Weekend in Poland

Yeah, it was supposed to be weekend in Poland. A brief glimpse on a home country after 5 months. Much needed break and landscape change after finishing huge job work at Nexus. It ended up as compulsory walk (buses were suspended) to Luton Airport only to learn that my flight (and many others) were suspended. The same happened the next day and a few days before. It seems UK services just can't be bothered to do any preparations for 2 hours of snow fall that is forecasted 5 days ahead. They just let it fall and make roads unusable within an hour. Than wait until it melts by itself. Go figure.

Liquidator I

"Liquidator I" is the last work I managed to finish in 2008 year. It was a very good year for me. I managed to do some good projects in work and pretty much all were great-looking and "high profile". Moreover, I spent most of my working time painting and doing colour design so my "escape" from 3d that I planned over a year go worked :) . I was also able to put more of my own style into this year's jobs, especially BBC Olympics spot where I had so much freedom that I was basically painting what I wanted. Kudos to Pete Candeland (director) for that. Pete always leaves a lot of room for artists to contribute so if the project happens to fit you well you have a good time :)

Apart from commercial work I found some time for personal stuff and did more new pictures (still not enough though) then in any previous year since finishing fine art studies. That is a good sign as I have a lot of plans for this year and I'm looking forward to actually make them happen.

Right now I'm slowly finishing job at Nexus Productions. It's a big thing and I've done tons of painting for it so far and will do a bit more over next few weeks. The wole thing is painted and it's around 3 minutes of animation in total so You can imagine. I think we can talk about hundreds of painted elements.

Back to Liquidator... It's acrylics on 90x90cm canvas and I'm quite happy with this work. There is a second one in the making but it doesn't go as good as this one so I'm not sure when I finish it and how it's going to look. Fingers crossed...

IT'S ART Magazine Interview

Some weeks back I've been asked to an interview for the IT'S ART magazine and a new issue containing my writing efforts and quite a few pictures is available now. Click an image below to go to IT'S ART Store. You can browse a flash preview there and order a PDF copy (printed version is coming soon I think). Obviously there are more artists featured so have a look there and maybe you can find it interesting.
For me, it is the first interview in which I talk about my artwork, both digital and traditional. I was interviewed about my animation work and programming projects before but not really about art.

It's been a while

I've been doing a few things over past 2 months. I'm working at Nexus Productions now so a new place, new area, new people. It's going to be quite a big and long project, probably longest I've ever done so far in any studio.
I went back to traditional painting or rather picked it up in more serious way. Moreover, my work hangs at Advocate Gallery in Wimbledon now! That's quite an achievement for me. I've also been working on some animation spot but more about it in not so distant future maybe.
Thing I haven't done recently for sure was updating a blog with some work so here goes a recent acrylics painting.

Postcard from the Zone 5

Postcard from the Zone 4

Well, shortly speaking I tend to spend a lot of time in the Zone recently ;)

Postcard from the Zone 3

One more postcard from my favourite place - The Zone. This time a winter version. This landscape is actually created from the same acrylics underpainting I did for "Red Forest". In "Red Forest" I overpainted bottom completely so I thought I'd do another picture but this time I'd overpaint top and leave bottom partially at least. I somehow feel that I will have to go back to this picture at some point in future but for now - it's done.

BBC Monkey online

I'm a bit late with this but the animation spot for BBC Olympics coverage mentioned 2 posts before is being aired on tv and is available online. I still can't show the work I did for this but you can watch the whole thing on BBC Website.
I was hired as Backgrounds Designer and I painted a lot of backgrounds, see if you can guess which ones ;). Lots of work but lots of fun as well. The other backgrounds artist on this job was Kevin Dart .

Storage storyboard drawings

Since I'm doing nothing but work currently I thought I'd show some of drawings I did a while back for Dave Lea, a friend of mine who's working on his live action short film "Storage". I did 100+ drawings in total I think. Dave took drawings and assembled them into proper storyboard, added post effects such as DOF, etc. So what you see below is not finished storyboard but drawings and elements I did for Dave (in no particular order). It was quite fun to work on this.

BBC Olympics spot

I've just finished work on a 2 minutes long spot for BBC Olympics coverage. Project is not done yet, needs a couple more days but my part is over. It's gonna be on air a lot this summer during Beijing Olympic Games. I'll post more details once the job is done and out and I can reveal some of the work I've done for it. Meanwhile, read the story on BBC website:

Monkey's journey begins
Gorillaz design BBC Olympic titles

Carriage & Website Update

I've updated my website with a few works today. One of them is recently finished "Carriage". It's more illustration than I usually do, inspired by "Roadside Picnic" book and the concept of Stalkers and Zone. This is my never ending inspiration, together with Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the NPP disaster from 1986. I hope to visit this place one day...

Geisha published in "Expose 6"

I'm happy to announce that my picture "Geisha" was selected and published in the forthcoming Ballistic Publishing "Expose 6". I was fortunate enough to get double page and one of Excellence Awards. More information on the book and a preview at publisher's website. As far as I know book will be available in june.

Red Forest

Having a few minutes break at work while switching onto new project I thought I could post a pic that I made a few weeks back but haven't shown it yet. It's usual acrylics/painter combo. I tried to keep it loose more then usual and restrain myself from working on details too much. "Red Forest" was choosen for Ballistic Publishing "d'artiste Digital Painting 2" book that should be out in a few months. I'll add info about my other work that got selected for publication soon!

Smell of Rain again

Two more pics from the series. I don't remember if I mentioned it before but these are actually inspired by Mortiis music, especially "Marshland" track from "Smell of Rain" album. Both images are quite big, around 8k resolution. I really hope to get all this stuff printed big size one day!

New website

Finally, finally, finally...

After a few years I have my website again ;) It ended up more as online portfolio with just a selection of my best work rather then all various stuff and doodles I've been doing. I'm happy it's finally out and working :) You're more then welcome to have a look and comment here or in website's guestbook!

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