The Art of Justin Messner

Paintover/Face study

2012-02-05T13:08:00.001-07:00

Did a paintover/face study for a friend who requested a critique. The results of that:

Reference on left, Paintover in middle, Original on right.

Hand-painted Textures

2012-02-04T21:58:00.000-07:00

Some hand-painted tileable textures from the game I'm currently working on.

Futuristic Colony

2012-02-01T01:37:00.004-07:00

Character Sketch

2011-11-20T21:57:00.003-07:00

Character Illustration

2011-08-11T00:53:00.001-07:00

Some recent stuff

2011-05-08T00:11:00.002-07:00

Tapper World Tour

2011-02-15T22:14:00.000-07:00

Trailer for a game I had the pleasure of painting backgrounds for.

Sketches

2011-01-14T17:04:00.001-07:00

A few recent sketches.

Back Again!

2011-01-08T19:35:00.006-07:00

Seriously, it's been forever since I last posted.

During the last couple years when not posting here I was off graduating, working at various studios in the game industry, doing concept art, 3D, texturing, and what-have-you but I'm back and I'll be posting a bit more frequently now. Starting with a small sample of what I've been up to lately...

Here's some work I've done for Flashbang Studios but just haven't posted here on my blog.

If you would like to see more concepts please visit my website at: www.JustinMessner.com

24th Century Space Smuggler

2008-08-27T10:14:00.013-07:00

Concept for ConceptArt.org's Character of the Week

Isolation Level 5

2008-08-14T05:17:00.007-07:00

Concept for ConceptArt.org's Environment of the Week.

...afterwards I ended up adjusting it a bit.

Speed Paintings

2008-08-08T02:03:00.011-07:00

Wasteland

2008-07-25T21:31:00.008-07:00

25 min speed painting just for fun.

Kragol & Fritz

2008-07-07T09:56:00.018-07:00

I wanted to paint a cartoon/fantasy piece and this is the result. I did this for fun and to experiment with different lighting techniques. No custom brushes were used, only the two Hard/Soft Round brushes in Photoshop so it was a bit challenging to get the foliage and textures to look right but I think it turned out ok.

First. Blog Post. Ever!

2008-07-05T10:32:00.016-07:00

Solar Defense Station

My first speed painting, 1.5 hours in Photoshop.

Dragonfly Mount concept for Dominance War III.