Concept Dump !WARNING BIG DL!

[cbalaskas]

These are a few concept drawings I've kicked out over the last six months or so. Hope you enjoy. I am currently looking for paid work in the fields of concept design and Illustration.

Thanks for looking,
C. Balaskas

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_4.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_5.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_6.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_7.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_8.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_9.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_10.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_11.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_12.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_13.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_14.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_15.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_16.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_17.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_18.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_20.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_21.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_22.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_23.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_24.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_25.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_26.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_27.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_28.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_29.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_30.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_39.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Creat_Cncpts_1.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Rbt_Cncpts_01.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Rbt_Cncpts_02.jpg

[StarSlayer]

Cool Beans! nice range of different stuff like the fighters;)

[Tovette]

These are beautiful. I love them. The big starships remind me of the ships in the MMO pc game Eve. Love it all :)

[Stev0]

You are quite talented. Any real world works?

[Larsen]

WOW very impressive man:thumb:... These are very beautyfull!

[Nutsy]

WOW... Really great stuff... I hope your already working as a full time concept artist... You more than have a tellent for it :D

[Glazy]

Fantastic work ! Some very original designs in that bunch !! 10+

[Fafnir_6]

Are any of your fighter designs inspired by insects??? Love the work, btw.

Cheers,

Fafnir_6

[Ozylot]

DUDE!!

So many spectacular designs!!! Those awsome! A bunch of them remind me of homeworld ships.

[Atolm]

damn fine work :)

[BEMEUP]

Those are extraordinary!! Very professional work!!

[backstept]

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_14.jpg
bottom left blue jet . . . totally awesome! great designs :thumb:


only the past 6 months! dang! you're a regular sketch factory! :D
here's hoping to see more from you :p

[cbalaskas]

Thanks everyone!

Steve O: Nope no real world projects yet. At least none that have gone public. :(

Fafnir_6: Yes actually quite a few are based on insects. Lots of them start out as a squiggly line as well.

Ozylot: Funny you should say that. I blame Homeworld for my Carpal-Tunnel. :) GREAT designs in that game and part 2.

Backstept: Thanks! I can crank out the ballpoint sketches at great speed. The Photoshop painting takes a bit longer though.

[Coolhand]

They're all beautifully rendered, but the blue jet really stands out to me, it reminds me of an F-4 and very sweet it is too, thanks for posting them!

[cbalaskas]

Here's afew more. I posted some of these before SFmeshes was overhauled.

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Veh_Des-1.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Misc-1.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Char_Des-4.jpg

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Cretur_Des-1.jpg

[backstept]

v12_gtr - I can't tell if you're resorting to profanity to express how much you like his art, or using profanity to insult cbalaskas
please find some better adjectives in the future

[Ozylot]

These are a few concept drawings I've kicked out over the last six months or so. Hope you enjoy. I am currently looking for paid work in the fields of concept design and Illustration.

Thanks for looking,
C. Balaskas
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http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_13.jpg

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Such great work!! This one screams out to me to be modelled! Dunno why but is so simple but awsome! :thumb:

[cbalaskas]

Actually, feel free to model any of these if they inspire you. Whatever I didn't draw, just use your imagination to fill it in.

[ASR CO COVENTRY]

Ummm...wow....very wow

[dadward]

A fantastic set of designs indeed! I love how every possible shape is used to create a craft! Well done. Your an artist after my own heart to use whismical shapes.

[TheCoredump]

Really impressive :thumb:

[Thy King]

i agree, there are some fine designs there :D

[limdaepl]

Great work there dude! I would really like to give modeling one of these a try, if only i'd have more time... :rolleyes:

I like that there are some vertical designs. Some seem to be inspired by fishs to me?

Keep it up! :thumb:
Regards Roman

[Freak]

WOW! Some truly great concept designs here. I can see some inspiration form Star Wars.

@ dadward loving that aviator :lol:

[Helot]

OMG :o

You have to be doing this professionally - if not, why not! I think this stuff is great - a whole world of projects. Geez.

Man you got talent.

[The Dyslexic One]

Great work there! I would like to give modeling one of these a try, if only i'd have more skill... I may try it any way

[baptiste11]

WONDERFUL FANTASTIC pro's job !!!!!
This is as superb job, continue like this really !!!
To think of making boards of design !

[seanr]

You know, I think I'm a fairly creative person, but then I see this and I've got NOTHING on you, man. Jesus!

This could get me shot, but have you ever done Trek work? I'd be very curious to see your take on the Trek style.

[seanr]

bottom left blue jet . . . totally awesome! great designs :thumb:I'd like to see that one with the wings canted up a bit, so it looks more like a WWII Navy F4U Corsair (http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-18,GGGL:en&q=Corsair&sa=N&tab=wi).

[Andrew March]

This is just simply the dogs bollocks, some of the best concept work I have ever seen.

[mikala]

Some great use of line and colour!
Some very fine work.

[Dark Angel]

More More please... they are awesome!

[BorgMan]

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_26.jpg


Wicked, that so much reminds me of a craft I made with LEGO a long time ago. Superb work man, I take it you've followed an artistic school? Could you give me some tips on how I can improve my drawings (http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/2d-wips/1572-borgmans-concept-alcove-not-faint-heart.html)? And what kind of materials do you use to create your drawings?

[cirus5555]

these are probably the bets concept pic ive ever seen you really tower every thing ive seen

[Ares Blackmane]

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Misc-1.jpg

A stainless steel rat. Nice homage. Wonderful concepts too, I'd love to see them utilized in a universe.

[Samurai]

Excellent work- great to see this sort of thing being posted on SFM.

:)

[Samurai]

Almost forgot

Welcome to the Header

:)

[Darth Malice]

Amazing man. I remember the early stuff you posted before the "big crash." Some damn fine marker rendering dude and those designs are off the wall. If Lucas had used some of this stuff, I would have enjoyed the prequil trilogy much more. I`m pretty sure you wont have much of a problem finding work with skills like that...

PS. Congrads on the header...:flippy:

[Sanjurjo]

I love it.
It has such a touch of multiple places (for me: SHIELD(Marvel comics spy agency, Star Wars, Juan Gimenez artworks, original, games, etc) that looks sophisticated but familiar. I loved them. Keep up the great work!
Those fighters are nice, like the ones of Mechwarrior/Battletech. :)

[Larsen]

Congrats on the header man... you defebatly deserve it:thumb:

Again... awsome work... now go kick what ever concept designer Lucas working for him these days, off his chair and take the post:thumb:

[Rodavan]

wow , wow :o :thumb:

[NickB]

I love number 4 - it's terribly insectoid, despite being a practical-looking design.

[Justin]

Great work, mate! :)

I have a very small work contract I can offer you if you're interested.

I'm looking for a dozen concept designs along these lines per month for several months at a rate of around $300US a month.

Rights-wise, they'd have to be work-for-hire, meaning I'd own the IP of the designs, but you'd get conceptual artist's credits and you'd be free to publish your own designs (web, print, etc.) for portfolio purposes.

Lemme know if you're interested. Thanks.

[strangeman]

WOW it's awesome man, love that style... so many cool ideas... stunning work !

[Odracir]

Outstanding work, man, i'm spechless.

[Justin]

Why is his homepage gallery (and all other pages/identity) down at his site?

[lt paul]

Absolutely amazing. I can definitely see the Homeworld influence, but they look completely unique as well. If I wasn't working on a model right now I would definitely model one our your designs.

[Pip]

Absolutely stunning – Awesome fighter designs, love the metallic creatures too. (Including the rat...lol)

[Samurai]

Justin- He's got his homepage listed in his profile here, and if its getting as much interest as this thread, it could well be traffic overload- depends on his host. :)

[Justin]

Just 404/not found pages on all subpages of his site, but main pages come up just fine every time.. so not likely a traffic issue?

[Samurai]

weird.

Could be down for a redesign- not the first person I'd have known to give his site a bit of a spruce-up while looking for work...

[Auralis]

Very very impressive designs, love them.

[Justin]

weird.

Could be down for a redesign- not the first person I'd have known to give his site a bit of a spruce-up while looking for work...
True.

Hoping that. Would suck if down for IP or copyright violations :o

[Samurai]

Cant see that, to be honest- I've seen his work before now, and not had reason to think they were from anyone but himself.

I could be wrong of course, but I doubt it. :)

[WizArtist]

sweet.

[JeffrySG]

Bravo on all the concept work!!! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
Really great looking work there! Some of the work reminds me a bit of (Jean Giraud) Moebius's drawing style, especially the figure of the pilot looking down, and your avatar.

Do you care to shed some light on your background? education?

Best of luck on finding work!

Congrats on the header!!

[Beowulf]

DEAR god those are beautiful!!

[DarthMaya]

INSPIRATION :D great work!

[Prime_8]

wicked cool.

[scifieric]

cbalaskas, these are marvelous designs and your finished designs and character concepts are staggering!

Marvelous work and good luck!

[nhall]

Amazing! I'm loving your work here.

As such, here's a request if you're open to them:

I'm currently working on a film project called the Phoenix Sequence. I'm gonna need some sketches. Could you help my team and I out on the project?

For more info on the project, see the bottom two links on my signature.

Thanks for your time, and again, GREAT WORK!!!!

Cheers,
Nick

P.S. I see you are looking for gainful employment. How much are your services, then?

[Mux213]

Great stuff!

[dlfurman]

VERY NICE STUFF!!!
If you are not working soon, you will be.
WOW!

[Recursion]

Beautiful designs! I love this kind of retro-look.

[yoda_]

very impressive. some of them have this retro feel to them that i cant place.

[ebonfahd]

Awesome work! Reminds me of early concept spacecraft designs that old-school NASA types would put out.Excellent!!!!:thumb:

[cbalaskas]

Hey thanks everyone for stopping in and having a look, and for the kind compliments. I haven't been around for a while as I recently moved back to the New York area, and I see in my absence this thread has received a lot of attention. Thanks to all for the comments and to Scifi-Meshes for the header!

I'll try to answer a few questions before I have to run;

Anyone can model any ships or robots so long as they don't say "property of Green Ronin", and as long as you send me a few renders or screenshots.

seanr: Thanks! No, I've never tried Trek stuff and I've never really thought about it. When I get some time I'll play around a bit. Going in different directions always helps you grow so thanks for the suggestion! I also agree that the Corsair-type wing angle would be interesting, or maybe a variable wing pitch?

Andrew March: By god that's the first time my work has been referred to as the "dog's bullocks"! thanks for the compliments!

BorgMan: Actually I'm self-schooled mostly, but I did take a few classes here and there. THe key is to keep drawing as much as you can everyday. AS for materials, the majority of these are just black ball-point ink drawings on newsprint, scanned and then colored in Photoshop. THe brush settings I use make it look like gouache-ish, and I'm always amazed at how many people think its natural media. I'll take a look at your stuff when I have a little more time.

Samurai: Thanks for the header man! It's nice to be noticed :)

Darth Malice: Thanks man. George has'nt returned my calls since the whole restraining order thing though ;)

Sanjurjo: Good eye on spotting the Juan Gimenez influence, he's a biggie!

Justin: I'll kick you an email as soon as I'm done here. Thanks for the interest. My page is a mess right now as I keep redesigning it. All images are done by me, I'm just taking forever to finish my site :P

JeffrySG: Not much to tell about my background really, been drawing since four, and have never really let up. I've only recently decided to turn from hobby to profession though. No art school, just my pen on the paper for years and years, and I've got the RSI to prove it!

nhall: Thanks! Just sent a PM over to ya.

Maybe the retro look is due to my older inspirations, or the fact that everything is not so stylized and curvy. I like things to look utilitarian, with some exposed guts here and there. WW2 and Vietnam era aircraft are a big source of ideas for me.

Thanks again everyone!

[seanr]

Could you possibly provide some detail on your photoshop techniques? I'm highly curious about your brush settings as well as blending modes and such. Are you using a pen tablet?

[no_mad11]

Wow:thumb: ! I haven't been to this site in a while, so I'm a bit late for the review party:p . Great looking concept designs and even more impressive that you're self taught - that's just amazing:) ! There's a few designs that I would definitely love to model, which I'll be sure to send you an e-mail on it, as well as some screen shots. However, for the time being I'm pretty busy getting my own business and website started, so it may be a little while before I get around to it.

[Huejass]

Since everyone seems to love it and I'm a bit of a contrarian I'll make this long and bitter. Several of the ships, especially the stuff at the top of the opening post (images 1-7) look like background SW ships. The kind that are used to fill voids but aren't good enough to take center stage. Others are very abstract and I don't look very functional. I hate the 'robot head' image (second from the bottom) and I'm not too fond of the full droid either. There are only two aliens that actually look alien, the rest have the same basic facial arrangement of a human (2 eyes, a nose, and a mouth). When I see the single-eye-and-body I wonder how a creature like that came to be, how it gets its energy to function, etc. I do like the gray fuzzy thing with the vertical row of eyes. I also like the white wing ship with the red stripes in the 11th image and the blue plane in the 22nd image. If you were to develop any of these further I'd say go for those.

[mikala]

Since everyone seems to love it and I'm a bit of a contrarian I'll make this long and bitter. Several of the ships, especially the stuff at the top of the opening post (images 1-7) look like background SW ships. The kind that are used to fill voids but aren't good enough to take center stage. Others are very abstract and I don't look very functional. I hate the 'robot head' image (second from the bottom) and I'm not too fond of the full droid either. There are only two aliens that actually look alien, the rest have the same basic facial arrangement of a human (2 eyes, a nose, and a mouth). When I see the single-eye-and-body I wonder how a creature like that came to be, how it gets its energy to function, etc. I do like the gray fuzzy thing with the vertical row of eyes. I also like the white wing ship with the red stripes in the 11th image and the blue plane in the 22nd image. If you were to develop any of these further I'd say go for those.

Screen name says it all.

[cbalaskas]

seanr: I use Linear Burn layers for the shadows, Linear Dodge layers for highlights, and Color layers to finish off. I use a brush that is a fuzzy square with a texture setting that gives the appearance of bleeding around the rough paper surface at 50% opacity. And I'm using a Wacom 4X6 tablet, life would suck without it. That's about it really.

Huejass: Thanks for the input and non-ass pat. All input is welcome.

[GKan]

I don't know what to add 'cause every thing I think have already been said.

so I'll just say that your artworks are just fantastic !!!

[RiCkFX]

this is great work, with passion and detail,
it makes me want to model some of that when i get the time!

[BlackFulcrum]

:eek: Wow...simply wow....that rules sooooo much...it's hard to desicribe....

I bow to the master.

[Sarraj]

Dang man that's some awesome work! Very nice!

[|Saint|]

Fine work, Dude! Some of it reminds me of EvE (the Game) and the Aquablue comics.

As for the lack of "functionality" pointed out by Huejass: Even concept art has a few stages to go through, I think. And a test of overall shape and colour before thinking about functionality doesn't sound like a bad approach...

Some of the concepts may not really have a future, but there are some real pearls among them. And thats what defines "concept art" for me.

[TheCoredump]

And they are also really well executed, they have a great "professional" feeling; I think it's the main reason why everyone love them :thumb:

[hariel]

Excellent work!!:thumb: I was impressed with the absolute take off from regular ship design. I like it.

[zbuzz1]

Man those are just wonderful thanks for sharing them with us!

[Man of War]

Great work.

P.S. you site not work correctly/

[Kgoku28]

WOW cbalaskas amazing job they are all great design keep up the great good. :cool: :thumb:

[BLord8067]

Some of these are really nice! Thanks for the contribution.

[Dann-O]

Excellent stuff I like the vehicle designs a lot. Sort of a mix of Chriss foss star wars and anime. I like your drawign style. If there is a weak part I think the aliens are not alien enough. I'd love to try modeling some of these.

[Darkknight007]

Awesome Design Work...now lets see some meshes !!!

[Chris Vickers]

Cool works, dude! Would like to have you on as a concept artist for my Galactic Command site.

[CN Spots]

Wonderful stuff indeed! I'm glad you threw in the alien concepts too, shows that you're as talented with organics as with technology. Great work!


spots

[Trooper]

Dude, I am SO modelling some.

I jsut totally saved them all to my harddrive and am as we speak starting a model. =]

[ToMosEisly]

very good job! Should get definitley paid work.

[Mike B.]

Dude, I am SO modelling some.

I jsut totally saved them all to my harddrive and am as we speak starting a model. =]

I hope you're not doing the one I'm doing. ;)
Well, I suppose that would be fun in a way. :)

[RiCkFX]

lets see wich one i will be doing, i am really interested in that one here:
http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_13.jpg

[cbalaskas]

Hey for you guys who are modeling some of these, please be sure to post your progress and give image/concept credits. Anything you don't understand about shape and detail, just fudge it as I don't have alternate views and really don't have the time to go back and flesh these all out. Thanks!

[Ozylot]

lets see wich one i will be doing, i am really interested in that one here:
http://www.balaskas.net/images/Concepts/Crft_Cncpts_13.jpg

Yes Yes.... I love that one.... I started that almost right away.

I ment to post this sooner, its mostly done, but there is alot of tweaks left to do to it. My appologies for thread jacking but it is one of these designs.

great design cbalaskas!

[cbalaskas]

Hey Ozylot that looks really good, nice job :) The ship is actually one shade of orange, but you are free to interpret it any way you like (I guess that's why they call it a "concept"). Be sure to grunge it up with textures! I have no problem with people posting work based on my drawings in this thread, so fire away once you've made significant progress (please don't post a cube and say "step 1").

[Mike B.]

Well it looks like we might be doing at least three versions of this one.
This is about 70% done I'd say.

[Ozylot]

Cool.... this is getting more interesting. :D

[Mike B.]

Some more work...

[Vulcan]

These are fantastically awesome drawings. Congrats on the header. *Thumbs_up*

[Sarkaz]

These are beautiful. I love them. The big starships remind me of the ships in the MMO pc game Eve. Love it all :)

That game is amazing...

but i love your stuff, i am a huge admirer of concept art, i think it looks beautiful. and i hope you get some work because you have a buckets overflowing with talen.

Cheers Mate!

[SgtJohns]

:eek: :thumb: :eek!:
Awesome. Has Lucas contacted you to work at ILM yet? He should have.

[Nell 3D]

exelent draw :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[PimpTastique]

Yeah, this stuff is really amazing. I've always loved concept art. Nice to see more of it here at SFM.

[johneaves]

beautiful style!!!!! great to see hand drawn work again. excellent designs and it would be great to see more. keep up the good work!

[godswork]

you got talent to make those things look good. But from what i saw all of them were space ship designes all of them did not look sturdy enough for even that. And most of them definatly dont have enough wingspan to fly in earth. Unless you plan to plug some antigrav drives(only exists in movies) those things are not gona lift off.:thumb:

[moerkem]

very very nice work!
no more?

[lajjr@yahoo.com]

very cool.

[Craiglet]

just found this thread... wow, you've got mad skills dude! the concept work is top-notch and your rendering techniques are quite refined as well.

i'm definitely going to have to take a crack at modelling a couple of your sweet ships.

thank you so much for posting!

[gpdesigner]

Sorry I am late . . . . . :D
these are frackin' awesome scketches . . . you definatley have an imagination and style that is unstopable . . . The work is unique and in some way reminds me of "Feng" Still the concepts are fantastic.
I didn't read all the posts here so I may repete some things but, has anybody here started to model any of these pieces yet . . . . cause they scream out for it . . .
good work bro
gp

Guess I should have read the post above mine . . . . . "D'oh!"

[Ahkileez]

Yeah, this stuff is really amazing. I've always loved concept art. Nice to see more of it here at SFM.

Hey Pimp, maybe you guys should actively promote concept art here at SFM. I used to visit a huge concept art forum community some time ago but it folded when the board boss started getting steady work.

Those people must still be floating around the web somewheres huh?

[Kilik088]

wow this is really really good! very good drawings.

[ed_welch]

Looks like 2000 AD. style.
I love the watercolour and ink style of the drawings.

[Novak]

Looks AWESOME... Great work... Defently 5*....
Keep posting..

And good luck on getting a job...

Greetz,
Novak

[TheGreatRaja]

[QUOTE=cbalaskas;82738]Here's afew more. I posted some of these before SFmeshes was overhauled.

http://www.balaskas.net/images/Veh_Des-1.jpg

I'm thinking for doing a ship based on the one on the left.. :)
Who do I credit the mesh too? (designed by ? )

[Trooper]

It says in the corner there that all images are cbalaskas, soy ou would credit Him for the design, you for the modelling.

[cool65]

You are doing very good Sci-Fi artist.

[Dallidas]

the design on the left looks like one of coolhands bombers

[Maverick]

Because What happened to cbalaskas? - concept designer (http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/general-discussion/18987-what-happened-cbalaskas-concept-designer.html?highlight=cbalaskas) is closed I'll post here, hope its ok.

If someone is interested found this link about him.
MySpace.com - UNBREAKABLE - 36 - Male - New York City, New York - www.myspace.com/cbalaskas (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=48239096)

Regards.