Humza Khan : CONCEPT DESIGN BLOG

Pledge to ROBOTA : Vengeance !!!!!

2012-02-11T16:14:00.000-08:00

Hi, I haven't been post much, though I have been investing my time into quite a few other productive endeavours! Some I am bound to not speak OF but one of which I definitely can:

ROBOTA : VENGEANCE !

Robota is the project of famed Star Wars prequels design director Doug Chiang. Many of you involved in the entertainment industry as well as concept design enthusiasts are probably already familiar with it.

Currently Sixits, the studio I've been working with on this, is trying to get funding for development of this IP as Ipad and iphone game. This is an addition some of the other projects we're currently working with existing developers.

If you would like to pledge support, you can visit the kickstarter site here!

You can also visit the "like" the Robota: Vengeance facebook page

Thank you all in advance for your support and we look forward to showing you something amazing when we're finished!

P.S. You can check out and like sixits projects at these links:

http://www.facebook.com/EONsky

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fhappy-talking-

penguin%2Fid495529770%3Fmt%3D8&h=TAQEiFfUh

http://apps.facebook.com/babieseverywhere/?ref=ts

Subject: Rscheearch

2011-10-30T17:05:00.000-07:00

Too great not to post. It definitely makes you think

studies for painting

2011-08-03T15:36:00.001-07:00

Hi, I've been fortunate to have been quite busy lately working between moving, my birthday, and working at Ubisoft at the moment on some fun unannounced projects!

The above are some quick studies I had done for a concept painting for a client awhile back. I did these from the reference as a kind of prep for the final painting. The image on the right's shadows are a bit dark then they'd probably actually be, but that's do due to the photo ref. Normally that wouldn't be an excuse, but I changed it a bit on the finish painting.

Basically, by doing studies of the references individually as is, I bring that knowledge into the final painting to enhance it significantly. I try not to spend too much time on them, just focusing on getting good value and color. I think by doing this it allows me use the reference more effectively and prevents internalizing/drawing out of my head and stylizing too quickly.

Check out PLAY illustration

2011-06-06T19:54:00.001-07:00

Friend and former colleague Frank Vitale has become editor of Play Illustration, a site for illustration and design in toys and games. For those of you interested, you can head on over there now or feel free to sign up.

some studies

2011-04-24T14:18:00.001-07:00

works in progress - good learning exercises

Bike for Kam

2011-04-04T15:27:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine's wife is doing a charity bike ride you can read about here: http://bikeforkam.com/2011/04/01/kam/

wondercon 2011

2011-04-02T22:56:00.000-07:00

at wondercon this weekend, feel free to drop me a line if you are around

subway drawings

2011-03-16T14:43:00.001-07:00

Thought I'd take a second and post some obervational drawings from the subway:

Always good practice. Well I've got to go, but hope fully will have some more positive things coming in the next few months. Thanks again for visiting.

first update of 2011!

2011-03-02T21:31:00.000-08:00

Bet you weren't expecting this:

Yeah, Neither was I. And yes, to answer your question, that was my former apartment buildilng and thankfully I'm ok and no one was seriously hurt. We were lucky. Fortunately, all my work managed to remain safe as well (minus the lingering stench of smoke that had to be dry cleaned out).

www.usaschoolshows.com

2010-11-19T19:30:00.000-08:00

College for Creative Studies artist anatomy instructor Eugene Clark started a new website for his business that he'd like everyone to checkout:

www.usaschoolshows.com

Best of luck to you Eugene

Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises Concept Designs

2010-10-09T20:35:00.000-07:00

These are some concepts that I have done to get onto the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight sequel / Batman 3 team.

I have also added and revamped work on my website which you can view in the gallery section here.

rough vehicle thumbnails

2010-10-08T22:57:00.001-07:00

Some very rough vehicle thumbnails that I blew up and threw together. The two on the right were ideations for future a rickshaw-esque concept.

some rough stuff

2010-10-05T18:04:00.000-07:00

Some rough value studies of exising painting and a loose sketch of the beginnings of a character design. I've been working away and cleaning up and updating work on my website. It's been quite a lot of work. I will post some work from that soon most likely, though I'm not I'll posting as regularly as I was before. There seems to be the inherit dilema with concept designers and production artists with blogs in that so much of we do stays secretive and behind the scenes making it so much more difficult to have anything to post or promote. Ah, a problem to ponder for another time....

happy (late) anniversary

2010-07-25T19:04:00.000-07:00

Recently had my birthday and realized it's been about a year since I started this blog so I'd like to thank everyone for visiting!

(I had an image here but I decided I didn't like it and took it down.)

Just a heads up, I may not be posting as frequently in the upcoming weeks since I've recently had a few plans change on me and maybe a little distracted. Anyways, thank again for stopping by.

black and white value study of film shot

2010-07-19T13:23:00.000-07:00

some simple value studies

2010-07-18T22:27:00.003-07:00

a value study of a painting

Top 50 best shot films of the last decade

2010-07-12T10:00:00.000-07:00

Evan Richards has posted a great list of American's Cinematographers list of top 50 best shot films of the last decade Here.

painting study - work in progress

2010-07-11T16:20:00.000-07:00

Here is a work in progress study from an exising painting.

The challenge with this seems to be working with overcast lighting that doesn't really give you a strong lightsource to define three dimensional forms with. Usually, when faced with this, a lesser artist could run into the problem of having everything look flat and 2d dimensional, not mention loosing the "instand read" of a piece.

happy july 4th weekend

2010-07-04T17:56:00.000-07:00

girl

2010-06-20T11:27:00.000-07:00

Quick Lighting Study from Film Still

2010-06-12T19:16:00.000-07:00

Animation

2010-06-04T19:40:00.000-07:00

This was an animation I had been working on for a class that ended a little while back. I had originally posted the storyboards and character model here and here but had to simplify it considerably. There were few minor things I would have tweaked had I not gotten caught up with work. It's nice to be versatile and expand the skill set, not to mention having to make your concept come to life yourself. Enjoy...

R.I.P. Ron Hayward

2010-06-01T12:42:00.000-07:00

Ron Hayward was a figure drawing model at the College for Creative Studies(CCS) whom I found out died a few months back I believe. While many people knew him from taking classes at CCS throughout the years, I don't know how many people took the time to talk to him. In my limited interactions with him and from what I heard from others, he seemed very intelligent and articulate. I was only able to get brief fleeting glimpses of from what I had heard was quite an adventurous and fascinating life.

My condolences go out to his family, friends, and the students and faculty at CCS

Unfinished- View from my place

2010-06-01T12:24:00.000-07:00

Hey, hope everyone had a great memorial day weekend. I've been keeping quite busy juggling a few things moving into a new apartment, finishing up some classes, new work stuff, finding furniture for my new place, and still trying to set up an internet connection!

This above peice was unfinished painting straight from life. I started painting it around sunset when the light was changing super fast and having to try to salvage what I could from memory. Nonetheless, it's good to paint from life. There's a bunch of color subtely you are able to pick up that a photo might over simplify or darken.

I do enjoy the composition of this piece, with the strong right angular elements combined with the green organic bush in the background topped off with a dab of strong golden sunlight at it's crest.

burgler boards

2010-05-18T13:07:00.000-07:00

Some quick boards for a 3D animation, very simply drawn. I liked the narrative flow and storytelling in these. The final product got even more simplified than these.

Character Modeling - Work in Progress

2010-04-17T19:26:00.000-07:00

Some 3D character modeling

animated logos and graphics designs

2010-04-10T13:14:00.000-07:00

Above are some animated 3D logo,graphics, and storyboards that I did a while ago that I thought I would post.

Sorry I haven't posted as frequently recently. I had work and some other obligations thrown in my lap. I am trying to post at least once a week on this blog. Thanks for stopping by.

This doesn't look good......

2010-03-17T18:56:00.001-07:00

GDC 2010

2010-03-10T21:30:00.000-08:00

Just giving a heads up, I will be at GDC (game developer's conference)in San Francisco this year for those who may want to meet up. Look forward to seeing you there, bye!

Experimental

2010-03-07T19:41:00.000-08:00

Some out there experiments with form and composition

Feature on Carbonmade.com

2010-03-02T15:36:00.001-08:00

I have just been honored by carbonmade.com by having my work showcased in there portfolio section. You can view it here

3 speed paintings

2010-02-28T22:49:00.000-08:00

Some simple value sketches.
The top I was experimenting with trying to do a bit of an aerial composition, and added the foreground element with the character standing on top to make it more interesting, although given more time I thought I could have made a more stronger composition.

The middle was a study from an existing film frame.

On the bottom I was working a little bit with overcast light and using local value to define the major compositional shapes, as oppose to having a strong directional light or artificial light to define form. I was also experimenting a bit with trying to elicit a more calmer or serene composition. I'm not exactly sure how successful that was, but it was adequate for a exploratory study.

bierdstadt value studies

2010-02-13T11:25:00.000-08:00

Some quick landscape black and white value studies.

some quick environments

2010-02-01T12:23:00.000-08:00

Here are some more speed paints. Working in black and white and sticking helps a lot with thinking in simple term of strong values and is fun to experiment with on a simpler stage. I am thinking about aiming for doing at least one a week to post on the blog.

hot air balloon

2010-01-30T14:11:00.001-08:00

Fast and fun speed painting. Nice to bust out something quick and loose. I will do more of these, they're great practice.

samurai

2010-01-12T16:12:00.000-08:00

18 X 24 charcoal drawing on newsprint. A design for a samurai I refined. I Plan to paint this later.

Here are some very quick color preliminaries of what it might look like:

Beast & Cyclops ideation

2010-01-12T15:53:00.001-08:00

these are some very quick ideations of Hank/Henry McCoy a.k.a. Beast and Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops. They are quite old and I did very quickly on the side while I was practicing some figure drawing in my newsprint pad. I liked the feel of them though, plus I though there was something interesting going on with the body armor uniforms.

Doug Funnie!

2010-01-12T15:33:00.000-08:00

This is Doug funnie from the Nickelodeon animated tv show Doug.

Nice to do something in a different animated style. I have noticed that a lot of times people, even if you have a lot of highly polished work in your portfolio, won't seem to think you are capable of doing something far more simplified. For me, I've always felt that once you have a basic nailed, simplifying becomes a lot easier and is far better handled.

Hmmm... now that I'm looking at he may have been a little wider in the midsection in the original....

little bit of client work

2010-01-06T17:47:00.000-08:00

A little bit of client and freelance work here.

The third drawings down was a isometric drawings of a modular venice building to be used to create 3D assets for.

The bottom two character sketchs were some very quick loose gestural preliminaries. They were character designs for fantasy type beings composed of fire and water. I didn't really have a chance to finish and refine them past this stage too much-though I figured they were worth posting

Random San Francisco shots

2009-12-28T18:39:00.000-08:00

Conceptart.org Online SKetchbook

2009-12-28T17:49:00.000-08:00

I've started an online sketchbook at conceptart.org in conjunction with this blog to help promote myself. You can view it here:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=177385

from sketchbooks

2009-12-28T13:29:00.000-08:00

Twitter

2009-12-07T10:49:00.000-08:00

Upon request, you can now follow me on twitter:

http://twitter.com/humzaartdesign

Seems to be what all you kids are doin' nowadays. :p

heads drawings from life - long poses

2009-12-02T17:10:00.000-08:00

Android Jones presents Liminal Rez part 2

2009-11-12T22:07:00.000-08:00

More shots from the show

(I apologize for the quality of some of the shots) :

Android Jones presenting at his live session

Android's girlfriend who took part in the live session

Android addressing the crowd

Android Jones awarding Jason Manley is first wacom tablet for helping inspire him to get into his live digital paintings. (following two pictures)

Some of Angie's coworkers from Electronic Arts in Redwood city pictured here in the foreground managed to make it as well.

Some crowd shots Big thanks to Android Jones and Jason Manley (founder of conceptart.org and President of massive black inc.). They're both really nice.

Thanks also to Marc Gabbana, Angie Lai, and all her Electronic Arts crew for coming down and hanging out.

This show will be up at the PushSF gallery till November 30th. The address is:

PushSF

846 Folsom street

san francisco, ca 94107

info@thepushsf.com

www.pushstudiosf.com

You can also view the work exhibited in the studio here:

androidjones.viewbook.com

Android Jones presents Liminal Rez part 1

2009-11-08T21:41:00.000-08:00

Yesterday night, I had the pleasure of attending "Android" Jones's (concept artist of conceptart.org and massive black fame) gallery show at the pushsf. There was definitely quite a large crowd, and it got pretty warm with all those people their in the gallery. He had a little bit of his traditional work as well as a lot of printed digital work, some of it on glass . They actually handed out 3D glasses as the show (yeah the cheap carboard ones they hand out at movies and cereal). When you looked at some of his work through them they were suppose to help push the warm colors forward and cool colors back even more so then usual. They also winded up having hologram cards for us to take home as well, lol.

This was one of his pieces on printed on glass I believe. He had a few there.

Another shot of some of his pieces on glass

Some random shots of the gallery space I tried to grab (I apologize for the quality):

I invited fellow CCS alumni and concept artists Angie Lai and Marc Gabbana, always a pleasure to see them :)

I'll post more shots from the show later on as well...

Plein Air Painting

2009-11-04T19:25:00.001-08:00

Oil on canvas 6 x 8 in

2 interesting sites I came across in San Francisco

2009-11-01T20:44:00.000-08:00

The top is a market I walk across on the way to class in Nob Hill(one of the neighborhoods in San Francisco)

Bottom I came across parked on the street after lunch with a friend on friday a week ago.

clothed figure drawing "dump" as some might say...

2009-10-27T17:50:00.000-07:00

These are from the last few weeks of my clothed figure drawing class. One thing I have noticed about the Academy of Art that differs from CCS(where I did my undergrad) is that they seem to have a lot more of a variety of drawing models but quite a large collection of costumes and props for them.

sketchbook found!

2009-10-16T15:22:00.000-07:00

One of my teachers saw it lying around last week and put it in his locker. I got it back yesterday. Too bad it wasn't before I had to redo my homework! Anyways, will be posting more from it later on.

heads

2009-10-16T10:44:00.000-07:00

hands

2009-10-14T21:48:00.000-07:00

2009-10-13T10:51:00.000-07:00

Cowboy figure drawing

2009-10-11T12:56:00.000-07:00

Life drawings from class, model dressed as a cowboy.... yee -ha :p

I will be posting more work soon, even though I lost my sketchbook this week!!! Grrrr... that's like the first time that has ever happened! Had a few sketchs, notes, and homework in there that are gone but I'll live. Not as bad as when my lacie hard drive malfunctioned and I lost a month's worth of work (not fun).

Anyways, keep on the blog for updates and tell all your friends!!! :D

"I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down."

-Nancy Sinatra

"Bang Bang"

Kill Bill Volume 1 Soundtrack

2009-09-20T14:35:00.000-07:00

oil painting studies

Figure Painting

2009-09-20T14:14:00.000-07:00

Oil on canvas. bottom image was earlier version.

clothed figure drawing

2009-09-15T16:25:00.001-07:00

2b black conte on 18x24 newsprint

Landscape Painting

2009-09-11T17:06:00.000-07:00

I've recently been a little preoccupied since I've moved to San Francisco to attend the Grad school at the Academy of Art so I haven't really been able to post in the last week or 2.

Above is a 6x8 inch oil painting from my Landscape painting class. A quick little plein air painting done directly from life. Good change of pace and something I will be doing a lot more of in the coming semester. This was done standing outisde near the doorway of one of buildings I was having class in. Look forward to hearing comments and feedback.

Cinematography BLOG

2009-08-21T21:29:00.000-07:00

I ran into this blog a little while ago that showcased screen shots from different films analyzing their cinematography:

http://evanerichards.blogspot.com/

Thought it was a good bit of reference people might be interested in. The site also has a section for film reviews as well.

airport doodles :p

2009-08-14T19:12:00.000-07:00

Little quick doodles from life at a few airports done on a 6 x 4 inch sketchbook kept in my back pocket.

Dreamworks Animation Studios!!! KI-YAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

2009-08-02T11:58:00.000-07:00

I got to take a swing by Dreamworks animation in redwood city this week and visit my friends AndrewPungprakearti and Melissa Moss. Two VFX compositors I have worked with that are at Dreamworks now doing steroscopic paint fx now. Fun times, as you can cleary see....

If any of you need VFX composition work, give these guys a call ;)

Hanging with Marc Gabbana

2009-08-02T11:12:00.000-07:00

I recently got a chance to hang out with Marc Gabbana this week. For those who don't know, Marc is a very succesful concept artist who is most famous for his work on Star Wars Episode I & II in addition to a slew of other films including Hellboy, MonsterHouse, Beowulf, just to name a few. You can view his work here:

http://marcgabbana.com/

http://marcgabbana.blogspot.com/

Marc recently left Imagemovers Digital (people behind Polar Express, Beowulf, and the soon to be Christmas Carol coming out later this year) to get back into his personal work. While still painting digitally for his freelance, Marc has decided to get back into traditional painting. Here is a shot of him above working on a personal piece in acrylics.

Painting from Life

2009-07-27T09:15:00.000-07:00

2 paintings done from straight from life.

Unfinished painting from life

2009-07-27T09:00:00.000-07:00

An unfinished digital painting from life. I believe I had done this in the summer of '08 in some hotel lobby late at night on my to a conference in Washington D.C. I still had to paint the shadows the white flower petals as well as refine the foreground quite a bit.. Ah well....

2009-07-23T10:41:00.001-07:00

HI everyone, I am officially starting this blog to post my work AS WELL AS MAKE ANY ANNOUCEMENTS OR NEWS. i FIGURED I WOULD START OUT MY FIRST OFFICIAL POST BY LETTING EVERYONE KNOW ABOUT A CHARITY MY FRIEND JASON HAZELROTH IS A PART OF. HERE IT IS:

Hi everyone,

I’m excited to announce that my fiancé Kam and I are releasing a Dollar Campaign to raise money towards the cure of the disease HIBM. As some as you may already know my fiancé Kam is afflicted with HIBM, which is a progressive muscle wasting disease which can lead to total disability within 10-15 years. We both work very hard for the non-profit organization ARM (http://www.hibm.org/arm/index.php) which is dedicated to curing this debilitating disease.

With ARM we have created this dollar campaign with the hopes of raising 1 million dollars to enable human therapeutic trials to fight HIBM. We are asking for two things: First, go to WEBSITE (http://www.hibm.org/arm/dollar:home) to donate $1. Second, send this email on to all your friends and family.

In the Internet age, reaching one million people in that amount of time is surely do-able. If you are interested in becoming a bigger influence in this campaign, host your own dollar collecting campaign in your community, church, workplace, among your friends and family and donate what you've collected as one donation. Or you can post this story and image on your own blog and Facebook page. The more people we can reach increases the awareness of HIBM.

HIBM (Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy) is a progressive and debilitating muscle-wasting disorder caused by a gene defect. It touches those between the ages of 20 and 40 and, although progression is slow, it typically leads to total disability within 10-15 years. Studies suggest that HIBM may be easier to cure than many other disorders or diseases, the only limiting factor is funds.

Thank you for your support,