John Brassell's big brass balls

KT seated

2012-01-16T12:28:00.001-08:00

Dragons of Atlantis illustrations

2012-01-11T23:39:00.000-08:00

Some stuff from work that went live from the Ice Outpost expansion

Lipking study

2012-01-11T00:03:00.000-08:00

Trying to figure out digital brushwork, like Lipkings quick sketchiness so did a study. Gonna try it on my next piece.

KT drawings and a painting

2011-12-21T16:48:00.000-08:00

2011-11-18T09:16:00.000-08:00

2011-11-10T01:08:00.000-08:00

Got moved to the San Francisco office for Kabam from Redwood City, cool views out the windows. Here's the first piece of work I did on the Dragons of Atlantis team to go into the game :).

2011-10-25T23:05:00.001-07:00

2011-10-17T01:34:00.000-07:00

working on an old sketch, watching Steven Segal movies.

2011-10-10T22:38:00.001-07:00

another figure block in for a painting

Kabam Battleground images

2011-09-18T21:57:00.002-07:00

Here's some work I did for the Battleground mini-game in Glory of Rome by Kabam. Copyright Kabam.

Colorado Plein air

2011-09-18T21:53:00.000-07:00

went on a trip for two weddings and hunting season in Colorado, and touched down in Knoxville for a couple days. Didn't have time to do much in TN, but here's one painting I got in on a roadtrip. The rest of the week involved driving people back and forth across the state, and waking up before 6 to go hunting.

2011-08-09T22:10:00.001-07:00

A start to another painting

2011-08-09T19:25:00.000-07:00

Model wasn't able to complete the sitting sessions, so this is what I ended up with. Going to make up the rest I guess.

July

2011-07-13T23:10:00.000-07:00

Here's the block in for my next painting.

And a study.

Torso Study

2011-07-06T22:31:00.000-07:00

A long pose figure drawing, really trying to show torso anatomy without overdoing it.

Glory of Rome loading scenes

2011-06-02T12:43:00.000-07:00

These two images were done for the Glory of Rome game on facebook. Copyright Kabam.

2011-06-02T12:35:00.000-07:00

standing nude

Fort Plein Aire

Rod Luff

2011-04-21T12:56:00.000-07:00

Getting closer to what I want. Had to cut this one short, so here's as far as I got with the model.

2011-04-14T12:46:00.000-07:00

another figure blockin for a painting.

2011-04-05T22:35:00.001-07:00

Some work from Kabam for the Glory of Rome game on facebook. The first is for an event "The Ides of March" and the second is scouting illustrations. Joy Ang did the front facing scout, and the evil scout and sad scout are variations I made. I think there are 21 scouting illustrations in the game, these are some of my favorites.

2011-04-05T20:49:00.000-07:00

Had my art appear up on Artbusiness.com for the Safehouse Atelier: Show One.

2011-04-01T12:52:00.000-07:00

Finished another painting.

2011-03-10T23:13:00.001-08:00

Muscular Model block-in

Kate Study

Kate Final

Here's some more fine art pieces I've worked on lately. The muscular guy unfortunately only posed for the drawing and I won't be able to do a painting of him.

2011-02-28T12:53:00.000-08:00

Some work I've been up to. The first is a field study from the hill in the middle of stow lake, and the second is a drawing for a painting.

2011-01-27T23:51:00.000-08:00

A painting I'm working on that's turning out decent.

2011-01-25T01:03:00.000-08:00

I did a ton of art for Glory of Rome by Kabam, here's some of the main ones, a city and field view, and some buildings. All images are copyright Kabam. Here's a link to the game, go check it out! Glory of Rome

2011-01-23T00:53:00.000-08:00

Here's a concept piece from a couple of years ago at the conceptart.org atelier, with the 3d base and my reference photo, ah good times.

copyright John Brassell

2011-01-23T00:47:00.000-08:00

I found some sketchup cities I had made as perspective bases for concepts and illustrations. It's like legos on the the computer, a lot of fun.

2011-01-17T23:44:00.000-08:00

Worked on a game called Glory of Rome for Kabam. Got to draw lots of buildings, catapults, and they even put my chariots up for their splash page at kabam.com :).

copyright Kabam

2010-12-03T12:45:00.000-08:00

Still working on figuring out figure painting, it's a trip.

2010-12-02T12:42:00.001-08:00

2010-11-29T12:47:00.001-08:00

My Friend Jess

Henry Lewis, a local artist

Henry, a classmate of mine

2010-11-10T12:41:00.000-08:00

Portrait of Kemp Remillard, decent likeness, sloppy paint.

2010-11-07T15:07:00.000-08:00

2010-10-11T10:38:00.001-07:00

Fleet week, so I tried to paint a naval destroyer. There was a hell of a crowd there.

2010-10-11T10:34:00.001-07:00

gesture drawing

2010-10-11T10:27:00.001-07:00

2010-08-04T00:56:00.000-07:00

got back into this after months. rough wip still

2010-02-16T17:43:00.001-08:00

some atelier work

Triad Toys Dead Cell logo and toy design

2010-01-26T15:31:00.001-08:00

edit 3-1-10 The first of my toy designs to get out from NDA! The final toy was changed a lot from this, but I'm glad I finally get to show it.

I designed a logo for the Dead Cell line from Triad Toys, and they've used it on their website and as an identification patch for the figure. Seriously cool toys, a lot of fun to work for them. The two pictures above are copyright Triad Toys 2010.

2009-12-25T11:51:00.001-08:00

some sketches

Oyabun

2009-12-11T20:19:00.000-08:00

Haven't updated my blog forever. we redesigned the Godfather movie into a feudal Japan version.

Huck Finn Space Opera

2009-04-03T16:16:00.000-07:00

Shattered Opus Concept Art

2008-10-01T00:02:00.000-07:00

Art for the Shattered Opus project at the Next Gen Atelier

Digital Life Studies

2008-01-03T11:19:00.003-08:00

2007-12-30T16:47:00.001-08:00

Traditional media