The Art of Jeff Murchie

Here is one of the Dark Numenorean concepts from Lord of the Rings Online. I had a really fun time with this concept and I learned a lot about complimentary colors and loved painting the drippy, translucent, organic qualities. Man...I need to paint some zombies soon. One of the fun things about working on Lord of the Rings Online was that I got to concept, design and paint so many monsters and creatures with interesting textural qualities. This really helped me learn many painting techniques as well as exploring color.

I totally forgot about this concept until just recently. This is one of the concept designs (haaha....one of the only ones I would still want to show) from Forgotten Realms, Demon Stone. I had the priveledge of working as a fulltime freelance concept artist for Stormfront Studios a year after graduation and I had a great experience working with everyone. If you have not played the game you should check it out.

Here is an Orc I concepted for Lord of the Rings Online. The computer model and render that you see here was made by Daniel Williams after seeing my art in the December 2006 issue of Imagine FX. He is an incredible modeler and works for Blue Sky, the makers of Ice Age and Dan is now working on Dr.