tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79069294878331615522024-02-07T19:38:26.630-08:00Michelle GravesArt and ExplorationsMichelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-74932120377839971092014-11-03T22:27:00.000-08:002014-11-03T22:27:10.549-08:00Tired Painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not feeling too great tonight, otherwise I'd work on these longer.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-68710275959008476502014-10-26T11:32:00.000-07:002014-10-26T11:32:14.598-07:00Emerging With Grace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Poster I did for an upcoming Halloween show downtown. I always love projects like this, there are no limits to the level of ridiculousness when it comes to punk fliers, the louder the better.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-35221219362411835972014-09-21T23:19:00.001-07:002014-09-21T23:19:06.735-07:00Shark Beast model sheet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Decided to go back and do some character support for these creatures. Some work in progress model sheets.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-50391988900670386312014-08-26T20:26:00.000-07:002014-08-26T20:26:29.216-07:00Two Shark-beasties! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finished my two takes on this thing. Aiming to be more decisive with my textures and forms. Took two of the textures I had in the original design and tried to get some better consistency. One leathery and organic, the other jagged and rocky.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-90356882116096004422014-08-24T21:12:00.004-07:002014-08-24T21:12:53.463-07:00Shark Beetle Variation #2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Second iteration of this creature. Pushing the aquatic forms.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-54483097179246175432014-08-19T05:38:00.000-07:002014-08-19T05:38:05.080-07:00Shark Alien Variations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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WIP of one of my variants on the shark beetle design. Going for some more consistency of form and texture. Pushing the rocky, shale like formations on this one.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-65461430043108672532014-08-13T21:58:00.002-07:002014-08-13T21:58:54.288-07:00Grace under pressure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finished painting! Now with more sharky colors :)Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-66913683958980456952014-07-15T21:07:00.002-07:002014-07-15T21:07:43.738-07:00Shark Beetle Sketch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finished color on the alien and started a new creature.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-81882923299277262922014-07-09T21:58:00.002-07:002014-07-09T21:58:37.011-07:00Bug Color<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fleshed out forms and starting to put in some rough color. I only get a couple hours a night to draw, so its kind of slow going! </div>
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Making slow progress on my eagle painting. Ready to be done with all of these feathers!Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-80613455562850520512014-07-07T22:49:00.002-07:002014-07-07T22:49:35.408-07:00Bug Sketch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tonight's sketch! Didn't have as much time as I would have liked after work/gym time, but still managed to have some fun with this guy.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-74476672504522749812014-07-06T19:38:00.001-07:002014-07-06T19:38:38.135-07:00Mountains<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Adding some mountain studies I did, still got a way to go with these kind of environmental illustrations, but i learned a ton from these paintings!Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-64217915559378458642014-07-06T19:34:00.002-07:002014-07-06T19:38:49.960-07:00Quick Sketch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Really need to get back into sketching more in my free time!Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-69640408856409971242013-08-21T21:58:00.003-07:002013-08-21T21:59:23.461-07:00Mommy's Little Monster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Combining my love of punk rock and monstrous beasties...what could go wrong?!<br />
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Making new stuff finally! Between the new job, new apartment and overload of work, I've been kinda slacking on painting for myself. Time to focus again! Im pretty happy with this piece, I really wanted to make something crazy and awesome to print out gigantic and hang in my apartment. It was a challenge to get it done, and I think it shows a new level of refinement thats been kind of missing in a number of my illustrations. I'm glad I stuck it out!<br />
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Been busy with holiday stuff, so I've fallen behind on my illustrations. But I doodled a freaky yule-deer! that's gotta count for something...Merry Christmas!!Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-91790802739225693932012-12-20T14:54:00.001-08:002012-12-20T14:54:54.442-08:00Windshear Steppe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today's painting! Kind of a quickie, going for something more melancholy and airy.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-9353050730237398472012-12-19T15:08:00.000-08:002012-12-19T15:08:15.055-08:00The undercity at Deep Core Alpha<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rough idea was a city on a cliff. I love factory-things!Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-37744267771551860362012-12-19T10:30:00.000-08:002012-12-19T10:34:05.814-08:00More Environments! During my temporary unemployment here at the end of the year, I'm going to try to get in one painting a day. Its going to be a bit of a challenge! These two are from Monday and Tuesday, an alien beastly fountain and a fiery razor-edged cavern I pet named the Fire Maw. <br />
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Looking through my recent posts, I realized I really do stick mainly to character driven concepts. Time to tackle that elephant in my portfolio and work on some objects and places! For some reason, its much more challenging for me to conceptualize a space than a character, so hopefully some fun new environment illustrations will force me out of my comfort zone a bit.<br />
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The idea here is a crumbling submerged tower, looking a bit like an old seashell stuck in goo. Something rare and ephemeral (maybe a mermaid?) has made its home in the base of the old ruin. Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-51396884758532610542012-11-25T09:43:00.000-08:002012-11-25T09:43:26.976-08:00Soundgarden - King Animal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Design for commemorative tour poster for Soundgarden. Theme was the title of their newest album, King Animal. Wanted to create something that felt occult and weird, like a dried up idol to a forgotten autumnal deity. If you flip it, it has another face:<br />
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This is what happens when I work on a design solely in the hours of 1-4am...it has a feverish creepiness that just seems to whisper "Michelle, go to bed".</div>
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Saw this opportunity and couldn't help myself...another contest, this time to design the poster theme for Warped Tour 2013. Always my favorite festival of the summer, Warped Tour holds a special place in my heart. It's another long shot submission, but it would pretty much be the "best day ever" if I win...I've always kind of had this stupid dream of getting my art on a backdrop or stage scrim someday...and I couldn't think of a better venue.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-20582421183646419472012-10-31T16:35:00.000-07:002012-10-31T16:35:14.832-07:00Stuck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Halloween! Creepy WIP post for the holiday! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year, good time to confront those inner demons wallowing in the darker mires of my mind... Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7906929487833161552.post-32957646310884137612012-10-04T16:05:00.000-07:002012-10-04T16:05:37.856-07:00Horse Walk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gonna maybe start posting some animations here too! Study of a horse walking with a fun rig I found on <a href="http://www.animationbuffet.blogspot.com/">Animation Buffet</a>. I love messing with new rigs, probably its because I never really got over playing with the piles of action figures I crafted epic dramas with as a kid. Now I still get to play, but I can tell everyone I'm working. Model By Hung Vodinh and rig by Joel Anderson.Michelle Graveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998063416677717661noreply@blogger.com0