Who am I? Contest! - WIN A PRIZE!

Hey everyone, something new! Contest time! Win a signed print of my art!

Below are 6 sections from pieces of art that I have up currently on my web site. These sections are at 100% of the original pieces, can you tell which painting or drawing these belong to? If you can you have the chance to win a signed print of my art!

To win, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com then send me an email containing the number of the section and the name of the original drawing or painting that you believe it belongs to. Email to: contest@christopherburdett.com. Failure to do any of this will disqualify you.


Too hard? Too easy? You be the judge. Still working out some of the bugs and details, this is the first one after all! Feel free to leave your thoughts and comments below.

* The contest in now over! Thanks to everyone that took part in my first contest challenge. You can find out the correct answers and see who won here!*

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Boneclaw Impaler

I have always liked the look and feel of the undead Boneclaw, so it was a real treat to receive the assignment to design a new Boneclaw for the Against the Giants expansion for Dungeons and Dragons miniatures. I did several early sketches that helped me get my head around the creature that I sent to the Art Director to get feed back as I narrowed in on a final creation.

First pass, just feeling out the creature, it currently has a very stiff pose.

Second pass, better, still stiff... but I feel I understand the monster now and can move forward with the supplied feedback and create the final. As a side note, my Art Director on this, Stacy Longstreet, in joking commented it felt like it was greeting people at Walmart. So....

...I took a couple of minutes and whipped this up and sent it back to her.

Third pass, much better and almost there, one final minor edit to the wrappings hanging off the left arm and I will have an approved design.

Final turnaround of the Boneclaw Impaler. To see how the miniature turned out, click here.

That's all for today, not sure what I will have for Friday... my schedule is rather a little full and I might have to skip my posting. Hopefully not.

If you already haven't, make sure you head over to ArtOrder and cast a vote for my Concept Tuesday submission by leaving my name in a comment at the bottom of the page!

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Artorder Sketch - Exchange - VOTING NOW LIVE

Head over to ArtOrder and cast your vote for your favorite artist in this weeks Concept Tuesday event. If you missed my post last Friday this week's theme was to take a silhouette created by another ArtOrder artist and flesh it out into a finished design.

I would greatly appreciate it if you would stop by and cast your vote for me by leaving my name in a comment. A vote for me is a vote for the future!

RAWR!

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Twisting with Tornadoes

I am on the last big push to complete the child safety course I have been working on for several months. This last section deals with non-fire natural and man made disasters and emergencies. Here are several graphics dealing with tornadoes and heavy storms. I really enjoyed the tornado section, it allowed me a small bit of destructive fun.

When tornadoes strike, it is best to stay away from pink cars.

Tornadoes can achieve wind speeds of up to 300 miles per hour (not joke here).

Still waiting to hear back from the client if I am too over the top on this one. I hope not.

This is what the weather has been like for the past couple of weeks and it has been most problematic to my biking routine.

That's all for now. I have been super busy on gaming projects, but unfortunately I can't show that work off until it is published.

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Artorder Sketch - Exchange

If you missed it, last weeks concepts are up over at Artorder as well as this weeks assignment. Here is my concept for this week...


The assignment for this week was to take one of the silhouettes from the Usual Suspects assignment and expand it into a finished design. The twist is that everyone had to take another artist's silhouette! For this assignment I selected Ruth Kim's Defender. I found it the most appealing because while it contained a lot on information in it's shape it still left a lot to the imagination. I really enjoyed this assignment and hope that there will be more collaborative projects in store for ArtOrder.

Don't forget to visit ArtOrder every Tuesday to vote for your favorite artist by leaving their name in the comment field of the Concept Tuesday post! A vote for me is a vote for the future!

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

More bugs and a fish - Dreamblade

Another look back at some Dreamblade miniature designs. These are from set 4, Anvilborn, which was the first set I had the opportunity to work with the Art Director Peter Whitley. If my memory serves me, I have not shown anyone some of these drawings, you get to be the first!

Today we meet the Omen Locust, Foul Beetle and the Abyssal Predator. That's right, more bugs! As I mentioned before, I have designed a lot of bugs for Dreamblade, but only one fish. Sometimes I hit a home run on the first drawing and sometimes I have to give it a fresh look after receiving notes from the AD. All three of these required some level of revision.

My first passes on these 3 miniatures. I know the Omen Locust is all wrong here.. but it always creeped me out... I imagined it human sized and standing right behind you, clicking it's mandibles.

A couple revision notes later I was on the right track and on my way to approved designs.

Final Omen Locust

Final Foul Beetle

Final Abyssal Predator

I am really happy with how these translated into their final miniature form, sometimes things get lost along the journey into plastic but these held up. Check out their final plastic goodness here: Omen Locust, Foul Beetle, Abyssal Predator.

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Of burning children and inappropiate touching

I have to deal with some sensitive subject matter with my graphics from time to time and it can be a fine line between what is appropriate and what is over the line. I am currently working on a course dealing with child safety with an emphasis on fire safety and that has led to some graphical problem solving. How best to depict the real threat of the fire is smoke which can be very deadly? Should I actually show a child on fire?

One of the main reasons this course is being made is a little girl succumbed to smoke inhalation during a fire at a child care facility.

STOP. DROP. and ROLL! The audio for this section pretty much described a child on fire and I considered for a little while different ways of trying to actually depict said child on fire. In the end after talking with some colleges I really toned it down and made it graphical in nature rather then a literal depiction.

I have also had to address the abuse of children in the courses I create graphics for. This subject matter by far trumps anything dealing with fire or safety.

Physical abuse can be easier to depict...

...while sexual abuse needs to be handled more subtly.

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com