Benjamin Salmi

2010-09-27T21:57:00.002+02:00

Environment Sketch

2010-09-27T19:50:00.000+02:00

3-4h or so, unfinished

Doodle

2009-08-26T05:07:00.002+02:00

10min sketch... I dunno wtf it is but there was something I liked about it... ehh.

Figure scrap

2009-07-14T02:19:00.002+02:00

- Meh... nothing useful to post. I need to study anatomy, and practice characters. Have very little to no skills in figure drawing.

PET

2009-07-07T07:00:00.014+02:00

Thunderdome, topic: pet, 1h. Didn't really have time to explore shapes... so this is what happens.

Fast Sketching

2009-06-18T03:32:00.003+02:00

Trying to get back to making some heavier illustrations, here are 2 fast sketches, and I'll start fleshing them out, soon when i have more time.

Speedpainting

2009-06-08T19:41:00.004+02:00

Hey, Still alive but busy. Here is a lunch speed.

Lazy Sketches

2009-03-31T13:36:00.004+02:00

All of these were born from my custom brush testing, nothing much, I'll be doing some finer renderings again soon with proper design for a change. Cheers.

Fast sketching

2009-03-14T21:20:00.009+01:00

Just a few of my very fast loose sketches, as i don't want to fill this blog with crappy sketches, just showing what I'm up to when I'm not posting... under 15min stuff. Only playing with brushes. Warming up my brain for DW4. More stuff coming...

I'm alive!

2009-02-12T02:21:00.007+01:00

Heyah, I've been idle for some time now, but just to prep for art war that is about to be unleashed(DW4), I'm trying to gain some speed under the pen. So here is the first of many to come:

Thunderdome, Time: 1H, Topic: Left 4 Dead environment, (the new upcoming mode "Survival" closest to mind)

2nd Place!

2008-12-24T03:47:00.006+01:00

Unearthly link

I just received the news that I had placed myself as high as 2nd place in the Unearthly contest! A huge surprise, for many reasons. First of all I know nothing about Environments, no experience, secondly I was in such a bad shape and the times were hard that I never thought I'd finish my entry in time or at all. Despite the epic fails it held that strong, in my eyes I was not worth this, but I am of course very honored and grateful. I wish i could have done better, learn from my mistakes and get stronger is what it's all about. :)

Up next is the Steampunk - CGChallenge. Cya.

Sketch

2008-11-10T06:51:00.005+01:00

A visualization of an idea. Remake of an earlier sketch.

Unearthly Final

2008-11-10T02:12:00.005+01:00

My final entry for the unearthly contest.

Colored Sketch

2008-11-07T05:40:00.003+01:00

Color test. Meh.

Mech Colored

2008-11-01T20:53:00.019+01:00

Ok, I submitted this blue version to the Sparth book contest. the red one actually is better but I did the adjustments after the deadline. Well, who cares, not very happy with this one anyways.

Unearthly Concept 1

2008-10-31T17:10:00.002+01:00

Ok, I've decided to gowith this composition, and start to paint it soon. I have some other stuff to do today.

Another version

2008-10-31T00:41:00.003+01:00

Same mech, just some more doodled. Waste of time, but it was very relaxing. Yes, you can laugh at the design.

Speedpainting

2008-10-29T18:20:00.004+01:00

Here is a Sparth inspired speedpainting I did as a warmup. Not finished, but I kinda lost the feeling, so eventually I'll finish it later.

Unearthly sketch

2008-10-27T03:47:00.007+01:00

Ok, I actually did some altering to this image even tho I scraped it. Well, I had a vision, and I right now don't really know if I got it or even if the composition is good, it's kinda heavy on the left side... but yeah, need some sleep, and I'll see what happens tomorrow.

Ciao.

Thunderdome

2008-10-22T15:06:00.008+02:00

Here is a 1h thunderdome i did at CA.org chat as a warmup, total mess. Decided not to touch it up.

Sketch

2008-10-22T03:06:00.006+02:00

Lazyness.

Speedpainting

2008-10-19T01:24:00.006+02:00

Under 1H sp, from a random sketch for the contest. I really should stop doing these, and focus more on a good sketch, the most important part of an image is the beginning, and i always screw that up and then start to refine a mediocre composition. Let's see if I have learned anything from my mistakes.

Sketches

2008-10-18T18:11:00.008+02:00

One more sketch. Nothing much.

Canyon Cliff Retouch

2008-10-15T18:43:00.001+02:00

Again, retouched it... couldn't resist.

Canyon Cliff again

2008-10-15T02:04:00.011+02:00

Here it's a little more polished, I have dedicated about 1h more. I think the rock by the tree will be replaced with something else, but as for now this is the half way mark. Gonna come back to this image later on. Cheers.

Canyon Cliff sketch

2008-10-14T23:21:00.008+02:00

Hey, here comes another sketch for the contest. I just picked one of the sketches. 2-3h Potoshop. I think it's decent, but not very "wow!" but it was a good lesson. Cheers.

Unearthly sketches

2008-10-12T16:47:00.008+02:00

Ok, here are some of my first initial sketches for the unearthly contest, the building is in fact the result of 50 building sketches, but I think this will most likely still end up in the scrap folder. It was fun as long as it lasted, haha. Aaaaepfff, back to work now.

Startup

2008-04-29T01:00:00.004+02:00

Everything is set.