Vermicious Knid Sculpt wip

I spent some time at a coffee shop sculpting this guy this weekend.  someone left a wacom tablet there a couple weeks ago and one of the people working there tried to give it to me, but i don't really need another one.  what kind of idiot loses a wacom tablet?  i can understand losing a pen.

this guy is looking pretty rough, but i wanted to get all  4 of the willy wonka monsters started, before i really finished one of them.  i'm also working on the oopma loompa sculpt.

edit.... didn't like the look of his face so i did a paintover of some changes i might make.

edit #2..........  after i did the paintover i thought it would be funny if he was giving the finger with the hand on his tail.

Substrata

I'm taking part in Paul Richard's fantasy art book project called Substrata.  http://www.autodestruct.com/substrata.htm

I'm working on a lost, old man with no memory and a big hole in his head.  I'm thinking he was a spelunker and found something underground that lead to this.  I'm just making it up as i go.  I did a sketch of him and his mount and I'm starting some zsculpts and paintovers to refine the design.  i'll also work on his weapons, his arch enemy, and some creatures hopefully.

Oompa Loompa Doopidy Doo

It was nice outside, so I sat in my backyard and sketched some oompa loompas.  None of the sketches really grab me, but I'll use then as reference when i sculpt it in zbrush and pick out parts I like from the different sketches.  I didn't really want to base them much off the movies, the book mentioned they wore deer skin clothes and had crazy hair.

I also sketched out the rotten vermicious knid.  he's got a tail with a hand at the end to grab oompa loompas by the head and then toss them in his mouth.

Whangdoodling

Here's a little more work on the Whangdoodle, a monster that was mentioned in the Willy Wonka movie because it eats oompa loompas .  In my design he uses his smaller arms to dislocate his jaw to open his mouth wide, and then throws in oopa loompas using his big arms.

I sculpted it in zbrush and did a little polypainting , then I started painting it over in photoshop to get some ideas how i might fix it up.

Twisting

here's a quick zsculpt i started this weekend of a guy getting his head twisted off.  still needs lots of work.  kind of reminds me of a cone of soft serve ice cream :)

update:  worked on his head some more

update 2:  more sculpting and starting some polypainting.

update 3:  worked on big hands

update 4: calling it done.  rendered in zbrush and paintover in photoshop

update 1

update 2

update 3

update 4

render and paintover

Raised by Robots

Here's something I drew in Photoshop based on the idea of an abandoned kid being raised by some robots, sort of like Tarzan but with robots instead of apes.  I wonder if we'll have robots taking care of babies and old people any time soon.  Maybe I'll have my own personal robot to change my diapers when I'm old and senile :)

Wolverine Sculpt and Polypaint

I'm calling this done.  I could definitely fix some of this up, but it was meant to be a quick study.  I also wanted to keep it loose like the paintings it was based off of by Kent Williams.  The texture was polypainted using zapplink so i could paint in photoshop.  I used the skin4 matcap and made 2 more versions of it, one with a higher specular value, and the other with a lower spec value.  The low spec I used for his clothes, and i added the high spec version on areas like his nose, cheeks, claws, and shoulders.  rendered with bpr in zbrush