Another amazing week of game art! I hope that you view these pieces as inspiration to get you going on your next project, not as reasons why you should stop. Alot of the work seen here took alot of practice and effort to get to this point. So don’t give up. As someone very dear to me said, “Keep on keeping on.” I pass that saying on to you. 🙂  I look forward to seeing your work online or in the guild.

Also, Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate it!

Edgar Monteon

mina kim

Zug Zug

Slava Gedich

Nick Pavlovsky

vlad ost

Max Gon

Duy Khanh Nguyen

Ben Hosac

Christoph Schoch

Jimmy Xu

Henry Chen

Kristen Malone

Grace Liu

dimi devos

Katerina Rzhevska (2D Art!)

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By the way, GDC is coming up soon. It’s a game dev conference happening in San Francisco Feb 27 – March 3. If you are in the slack guild, don’t forget to vote on if you are going or not! Would love to meet with our members in person and maybe meet up for food. Have a great week!

Back again for another Inspiration Drop! So, I don’t know if you know….. But if you click the image, you will be sent to the Artstation page where it was originally found. AND SOMETIMES you’ll also see supporting images such as callouts, sketches, or a sketchfab viewer. So..click those images! Hope you enjoy this week’s newsletter! Share with your friends, coworkers, or your social networks!

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By the way, GDC is coming up soon. It’s a game dev conference happening in San Francisco Feb 27 – March 3. If you are in the slack guild, don’t forget to vote on if you are going or not! Would love to meet with our members in person and maybe meet up for food. Have a great week!

Fei Liu

sleepypang LI

Dennis Griesheimer

Leigh-Ann Johnson

Jacob Wheat

Fixed a few lightmaps and played with some lighting. Trying to make sure its not too dark to see anything.#gameart pic.twitter.com/p5MNum1DP7

— Nathan Brandes (@NateMasterFlash) January 13, 2017

Khoa Huynh

sunju choi

Gabe Gonzalez

I love my Paladin! I got to make Tier 19 for Paladins! @Warcraft #Legion #Warcraft #Paladin pic.twitter.com/GkrqrLCkDs

— Kenny McBride (@TheeKennyMcB) January 10, 2017

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Pigart @ Youtube

Tyrone Alarcon

Joshua Singh

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David Harrington

del goni

Matheus Oliveira

Peter Gandia

First Keeper

Hao Z

dodo huang

Brent LaDue

Oscar Monteon

Shem Dawson

That’s it for this week. More to come later! 😀

Happy New Year everybody! It’s been a while since the last post, but I hope you were all too busy enjoying your time off and visiting family anyways! Now that everybody is most likely back at work and flexing their art muscles again, I present to you 2017s first Inspiration post!

As a note for the future, I’ll have to keep my commentary short this time around. It takes alot of time to put this together on top of work & regular guild stuff (I have been realizing), and adding commentary when I didn’t really have time for them felt forced. I obviously love all the entries that are placed here, and I really want to share this with everybody. So enjoy this newsletter despite the lack of personal commentary!

Lucak

Jerry Mascho created this concept for Blizzard’s Heartstone new Expansion, “Mean Streets of Gadgetzan”. Love that wood rendering! Find this at Artstation.

And here is an in-game view of another board he painted and modeled for Hearthstone’s “League of Explorers” Expansion. Find this on Artstation.

Check out his Artstation page for more Hearthstone related art!

I really like this concept by Xu Pengcheng. You can find this at Artstation. It’s the right kind of style for handpainted inspiration! You can more of his stylized concepts at his Artstation account.

Snafubar7 (aka Elliot Picarello) created this straight razor and posted it on Sketchfab! View more of his work at his Artstation account.

Polygonmonster (aka Giovanny Arce) created this wonderful 3D rendition of a concept art from John Polidara. This 2D image does it no justice, so please go check out the Sketchfab he uploaded of this. Find more of his work on his Artstation and Sketchfab accounts.

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Terrie Denman – Legion VFX Reel – 2016 from Terrie Denman on Vimeo.

It’s not often you get to see a VFX reel of somebody who worked on World of Warcraft. But Terrie Denman gives us a look at her work in an isolated environment! Go check her Vimeo and Artstation account for more effects videos!

Made a GIF of my painting process from my earlier post of my master study of @Tysmurph's Soothoot Hillstrider. ᕕ( ՞ ᗜ ՞ )ᕗ pic.twitter.com/CdIrSqmhS6

— Leigh-Ann (@SylveriaDreams) November 14, 2016

As a workshop exercise for the Handpainter’s Guild, Sylveria (aka Leigh-Ann) choose a goat from WoW to paint. To top it off, she made a progress gif to show off how she went about making a 2D master copy of this 3D model. Great job, Sylveria!

Mafubash (aka. Matt B) created this Jolly Wizard and also made a progress gif to share with us! View this artwork on Artstation. And view more of his awesome handpainted artworks on his Artstation account.

Very sweet painting by Rudy Siswanto, who made this for the cinematic of Hearthstone’s “Mean Streets of Gadgetzan” Expansion. Find this image and more at Artstation. You can view more of his work at his Artsation account.

You neeeeeeed to see this artwork by Pil Chang on Artstation. This was a Blizzard Student Art Contest Runner Up in 2015. AMAZING work. You can see more of Pil’s work on Artstation.

Aney Sieko created this artwork. Aney mentions that this is a concept, but it looks like a model! Might have actually meant to say model. In anycase, Aney has alot of Allods work on Artstation and a bunch of personal work that looks very cool! Please, don’t stop here, go check Aney’s Artstation too!

Yekaterina Bourykina strikes again with official work from League of Legends on her Artstation! (Congrats, Katia!) Like usual, she also posted a progress gif showing you her process. Don’t forget to view this artwork in Sketchfab too to get a better look at it. Can’t wait to see more of what Katia has in the works at Riot Games! See more of her work at Artstation.

Another really neat art drop from Peter Lee on his work in World of Warcraft. This time he has the Tauren Building on display at his Artstation for our viewing pleasure.

Ok…so I HAVE to call this one out. Rafael Zanchetin is an illustrator extraordinaire! He has been working on alot of illustrations for Hearthstone and included some sketches to show his process. It’s really really good. Go to his Artstation to see a ton more!

Particles up and running. Need to make the leaves a bit more visible.#gameart #UE4 pic.twitter.com/GGVz5umY0z

— Nathan Brandes (@NateMasterFlash) November 16, 2016

Beautiful progress from guildie, Nate! Follow him on Twitter to see his progress on this and other 3D environments!

Just Finished this Jewelry Table for upcoming RPG "Tanzia" by Arcanity Inc.@PlayTanzia #blender #3dcoat #indiegame #rpg pic.twitter.com/EVrcfLbfZ1

— zug zug studio (@zugzugart) November 14, 2016

Zug Zug has been working on so many props, this being one of them, and posting it up on Twitter. I love every single one of them!

Tomenjerry is back with more progress on his Undead Starting Zone on Polycount. Need more stylized foliage breakdowns in my life. Anybody down for making a tutorial on the subject? haha XP

A very well rendered backpack from guildie, Dennispls (aka. Dennis Griesheimer)! You can view this model in Sketchfab and on Artstation. He also created a small tutorial for how he started this model on Polycount. Follow his progress thread at Polycount and view his Artstation account.

Elementalist Lux is now available! 3250 RP | 3950 RP (Master Elementalist Lux bundle) pic.twitter.com/yKuttEXbKh

— afk (@KateyAnthony) November 28, 2016

Santa Braum, Winter Wonder Karma and Snow Day Graves hitting #PBE! pic.twitter.com/rnaHnU7TZy

— afk (@KateyAnthony) November 21, 2016

❄️Winter is coming~~~~ ❄️ #PBE #SnowyRift pic.twitter.com/e5wzFWJGBB

— Ohmu (@RiotOhmu) November 17, 2016

League of Legend newest artwork! Found alot of this on @YBourykina ‘s Twitter. So I’d suggest following her for seeing more of this stuff! 😀

So Lance Wilkinson has a sale on his Handpainted Tutorial at Gumroad! It’s a very neat tutorial and at that price it’s a very good deal! You can view more of his work at his Artstation account.

Back from BlizzCon! Sorry for the late post, been trying to compile all the different things I took pictures of and recorded! I will split up my BlizzCon post from this inspiration post. Kept the commentary short this time since I have so many things I want show you all along with this amazing round of handpainted works! Enjoy and keep an eye out for my next article.

https://twitter.com/Tysmurph/status/795800494237052930

Bitgem on Cubebrush

My first Demon Hunter commission =) #Warcraft #Legion pic.twitter.com/mUzZchMsis

— 🦉 Owly 🦉 (@lowlyowly) November 2, 2016

A simple Iron Sword for @DyadicGames #blender #handpainted #3DCoat pic.twitter.com/2cXKE3e7yT

— zug zug studio (@zugzugart) November 2, 2016

Check out Zug Zugs Twitter for more images of handpainted stuff!

Odonpachi at Polycount

Ariel Fain at Artstation

You can see what I've presented for Blizzcon here and download some explanations for free !https://t.co/zmWdNmrk8Lhttps://t.co/tnrv5zr1yf pic.twitter.com/LnZlyC3UxJ

— Fanny Vergne (@Fafaxounette) November 10, 2016

Upgrading rock texture. I feel like I can improve the shape of the rock models still.#gameart #UE4 pic.twitter.com/YAF7qpKIJo

— Nathan Brandes (@NateMasterFlash) November 10, 2016

Piggy texture WIP! pic.twitter.com/B50YD0kgvV

— Mafubash (@Mafubash) November 8, 2016

Texture WIP of the 1st of 5 characters for a mini hero diorama that I'm making. I will be making a fat boar next!!! pic.twitter.com/iaKvR3W4FX

— Mafubash (@Mafubash) November 6, 2016