Darren Fereday

What a time ahead!

2011-08-12T08:17:00.001-07:00

Well it's been a while so i thought i'd drop a line of what i'm up too. I'm currently matte painting on a nice little show, i'm also working on some digi maquettes for a potentially awesome project (it's looking pretty sweet right now!) and i'm hard at work on a mammoth project which is slowly draining me of all sanity!

So from here to there i'll see you on the flip side and hopefully have some new art which i'm legally allowed to show!

Belated Thank You!

2011-07-13T03:19:00.000-07:00

Well i'd like to send out a belated thank you to all who attended my class in the adult summer school last friday. I really enjoyed your company and really enjoyed seeing you have a go and getting stuck in with some of the techniques i put towards you, you really did everything i wanted which was to let go and just have a go! I hope i broke down which i think is often stumbling block when people enter photoshop for illustration.

So again, you know where to reach me if there's any more questions, keep practicing when and where you can, and enjoy the adventure.

New image for the site

2011-07-06T05:26:00.000-07:00

Just finished this sucker off. My first true attempt at getting this workflow together and i kind of like the results, nice, cheap and effective. But this is what people seem to want and i enjoy doing it so here you go.

More to come following this. A nice variety i hope and a change of pace

Panic Button Movie

2011-07-05T05:02:00.000-07:00

Hey all i just wanted to make a shout out that Panic Button is being shown at this years FrightFest at 3:35pm - Saturday 27th August.

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2011films/panicbutton.html

I was Matte Painter on this movie, nothing much to do, alter some decals to the plane, paint in a new nose cone, and paint an exterior of a window that was not part of the set. As soon as the date goes i'll put the mattes on here and on my site.

Workshop preparations...

2011-07-04T12:51:00.000-07:00

I'm doing a workshop this Friday (8 July 2011) so i'm preparing material. The workshop is centred around custom brushes and application, and seeing as application can sometimes be... wasteful?? I've decided to introduce a story to it by preparing some panels quickly, highlighting some techniques i use on whatever i'm working on.

This one was entirely painted using brushes i like to use in Photoshop, no textures nothing. The others will highlight some more techniques, including 3D paintovers. More to come!

First Ecorche of 2011! For shame....

2011-06-28T01:47:00.000-07:00

I don't know why but when midnight chimes and bed time calls, i always have to do something creative to truly wipe myself out. And i haven't done an ecorche in so SO long, so i thought i'd get back into it. Rusty as HELL!!!! This was really only going to be a rough skull, but i didn't want to stop there.

p.s Ignore the sternocleidomastoid, i roughed in one section of it, didn't want to touch the neck at 3pm! May add the neck muscles tonight maybe :)

He waits... it's what he does

2011-06-22T17:11:00.000-07:00

This started out as a brush test just painting the nose in the middle, but as it turned out alright, i expanded, and have now given you a glimpse into a project i'm currently working on. More of that news to come soon enough :)

Turtle Jedi

2011-06-22T06:39:00.001-07:00

Just did this in around an hour or so to warm up into drawing. Been a weird day, so not fully into my head. May 3D sketch it for kicks, see where it goes

Sad Face

2011-06-17T05:36:00.001-07:00

Here's a work in progress of the sketch i worked on yesters. I didn't get a job and was really gutted about this one, so i decided if i'm going to mope about it, mean as well get it out of me. So i got on zbrush and just blitzed at it until i found Mr Sad Face here.

I've roughed in some base colours now, and trying to polypaint it. It's tough! Once that's done i'll work on his expression.

Merchant and Sniper

2011-06-10T00:57:00.001-07:00

Well here they are, two days between other things including a few more characters and the 3D stuff i've put up lately. Hopefully this will cut the mustard. I enjoyed working on the Merchant, the Sniper was a rush to get done on time, rough as an onion, but gets the idea across.

What an hour!

2011-06-09T17:17:00.000-07:00

What an hour indeed. Well, slightly over by 15 mins, but damn this thing is getting me to work at some pace. Loving it tho, about time i kept posting stuff. Well here it is, it's a merchant, based of a drawing i'm currently doing. Doesn't look like the drawing, but i think that's a good thing. I'll post the drawing as soon as i'm done and happy with it.

Some 3D

2011-06-09T09:41:00.000-07:00

Doing some extra folio work right now and getting to grips with my workflow, so did this to get as much variety in the folio as possible. Going to upload more once the monkey is off my back!

Everything must go!

2011-06-01T04:21:00.000-07:00

Well the website request has been sent, the folio is in the works and so i've after many musings this site is going to get a complete overhaul and actually get used to the best of it's abilities!

So starting this week the most of the images currently on here will be deleted and new ones replacing them. I'll be trying to post something daily now and get the most out of this site, and turn it into a sketchbook of sorts.

Update!

2011-03-11T05:40:00.000-08:00

Quick sketch today to warm up

MPC sketch

2010-10-20T12:23:00.000-07:00

What can you do when you're stuck on a concept in work? Sit there and dwell? Or paint something completely different? I settled for trying something different, new technique, thought i'd give it a go and came up with this. And hour well spent i think. And now back to my late night.

New start

2010-10-20T01:07:00.000-07:00

Well my time at MPC is coming to a close this weekend, and as it draws near i can safely say i need a holiday! It's been an amazing experience but there's things i have to do. See new places, get reinvigorated, and hopefully come back in the the game with a new bar. I'm planning an extensive european trip to see what's on my doorstep and exactly what all the fuss about.
Plus the weather is nice and cold, just how i like it!

So i'm going to start working on some new things, new skills, and bring everything i can to the New Year.

Peace

Head Sketch

2010-08-01T07:57:00.000-07:00

Quick sketch between work today. Pulling in a lot of hours so trying to find some sanity!

Assassination

2010-06-30T08:51:00.000-07:00

And a quick hour before i run for the train home... now!

Spheres!

2010-06-30T07:18:00.000-07:00

May not look like much but this is probably the most important post i've done in a long time.

Landscape WIP

2010-06-22T04:37:00.000-07:00

A sketch in work to try out some new brushes i've made, turned out kind of ok. Think i'll work on this throughout the week and see where it takes me.

Old Guy WIP

2010-06-22T02:48:00.000-07:00

This is an 1.5 hour sculpt from a sphere, no idea where i was going but thought it was going in the same vain as Josh Tiefers Afro Samurai zbrush models, so i thought why not add it to the universe. I'm currently retopologizing in order to really take this guy to town this week. Stay tuned.

Storyboard panel

2010-01-26T06:36:00.000-08:00

A quick painting while stuff is rendering, practicing getting storyboard panels looking to a good standard in minimum time.

Practice makes perfect...?

2009-07-11T11:08:00.000-07:00

I've just landed a job, and realized i haven't touched photoshop in a month! Just zbrush and pencils... hmm... Anyways, stuff done to get back into it. Enviros between 1-3 hours. Rusty as hell, but getting there ready for monday! Bring on the film!!!

At last, a hurdle is crossed

2009-06-30T11:22:00.000-07:00

For a small project of mine, a culmination of my efforts of the past 2-3 weeks of learning zbrush. Concepting the scene for it using painter, i'll be taking this base head and concepting in top either in painter 11 or photoshop for character design, and then generating the expressions in zbrush.

All textures hand painted in zbrush. Maybe i'll use photos, but i want to find a way around it right now, learn a bit more.

Saturday Fever

2009-03-02T17:29:00.000-08:00

Ok, saturday was a blur. I sat at my comp, and for ten-twelve hours or so painted possessed. Here are four of the seven concepts i did throughout saturday (I've three more in the works, expect them later this week!) They're sketch studies for more grander pieces, wondering now which ones i want to take to finish. I spent around two hours on each of these so far.

Hope you all like, and expect more stuff soon.

Speedpaint madness

2008-10-20T06:54:00.000-07:00

Well, don't know where this has come from. I've been trying to get back into photoshop, and i'm enjoying trying. Took an hour doing this one. Experimenting with colours mainly. Enjoy!

Darren

2008-05-15T10:52:00.000-07:00

Here's my first image. I tried out a new rendering technique, and it's worked really well in places, and gave an image that wasn't planned, thought out or dreamt up to start. Just some mess, some staring at clouds, and there she was.