Speedpaint Week 11

Hey everybody, let's hear it for the 11th week of the SCAD Concept Art Factory! This week's speedpaint challenge is the epic 3 HOUR CHALLENGE! We combine vehicle, character, environment, and environment. So, our theme for this week is... "Fungus native versus cyborg crustaceans in any location you want to create."

Jeff Yu
                                                                                                                                                                     

 Nick Palmer 

Chris Lane

                                   

Speedpaint Week 12

Yo, it's another edition of the SCAD Concept Art Factory! Since we have been ordering our members to complete ridiculous 3 hour challenges involving more than 3 subjects, we have decided to simplify things to just 1 subject at 2 hours instead of the usual 90 minutes. This way members have the chance to pump out better quality work. At the moment, we are focusing specifically on design before we work on actual painting techniques because the design process requires a lot of research and familiarity with different subjects.

This week, our speedpaint challenge theme is... "fantasy, flying, pleasure ship of any culture and location". As for "pleasure", you may interpret in whatever way "pleases you".

Max Currie

Jeffrey Yu

Lily Cho

Nick Palmer

Arielle Smith

Nick Zimurio

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". 

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

Speedpaint Week 4!

Thanks again guys!

This week we did something a little different since the topic was environments. Thanks to everyone who showed up, even though I know that with midterms coming up lots of us are smothered with work!
The theme was "Cheerful 1700s palace airbourne by ballons", with the exact culture and technology of the environment up for everyone to choose on their own.

Also, please note that WE ARE CHANGING MEETING TIMES! Since there are several clubs right before us and we don't really start work until 6:00, we'll just meet at 6 instead, so the meetings should end around 8.

Annick Huber

Jeff Yu

Lily Cho

Irene Strychalski

Keren Philosophales

Nick Palmer

Chris Lane

Jerrell Drakes

Speed paint week 3

This meetings' turnout was AWESOME! I think all of us who've been working on these challenges from the start are showing loads of improvement, and I can't wait to see what the new members will bring.

For this challenge we did Characters, and the subject was "disgruntled Futuristic Russian hooker" :)
Some mature content ensues, you have been warned.
Thanks to everyone who participated, and again if anybody would like to polish their speedpaint into a portfolio piece, you can still send it in by next Friday to be reposted!

Ae Ri

Annick Huber

Nick Palmer

Jerrell Drakes

Irene Strychalski

Lily Cho

Brian Traynor

Zalika Yavlinskiy

Sam Bell-Koch

Keren Philosophales 

Jeff Yu 

Hank Silman

Chris Lane

Next week's subject will be Environments, and the week after that we would've reached our five-week cycle. Thus a few members, namely me, Annick, and Lily, were thinking about giving the cycle-closure challenge some extra spice: a 2-hour speed paint of a character in an environment or vehicle with a prop. If that idea sounds cool with everyone, we'll go ahead and change the challenge details.