D_Murdoch: Devastator Funk & Lucas - 11/08/12

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Some newer pieces. I've been playing with the two staggered approaches. Anyways, here's this batch. I've got some more I can share when I'm allowed to share them, but this is about it for now.

Wolverine

The Doomsayer

Naruto

Zombie-Bot

The Mighty Mightor

Samurai Zombie-Naut

Igo · **Posted:** Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:45 pm

(from your dick-head friend who now doesnt respond to emails)

Dood, these are looking slickkkk...

Wolverine- love him, although Id probably shrink down his legs/waist a bit to help with his proportions, and I have a huge beef with his claws not lining up with his fore-arm. It's a huge pet-peeve of mine, whenever someone does the character, claws should almost ALWAYS be aligned with his fore-arm, wrist should never be kinked, etc.

Second piece- LOVE the color palette you're using here.

Naruto, I cant imagine the show being that cool... now Ill never watch it.

Zombie-Bot, took me a couple of seconds to realize what's going on, and Im still not 100% sure. That's the only problem with your style is that if it's not 100% evident what's going on, it can take that much longer to figure out what's going on, and it hurts the piece that much more. If there's a way to make the skull stand out just a smidge more, and to clear up the back/shoulder area I think it'd be golden.

Mightor, rules.

Zombie Samurai-naut, I forgot to show you what I always think of as a "Samurai astronaut" when I see it... BEHOLD DESTROYER!

Good seeing some new fan-art from you. I love your original stuff, but it's a blast to see your take on already established characters...

zombiezach · **Posted:** Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:17 pm

SICK shit dude. im loving the wolverine and the naruto.

youre style inspires me dude. haha

Gunstar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 13, 2010 5:18 pm

OH FUCK!!!

I keep scrolling and it keeps delivering, man, tons of great pieces. Naruto and Doomsayer are stand out delicious for me. You need to post more regularly..

Igo it is that cool, maybe it's too cool for you to handle? it's okay if you can't handle it, nothing to be ashamed of :coolbf:

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

I have a love/hate thing with Naruto.

zombiezach · **Posted:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 2:04 pm

haha! its the same with me dude. i like drawing him, his characters cool, but i dont like the show at all.

Robin Keijzer · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:36 am

Cool stuff! :happy:

Seage · **Joined:** Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:06 pm **Posts:** 75

Ey man, these are tight! Love that loose style you have going on, its awesome!
I agree with Igo about the Z-Bot though. It did take a while to read, I think you could try to be a little...looser with the loose strokes you do, in the areas that aren't the focal point. You have a real tightness all around your piece, but let some of those fatter strokes read, and It may do the trick, in my opinion. Also, contrast. Your contrast all around the piece seems to be a little balanced. You hit those highlights super hard all over, and man, you know i'm a sucker for that, but since its everywhere, I don't know where to look. The stuff furthest back, just gray it out a little. Or in your case, make it like a greenish tone to push it back. Mute that arm in the forground, and hit under the armpit (would it be an armpit on a robot? lol) with a stronger value, one that differs more drastically than the one you have now. I can tell that the way the lighting is, you wouldn't see the shadow, but as is, it blends too well, and it took me quite some time to finally separate the 2 sections. And that skull, rock the shit out of it. Show the depth in those sockets and don't hold back on your darkest darks. Hell, I go all the way to black, even though people say it flattens the image. Really show the full value range.
If thats now where you want me to focus then just repeat what i said anywhere else in the piece.

Anyways, these are just my opinions. Killer pieces overall, I really love them, and that style you do is so sick.
Cant wait to see more!

Btw, the Doomslayer is TOO badass. I would get that as a poster. Your style makes him look so cool. Specially the red on his mask.

cruzemissile · **Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2010 6:00 am

loving it mate :happy:

ZOMBIE SAMURAI-NAUT looks badass

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Thanks y'all. Yeah, soon soon I should be dropping in 11 covers I got to do recently.

Mara · **Posted:** Sun Sep 26, 2010 3:07 pm

I love the Zombie-Naut. :love:

Heck, I love them all.
You've got a great digital painting style, really looks PAINTED if you know what I mean, you get all the smudging and the dirt in it. Are you using a program that has that type of thing built in, like artrage or the likes, or is it just pure skillz?

On the Zombie-Naut, his right foot (our left) looks like it's mirrored, like his big toe is on the outside instead of the inside. Also, maybe his whole foot could have been in the image instead of being cropped so slightly. Just a tiny nitpick though.

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Yes, I'm using Artrage. Love it. You can't beat a program like that for $20.

And now, a slew of recently commissioned covers. Some of these I'd have like to gone back over. Actually there are a couple I'd like to scrap and try something else but this was all done in a bit of a crunch. These are all in the pitch phase. The stories are good. Dark. Pretty clever stuff. Wishing these guys the best.

Mara · **Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:37 pm

aha, so it was artrage - you've inspired me to give that program another go.

damn, what a churnout! Sure, some of those covers are better than others, but they are all still GOOD. The highlights for me would be Standstill (love this, super colour scheme), Insurgent (terrific contrast) and I was a Teenage Vigilante (so much simple smash power) - those are the ones that pull me in and make me wanna read more. Although I would probably pick up Hidebehinds purely for those pink hearts ... I'm very pleasantly surprised by those. The weakest one to me is Newt - not that it's bad at all, it's just a bit more "standard album cover" compared to the rest, is needs some sort of twist.
Anyways, they're all very cool and creative, not much more to add except I'm excited to see the finished product in the future!

PeZ · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:01 pm

*cries*

I hate that I can't give you any constructive feedback. This stuff is so artsy that I just can't even deconstruct it. I just stare and drool and cry and eat...

When I can think of something constructive to say, I'll damn sure say it boy! In the mean time, keep up the awesome.

zombiezach · **Posted:** Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:18 pm

mara, im with you, art rage is really hard to get used to. ahaha

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Here's a Simm piece. Recent.

Because the world needs skull-faced ballerina girls.

Igo · **Posted:** Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:21 pm

Your brush work rules.

Approved.

Seage · **Joined:** Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:06 pm **Posts:** 75

That last one kills me. So awesome.
I love the feeling shes giving off, its so cool. And the colors used really give off the right feel.

t-wei · **Posted:** Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:14 pm

Love. Guessing this is painter? Needa see some traditional pieces in this style from you man!

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

The Maxx. This was just a speed-paint--warm-up piece.

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Iceman. Trying a couple takes on the ice more or less. First one is really more of some photo manipulation and paint-over to try and create a transparency effect. The other two are just stabs at the ice look. Taking in reference, I'm leaning towards melding #1 and #3. Most of the ice I've looked comes across as a negative. White outlines, transparency in the thickest spots. Distortions seems relative to how the ice was formed. I don't know. Just like I said though, some stabs at the ice look. Crits welcome.

#1

#2

#3

This was done at the request of Mr. Igo. Not in anyway to replace or even compete with Monk's genius but to see how or if I can color. I haven't colored a piece for years.

ankles · **Posted:** Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:14 pm

i think all of the ice tests work really well.
i think im leaning towards #2, but mostly cause it doesnt have the black. that seems to be throwing me off a bit.
and i get "cold" from 2.
this all subjective to the treatments youve done. the actual paint effects are all working in all of them.

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Noted.

Number 2, I was going for the blizzard element.

The black though, it's really subjective. I think, in the end, it's really relative to the background. Like in #3, should have used the same color as the background but a smidgen darker. But the background color I threw down after the fact.

Now I just need some lines...

Monk · **Posted:** Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:47 pm

Okay, let me preface this by saying I'm in no way butt hurt you decided to take a stab at the One Down piece as well, I love seeing that kind of stuff. That being said, I do believe that this is far beneath your capabilities. Maybe it's cause you're out of practice, maybe you felt restricted by the line art that wasn't yours, but I can't quite understand how you came to make some of the decisions that you made while coloring this.
I think the turquoise amidst all that red is definitely a cool choice, but you could have pushed it. If you're gonna go with a color scheme that other wordly, go all out. Azure looks a little dead to me, her skin tone is quite unhealthy - I don't know if that was intentional, but it seems off, to me. And where are all those pretty hues you're so good at incorporating?
The smoke in the background is basically the only piece here that can clearly be attributed to you, in terms of painting. But the soft blurry smoke clashes with the really crisp texture you added on the background. The smoke, which is closer to us, is more blurry than the texture, which is actually covering the sky and would be further away and that kind of throws off the depth.
The mound of flesh on the bottom looks nicely wet and squishy, but the specular highlights seem a little all over the place and only when I squint my eyes can I make out some solid shapes there - try bringing that over into the final as well, really push those forms.

I'm really not trying to be an ass here. I keep looking back at that teenage vigilante poster, or every single illustration in your first post of this thread, and those all look so sick I'm a little baffled why you didn't give Igo's lines a similar treatment. Not in the sense of painting over the lines and transforming this into a typical Murdoch piece - I understand you want to respect the lines. But you could have done that kind of painting underneath the lines for example, maybe color the lines, partially, if they pop out too much. I mean I'm just guessing at what happened here, but I think if you had cut loose a little more, incorporated more of yourself in there, it would have yielded a better result. But I still love you. :twisted:

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Nice.

As far as "coloring" a piece, in the traditional sense, no I haven't colored anything for almost 4 years. But, no excuse there.

The goal on this piece, I think, was more along the lines of answering questions like, "Can I color? Can I make hair look like hair and slimey things look slimey? Can I do something inside the framework of, I guess, convention?" So it wasn't really me wanting to color Igo's piece my way. Make sense? Igo'd asked me to color it, testing me, I really didn't want to. He forced me. Did things...In fact, I got sick the first few times I looked at the linework. Because it really sucks when it comes down to it . . . Igo reading this? :wink:

Seriously though, this wasn't really something I was tackling with the goal of incorporating myself into, or at least toning it down. I was stepping out of my comfort zone. If, again, that makes sense. However, everything you pointed out totally makes sense. I very much appreciate the feedback.

When I get a certain green light and my thread says something about some kind of killer, look again. You may see what I think you thought you'd see in this one.

Edit - Holy Evolution Batman!

You know now that I really think about it, I should go over this again. For me. At the least. Go nuts.

PUSH MOTHERFUCKER! PUSH!

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

A piece for Sideshow. This accompanies a limited figure, Jason Vorhees, from Friday The 13th III.

Here's a link to the figure. Go buy it. > > > > http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=448 ... w&preorder

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Funky Love Bot. Speed-paint. More or less.

Gunstar · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:12 pm

Hahah ^That's really cute! FLB looks like he's(?) been told off.

That Jason piece is incredible!

zombiezach · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:50 pm

haha yeah.. hes on time out or something. what a bad kid.

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Thor. I was trying to push the color factor on this one. I personally really like how this turned out.

zombiezach · **Posted:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:22 pm

thats really cool dude. im not sure about the rainbow though. maybe im just being picky.

Kanta-Kun · **Posted:** Sun Jan 02, 2011 6:45 pm

The rainbow doesn't bother me, in fact, it was nicely done and doesn't clash with the picture as they usually do.

A nice view of valhalla up there would make it look a lot more epic ;)

Igo · **Posted:** Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:49 pm

First, that FLB is awesome.

Second, that Thor is FUCKING awesome. I love the rainbow, makes for a fun contrast with how hard he looks. But LOVE the Norse feeling to him, awesome job man!

splendidriver · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:28 am **Posts:** 76

Lovely wonderful awesome style. Man I can feel the flow in your brush strokes. Keep em coming.

D_Murdoch · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:57 pm **Posts:** 1066

Recent commission. The character is named Anahel. It's for an upcoming webcomic titled Dying To Tell: Tales From The Afterlife, by Jon Lock.

Anyways, here it is -

There was an alternate version of this, really just warmer. Both went off to Jon, not sure exactly which one he was using but this was my preference.

JOLLYjack1 · **Joined:** Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:06 pm **Posts:** 147

lovin the colors man! looks really dynamic.

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