Art of Gray

oops I did it again...

2011-10-03T09:43:00.003+02:00

oops I did it again...
Yesterday I was so lucky to met an amazing guy, Michael Shanks aka Daniel Jackson in the Stargate TV show. He was in paris for the Paris manga/sci fi show this week end and it was a blast to see him in real and talk to him.
he's a really nice guy, always smiling and be interrested in what you're sayin and all.
I think I'm a fucking lucky bastard because last year I have met Christopher Judge and now him, as an hardcore fan of the Stargate-verse you can understand why i'm saying that i'm a Lucky guy =)

like for Christopher last year I have made a painting for him inspired by the Abidos clothe design and the RA necklace from the movie (but you can see it also in the tv show). hope you will like it =)

Le royaume de Tobin - Book Cover

2011-10-03T09:35:00.002+02:00

this is the latest book cover that I have made for flammarion - J'ai lu
it is my first huge cover, on each side of the book
hope you like it
book by Lynn Flewelling

photosjop cs4 and Artrage

thanks for watching

ADRIFT CONCEPT ART - DONTNOD ENTERTAINMENT

2011-10-03T07:40:00.003+02:00

Hi,
I can show now one of many concept that I have done from Dontnod entertainment, hope you will like it ! : )
collaboration with Michel Koch.

Neo-Paris 2084,

Augmented reality and memory manipulation have taken control of peoples’ lives.

You can now digitize, buy, sell or trade your own personal memories. The last remainders of intimacy have been swept away, in what appears to be a simple extension of the development of social networks and geolocation at the beginning of the 21st century.
The “surveillance society” has been accepted by the citizens themselves, in exchange for a few technological benefits. It is a reality that no one even thinks of challenging anymore.

This memory-based economy gives an immense yet uncontrollable power to a handful of people…

more here : http://www.dont-nod.com/category/projects/adrift-en/

The Triumvirate

2011-10-03T07:34:00.003+02:00

hop another update.

this is a little reworking of a previous sculpt that I have made some month ago for another little personnal project.

The Triumvirate is watching you.

Sculpt/texturemap/material rendering in sculptris

compositiong in photoshop.

maybe I will do more in the few months.

concept art mood

2011-10-03T07:20:00.004+02:00

hi =)

this is a little painting that i have made for mood research for a film projct but i think the project is shutdown for the moment. it was really fun to do thins kind of work 'cause it's been a while since my last landscape/non characters work.

can't talk about the plot of the movie but I can say that the chinese thing everywhere in an african city is here for a purpose :)

hope you like it.

Firenze red hair

2011-08-04T09:43:00.002+02:00

Done during my free time and my lunch break...lot of breaks.
maybe a little bit inspired by AC, but hey what can I say for my defense... :)
hope you like.

Stabat mater and studies

2011-04-19T09:13:00.006+02:00

hey everybody

- A little preview of a project I'm Working on with a french director in the US of A for a feature film project. "STABAT MATER" ...can't say more but they're will be more and more update about it in the next wekks/month
stay tuned and hope you will like it

-and two lill' speed painting studies from photos reference, trying to improve my sens of lightning.

Sucker Punch Contest

2011-03-18T13:26:00.005+01:00

Hey everyone
hope you're doing well.

this is my entry for the Sucker punch contest here in france.
we have to make a picture inspired by the univers of the movie so I have created a New girl and a new "bad guy" for that.
Her name's PAINKILLER, and I guess you will find out why héhé.
you can vote for my submissionon the website of the contest here

http://www.mysuckerpunch.fr/

I really need your support again to helping me to reach the top of this contest.
hope you will like it.

thanks again ;)

contest "talent house" with the stan lee fondation

2011-02-11T00:47:00.002+01:00

Hey pals
hope you're all doing well!
today I need your help

you may know that Talent House and the Stan lee fondation (with Mc Farlane) organise a big contest on creating a super hero...your own super hero in fact.
And the winner will have the honor to meet the great Stan Lee and Todd Mc farlane and to pass ONE day in the mc farlane studio... his super hero will become an action figure in a very limited serie...
as a marvel geek it was obvisous that I will try to participate to this contest.

I have post my lionnide character as "the Lionnide protector" with a little background story and I will need, if you are okay, all your support to help me on this battle =)

it's not time consuming, it will take you only 25 seconds to vote but it will help me a lot.

the link of my picture for the vote
http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/a5048d433886ea4eba9d664a72388d48/154?referral=fb_wall_vote_link&refId=7

thanks you very much in advance for your support !

Jaffa KREE !!!

2011-02-09T08:56:00.011+01:00

This week end I have met maybe one of the kind man that I have ever met.
Christopher is that guy who, when you see him you are impressed by what emanates from him. you don't want to piss him of, I assure you that haha!
But in fact he's a really kind and smart man, very humble and always smilling and listenning with attention what you are saying to him.
I was lucky enough to see him the both days of his stay in Paris and to speak for a loooong time with him about his next projects and all.

I have to admit, I'm also a fucking stargate nerd! I'm in love for this franchise since the first film in 1994 and i have never stoped to love the stargate univers and i'm dying to work one days on it (hope the franchise will survive)
so met christopher AKA TEAL'C was priceless

I have made for him this painting, it's a prestigious jaffa armor, I have redesign some part of it to be more fonctionnal and to reflect his hight rank in the free jaffa nation...if you don't like stargate you will not understand what i'm talking about but neverminds :)

Thanks Christopher for you kindness

Zbrush polypaint and videos

2011-02-08T10:00:00.002+01:00

little polypaint for testing the colors on Zbrush and a little posing with the transpose tool.

concept art ZBrush - polypaint test from Jamroz Gary on Vimeo.

Concept art on Zbrush4 from Jamroz Gary on Vimeo.

Zbrush 4 test

2011-02-08T09:42:00.009+01:00

hey gang.

wanted to show you a little sketche concept. My first time ever on Zbrush4. It's an AMAZING soft, I think I will use it more often to help me in my pipeline production.
of course the soft can be a little bit frustrating because the interface is not very optimized but after a little shearch it's ok.
first sculpt concept... about 10 hours hope you like it
more to come soon.

new stuff part3

2010-10-25T14:55:00.003+02:00

this is my first attempt to 3D sculping. I had never touched this kind of stuff before, not even in "real" sculpture. it was really fun to do it, it's like a speed modelling.
I have used sculptris, it a really fun software, and reaaaaaally easy to use.
about 5 hours for this head. can't wait to use it again =)

and some better version for two of my characters.
yes the face of the girl is based on the face of an actress but can't remember her name.

hope you like.

new stuff part2

2010-10-25T14:50:00.001+02:00

some characters explorations
from sketche to finished version.

some new stuff part1

2010-10-25T14:45:00.002+02:00

it's been a little while since my last updated. it's time to post some new stuff now, I have a "lot" of thing but i will need, i think, 2 or 3 post to doing it.
since some month i'm working a lot on character exploration at works and it is really fun.
this is some chara design doing after work, just for fun.
hope you like.

North battle

2010-10-07T09:39:00.004+02:00

little tribute to balder the nordic god, half brother of thor.
hope you like it.

close up here : http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae94/artofgray/battleofnorthdetail.jpg

Sentry/Void tribute

2010-09-01T13:52:00.005+02:00

Another little SENTRY/VOID tribute.

doing during my lunch break and afterwork.

always liked the duality in sentry, he's such an interesting character.

false cover here

http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae94/artofgray/marvelsentryskybluesmall.jpg

http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae94/artofgray/sentryredfakecover72.jpg

http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae94/artofgray/dualitycoversmall.jpg

thanks for watchnig =)

Sentry tribute

2010-08-03T12:47:00.006+02:00

finally...DONE :)

was so fun to do, even if times square was pretty hard to draw.

people, streets and time square are fully handmade (with ref of course)

For the city rendering, I was inspired by Alberto Mielgo who has an incredible methode to render city, landscape and etc.

link here : http://www.albertomielgo.com/

thanks for watching

the sentry - in progress

2010-07-28T14:21:00.004+02:00

some fake covers inprogress

tribute to this "godlike" character

cause the end of siege was awesome !

hope he will return

sketche speed painting

2010-07-08T14:29:00.003+02:00

Sketch speed painting session

3-4 hours max.

Star wars speed paint tribute

2010-07-05T16:19:00.001+02:00

Speed paiting study.

From 2 hours to 4 hours each.

Star Wars tribute

2010-07-05T16:13:00.001+02:00

false cover here

boba fett : http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae94/artofgray/bobafettcoverb.jpg

vader : http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae94/artofgray/vaderfinishfalsecover72-1.jpg

tie fighter pilot :

http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae94/artofgray/tiefighterfalsecover72.jpg

painting of the week part 2

2010-05-04T17:53:00.006+02:00

seconds part.

all during lunch time and after work

between 1h30 and 3 hours each.

paintings of the week

2010-05-04T17:22:00.007+02:00

last week i have challenged myself.

one painting per day (except week end).

i will try to continue that way.

between 1h30 and 3 hours

THE DARK KNIGHT - tribute

2010-04-22T11:39:00.001+02:00

little tribute to the Dark Knight.

since a while i want to do a little painting about him.

it's done now
maybe more superheros to come...who knows =)

speed painting session- again

2010-04-20T15:09:00.005+02:00

another speed painting session. just for relax my head during the lunch time.

between 1 and 3 hours

vox populi speed paint

2010-04-20T15:05:00.004+02:00

a little painting before the bigger on in process.

photo ref were used.

good training for understanding face and attitude.

L490 - tribute to 30 STM

2010-04-10T19:32:00.003+02:00

Step by Step avalaible here :
part1
part2
part3

And he we go.

this is my latest painting. maybe the longest painting ever for me...48 hours of works in several days/weeks.
L490 his a song written by Shannon leto, from the album "THIS IS WAR". it's a song about comprehension, understanding and a lot of zen things.
go listen to it if you don't know yet.

the shannon's face was a pain for me, 20 hours just for the head...but it was very fun
the other part of the painting were more "easy"
so now this one is finish i have to begun a new one...and...i have an idea hehe.

hope you will like it, even you're not a 30STM fan/echelons.

Prisonnier des etoiles

2010-04-10T19:26:00.004+02:00

hey people.
this is my next cover for bragelonne, a french book publisher/editor
it's a book with 3 stories of Eric F Russel.
hope you will like it.
thanks for watching

hop voici ma nouvelle cover a paraitre chez Bragelonne le 16 avril 2010, c'est un TSF, un recueil qui regroupe trois histoires du grand Eric F Russel.

merci d'etre passé

photoshop/cintiq
some hours

speed painting

2010-03-02T16:45:00.002+01:00

2010-02-17T15:37:00.001+01:00

speed painting 3 hours

2010-02-17T15:22:00.010+01:00

CAP SUR L'ARMAGEDDON / off armageddon reef by David Weber

a new book cover for Bragelonne edition, here in france.
the book will be in store on feb 19th.

THIS IS WAR

2009-11-23T08:12:00.003+01:00

Speed painting 2 hours

illustration - THIS IS WAR

book cover for Gallimard/folio SF

2009-11-03T14:03:00.004+01:00

Book Cover

2009-10-02T17:23:00.001+02:00

here's my first book cover for bragelonne edition.

it's been a while 2 - the return

2009-10-02T17:16:00.002+02:00

speed painting session - 15 min each

2009-10-02T17:08:00.006+02:00

A brand New Work

2009-06-07T15:29:00.005+02:00

Hi all

no pictures this week, just a litlle annoncement to say that I've just started to work at Don'tNod Entertainment as concept artist/visual developer.

I will work under the direction of Aleksi Briclot, an amazing art director and with an awesome team (and my buddy PAO, hell yeah!) on an amazing project.

so I will maybe have less time for personnal work sorry =)

http://www.dont-nod.com/

gray matter university museum concept

2009-05-20T14:31:00.002+02:00

gray matter university museum concept for wizarbox and dtp entertainement

the marketing reveal it today so I can show you too.

photoshop and cintiq

all 2D

lightning cliffs

2009-05-15T11:35:00.003+02:00

Speed painting 3-4 hours

2009-05-07T09:40:00.002+02:00

2009-05-05T13:25:00.006+02:00

Beyond Bifröst - the asgardians timeshifters

new species - concept painting

2009-05-03T01:24:00.000+02:00

2009-04-21T11:53:00.000+02:00

Mecha concept

2009-04-07T16:02:00.000+02:00

Speed chara concept 3 hours

2009-03-20T12:24:00.002+01:00

Speed painting 1h30

2009-03-16T12:15:00.002+01:00

Another World Sunset :

2009-03-09T08:59:00.003+01:00

A speed concept painting - 6 hours

2009-03-04T10:38:00.001+01:00

speed concept - 5 hours

2009-03-02T14:28:00.000+01:00

speed painting 1h30

2009-02-28T21:06:00.002+01:00

Speed painting 1h15

2009-02-26T09:46:00.008+01:00

A 5 hours concept painting

WIP can be seen here : http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t105/laanrohs/step3-1.jpg

2009-02-23T11:28:00.003+01:00

speed painting

speed painting - 20 min

2009-02-19T07:51:00.000+01:00

2008-12-26T10:44:00.002+01:00

2008-11-26T19:18:00.000+01:00

2008-11-20T09:36:00.000+01:00

2008-10-31T13:46:00.006+01:00

2008-10-16T12:32:00.001+02:00

2008-10-01T12:32:00.001+02:00

2008-09-23T14:22:00.000+02:00

2008-09-19T11:16:00.000+02:00

2008-09-16T10:33:00.000+02:00

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