got me going recently (well semi-recently as I have been rather lazy over the last year): Ultimate Battles! the aim is to pit two characters against each other in an epic battle scene because... well just because I thought it would be a cool thing to do. I'm currently working on my latest installment and I am just about ready to add some colour, but before I did that I thought it might be nice to introduce some of my work over the years and give you guys a little insight into the roots of my main passion in life.... Art

Over the next few blogs I'll be showing a bit of work and giving a few details on my experience in the art world, though not all of it is gaming orientated.

Anyone who is interested in seeing more should have a look at my deviant art profile:

http://chunopo.deviantart.com/

So lets get started.

I've pretty much had an interest in drawing all my life but we'll start at the tender age of 16 when I developed a deep fascination with drawing birds, I don't know why but to this day I find them very soothing things to observe and draw.

This fella was actually a stuffed seagull in our art department that I used to scare my now wife with (she had the pleasure of knowing me at school!) hours of fun were had with seymour but I did quite a few illustrations of our feathered friend.

Throughout my time in education I started working with different materials but I ve always been a fan of traditional stuff like watercolour and oils (see above). This was part of some stamp designs that I had to do for my A levels.

 

I started looking to my own imagination more and started to explore illustration work by artists like John Howe (LOTR) and saw many similarities with real animals and figures so I thought I'd try working from memory/ random images to create birds that didn't rely on exact copying. This one for example was actually inspired from an eagle photo I saw but I started to learn how to find inspiration from pictures to create original content, a much needed skill for the ultimate battles to come later!

Next time I'll be looking a some work that I undertook at university and what (naked!) opportunities I found there (all art related I promise).

Any way thanks for reading.


 

Comments

Homelessrook

05/17/2013 at 10:39 AM

Very nice. I checked out your deviantart too. I want to get back to doing art, just can not find the time right now.

Chunopo

05/17/2013 at 11:00 AM

It is incredibly time consuming isn't it! At school and University i really didn't appreciate the huge amount of time I had to do all of this, I was too busy watching girls and getting to know a life long friend... beer!

Matt Snee Staff Writer

05/17/2013 at 10:40 AM

damn dude.  these are awesome, and I looked at your Deviant Art stuff too.  You are definitely talented and skilled.  I like the Mario Kart one particularly. 

Chunopo

05/17/2013 at 11:02 AM

Thanks man, I need to get some more stuff up there. Unfortunately I can't take credit for the Mario kart one, the images in that box are works from other guys that I added to my favourites. That was done by a lad who calls himself 'thechamba'. He's done some epic pieces, you can see more from him on the link below.

http://thechamba.deviantart.com/

leeradical42

05/17/2013 at 12:06 PM

Very good artist you are do you do it professionally if not you should your very talented and when i first looked i thought the pics were real great work.

Chunopo

05/17/2013 at 06:05 PM

Thanks very much! I did do work as an illustrator for a short time and even did a job in fashion would you believe but I evtually settled on becoming an art teacher, regular income certainly helps.... well at least until I find a job is Australia!

leeradical42

05/17/2013 at 06:44 PM

Well if you cant make it there i know here in the US you would make a killing drawing like that, very good art work wow im amazed.

leeradical42

05/18/2013 at 08:04 AM

I didnt even see you dieveint art thats insane do you do tatoos lol very very impressive.

Chunopo

05/18/2013 at 01:22 PM

I did a few tattoos for my my mates back in the UK, one lad got a climber done on his shoulders but the othet guy couldn't get all teh detail done, though I think he went to a skin artist whi couldn't hack it. I ve seen some amazing tattoo work though, some people are outstanding on using a living canvass!

Aboboisdaman

05/17/2013 at 12:30 PM

Nice work man! I really liked the hawk and Shao Kahn vs Bowser. I draw too (mostly caricatures) but if I'm not motivated I can't draw worth a crap lol. Embarassed

Chunopo

05/17/2013 at 06:07 PM

Cheers mate, I know the feeling, I can be a real lazy arse sometimes, finding the right motivation is difficult and even when your in full flow you can become distracted. Video games seem a much simpler persuit..... though they can be equally as vexing!

Super Step Contributing Writer

05/17/2013 at 04:20 PM

Awesome. Eagles are cool, and your drawings are very good.

I remember in school hearing they paid $10/hr for nude models the students would paint and I thought I needed to lose weight, so I could get that job with less shame. Never did, though.

Chunopo

05/17/2013 at 06:09 PM

Thanks Joe, yeah the models we used to draw was always pretty round.... or old. They always used to use the same mattress at our uni, never with a cover on it either so you could see it getting more and more discoloured!

gigantor21

05/17/2013 at 07:46 PM

Holy shit, that's amazing. I especially love the owl.

Chunopo

05/18/2013 at 05:14 AM

Thanks dude, yeah the owl was certainly a highlight when I got it finished, glad you like it!

Beerfan

05/17/2013 at 07:57 PM

Awesome stuff man.  I always wished I could draw, paint, play music.  Something artistic.  Unfortunately, the only talent I have is the ability to open a beer bottle with just about any object.

Chunopo

05/18/2013 at 05:13 AM

That is still a skill worthy of praise, opening bottles of beer with a variety of objects is not only useful but also makes you look seriously cool, it's an art form in its own right!

BrokenH

05/18/2013 at 01:30 PM

I remember commenting on your owl at DA. You really have a knack for realistic depictions of animals,Adam!

Chunopo

05/18/2013 at 11:33 PM

Thanks Ben! I appreciate your taking the time to have a look on there, I'm considering doing some more but you know better than anyone the sheer time commitment to undertake more than one idea at once, how are your latest character creations coming along? It'll be good to see some more soon!

Alex-C25

05/19/2013 at 02:33 PM

Really great stuff. My favorite one of this blog its the watercolored eagle.

I do like art and I was always liked to draw and paint since I was little. I can do some landscapes and they say i'm very talented doing the Jackson Pollock abstract style (which I like) and last year I finally learned to do better anatomy when I was in a Manga class. Unfortunately, I haven't given much time to art and if I wanted to do another Manga drawing, I would had to keep looking at my notes and sketeches from those classes.

Chunopo

05/20/2013 at 02:10 AM

Keep it up Alex! no matter how long the gap (and I'm really guilty of this) just put that pencil back into you hand and go for it, I'd love to see some of your stuff sometime so perhaps you could post a bit yourself! no pressure of course but I always find myself more pro-active when I get feedback from people!

Thanks for the compliment

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