Art of Dilanka Samaratunga

2012-01-11T09:32:00.000-08:00

I want start this year with some of my 3D work I did last year. Modeled and lit in Maya. Textures were painted in Photoshop. I went with the theme night elf's from Warcraft to play off my designs.

2011-11-30T18:22:00.001-08:00

Another PS sketch.

2011-10-02T16:52:00.000-07:00

I finally finished up a Concept painting for this week. Been working on this on my off time. This was initially a creature design that I put in a background for. I had to change some of the earlier values on the creature to conform to its new environment.

The idea behind this was a creature that eats the living and stores it "collects it" in its body consuming it over time. The rotting are pushed further back as new bodies are consumed. It also uses the statues it has found thinking they were consumable as armor.

Limb Hoarder

Sketch Page 5

2011-09-24T23:16:00.000-07:00

Pen on moleskin. Roof city.

Sketch Page 4

2011-09-08T21:14:00.000-07:00

Pen on moleskin. "Metamorphosis"

Sketch Page 3

2011-08-30T22:28:00.000-07:00

Pen on moleskin. Bit of fun with this one. two page spread. Enjoy! "Trance the Night"

Sketch Page 2

2011-08-17T20:33:00.000-07:00

Here is another page from my sketchbook. The top one is a bit high concept, so I tend to keep it a bit more simpler then the other pages.

Cloak of discarded beings and Crest city.

Page from my Sketchbook.

2011-08-07T22:13:00.000-07:00

Another one! Turn this around with some time at a coffee shop.

Working!

2011-08-02T20:36:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of updates.

I moved to Austin to work at Vigil game Studios.
But will be updating with more sketches and art soon...

Concepting some Characters

2011-07-10T12:12:00.000-07:00

Practicing More variation in roles and race.

Environment Prop Drawings / sketches

2011-06-26T20:46:00.000-07:00

Exploring more in terms of an end direction for my sketches. Its evolving slowly, but liking the process as it goes on.

SketchBook Page

2011-06-23T12:59:00.001-07:00

A page from my sketchbook. Some critters.

Sketch Character lineup

2011-06-20T15:25:00.000-07:00

Did more drawings for my sci-fi environments. I will be expanding more towards that direction as my project goes along.

Life Drawing W4

2011-06-19T17:10:00.000-07:00

Practicing a bit more Figure drawing. I wanted to work on my gestures a bit more, considering my Character designs are more production then illustrations. Adding in more gesture will be a plus.

Yeah, been getting woman every time I have walked into a figure workshop lately. Would like to change it up a bit.

PS Sketch W3

2011-06-15T13:54:00.000-07:00

Environment Sketches this week. The Concept behind this world will be revealed next week. Enjoy!

Sketch and figure update

2011-06-12T08:55:00.000-07:00

More traditional sketching this time around. Still trying to figure out a good way to showcase my life drawings. Will be experimenting more on the final layout for my figures and sketch-work.

PS Sketch w2

2011-06-09T14:59:00.000-07:00

Took this a bit further in terms of a sketch. Got a bit inspired by Brom.

PS Sketching fun

2011-06-02T21:23:00.000-07:00

Recently graduated from Art Center, and took a nice rest to refresh my mind a bit.

Some photoshop sketching, I will try to do more of these. They are super fun!

Help Japan!

2011-03-16T16:33:00.000-07:00

Artists Help Japan.

The fund is founded by Dice Tsutsumi, an art director at Pixar Animation Studios. Link to help out.

I was in japan a year ago from now and Japan is a beautiful country with very humble people! Help in any way you can.

Mini Life Drawing Update

2011-03-16T15:14:00.000-07:00

Just Getting Back into Life drawing again.

GDC Was Awesome!!!

2011-03-08T09:49:00.000-08:00

I went to GDC this year and I have to say it was one of the most humbling experiences of my life.

First time I knew It was going to be good was when I sat next to this really hot girl on the plane. And 2 on each side on the way back! haha :P

Anyways I started to venture into a bit of 3D this time. Using Z-brush, Maya, and Photoshop to create these. Some are Hero Environments and others are supporting. But I am going to be going back to doing 2D from now on and really pushing that more to the front. Enjoy.

Starting the New Years with something new

2011-01-01T17:54:00.000-08:00

More to Come!

-The Creature Design is based on a centipede Demon that can live in the underworld. This Creature was designed for one of my own projects. She is intended to be of a magic type. The Original form would have her front torso lowered to the ground as the back side of her would cover her human qualities.

Until the reveal, when the main torso would rotate upward showing a less hideous complexion.

The Parts of the demon had to be shifted more towards Crab like features due to the mass and gravity that is applied to its being.

-The Second Design was an Alien Design I did with Zbrush, the base was done in Maya. Its still WIP, but its on its way to getting painted and animated in Maya. The Ship will also be updated latter down the line.

-Also I like to note this was done in Bryan Wynia's and Josh Hermen's course at CDA directed by Kevin Chen, I would highly recommend the course if anyone wants to Learn Zbrush.

Fantasy Environment

2010-08-15T14:17:00.000-07:00

A piece from one of my personal Projects.

Imagine FX

2010-08-08T14:17:00.001-07:00

My work got published in the ImagineFx magazine, August issue-page 11. Go check it out!

Creature Sketches

2010-07-25T14:39:00.000-07:00

From one of my Creature sketchbooks. Pen on Paper.

Chr Design

2010-07-01T19:48:00.000-07:00

Another personal project. I haven't done a character design in a while. I did this as a Game project I will be further concepting for.

The sketches are from my sketchbook done with pen.

Sketch update

2010-06-23T19:06:00.000-07:00

Some of my older works. Sketches and some Life drawings I have done.

Conan The Barbarian

2010-05-21T19:44:00.000-07:00

Conan The Barbarian, a redesign of the story. I wanted to go more towards an action game for this project.

I will be incorporating a bit more line work for my artwork from now on, its something I always wanted to stay true to. And its something I always loved when it came to creating art.

G1

2010-04-16T10:37:00.000-07:00

-Some file were deleted and will be back up latter. noted on 8/10/2010

I decided to go more towards live action for this one and I like where I am at With these I still need to go back and work on some things here and their. For the first Image I wanted to show a bit of story as well of showing an environment from a different perspective. Enjoy.

Also I am still updating my portfolio, and getting rid of some older stuff.

Thanks for dropping by.

G2

2010-01-22T10:18:00.000-08:00

-Some file were deleted and will be back up latter. noted on 8/10/2010

Some things I have been working on: Live Action project. And some other things.
Also updated portfolio is up.

Final Fantasy 6 sequel Project Plus

2009-11-09T10:40:00.000-08:00

Picked a game and made a sequel for it. I picked Final Fantasy 6 considering I grew up with games like these. It has been one of my all time favorites to play as a kid.

Madusa Project, Redesigning a Creature from the past. I explored different options for her, she has her own storyline. She was once a princess cursed by the gods, and she remains protecting her father stone gazed by his last wish to see her before he died. only a 1000 years of devotion will break the curse. I tried to tie this into a boss encounter for my first ff6 project.

Drive in suprise.

2009-10-28T00:01:00.000-07:00

Arc 2 has drained me! Time to rebound back.
Another painting done for Scott's class.

Speed Paintings

2009-09-15T13:59:00.000-07:00

Sharks!

Env Sketch

2009-08-29T18:06:00.000-07:00

Just Sketching around, need to get back into doing more environments. Still trying to fix up color transfer into Jpeg.

Mind to Mecha

2009-08-08T19:51:00.000-07:00

Some Concept personal work I have been doing over the summer.

Sketching during break.

2009-08-01T12:39:00.000-07:00

Jump Start!
A sketch I did during a life drawing break.

2009-07-14T14:13:00.000-07:00

Some Sketches from my old sketchbook, Digged up some woman I have done over the past.
All done with pen on moleskin sketchbook.

Characters

2009-06-14T22:13:00.000-07:00

Animal Circus Project. Both the Armadillo cannon ball and the giraffe cannon works together to entertain and excite. The Armadillo wears a strait jacket from being fired numerous times...frankly the Cannon ball is a little crazy.

2009-05-19T11:24:00.000-07:00

I havent been posting much lately due to art center grind and following the break, anyways Some work I did during arc 4.

New Page

2009-02-05T17:31:00.000-08:00

My new page is up with some new stuff, under profile.

http://dilankap.blogspot.com