Sketchbook: gauss

[gauss]

some recent-ish sketches and such.
most of this stuff is just loose or for fun away from work, but feel free to crit if the spirit moves you.

http://www.gausswerks.com/img/futuremaybe2.jpg

did this design for EQ for that f-zero style comp a while back
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/fzeroavocado.jpg

only SA forum goons are going to get what these two are about
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/thegift.jpg
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/johnny.jpg
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/profilenina.jpg

http://www.gausswerks.com/img/okkuntag6.jpg
i like this one very much, but haven't had the time to develop it
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/freeware3.jpg

alt gordon, from the "ivan the spacebiker" from early HL screens
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/altgordon.jpg
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/altgordonbarney.jpg

halloween harry
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/halharry.jpg
jc denton (helios ending)
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/jcdenton.jpg

http://www.gausswerks.com/img/trespasser.jpg

wasn't happy with where this sketch was going so i didn't finish it. i think it was pretty close to the night of bioshock's release
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/bigdaddyblues1.jpg
concept tag
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/crashmop5.jpg
always come back to SHODAN, always fuck it up. i'll revisit this idea again some other time
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/shodanagain2.jpg


http://www.gausswerks.com/img/jesterknight.jpg

actually an old sketchbook scan, have tried and failed to color/render it in PS a few times
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/loveunfortunatelyforever.jpg

nother concept tag
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/poopbot7.jpg
http://www.gausswerks.com/img/poopbotanim.gif



oh and most recently:
http://www.gausswerks.com/war/greentoothartifact.jpg
1920x1200 background version (http://www.gausswerks.com/war/greentoothartifact_1920.jpg)

[MoP]

lol @ the Trespasser sketch!

cool stuff gauss /images/graemlins/smile.gif
some of your figures are a bit stiff but it's all gravy

[j_bradford]

Sweet stuff, especially the pencil work.. very dynamic. would love to see more of your pencils

[Slum]

GAUSSOME


I love the halloween harry. Alien carnage was one of my favorite games when I was younger.

[steady]

haha Gaussome indeed
I did a search for early half life screens, I'll put the link in the Thread of Awesomeness
you da man gauss /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[hawken]

nice lovebot

not sure about the monster sex one

[MikeF]

really nice work gauss, the trespasser one gave me a good chuckle.

[struve]

I like your old sketch book scan. I'd like to see more of that /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Johny]

love the crispness of your color usage. Really inspiring man /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[buddy the designer]

Awesome stuff, lol@treespasser /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

I kinda really like the last one.

[EarthQuake]

i'm all up in ur thread, grinding my ass all over ur thread.

[Blackheart]

great stuff gauss, love your style of painting.

[Ferg]

dude, you really need to post more scans from your sketchbook

[Zephir62]

So what's your secret that makes certain colors pop out of the screen so well?

[JordanW]

A lot of your work looks like thick physical layers of paint, it's cool.

[Jesse Moody]

Gauss do you use photoshop or painter?

[gauss]

thanks everybody.

MoP: you know that's one of my persistent issues so i'm not going to play it off as a "stylistic choice" /images/graemlins/laugh.gif thanks though, i tend to forget to work on it

Slum: i never really played it, don't tell anyone /images/graemlins/wink.gif

steady: thanks...and yes, those old HL screens have fascinated me since their release

hawken: the girl with the monster has her feet folded under her, not getting slipped a sausage... i think you're reading a bit much into it /images/graemlins/smile.gif

j_bradford, struve, Ferg: yeah, i'd like to get some more sketchbook stuff up too, but it doesn't really exist. most of my sketching is done digitally these days... though i do have a batch from around this time last year for DW2 while hanging out with hawken that i still haven't scanned. i should get that uploaded.

Johny: preciate it. as EQ will tell you, it's all unsharp mask /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

EQ: go away nubz

Zephir62: color is all relative. so if any of it seems to pop, it probably has to do with good combinations of complementary colors, high contrasting colors next to each other, or high saturation next to low. those are most of the tricks i know to get colors to pop, so feel free to clue me in on any others /images/graemlins/smile.gif

tinman: thanks, yeah... i like to work in a heavier style that tends to suggest impasto (surface texture of built-up paint).

Jesse: i use both, but for a long while it's been more photoshop than painter. almost everything in this update is predominantly PS, but many get bounced between the two.


thanks again for the comments everyone, i'll try to keep this thread updated with lots of goodies as much as possible.

[hawken]

It appears your fascination with HL early screens could be match by my own to the saturn version of shemune!

Or that day when I found starfox2 for the snes emulator

[okkun]

boobies bring back memories of trying to kill raptors with an empty shotgun barrel...

[conte]

i love last wallpapper, thx.

[BoBo_the_seal]

Great work! I love how loose you are. That is something I need to get better at. I tend to get too tight too fast and get lost in the individual details rather than the design as a whole.

[caseyjones]

Always a fan of your stuff, Jack. Every time I see a piece from you it always reminds me that I need to do more 2D. Just to explore with brushes, colour and do more quick paints. I have the same tendencies as BoBo, get too tight too fast.

-caseyjones

[Rated Rrr]

i didn't know you had stairs gauss

[Sidwell]

Goon gooned my goony goon goon in the goon? [goon]

[gauss]

http://www.gausswerks.com/img/garrett.jpg
rusty as all hell--Garrett from Thief, new brush.

[konstruct]

NICE- the giant polycount head reminds me of the opening of an old ass movie ZARDOZ:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he613E96E3E&feature=related
The opening is awesome, but the rest of the movie is nosebleedingly terrible. (and yes, that is sean connery)

[gauss]

yes, it was executed as a pretty direct reference to Zardoz.
also how dare you, the entire movie is amazing :)

[konstruct]

haha awesome! I thought it seemed familiar. You nailed the vibe for sure. at any rate thanks for the new desktop, Oh and GO FORTH AND KILL!!!

[EricElwell]

haha gun vomit. Let's see some more art gauss!