Eric Lloyd Brown - concept artist

Sketches

2012-02-19T00:04:00.000-08:00

Just fooling around with Sketchup and Photoshop.

2012-02-11T10:29:00.000-08:00

Ron Cobb was a huge influence on me growing up and to this day I admire his design genius.

There's a cool interview with him I found online. Click the link below to go there.

Ron Cobb interview

helmetgirl

2012-02-07T19:10:00.000-08:00

I posted a WIP of this earlier and thought I'd post the finished piece. It could probably still use tweaking but you have to know when to walk away from a piece...In the previous post I talked about how I love old school Moebius design work. I was inspired by the large, over-engineered helmets he'd put people in.

Generator Rex Robot

2012-02-07T13:32:00.000-08:00

A robot design I did while at Cartoon Network.

Spaceship launch station - work in progress

2012-01-31T17:08:00.000-08:00

In my previous "black ice planet" enviro' posts (see speed modeling #2) I had small red lights on the distant horizon on a few of the paintings. I began to think about what those lights were. A remote facility like the Antarctic station in "The Thing"? A lone transmitter antenna jutting up out of the frozen wasteland? I decided to go with a vehicle launch station of some kind. In keeping with the aesthetic of the icy environment I made the station a raw, polished metal material. Perfect for reflecting cool highlights and the environment surrounding it! I still have few details to put in but it's 80% there.

Enviro

2012-01-28T14:44:00.000-08:00

Similar stuff, working off of my previous posts.

Speed Modeling round #2

2012-01-27T18:25:00.000-08:00

I love snowy, icy weather and wanted to do some landscapes representing that but not with a traditional look. I thought of isolation, remoteness and possibly an earth type planet when came I up with these.
I modeled the terrain in Sketchup, rendered in Keyshot, and used a Dutch Skies HDRI for my sky image which I then "surrealized" and painted over in Photoshop. All modeling and images from start to finish took about 2 hours.
Working on TRON: Uprising, I have also been inspired by Alberto Mielgo's graphically inclined backgrounds for the show.

APC vehicle

2011-12-28T11:08:00.000-08:00

3D, shmee-dee, time for a sketch!

speed modeling

2011-12-21T23:13:00.000-08:00

I decided to go into Sketchup at least once a week and do some quick, unplanned, unsketched out shapes. The modeling equivalent of speed painting. I also include beauty renders for finishing. I have no idea what I came up with it but since Green Lantern popped in my mind at the end I ended up putting the symbol (off the web) on the front of what I guess is a ship of some sort. It's more of an exercise to model quicker and to present new technical challenges to myself. All images from Sketchup >Keyshot >Photoshop took about an hour and a half total.

spaceship design

2011-12-11T00:35:00.000-08:00

Here is some concept work for a short sci-fi film that a friend is helping produce. The design direction was to mimic the bulky, industrial feel of spaceships like the Leonov from 2010 and the Nostromo from Alien. I modeled the ship in Sketchup first then outputted images to Photoshop.

Final Fantasy Quatro

2011-12-06T23:02:00.000-08:00

A loooong time ago I was one of the concept artists on Final Fantasy. I designed the Quatro vehicle for that movie but the final finish and details were done by a very talented guy by the name of Nakazawa. It was his "detail" aesthetic that was applied to practically everything in the movie to unify the look. I always wanted to go back to my original, clunky "earth mover" design and do it in 3D so I did. This is just a non-texured model that I'll eventually texture and paint.

Jiang Shi

2011-11-12T12:35:00.000-08:00

Another character from a story idea I'm working on that occupies the same world as the two characters below. Basically doing portraits right now to get a feel for the facial features of the characters but will be moving on to full bodies and enviros later.

Woman and vehicle

2011-10-31T13:29:00.000-07:00

This actually just started out as a test for lighting but moved to a more finished piece. Even so, it's still more of a vignette than a fully fleshed out scene and still needs tweaks here and there. A cool environment would have been nice as well.

International buyers

2011-10-13T23:41:00.000-07:00

Hey fellow bloggers, I've been getting a lot of requests for my book from outside of the U.S. and sadly the shipping costs are so high it has become cost prohibitive for buyers. But fear not as there are a couple of options. One is a digital download of the book I have been seriously contemplating putting out in the near future that will be much cheaper than the physical version. The second option is to head over to Stuart Ng books (clink this post title above for link) and buy several other art/illustration books, with mine included in that stack of goodness to make higher shipping costs feasible. You can ship several books for the flat rate so that makes it worth it, right? C'mon, sure it does! To all you brave souls in general who have been buying the book thanks for your support. I'm already gearing up for Autodraw Vol 2 and trust me when I say, it will blow your socks off! And if you don't wear socks, well, put some on. It's going to be winter soon and the floors get really cold. Adios!

Future girl #2

2011-10-02T18:54:00.000-07:00

futuristic parking meter

2011-10-02T18:38:00.000-07:00

Parking meters from the future. Just because...

CHRIS FOSS!

2011-09-07T15:10:00.000-07:00

This is a MASSIVE book at 240 pages and chock full O' Foss goodness. Now if someone can just convince Ron Cobb to put
out a definitive works I'll be truly stoked.

TRON: Uprising

2011-08-07T11:26:00.001-07:00

Currently working freelance design on TRON: Uprising for Disney Animation Studios and having a good time! I'll post stuff when it becomes okay for me to do so sometime 2012.

EEV design

2011-08-02T22:50:00.000-07:00

This is actually a very old design, one of the first I did in Sketchup when experimenting with compound curved surfaces. I was also trying to establish a design language for the machines I made and need to get back to that thought process. I'm not sure if anything is truly "finished". Everything I do feels like a WIP to me.

biosuspension cell

2011-07-16T13:27:00.000-07:00

A few images from the book as I'm currently too busy to do some original blog art. Soon, though!

Tank design

2011-06-26T15:58:00.000-07:00

I posted a work in progress version of this a while back. Here's the finished piece.

Art book proofs are in!

2011-05-13T18:22:00.000-07:00

Just got the ozalid proofs for my book today. Looking sexy!

Ralph McQuarrie art book

2011-05-07T15:27:00.000-07:00

Don't walk, run, in cyberspace over to the DreamsandVisions press' website and get one of these books today. Only $20.00 bucks!

Future girl

2011-05-07T08:29:00.000-07:00

A quick sketch I did the other day in my office using an Odd Nerdrum print as inspiration.

The Divide - indie sci-fi

2011-03-23T21:36:00.000-07:00

It appears the recent surge of indie science fiction films has not yet slowed. One particular sub genre I particularly enjoy is horror /sci-fi. It's one of those unwieldy beasts that can go wrong very easily and produce the likes of "Hardware" or go completely right and produce "Alien" Click on the blog title for more info via TwitchFilm!

Defense battery

2011-03-02T16:21:00.000-08:00

Here's a quick Sketchup design of a defense battery, or at least the gun section of it.

Experiment

2010-11-22T10:49:00.001-08:00

I've been wanting to do a short comic story, 3-4 pages and was messing around with styles in Sketchup and texturing and tweaking in Photoshop.
It will be a science fiction story and I'm pretty jazzed about doing it as it's not something I plan to publish but will be doing it just for fun as I haven't done a front to back comic book story in many, many years.
The style might be something like you see above.
This was a jumpjet I designed for Generator Rex before it became my guinea pig.

District 9 Assault Rifle

2010-10-02T11:46:00.000-07:00

This District 9 weapon is ridiculously cool and offered in all of its 1:1 scale awesomeness. Get your pre-order in now before they're gone!

Cory Walker Sketchbook LOOKIT!

2010-09-05T16:50:00.000-07:00

Former (and sometimes, still) "Invincible" comic book artist Cory Walker has put out a nifty little sketchbook.
I highly recommend running over to his site and buying and at least 2 copies right now. One for each eyeball!

Big, clunky vehicle renders

2010-08-28T12:29:00.000-07:00

I did this vehicle a looong time ago but just re-worked it a bit. I have a lot of stuff and shapes I fooled with when learning SketchUp then abandoned them for one reason or another. I'm going to mess around with this a bit more. It's kind of funky looking. All I have to do now is add details, stuff and color.

Heavy Metal (Metal Hurlant) tv series

2010-08-26T19:47:00.000-07:00

This one has got me a bit excited. They are calling it Metal Howling, which is actually Metal Hurlant, which in America in magazine form, was published as Heavy Metal...you get the picture. I use to love reading Heavy Metal magazine when I was a kid. All of the cool illustrations by Moebius, Corben and Enki Bilal. I'm hoping that once these come out on DVD they will somehow make their way to the states.

MechSuit

2010-08-05T11:08:00.000-07:00

Another book image.

SPLICE out June 4th

2010-06-01T00:42:00.000-07:00

This film looks to be right up my alley. There have been a lot of small, independent science fiction films the past year or so and I'm hoping, like District 9 and Moon, Splice turns out to be another great example of this return to hardcore science fiction.

Dog?

2010-02-06T11:17:00.000-08:00

Sketches

2010-02-04T19:29:00.000-08:00

Trying to do more character stuff.

I draw machines, not people, so I basically suck but am willing to get better

MOON by Duncan Jones

2010-01-20T22:37:00.000-08:00

Moon finally came out last week on Blu-Ray and was very difficult to find but I managed to get a copy!

If you missed this while it was in theaters do yourself a favor and rent or better yet buy it.

Sam Rockwell is fantastic and Duncan Jones does an excellent job at directing, especially for a first feature!

old stuff turned new

2010-01-19T22:20:00.000-08:00

I'm working on stuff for my first art book.

There will be lots of new stuff I haven't posted plus some re-working of older designs I really like.

Here are a couple of sample images that are still in the tweaking stages.

Old school miniatures

2009-08-10T08:34:00.000-07:00

Here's some straight up old school miniatures I built when I was working on "Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero" way, way back. I never did see the series as I think it was only available on Japanese laser disc. It was a fun show to work on. Fellow concept artist and bud Ted Van Doorn did the paint job on the space dock miniature up top.

book in 2010?

2009-08-01T11:00:00.000-07:00

Seriously thinking of putting out a book next year at the behest of some buddies of mine in the industry. I'm trying to compile some stuff right now and make it worthwhile but time is always the enemy. I may post stuff on and off to update any progress.

If it happens this is most likely going to be the cover.

New show

2009-07-05T20:26:00.001-07:00

I've been doing some fun designs on a new show at cartoon network called Genrator Rex. The pic is stock from the Toon Zone and was made by the gents at MOA (Men Of Action). It is also all I can show for now. Stay tuned to Cartoon Networks website for any updates!

Charley Harper

2009-07-05T20:17:00.001-07:00

Okay, i'll admit i didn't know this guy existed until today.

My wife and I were in Vroman's in Pasadena today and I saw the large, oversized coffee table book of his work. this man is a genius! I will definitely be getting this soon.

2008-12-29T20:44:00.000-08:00

Watched Christian Bale in "The Machinist" again today and "Almost Famous" by Cameron Crowe.
I'm going to try and finish my "Heavy Liquid" GN by Paul Pope. I wish someone would try and animate his work on Batman year 100. It was insane...