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Project Title : Legion
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital llustration
Year: 2013
Description: Created for The Luminariums 22nd Exhibition and for pinnacle games weird wars game master screen, its A legion of the damned assaulting Rome.


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Project Title : Guss
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital llustration
Year: 2013
Description: I was a little late in joining The Luminarium and missed their 21st exhibition. After looking at the brief I came up with this. After which I started coming up with abserd situations for him to be in so I may do some more of him.

Photoshop CS2 - natural brushes & photo references for bits and pieces.

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Project Title : SK300 Nom Nom
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Speedpainting
Year: 2013

Description: A Sketch after finishing work for the day.
If you are interested in how this was made then you can find a compressed .psd file here. The layers are numbered according to when they were drawn. It was constructed using the hardround brush and a cloud brush to do the atmosphere bits.


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Project Title : Sickly Sister Susan
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustration
Year: 2013
Description: I started this about 6 months ago as something a little bit different from my normal stuff and a little bit girly, I ended up with a lot of work on and it stood at stage 3 of the image and forgotten about as you can see below until 2 days ago when I found it again. I'm glad I finished it and although it's not a brilliant image it pushed me a little with the water effects and the satin dress.

For more recent work please visit: Badbrush
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Project Title : Grasshopper
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustration
Year: 2013
Description: Anti infantry and light Armour Reconnaissance mech with 25mm chain gun and marker light variant. Although not the most heavily armed or armoured mech the grasshopper found its niche with variant loadouts and good power to weight ratios, this allowed it to be thrown around like a rag doll as noted by the giant grins on most pilots upon shift switch. With its limited flight capabilities the mecha is often seen on the battle field bouncing from one location to the next out of harms way, hence the name grasshopper.

Recently the primary roles of this mech war to secure down heavier mechs and its pilots and provide points of reference for heavy armaments during the colony wars on Mars.

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Project Title : Forever War
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustration
Year: 2012
Description: This started off as a scene from the book by Joe Haldeman called the forever war, but it slowly changed as I was drawing it.....as usual. When in doubt draw tentacles!

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Project Title : Lost in Space
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustration
Year: 2009
Description: Cid is left to die in orbit around the Titan moon on a derelict half destroyed space station. Every 3 days he has to leave the confines of one of the few air tight rooms in a broken space suit to collect oxygen tanks and supplies in the hopes he will be rescued. As you can see below there were quite a few background interations and a complete re paint of the face at one point.

For more recent work please visit: Badbrush
Copyright © 2009 - Onward - Holden & Software

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Project Title : Armored Core Fanart
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustration
Year: 2009
Description: Still life drawing of two models that were sat on my window

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Project Title : Original Character Portraits
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: 1 - 3 hour Digital Portraits
Year: 2009 - Present
Description: Original character portrait produced in photoshop, nothing special really but I practice them because i'm pretty bad at them and don't do them enough. These tend to be unreferenced,because well anyone can copy a photo.

See more recent work at: Badbrush
Copyright © 2009 - Onward - Holden

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Project Title : IMP
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Painting - Photoshop & Painter
Year: 2010

Description: Remake of painting done two years earlier, based on a short story Brom wrote.

For more up to date work visit : Badbrush
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Project Title : Popbot Fanart / Ashley Woods Fanart
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital llustration
Year: 2009

Description: Whilst studying Architecture I had very little time to paint anything beyond buidlings and it infuriated me. After a year or so I wanted to do a bit of practising and I enjoyed Ashley Woods Popbot. In this instance I wanted to try out a more painterly style in photoshop so I thought I'd do this. I'll be uploading Architectural projects next. Some built, some previsual renders and the odd render.

For more recent work and bigger images please visit: Badbrush

Copyright © 2009 - Onward - Holden The Popbot Character is copyright Ashley Woods.

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Project Title : Salamander and Newt
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Painting - Photoshop & Painter
Year: 2009

Description: Lost in the vastness of space Boham float carrying cities on their back.After years of studying the Boham’s skin and it qualities a specialist task force was developed. Scientist would fuse fragments to living hosts. They were used to route out hostile black spots form within the plate city and are few in number. A.D have abilities far superior to the normal infantry able to shrug off damage, but at a terrible cost and the role is not taken into lightly due to the symbiotic nature of fused skin on the host. The skin re-heals over time creating a stronger more scared looking suit

Experience is often noticed due to the slight increase in plate sizes, level of scaring as well as de colouration with age Hence the name salamander for the more experience solider and Newt for a rooky where the armour looks almost malleable.For most missions the A.D work in groups of three, two salamander and one newt. In this instance I picked a view from a downed marine looking up to the light :D

Process: A1 Photoshop - This was my first large undertaken painting on the program and I spent a long time on it. I was young and stupidly did it all with a hard round brush. The second image you see is referenced from final fantasy and acted as a bases for the portrait orientated illustration. I learnt quite a bit about reflective lighting from doing it.

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Project Title : SK105 RIOT
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Speedpainting
Year: 2010
Description: Speed painting using just the hard round brush in photoshop. I've never been partically good at speed paintin but this one turned out ok.

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Project Title : Spitfire
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustration on photoshop
Year: 2009
Description: Combination of 3D max and photoshop using a set of cloud photographs

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Project Title : Silent Hill Fanart
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustartion on photoshop
Year: 2009

Description: I wanted to try out some drawing techniques with this one and some slimey skins.

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Project Title : STD
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustration on photoshop
Year: 2010
Description: I know exactly what it is, but have a guess

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Project Title : Varga Girls
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustration on photoshop
Year: 2007
Description: I was interested in the style of Alberto Vargas and wanted so do something similar. You may find this in odd places across the net, I produced to original back in 2007 and it keeps cropping up in low resolution from time to time which annoys me because they rarely quote its origins. I keep on meaning to work on some more of these but enjoy sci-fi to much and now 6 years have past :D

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Project Title : Mortis
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Illustration on photoshop
Year: 2009

Description: They crash landed with smiles, riding a top big tin men

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Project Title : Crash
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital Art
Year: 2013

Description: I had a very intense shot of a lady being pounce on by those good old zombies. As the drawing progress I realised it needed some context and the helicopter was added. It eventually lost the tension so I landed on an in between stage seen in the second image. I finally released it needed to go back to the up close and personal feel, did a bit of re colouring to sections and now its done with.

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Project Title : Speed Paintings
Company: Personal Artwork
Type: Digital llustration
Year: 2013 - Present

Description: Arranged Newest to Oldest and some are very old. If i'm working on more detailed paintings such as cover art then I tend do a warm up painting before starting. I spend roughly an hour on them.