Biotoxin Drawing

Ink, may color this later.

I am also working on a ZBrush sculpture of The Earth Mother, yay!

The Earth Mother

Watercolor and Ink.

Did it today...stretching out those underused art muscles.

I'm Not Dead

I'm not dead you guys, sorry to disappoint you!

I hope everyone had a good holiday season.

I recently had to have a septoplasty, so I have been absent. But I'm mostly recovered now, so be expecting updates soon.

Oh, and I'm officially graduated. Hooray.

As you were!

Kali - Finished

Finally!

Fast update

Enjoy. These are both the low rez models rendered in Marmoset.

Egads

Reviews are next week.

Eek.

Anyway. Have some fish.

Sitting Bull Bust

Here's a quick ZBrush render of what I'm working on. I'm retexturing this model. He does have hair, it's just not in this file.

Thanks for looking!

Updates would be nice.

So, I'm almost done with the gecko. I just need to fix his soulless eyes, ha.

Kali: Hindu Death Goddess

Here's an update on my rendition of Kali, the Hindu goddess of life and death. I've still got quite a ways to go but I'm pretty happy with how this looks so far! Rendered in Marmoset.

Gecko Update

Here is a recent render of the gecko so far. I need to sculpt the legs out and then I can start adding the skin texture.

Let me know what you guys think!

The Gecko Project

Lately I have been working on a sculpt of a leopard gecko for my portfolio.

I created a base mesh in Maya to import into Zbrush.

Lovely little thing, isn't it? (sarcasm.)

Well, I need references, don't I? Well, luckily for me I'm just chalk full of leopard geckos. For this sculpt, I used Diesel, one of my larger geckos.

The victim  model.

So, after taking some decent reference pictures of Diesel (which he didn't quite appreciate), I started the sculpt. I'm a few hours into it and keep finding myself readjusting limbs. I'm probably going to need to retopo this thing pretty soon before I go much further.

As always, any critiques are welcome! Thank you for looking and hopefully I'll have an update for this very soon. I can't wait to start adding the skin texture. Oh, also, I have joined Twitter. Follow me at the3Dgecko!

I'm late to the party..

I'm late to the zSphere Party, but it's better late than never, eh?

So, whilst figuring out how to manipulate zSpheres and sketch with them, I created this monstrosity:

 Kind of gross.

So I ended up with this after a few hours:

 This...was better but I wasn't happy with it at all. In my ignorance using zSpheres, I screwed up the symmetry on the model and I needed to retopologize it anyway, so off to TopoGun I went.

I ended up only retopoing the head, since the neck just wasn't working. After some work with Maya, I ended up with this low poly version, complete with teeth, gums, skin flaps, and tongue.

I am much, much happier with this. After I bring it back into Zbrush for a few hours, this is what I've ended up with:

So, all in all it was a fun exercise. I have to admit, he's pretty generic, but it was something good to learn with. I did learn a lot!

I am still more comfortable with bringing in low poly base meshes from Maya, as that was the first way I learned how to do things, but I definitely see the value of using zSpheres and sketching with them. It is very organic and natural and I find it to be a very powerful tool. I am sure I will be using them again in the future.

One thing I do notice, though, (and this is easily fixable through reposing with the Transpose tool), was that my final product was much stiffer than the original sketch. I should go back and repose it, because it has lost it's original essence.

Programs used:
ZBrush 3.5 R3
Maya 2010
TopoGun

This exercise took me about 13 hours, give or take. It was done over the span of four days during my free time.

A little graphic design..

Tom Harbin Reptiles Logo

Tom Harbin Reptiles (www.threptiles.com) © Tom Harbin 2010

Artwork © Kasey Kimberly 2010

Sinister Serpents Logo

Sinister Serpents © Jason Caudill 2010

Artwork © Kasey Kimberly

FireBall Pythons Poster

FireBall Pythons (www.fireballpythons.com) © Trey Barnard 2010

Artwork © Kasey Kimberly 2010

Chameleon

Artwork © Kasey Kimberly 2010

Cheerio

ZBrush Fish Renders

Base Mesh: Fish Monster

Base Mesh: Fish Monster from Kasey Kimberly on Vimeo.

Life Study Drawings

2009

2009

Geckos

Title: Leopard Gecko 2
Medium: Corel Painter
Year: 2009

Title: Leopard Gecko 1
Medium: Markers, Colored Pencil, ink, 92% Alcohol
Year: 2009

The Raven's Pearl

Title: The Raven's Pearl
Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Year: 2009

Spectra

Title: Spectra
Medium: Corel Painter
Year: 2009