The Art Of David Harrington

2012-02-06T02:36:00.000-08:00

2012-01-18T00:29:00.000-08:00

The most recent piratey sharky endeavor.

Comparison Between my initial 5 minute thumbnail sketch and the final

Some thumbnails that I might turn into illustrations later

2011-12-11T18:01:00.001-08:00

Some watercolor studies I've been messin around with this week

Some watercolor sketches from a bar in Lguna Beach, along with a few other studies.

Pirate Shark Illustration I've wanted to do for a while

2011-11-20T13:06:00.000-08:00

Another topical piece from sketchgroup

Some quick studies exploring some new brush techniques. Studies done from photo and film reference

A quick study of a matte skull under a point light

2011-10-30T22:40:00.000-07:00

My Haunted house piece for last weeks sketchgroup

This was part of a piece I was working on, but I kind of hit a dead end on it so I probably wont finish it for now.

Some robot designs for this weeks sketchgroup, mostly with watercolor and gouache.

A quick painting practice session from Star Trek TNG. A lot of shots in that show use very soft diffuse lighting.

An alt angle for the haunted house piece, went with the other one though.

2011-09-30T09:22:00.001-07:00

2011-09-15T00:37:00.000-07:00

Another one from artgroup

2011-08-14T21:42:00.000-07:00

Quick painting group sketch

2011-07-24T22:20:00.001-07:00

2011-07-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

2011-06-30T20:45:00.000-07:00

Some Sketches out of my sketchbook I cleaned up a bit...

Fathers day card for my Dad.

2011-05-02T00:35:00.000-07:00

Little birthday painting down in Laguna beach on a nice warm day.

2011-04-19T00:56:00.000-07:00

2011-03-27T21:01:00.000-07:00

Recent Doodles

2011-03-14T23:26:00.001-07:00

Finished this up in Photoshop.

Working on throwing some lighting keys on these quick beat boards.

A little still life I was working on with some spray painted objects.

2011-02-20T01:35:00.001-08:00

Some Gouache and Marker Sketches:

Same Process as above with a little minor digital cleanup

Vacation Gouache Sketches

2011-01-24T23:32:00.000-08:00

Over my Christmas vacation I badly sprained my foot and was laid up for the rest of my leisure time. As a result of this (and my lack of a working computer to paint on) I ended up doing a number of these little gouache paintings while I recovered.

2010-11-28T22:49:00.000-08:00

Digital Still Life Painting, planning to do a bunch more of these to study reflected light and cast shadows.

Ever original dinosaurs with lasers

Quick lighting comp

Quick sketch

2010-09-07T21:56:00.000-07:00

Finally found some time to post some stuff...

Quick gouache sketch in Laguna Beach

Some kind of an idea for a haunted goldmine roller coaster

Practicing lighting basic forms

2010-05-19T23:56:00.000-07:00

New painting I'm working on in Photoshop, probably should have used painter for the sky though.

2010-04-25T22:24:00.000-07:00

2010-03-29T08:11:00.000-07:00

2010-02-08T20:55:00.001-08:00

I seem to be on some kind of monster drawing kick.

2010-01-24T20:03:00.001-08:00

Some studies in gouache and watercolor

Weekend Studies

2009-12-13T22:22:00.001-08:00

On Account of the rain

Above: An environment inspired by a scene in pirates

2009-11-27T16:46:00.000-08:00

SpeedPaint

2009-11-19T22:30:00.000-08:00

Quick Speed Paint in photoshop

2009-11-10T23:01:00.000-08:00

Little Doodle in Painter

Another quick painter doodle

some gouache plein air painting on a piece of wood

quick sci-fi concept also in painter

2009-10-19T23:37:00.000-07:00

Life Drawings

2009-09-06T13:11:00.000-07:00

Return Of Sharkman!

2009-08-05T23:17:00.000-07:00

Little sketch I was painting up in painter. Painter has some cool features I've been trying out on this guy with some cool results. We'll see how far I end up taking this.

Monster Sketch

2009-06-30T08:05:00.000-07:00

More Tonal

2009-06-24T22:13:00.000-07:00

Painter

Tonal Sketches

2009-05-25T23:04:00.000-07:00

Sketches

2009-05-07T21:50:00.000-07:00

Haven't posted any sketches on here in a while....

Dominance War IV

2009-04-06T23:35:00.000-07:00

Latest Progress From Dominance War 4

Dominance War IV Pre-Challenge

2009-03-03T13:07:00.001-08:00

Update

2009-02-24T13:35:00.000-08:00

Dominance War IV

2009-02-22T21:36:00.000-08:00

The start for my Dominance War portrait challenge.

Lunch Time Speed Paints

2009-02-17T13:31:00.001-08:00

Just some 30 minute speed paints done with some of the guys from work.

Stuff!!!

2009-02-03T20:50:00.000-08:00

I drew a thumbnail of this thing when I woke up in the middle of the night one night. I wanted to build it, so here it is!

Back

Sketch

SteamPunk!!

2009-01-18T20:38:00.001-08:00

Finally decided to just finish this thing. Here it is in progress.

Speed Paint

2009-01-08T22:22:00.000-08:00

And another from the other night about 25 minutes with a layer masking technique.

Just a quick thursday night speedpaint. About 45 minutes

3d Practice

2008-11-12T21:47:00.000-08:00

Just Practicing some low poly modeling and texturing here. Textures painted by hand (no-photo texture). Hopfully this will come out cool when its done.

More recent version, shadows cut out onto alpha cards. Still figuring out the best shape for those weird trees in the BG.

Flake Out

2008-10-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, we've been a little too busy at work to finish any of those other paintings that I started (I will though, I promise) but here are some life drawings from the Santa Monica YMCA and some speed paintings from the last 2 weeks.

These speed paintings were all done in under an hour or two. I'm trying to speed up my painting skills so these are all pretty rough. Also, they're really convenient to start and finish quickly after work.

Old sketch I never put on here

Some Halloween themed stuff should be the topic of some new speed paints soon at work.

Work after work

2008-08-09T22:53:00.000-07:00

Messin around with this character some more, I found his silhouette to be the most interesting part of his design so I'm working dark to light on him. Also trying to keep all the details tight and true to the drawing. Oh and in case you cant tell by the giant letters this piece is still in progress.

This was an older piece I wanted to revisit, I liked the design of it so I just polished it up a bit and unified the rythm with the background.

Sketches

Weekend Work

2008-07-13T19:56:00.001-07:00

Uhhh.....

2008-06-29T22:17:00.000-07:00

3D Stuff? NOOO!!!!!!!

EPIC FISH!!!

2008-06-22T22:02:00.000-07:00

It's been a while, been keeping busy since graduation. A lot of updates soon to come.

2008-04-27T14:05:00.000-07:00

2008-04-23T19:53:00.000-07:00

Dominance War Character

Head and Torso High-Res Closeup

Swamp Planet

2008-03-30T21:54:00.001-07:00

Swamp Planet

This was a concept piece for an "overgrown swamp planet" idea. It took a while to figure out how I was going to resolve everything but i decided to go with more realistic textures, as apposed to a more stylized approach. Everything was done in photoshop (yay photoshop!).

And I might as well put these storyboards up, although I'm very not happy about doing them and I'll be damned if they ever make it on my website.

Project 1

2008-03-27T22:40:00.000-07:00

Project 1

This was the deep sea base for project 1. I like the way it came out, but I think that there are still things I want to change.

Just some life studies from class

New Artwork!!!!! (Mostly)

2008-03-14T22:21:00.001-07:00

This is one of the head variations for my Dominance War Character.... I might go with something like this for the final.

Project#2: Character Illustration
I needed to pump something out in a week for project 2, so this hastily painted/quickly colored painting is what I came up with. I like parts of it, but now that its done, I probably won't touch it.

This is a sketch from Brian's class last year. I kind-of liked the design of it so I toned it in photoshop.

Environment Of the Week

2008-02-28T21:34:00.000-08:00

This is my entry for this weeks conceptart.org environment contest.
This is the first time I used a kind of "color glazing" technique, hopfully I'll get better with it in time.

Elysium

2008-02-18T08:40:00.001-08:00

This was my entry for the concept art Environment of the week contest. Done mostly in painter with some detailing in photoshop.

Finally An Update!!!

2008-02-13T19:20:00.000-08:00

These Apple Paintings Are From the Digital Painting Class, experimenting with different digital mediums in painter

Digital Water, Oil, and Guache

Digital Water

Guache

Artists Oils and Blenders +Digital Water

Airbrush

Airbrush

These Storyboards are from the Surfing Shark Game Concept, I boarded out what I think the cinematic into might look like.

Skeletons!

2008-01-27T16:59:00.000-08:00

Sometimes you just cant help but draw skeleton monsters....

Latest Stuff

2008-01-22T18:29:00.000-08:00

Some New Character Concepts From Something Me and Matt are working on

Closer

Something A Little More Fun

Winter Art

2007-12-22T01:32:00.001-08:00

Here is some concept art from a new project

Latest Illustrations

2007-12-04T12:54:00.000-08:00

Pretty Much done with this one. Semester is coming to a close and its crunch time.

Thumbnail

Some Closeups

This is an old life drawing that I found and decided to paint.

Upcoming Illustrations

2007-11-20T17:18:00.000-08:00

Everyone's Favorite Lovable Shark Monster

Studies at CSUF

2007-11-12T00:22:00.000-08:00

Important notes from Don about drawing the hand in proportion to the rest of the body

Hand Studies in modified block form

Gestures From the PMC life drawing session

Untiltled

2007-10-30T01:00:00.000-07:00

Expression Changes

City

Some color sketches and things

2007-10-15T19:21:00.001-07:00

Some experiments with cool shadows and warm lights.

Polished this out a little more

This is a color study for my next big illustration.

Something New

2007-10-03T00:24:00.001-07:00

Work in Progress:
-First time using selection masks to polish out the final paint layer, I think it gives me some nice crisp edges on the forms. Check back for the finished piece soon!

New Concept Illustration & Others

2007-09-25T00:08:00.001-07:00

Newest Concept Illustration for the Gaming Project

Something For The Upcoming Halloween

Mammoth Lobster Concept

Just a few people I saw at downtown disney

2007-09-17T00:40:00.000-07:00

These guys were interesting to see at work.

Note: Some texture work on the furry guy above by Melinda Haverstock

A few variations on an amazonian character

Character

2007-09-12T23:19:00.000-07:00

Character Concept For Game Model

Version2:

Version1:

More Concept Illustration

2007-09-11T13:53:00.000-07:00

Video Game Concept art

2007-09-04T01:02:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the delay of posts... been really busy.... more new stuff soon, oh and check out the new links.

Aquatic Environment

Angel Illustration

2007-08-21T21:56:00.000-07:00

This is to make up for all the bad scans below.

Detail

Pencils

2007-08-19T23:58:00.000-07:00

More to come....
very soon

Portfoloroids

2007-08-07T02:54:00.000-07:00

Hey guys sorry bout the long delay on posts, but I had to move and that was quite a time consuming endeavor. Anyway it has been pointed out that I need to diversify my porfolio, so thats what these are all about.

Super Cutsie Illustration

Angel Composition

Concept Design for "The Banished"

New post by next sunday (really this time)
-Dave

.....

2007-07-31T03:30:00.001-07:00

Slowly Trying to get these done before I move weds...

Layouts....From Hell !!!

2007-07-23T02:46:00.000-07:00

Ok maybe not, but that sounds like a cool project. So here's new stuff.

Demon warrior guy

Village Layout
-This sketch was only 3inches by 4 inches and then I cleaned it up and detailed it in photoshop.

Head studies, interesting characters, co-workers....ect.

Next post.....Layouts', Loads of em'

Action Shark Returns

2007-07-16T01:44:00.000-07:00

This guy I want to turn into a surfing sticker, so as soon as I can find a way to get some printed they'll be on my surfboard and car and so on...

These are some sketches from photorefs.

Visual Development Sketch + Fish

2007-07-13T02:59:00.001-07:00

Vis Dev for environment concept, probably going to push and pull the shapes around some more.

Painted Sketch From The Aquarium

Sketches From the Long beach Aquarium 7/8/07

Painting Practice

2007-07-10T02:06:00.000-07:00

Lately I've been trying to keep my painting skills hot for these freelance projects I'm doing...

No Backround on this just practice

Practicing Fleshtones and Digital Brushstrokes

7/7/07 Sketches

2007-07-08T02:53:00.000-07:00

I realize that my excuses for not posting are becoming lamer and lamer, however, I promise that the upcoming posts will (quite possibly) be worth the wait (maybe)...

Blogcoma

2007-07-04T17:12:00.000-07:00

Hey guy sorry for the unyielding delay of new posts, Ive been busy working on some material for a client. Anyway there should be some new drawings on here in a few days. I didn't mean to take the face of this drawing tonal, but due to the incredible impotency of my scanner, I kind of had to...

Epic Space Battle Illustration

2007-06-20T16:58:00.000-07:00

This one took a while because there is allot going on and I wanted it to look really sharp.

Websites Up!!!!

2007-06-17T05:12:00.000-07:00

After several unnecessarily epic battles with a few web servers and hosts, my website is finally up! (Though still under construction.) Check it out with the button on the right!----->

Illustration of the Undead!!

New video game project material

FISHTOONS!!!

And yet more video game stuff

As Promised.....

2007-06-11T05:01:00.001-07:00

I had promised a few people that this would be updated by tonight, and I pulled through (although technically it is now monday), but never the less the work is here for you to view.

So this one is just about done....

As well as this....

This was another layout for animation

Sketch From an illustration in progress

These are both to be painted

Video game concept illustration

More fun creature designs

So you thought I was being lazy....

2007-06-01T03:18:00.000-07:00

Just To Prove That I wasn't....

Upcoming Narrative Illustration

Concept Sketch For A Sci-Fi Project

Preliminary Character Design For The next video game project

These are some Illustrations Im working on for my personal site...

Another Narrative Illustration In progress....still pretty rough at this point

New Concepts

2007-05-28T03:30:00.000-07:00

Some new concept work for the new game project...

Perspective Tutorials

2007-05-28T00:09:00.000-07:00

People have been asking me recurring questions dealing with issues of perspective.... so i decided to start writing a series of tutorials on the subject. Here is the first one dealing with basic two point perspective drawing...

New Stuff!!!

2007-05-22T23:57:00.000-07:00

Not letting the fact that the semester is over slow me down. Coming soon are some new illustrations and some basic perspective tutorials I am writing.

Illustration Overdrive

2007-05-14T17:11:00.000-07:00

Finally Finished the cover (At least for now)

Cartoony Backround Illustration

Everybody's favorite Turtle

DOOM TREES

EPIC

2007-05-07T17:17:00.000-07:00

Cover In Progress

Newest Conceptual Illustration From The "Terra Defender" project

Going Tonal !!!!!

2007-05-04T00:16:00.000-07:00

Detail

This Is The Most Recent Tonal Version Of My Latest Illustration In Progress

Layout For Animation

Layout For Animation

Recent Completions

2007-04-24T01:13:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the projects that are slowly being finished off. There is a lot on my workspace right now so expect more soon.

Backround Painting

Epic Narrative Illustration In Progress...

Angelic Illustration

2007-03-20T01:01:00.000-07:00

Character Design

2007-03-19T02:05:00.000-07:00

There is a lot of stuff coming up, the next post will be huge.

Environmental Design

2007-03-13T01:53:00.000-07:00

Life Drawings For Animation

VideoGameProject

2007-02-17T02:41:00.000-08:00

(Click Images For Larger Image)

Terra Defender project now in full swing

Works In Progress:

Backround Painting One

2007-02-14T10:30:00.000-08:00

This is the start of a pirate themed backround painting.

Space Character

2007-02-14T10:28:00.000-08:00

This character is from the currently shelfed Sci-Fi project

Some Images

2007-02-14T10:24:00.001-08:00