The Art of Jeff Murchie: 2013

"BAT" MASTERSON!

One of my favorite real life characters from the Old West is William Barclay "BAT" Masterson. He was well known as a Gunfighter as well as a gambler, Buffalo Hunter, U.S. Marshall and Army Scout. He was friends with Wyatt Earp and served with Earp on the "Dodge City Peace Commission." Naturally he was involved in many shootouts and because of his quick draw and survival instincts, "BAT" always came out on top.

Jun

Stylized Environment Concept (in progress)

This is an environment concept I spent some time on last weekend. I have yet to flush out the left side of the landscape although it will be darker and more in the shadows. I am trying to add more environments to my portfolio in multiple styles and I have a few others I am working on at the moment. Although I love character concept production I can create environment concepts as well.

Jun

Environment Concept

This is an environment concept from a little while back and I finally got a couple spare hours last night to add some detail work to the concept. I will add some more subtle details to the background so the mountains and cliffs are not flat. I just wanted to post an update.

Jun

Ljosalfar Style Guide

This is a Style Guide for the Ljosalfar Light Elf race I created for "Project Copernicus" for 38 Studios. These designs were posted on the "Kingdoms of Amalur" website. I worked with many artist to create style guides for each of the playable races in "Copernicus." Mostly, I worked with Scott Duquette who is a fantastic concept and production artist. We created the style guides early in the project.

Jun

Myrmidon Hoplon

This is a character that I designed for "Project Copernicus." He is part of a giant insect race called the Myrmidon. This concept was designed over the skeleton and anatomy of an earlier concept I created while working on "Copernicus." The initial design for this skeletal anatomy type was a centaur spider creature. We would often share skeletons and try to give the skin and dimensions a whole new look so they did not appear too similar.

May

Quick Paint of Mr. Jowles

Here is a near finished color paint of an earlier sketch. I will probably spend another hour or so on this to add in some fine details and highlights such as facial stubble and further definition in his hair and fur. I'm trying to spend a little less time on the color comps so I can force myself to prioritize what details and focal areas I should be keying in on. Sometimes you can spend so much time rendering out details that may not be worth the overall visual impact.

May

Another creature drawing...

This is a creature I sketched up this past weekend. Just having fun. No specific objective or project in mind.

May

Alien Sketch

This is a very quick sketch from last night. I just jumbled a few shapes together and these forms came out of the mix. I am not sure what he is but I may do a color version of this guy. The bulbous shapes that make his ear and cranium I imagine would have a subtle glow to them. The bulbous ear is basically a gigantic exposed ear drum that would sense even the most subtle vibrations.

Apr

Spike

I just finished this drawing today after some furious drawing during my daughters naps:) I hope you enjoy and again, thanks for looking!

Murchie

Apr

Mr. Jowles

This is an orc that I sketched this morning. If you follow Sloth's family tree to it's roots you may just find this guy. I have named him Mr. Jowles. I am having a lot of fun sketching and not taking everything to color which is helping me focus on the foundational drawing a bit more. I hope you enjoy and I'll start pumping more of these out.

The Art of Jeff Murchie

Concept Artist - jeffreymurchie@hotmail.com