Just Some DeWd's Art Blog

Sculptvember 09

2011-11-22T07:50:00.001-08:00

So fox news came to our work this morning and had us create different people from "Good Day Utah". I sculpted Big Budah. This is also my Sculptvember for today.

Thanks for looking!

Sculptvember 08

2011-11-18T16:38:00.001-08:00

It's been a busy week so I was only able to get back to Sculptvember today. I went with a bust of The Maxx.

Thanks for looking!

Sculptvember 07

2011-11-11T17:22:00.001-08:00

Decided to go with "The Goon" for today's sculpt. I had a lot of fun with this, sadly not enough time to get it colored.

Thanks for looking!

Sculptvember 06

2011-11-10T11:19:00.001-08:00

I started a bit later in the day yesterday and wasn't able to finish, so I put a little extra time into this one.
It's based on an awesome painting by Paul Bonner.

Thanks for looking!

Sculptvember 05

2011-11-08T14:43:00.000-08:00

I missed yesterday because I was busy with some other work. So to make up for it I sculpted Venom today.

Thanks for looking!

Sculptvember 04

2011-11-04T13:54:00.000-07:00

Today's sculpt is based off this awesome drawing. Took longer than usual today but It was a lot of fun!

Thanks for looking!

Sculptvember 03

2011-11-03T16:25:00.000-07:00

Here is today's sculpt. Sadly the guitarist Flattus Maximus (Cory Smoot) from Gwar died so I thought I would pay tribute. This is the dino from his shoulder piece.

Thanks for looking!

Sculptvember 02

2011-11-02T14:56:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick one for today. Playing around with a different style.

Thanks for looking!

Sculptvember 01

2011-11-01T13:02:00.000-07:00

My co-workers and I decided to do "Sculptvember", which is to do a speed sculpt a day(around 30 minutes). Here is mine from today which is based on this picture by my friend Aaron Houston.

Thanks for looking!

Dynamesh Doodles

2011-09-23T17:18:00.000-07:00

I have been working a lot and haven't posted in quite some time. I will have a lot to post fairly soon but for now here are some doodles for yesterday and today. I recently upgraded to Zbrush 4r2 and it's amazing! Dynamesh is so much fun to play around with.

Thanks for looking!

Edit: I forgot to mention each sculpt was around 30-35 minutes.

Time for a new one!

2011-01-27T18:00:00.000-08:00

This is a personal project I have been working on here and there. I decided to go with a rockabilly spaceman, just sounded like fun!

Thanks for looking!

Creature Body Concept

2011-01-09T16:56:00.000-08:00

Found some time to make a body for the head from my last post.

Thanks for looking!

Alien bust sculpt

2010-12-18T11:36:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I posted. So here is something I built recently.

Thanks for looking!

Amphibious Space Creature, pt2

2010-11-19T13:08:00.000-08:00

First off, Sorry for the lack of posts. I have been working on some freelance (which I can't post at this time, sorry).
I have been working on a new character as well but I will post that in the near future. I did get my space creature posed and made a custom SSS matcap for it. Let me know what you think.

Thanks for Looking!

Ah Puch souls conjure

2010-10-12T16:33:00.000-07:00

I added a base for this guy to stand on and some souls he is summoning, then I threw in a quick background.

Thanks for looking!

Ah Puch conjure

2010-09-20T19:20:00.000-07:00

I put him into a better pose and did some more to the textures. Thanks for looking!

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Ah Puch, God of Death

2010-09-18T13:52:00.000-07:00

I have been cleaning up some older characters lately. With this I fixed some anatomy issues, some texture changes and a lot of other little adjustments all around. Thanks for looking!

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Amphibious Space Alien?

2010-09-12T20:16:00.000-07:00

I love happy accidents with art! I came up with this guy when I was playing around in ZBrush followed with some tweaks in Maya thanks to GoZ.
Anyway, I am loving how this creature is turning out so far. Thanks for looking.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Yeti Textures

2010-08-17T16:58:00.000-07:00

I received my new ZBrush 4 download earlier this week and have been getting the hang of some of the new features. So far it has been awesome!
I was able to get the textures painted on my Yeti. Hope you Enjoy!

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Gone Postal!

2010-08-13T10:30:00.000-07:00

This is some freelance I did for my mail man's baseball team. Enjoy!

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Sculptris add on

2010-07-28T07:51:00.000-07:00

My wife and I made this last night. This is our first try with this program and her first time ever sculpting on the computer. Enjoy!

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Abominable Snowman Update!

2010-07-16T12:51:00.000-07:00

Still some work to do but here it is in a pose.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Abominable Head Details!

2010-07-13T14:15:00.000-07:00

I did some detailing on it's head today. The fur has been a battle to look right, but I like were it's heading.

Comments and critiques are welcomed and appreciated.

Abominable Snowman!

2010-07-02T13:32:00.000-07:00

So I decided I wanted to make my own version of the abominable snowman. It still needs a bit of work with the fur but I wanted to get a post up because it's been a while. Enjoy!

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Russ T Bot

2010-06-03T15:25:00.000-07:00

Here's my robot Russ T all textured and I thought I would throw him into a quick pose. Hope you enjoy!

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Russ T textures

2010-05-27T17:08:00.000-07:00

I finally got some time to work on this. I think there may be a few changes I need to make but wanted to post an update.

Russ T update

2010-05-17T20:17:00.000-07:00

I added his underwear and detailed a bit. I think I am ready for textures.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Russ T

2010-05-14T16:54:00.000-07:00

This is a character I created many years ago. I wanted to make him in 3d so...

Ah Puch - close up shots

2010-04-28T16:03:00.000-07:00

Here are some close ups of the underworld god. Hope you enjoy!

Renders straight out of Zbrush, no post work with photoshop this time (except for the signature).

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

God of Death Update

2010-04-27T13:21:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since I posted, I've been pretty busy with some things and haven't worked on much art. I was able to get him textured and posed. I have been trying to figure out where to go next with this character...

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Mayan God of Death pt. 2

2010-04-03T16:59:00.000-07:00

I wanted to get this update posted real quick. More to come later

Mayan God of Death

2010-03-30T16:29:00.000-07:00

I retopologized him and shaped out most of his apparel (trying to figure out if I am going to make a head dress for him or not). A few more thing then it's on to textures!

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Underworld God Update

2010-03-20T15:32:00.000-07:00

I got sick recently so I had to take a couple days off from working on this guy. I started getting his anatomy figured out & making his face a little more owl like. Probably going to have to retopologize him before I can move forward.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Underworld God

2010-03-17T17:07:00.000-07:00

This is a sculpt I did today. It's based on a Mayan God from the lowest level of hell. He will probably change a bit the next time you see him but I liked the look of this so I am posting it.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Here's your pizza! (or what's left anyway)

2010-03-11T07:36:00.000-08:00

I added a base, adjusted the pose and made a few changes here and there. I am calling it good with this guy for now.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

I am sponsored!

2010-03-07T09:10:00.000-08:00

I am now officially sponsored by DreadHead HQ
For those of you that are new to my blog. My name is Dusty DeWitt and I am an artist. I love all forms of art but my favorite type is digital art. not sure what else to say besides hope you like what you see on here and there is definitely more to come.

Pizza Turtle Update

2010-03-05T23:48:00.000-08:00

So I decided to come back to this character to clean up some stuff and make a better render.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

CG Hub 3d jam Final Shots

2010-02-24T19:31:00.000-08:00

So I finally finished with this bust completely. These are the images I submitted for the final entry.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

CG Hub 3d Bust

2010-02-20T15:51:00.000-08:00

I am pretty sure I am finished with this. I am posting it here a day earlier before anywhere else. Lots of fun with this challenge! Wish me luck with the contest.

Update 2-21-2010: Made a new render and added more redness to his eyes. If I happen to do anything else with this it will just be a new pose for him but for now it is done.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

CG Hub Bust Update

2010-02-18T19:40:00.000-08:00

Trying out an idea for the whiskers using layers layers in zbrush . I think i will just build them separately instead.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

CG Hub Bust WIP

2010-02-17T22:31:00.000-08:00

I was just looking at my other post of this guy and figured I should post an update. so here's my progress on this.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

CG Hub 3d jam

2010-02-15T12:46:00.000-08:00

This is my progress on making this guy into a 3d bust for CG hub's 3d jam #4.

I have never entered something like this before but it sounded like fun. More to come soon.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

I am the walrus

2010-02-11T15:35:00.000-08:00

I scanned this earlier this afternoon and decided I would color it. The colors settings seem to vary a lot between my monitors. Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Hermit Tarot Card/ self portrait

2010-02-10T22:02:00.000-08:00

My plan was to finish this piece up in Modo... Instead I just wanted to finish this up to move on to the next idea. This entire scene was built in ZBrush using zpsheres and poly primitives. I learned a lot about materials and polygroups with this one. I should mention this challenge was from www.artoftheunpaid.blogspot.com

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

So here's quick update

2010-02-06T13:55:00.000-08:00

I didn't really want to post this yet but I need to get one post in this week. This entire scene was built within Zbrush and I came up with some custom matcaps for it. I have recently started learning Modo because I was getting so frustrated with lighting/rendering in ZBrush. Don't get me wrong... I love how ZBrush renders for the most part. I just want to try a new route, plus Modo seems pretty cool and I have been wanting to learn it for a while. I am looking forward to finishing this up with a new way to render.

Comments and critiques are more then welcome.

Some renders and a paint over

2010-01-29T13:06:00.000-08:00

Just a quick paint over a render from yesterday. Also another shot of today's work on it. Moving on to the textures now.

Low Poly modeling in ZBrush

2010-01-22T17:51:00.000-08:00

I recently learned how to make cleaner low poly base models using the primitive shapes in ZBrush. By adjusting the initialize settings as low as I can while still maintaining the shape I want, then adding edge loops that were needed after turning it to a polymesh.
So anyway.. I made more stuff for the scene, entirely in ZBrush. More to come soon. Also, sorry for such a small image.

Updated WIP

2010-01-20T19:36:00.000-08:00

I have been learning some new topology tricks with ZBrush. Lots of fun! More to come later.

New Work in progress

2010-01-18T23:00:00.000-08:00

Here's a quick render to show some of what I have been up to since my last post.

Warrior Update

2010-01-14T12:48:00.000-08:00

It's been a while, my computer got a Krismas virus.. lots of fun taking care of that. I had to do a complete reinstall of everything. So now I am back and here is my turtle warrior, done for now. Hope you enjoy!

Warrior paint over

2009-11-19T13:59:00.000-08:00

I decided to fully retoplogize this guy. Then I reworked him in ZBrush and did this paint over in photoshop for a texture concept. more to come.

Turtle Warrior

2009-10-15T15:11:00.000-07:00

This is a work in progress. I plan on getting him into a scene with one of the creatures I created.

Pirate Duck

2009-10-15T12:31:00.000-07:00

Base Models in Maya, sculpting and textures (I also made the bubble material) in ZBrush. Post work in Photoshop.

ahh, look at the doggie

2009-08-13T08:04:00.000-07:00

This was for the cg character challenge. It turned out sort of looking like my dog Rosie. what can i say the reference was right there so i painted it like her.

Silly reptiles

2009-07-22T23:07:00.001-07:00

Then again it's been said that dinosaurs came from birds. So here's a couple new characters that i made lately

Skeleton

2009-06-25T16:54:00.000-07:00

Here's a WIP that i wanted to continue from the Character challenge. Finished piece should be posted soon

About time!

2009-06-12T18:28:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been working on stuff just not posting for some reason. I had a lot of fun making these characters. Simple base mesh created in Maya. Then on over to Z brush for the rest. These were done for Ryan Birds CG character challenge.

frog sculpt

2009-05-02T12:05:00.000-07:00

this is a character i did for the CG character challenge. i like how he turned out

3d character challenge

2009-04-16T14:54:00.000-07:00

this was my submission for the weekly challenge. the key words for this was: Dizzy, Teacher, Gargoyle, Male

Goat Man

2009-03-20T16:35:00.000-07:00

I recently colored and modified this.

artoftheunpaid.blogspot.com

2009-03-12T17:41:00.000-07:00

"sea lion"

"platypus"
"leave Britney alone"

for those of you that don't visit our art challenge blog.

2009-03-12T17:30:00.000-07:00

i removed my sketchbook stuff from my website. seems more fitting on my blog for now

some new stuff

2009-01-20T17:44:00.000-08:00

new/old spiderman

2008-12-11T23:33:00.000-08:00

i drew this quite a while ago but recently redrew in photoshop

drawing in photoshop

2008-12-10T09:37:00.000-08:00

so i was cleaning up some old drawings and decided to redraw this guy completely. he is pointing to where the food went.

Z Brush WIP pt.2

2008-12-06T16:45:00.000-08:00

It's still a WIP, but here is what i have done with it recently

Z Brush WIP

2008-12-03T13:51:00.000-08:00

There's not much to say at the moment. An updated version will be up soon

colored

2008-12-01T21:09:00.000-08:00

This is a little older, but it's a sketch i did while watching "seven" or "7" or "se7en". This is after some fun with photoshop. maybe i will complete this now that i have some free time.

sketchbook

2008-12-01T20:51:00.000-08:00

another recent sketch. it's based on a character from the film "the V word"

sketch book

2008-12-01T20:44:00.000-08:00

a couple sketches i recently finished and inked

something new

2008-08-15T21:39:00.000-07:00

well it's been a while so here you go.
to those 2 or so people that check my blog, thanks and critiques are more then welcome. well besides the fact that i didn't draw it a little higher on the page. oh well, next one maybe.

Rusbot

2008-04-26T14:41:00.000-07:00

this is a one of the characters for a story of mine that is in slow production.

Zombie head

2008-03-03T21:44:00.000-08:00

this is what my lady Kris wanted for valentines.

made from sculpty, painted with acrylic and sealed with sculpty glaze (it was supposed to be a keychain but i went a slight bit too big)

For Derek

2008-02-03T13:40:00.001-08:00

This is for a good friend Derek Oberg.
Happy Late Birthday Derek

Pencil & Ink

finished coloring it

2008-02-03T13:23:00.001-08:00

drawing by: Shawn Bird

This is after i got done with it, It was mostly done quite a while ago, then thought i would finish it up. let me know what you think