I give up!

After a loooong, long time, I finally gave up and decided to join Facebook. Maybe not really join... but created a page where I can showcase my art, and hopefully reach a larger audience (I'm still on the fence about creating a personal profile:P). So if you feel like it, you are more than welcome to drop by at Art of Cristi Balanescu.

To celebrate this I thought I could dig through some old stuff, and share some of my early stuff. This piece was a study from Frazetta's Nightstalker, and was done in Painter(I think...) using a Wacom Volito, sometime in 2006.

Also I'm thinking of doing a regular column with older works, since I have a bunch of the stuff laying around on my HDD. Tell me what you think.

Cheers!

Falconer

Latest work. See you next time!

 

Study

I like to do this kind of paintings every now and then. This is from one of my favorite Christmas movies. Can you guess it?:P

Happy 2k13!

So the end of the world has passed and we're still here. I guess that's somewhat of a good thing... It's been one messed up year, but things seem to settle down nicely, so maybe this one will be a little better. I've been busy finishing some work these last 2 weeks, but I finally found some time to do something personal. So here's a scarred old sellsword ready to kick some ass.

I wish you all a very productive new year!
Cheers!

Shard

Playing around with custom brushes.

Alien Concept

Had a lot of fun working on this one (process .gif included). Cheers!

The Golden Pitcher

Started this one on the slate and continued it on the desktop. It took about 6 hours in total. May or may not be influenced by the upcoming release of "The Hobbit". I've also added a process gif for those interested. Cheers!

More tablet fun

Here are more sketches done on my slate.

Tablet sketch

Just got my new Wacom pen, courtesy to my friend Dan. It replaces my Asus slate's original pen. I never realized how much I missed the pen button, and it even seems to perform a little better then the default one. So here's my first sketch  using it. I might try and finish it at some point.

Brainfart

So... this is me having no idea of what I am doing. Sadly it happens more often then not.

 

PS: Don't ask me what it's supposed to be. Anyone have any idea? :)

My Iron Giant

I usually have a hard time finding inspiration, but sometimes something just clicks. This time it all started with a photo I found on the GREAT Industrial Decay Network. If you don't know about it already, you should check that out asap. It's pure gold!

Here's a process GIF for anyone interested:

Sketches & speed paintings

Stuff done to keep in shape.

 

 

 

ProjectX

Here are some concepts done for a side project that I worked on, along with a few great guys. It never got off the ground, but it was a great experience.

Sci-fi, fully automated factory/ assembly lines

 Machinery designs

 

 

Wireless hacking device

 

 Some thumbnails and sketches

 

Hi!

Finally decided to start a blog of my own. Let's hope that it will last longer than just 2 posts :)