I'm currently looking for work. I've mainly worked in the gaming industry as illustrator,concept artist and even art director.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Introduction
My name is Joe Slucher. New to the blog but have been in the Cincinnati area for nearly 10yrs now. Just found out about the illustrators lunch a couple of months ago and have only had time to make it to one. Thought I'd start by posting some of my work.
I'm currently looking for work. I've mainly worked in the gaming industry as illustrator,concept artist and even art director.
I'm currently looking for work. I've mainly worked in the gaming industry as illustrator,concept artist and even art director.
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Wow Joe! Stunningly awesome work!
ReplyDeleteWonderful! I especially love the water creature. He seems the most original to me.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the group, Joe —please post more!
Excellent first post Joe! I agree with Chuck-I love the city on the water creature. I saw it on your website when you wrote me.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Joe's blog is added to the blog list as well: http://joeslucher.blogspot.com/
Joe, glad to see ya post.
ReplyDeleteI dig the adjustments to the water pic. I like the fins better. Looking good. Was any of that feedback from the ConceptArt review thing?
Thanks Darryl,Chuck and Christina!
ReplyDeleteOliver, the CA people told me to make the sea floor more interesting and saw the fins as a missed opportunity to do something beautiful. They also suggested the bubbles which I kind of detest.
Fantastic work Joe - good to meet you! Are these painted traditionally or digitally? I'm gonna zip over to your site and probably find out there...
ReplyDeleteIncredible work, Joe! Thanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteThanks. These are mostly digital. The last one is probably 60% traditional.
ReplyDeleteYowsa, nice work..I have to agree with you on the bubbles in the water creature - fish have gills and the bubbles make the fish seem much smaller than it is supposed to be. My favorite is the first one - the alien with the glistening muscles. Again I feel that the bubbles underneath the alien shouldn't be there - they don't look quite as rendered and seem to scale the alien down - kinda like the fish. Of course, these are very minor details and do not take away from the emotional power of the work.
ReplyDeleteHa..I just saw the subliminal face in the upper left hand side of the alien piece. Do not tell me that was unintentional....
ReplyDeleteInteresting comment concerning the bubbles and scale, David. Can bubbles from a large animal be large as well? —I don't know.
ReplyDeleteI thought the fish hidden in the rocks on the left, as well as the creature's own tiny eyes, helped establish the scale pretty well.
The thing about the bubbles that I really like, is that they trail backward slightly, suggesting that this large creature and the civilization? on his back are on the move. That adds a bit of history and intrigue to the image.
Chuck,
ReplyDeleteIf I am reading the scale correctly, I would say that there was a city on the back of the fish (much like the native american belief that the entire world was on the back of a giant turtle). If that is a city - then each bubble would be about the size of a house. I do not believe that water tension could produce a bubble that big. I could be wrong about the particular science of bubbles but we humans have our own references to bubbles and no human has ever seen a bubble that big. Even whales use bubbles to confuse and capture schools of fish or krill - but the bubbles are not that big.
The fish hidden on the rocks I saw as being in an extremely foreshortened scale and about the size of a dolphin.
I also do not like the fact that the fish is moving that fast - if it was - the formation of a living city on its back is unlikely - I like that the fish just kinda sits there and moves very slowly, which seems much more likely to me. No one is going to intentionally build a city on the back of a moving thing.
Wow, this is impressive stuff here!
ReplyDeleteFunny how others think of the fish (my favorite piece here) as being large scale..... I read him as somewhat small, with an island of tiny little creatures on his back.
Very Impressive work Joe.
ReplyDeleteEeally wonderful work! Love the fish one as well, i did see it as a big guy, that one might find themselves stranded on an island only to find out there's a massive beast below. I'm going to go back and look at the bubbles....
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blog Joe, i'm looking forward to seeing more or your posts!
Very nice work! :) Welcome to the group, I hope to see you at the lunches. Keep posting, your work is awesome.
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