Speedpaint Week 10

Ok concept art club members, your artistic contributions to this blog are always welcome! Feel free to go in and do an older challenge if you have a hankering to do so.

Nick Palmer

This week's challenge was Guardian, Futuristic and Alien, Insectoid with accompanying vehicle. The mood could be cheerful, antihero/badass, optimistic, etc. Enjoy!

Speedpaint Week 9

Yay, It's Summer!

Since Irene is going to be busy for a while, she has agreed to delegate some of the site maintenance responsibilities to the other officers, Nick, Annick, and Jeff. Even then do not let that discourage you from participating and submitting art work to the Concept Art Factory. On behalf of the club, I want to thank every member who came to club meetings and contributed to the continuation of the club during the Spring Quarter.

For those of you who are still around for Summer, you are welcome to participate in our weekly sketch challenges. It is hard to coordinate things until school starts after the 28th of June, but we have ways to keep in contact like the Concept Art Factory group on facebook. Also, we converse on Skype periodically so you are all welcome to join in the fun! If you have any questions, please email us at conceptartfactory@gmail.com and we will try to get back to you.



I wish all of you a wonderful summer and I hope to see you again real soon!


-Jeff

This week, our sketch challenge is a continuation of the Baba Yaga theme which we started with a character and vehicle concept. This time we are doing an environment and architecture concept. Contributors are welcome to design something for any of the characters from the Baba Yaga Mythos.

                                                                       Nick Palmer

Jeff Yu

Chris Lane

That's it for now, stay tuned for next week's challenge!

Speedpaint Week 8

It is week 8 already, and we have NOT fallen off the wagon!! XD

First, thanks to Jeff and Nick for taking over the speedpaints. We are changing up the structure of the sketch challenges slightly in order to up the difficulty of these challenges. We'll still rotate between our list of concept art categories, but we will all try to add more elements to each painting; for example, a prop or a creature should be included with a character.
This week's topic was either to paint a knight or the European folklore character Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga is basically a witch-like old lady with metal teeth that flies around woodlands on a giant mortar and kidnaps children as a hobby. She also lives in a hut that for some reason stands on chicken legs. Though she is usually a stock antagonist, sometimes she is consulted by heroes for her wisdom too. Amazing job again, everyone!

Also, our website header is finally up! Hopefully it's a nice showcase of how far we've come this quarter and how hard we kick ass in general ;)

Annick Huber

Jeff Yu

Nick Palmer

Irene Strychalski

Keren Philosophales

Lily Cho

Speedpaint Week 7

This was an exceptionally hectic week for everyone, since the actual meeting was cancelled in addition to it overlapping with some school events; but it's nothing to worry about! I know a few people are still catching up to their Week 7 speedpaints, so we'll look forward to seeing those, and thanks for everyone who is still sending in stuff.

The topic this time was "Dragons blowing up in any time or place". 

Club meeting changes!

Hey guys, just to keep everyone updated, seeing as many students were out of town or sick, the meeting this Friday was canceled. Also, since I have just started a new job and can't get back to SCAD until at least 7PM on Fridays, I regrettably won't be available to run speedpaint challenges anymore.
I believe that either Nick or Jeff have mentioned that they could take over the Friday meetings; nomatter who ends up taking charge of it, we can still continue to get together every Friday and paint. I will still head to SCAD as soon as I'm off work to collect the speedpaints, and I'll continue to moderate this blog.

Sorry for the sudden change, guys! These speedpaints have been a great experience for me, and I'm sure we have all visibly improved because of them. I really hope we won't fall off just because it's the end of the quarter.

With that said, meeting or not, we still have a painting topic this week!! We are doing creatures, and the subject is "Dragons blowing up in any time period or setting". Everyone will have until next Friday to draw something. Lets continue to blow this shit up (pun intended), guys! ;)

-Irene

Speedpaint Week 6

Hey all! We were sadly missing a few people, but still got a load of smashing submissions. Since it is week 6, we're starting the topic cycle over again. Our subject today was a "futuristic, underwater military transport going to war".

Remember if anyone wants to touch up this weeks challenge, you still have a week! Thanks guys.

Max Currie

Jerrell Drakes

Chris Lane

Irene Strychalski

Nick Zamudio

Jeff Yu

Keren Philosophales

Jeremy Cropp

Speedpaint Week 5

Congratulations on Concept Art Factory for making it to week 5!

And congrats to everybody at SCAD for surviving midterms too. This is the halfway point of the quarter, and I think we're at a great spot.

This week we did our mega mashup challenge, a character in a full environment, with the extended time limit of 3 hours. The discussions we went through to decide the subject were pretty entertaining, lol :D We finally settled on "Futuristic Biotech-driven Aztec city (with or without aliens)".  Thanks again for the great submissions! Also, since this challenge is a cumulative of everything we've learned so far, I'm planning on putting everyone's week 5 piece together for the blog header next week. So if you would like to retouch the painting more before it goes up, DO IT FAST!

Nick Palmer

Lily Cho

Irene Strychalski

Keren Philosophales

Chris Lane

Annick Huber