tonsen's CGPortoflio Gallery

Dubrovnik Matte Painting

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:28:31 +0000

This piece is a personal challenge to tackle a matte painting that includes natural elements, like water, mountains, and foilage, as well as some architectural elements. Source photographs were taken by myself during travels to Dubrovnik and the Isle of Capri, Italy.
Hope you enjoy it! Comments are most appreciated.
* To view the plate I began with:
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Cheers!
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Josun City

Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:50:56 +0000

I sure had a great time with this one.
Starting out with some perspective lines and an idea of a color palette and mood, I started with broad shapes and strokes until a rough composition took hold and things were looking promising. I realized after getting farther along it started to feel reminiscent of some great experiences in China, and so finishing it up was a great deal of joy to do. I hope you all enjoy it!
Best,
Patrick

Sybella

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:01:26 +0000

Pausing the DVD of Kingdom of Heaven on my laptop, I painted this study on my computer in about three hours during the past few lunch breaks. It's a great challenge to try and match colors without having the ability to color pick them from a source...so I really enjoyed this one. I'd recommend checking out Kingdom of Heaven too when you have a chance - it has an excellent score and some great cinematography.

Stormy Encounter

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:04:54 +0000

This was originally intended to be my entry for the Spectacular Challenge on CGTalk, but work got the best of me.
I would have liked to have spent more time on this one, but other projects got in the way. Nevertheless, it was a very fun image to work on.

Grand Space Opera Runner-Up

Wed, 16 Feb 2005 04:53:53 +0000

This image was entered for the Grand Space Opera Challenge. You can see the full entry here.

Environment

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:52:21 +0000

Allo Everybody,
Inspired after hearing the name of a single malt whiskey named Craggenmoore. I present to you the actual location! (at least, what pops into my imagination when I hear that name).
Enjoy!
- Patrick

Heavy

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 23:56:51 +0000

The guideline for this piece was to illustrate anything that conveys the word "Heavy". After brainstorming some ideas, I picked a field worker and had some idea for the texture and mood I would try and go for. It made for a fun challenge to push the pallete and texture into the gritty documentary look, especially using Photoshop.
It also helped that it was a cold and rainy day out when I finished this one up. Hopefully some of that feeling came through in the piece.
Enjoy, and have a good one,
- Patrick