Tim Kaminski : Illustrator

It's A Me...Luigi!

2011-02-02T12:02:00.005-05:00

Wow a Space Marine

2010-10-07T11:37:00.004-04:00

I approached painting this character a lot differently than I normally do. I started with a random dot brush and created some basic shapes. After that I started connecting the dots - just like the connect-the-dot books, but messier. The original name was Dot Matrix Character due to the process.

Team Fortress 2 Female Medic

2010-09-06T13:38:00.001-04:00

I did some fan art for Team Fortress 2 over the weekend. The female medic.

Cityscape concept - speedpaint

2010-08-31T12:20:00.000-04:00

Speedpaint - Scavenging the Overgrown City

2010-08-27T12:02:00.001-04:00

It was really late, but I did a speedpaint last night. It took about 30 minutes.

Scavenging the Overgrown City

Speed Paint - Drawn with the mouse!

2010-08-26T18:06:00.003-04:00

I did a speed paint with the mouse!

WW2 tank speed painting

2010-08-26T11:46:00.000-04:00

A speed painting I did with WW2 in mind. I didn’t use any reference, so I’m sure the tank is inaccurate.

Concept art

2010-08-25T14:51:00.014-04:00

Concept art for a game project I'm working on called Defenders. Other than that it is under wraps.

Trooper Concept

2010-08-23T17:08:00.006-04:00

Some sci-fi trooper concepts.

Alchemy Test

2010-08-11T11:51:00.005-04:00

I just tried out this app I found thanks to Lifehacker. It's called Alchemy http://al.chemy.org/ It's an idea program, not for the final painting, but it sure helps come up with some serendipitist painting moments. Here's a piece I did with the mouse. Can't wait to use my tablet with it!

Environment sketch

2010-08-06T10:29:00.007-04:00

Couldn't seem to get anything to turn out right last night, but I pushed through it and churned out this sketch. I jokingly added lens flare, but I ended up liking it :/

ZBrush Sculpt

2010-06-23T13:11:00.003-04:00

I did a self portrait in ZBrush awhile back, but I forgot to upload it -- I think. Maybe I'll post the other one as well. I need to put more time into 3d sculpting, and ZBrush is a great way to do that.

Halloween Doodle

2010-06-23T13:07:00.003-04:00

Tis the wrong season to draw this...

Rock Beast

2010-05-10T10:19:00.004-04:00

I finally have internet back! Very exciting, but my tablet has been in and out of working order. Hopefully formatting my computer has fixed it entirely. I've also been playing some video games with my brother who just returned from Iraq, so I suppose I won't be updating as often for awhile.

I did manage to finish up this concept. For this one I did a random process to come up with a shape I found appealing. Not the best way to draw, but it can be fun.

Cheers,

-Tim

Drawing in Flash

2010-04-28T10:14:00.004-04:00

I've been away for awhile due to the lack of internet at my house. I've been sketching a lot still, but my tablet keeps messing up so most of my sketches are on real paper lately. I did manage to play around with Flash for awhile last night and did a few rough animations. After I did that I thought I'd try the draw capabilities of Flash. It has some interesting results with lines, so I'm sure I'll play around with it later.

Tattoo - Family Crest

2010-04-22T14:34:00.005-04:00

I designed this tattoo for a friend of mine, and it will be their family crest to pass through generations. I have to say I was very honored to design a family crest.

I havn't been posting too often because I recently moved and I also don't have any internet. I have been drawing, but no finished works to post. As soon as a I get internet I'll get some more stuff up here.

I can't wait to reattach my robotic wacom drawing arm!

Cheers,

-Tim

The Gown

2010-04-13T10:27:00.006-04:00

I recently came across my new favorite artist Ingrid Liman, and it inspired me to try something new.

Here's the ball point pen sketch that took about 5 minutes.

The painting took about 30-45 minutes.

Duel

2010-04-07T13:06:00.003-04:00

Another painting done with my arm extension tablet.

Sketch

2010-03-31T12:07:00.004-04:00

Just a quick sketch from a catalog, so a photo reference drawing.

Rancorzilla

2010-03-29T12:49:00.003-04:00

I thought I'd add a little storyline to this image. A friend suggested using a caption; this is the result of that.

Decrepit Station

2010-03-29T12:29:00.004-04:00

Oh no! I ran out of space gas and I have to stop at this Decrepit Station.

Rancor\Godzilla

2010-03-29T12:04:00.004-04:00

This was a really quick silhouette drawing that ended up looking just like a Rancor, so I suppose that's what it is than.

Millennium Falcon Still life

2010-03-24T11:23:00.002-04:00

Here's a still life I did the other night of my Happy Meal toy that my wife so lovingly got me - the Millennium Falcon.

Lost and Forgotten

2010-03-16T10:35:00.006-04:00

Some landscapes I did the other night. I thought they turned out pretty good. Although, the first one is my favorite by far.

Timmy's Pup

2010-03-16T10:31:00.007-04:00

I recently had watched Disney Pixar's Up for about the 3rd time, and was thinking about my wire haired dachshund -- what a great dog. She doesn't have a dog house, but this might be what it would look like if she did -- on the ground of course.

Carried Away with Love

2010-03-11T10:29:00.005-05:00

A cute painting I did last night. I don't paint really cute stuff too often, but it was a blast.

Sorceress

2010-03-02T11:06:00.004-05:00

Second character in a similar style. The viking turned out better, so I'll probably have more in that series soon.

The Viking Champion

2010-03-01T11:24:00.005-05:00

First in a series of characters I'm creating. My brother Jake suggested I draw a female viking, so he got me started on this series of characters.

Battle Spray

2010-02-22T11:40:00.006-05:00

This started out as a graphite drawing while I was on the train; I liked it at that point, so I decided to paint it up in Photoshop.

Nomad Portrait

2010-02-19T11:02:00.005-05:00

A painting I was working on. I ended up cropping it down to just a portrait. If the rest turns out I'll post that as well.

Sith Concept

2010-02-18T10:29:00.006-05:00

The follow up character to the Jedi -- she's gone evil and become a Sith now.

Jedi Concept

2010-02-17T11:05:00.008-05:00

Jedi concept I just did. I thought it turned out really nice. A little reference to Star Wars Galaxies in there too.

Spaceship

2010-02-11T10:15:00.005-05:00

A spaceship design I drew with ballpoint pen, than painted it in Photoshop.

Spacestation

2010-02-10T11:13:00.002-05:00

This was a really quick one; it still needs work but It gets the idea across – science fiction. Also, I realized this painting and the previous one have identical color schemes.

Jedi Temple

2010-02-09T18:18:00.008-05:00

Sketched in ballpoint pen than painted in Photoshop.

Trooper

2009-12-21T11:13:00.005-05:00

Here's a painting I did of my brother who is currently in Iraq. It took a few hours; I really should do a time lapse and watch my own process -- maybe I'd learn a thing or two...

Marquette Symphony Poster

2008-03-20T13:53:00.003-04:00

Swan Song Poster

2007-11-11T18:13:00.000-05:00

Digital Painting of My Zippo

2007-10-10T17:55:00.000-04:00

The Third Dimension!

2007-10-09T20:37:00.001-04:00

Syndicate Poster

2007-09-18T20:54:00.001-04:00

Faculty Poster

2007-08-11T20:34:00.000-04:00

Illustrator/Photoshop Combined

2007-07-25T14:17:00.000-04:00

Portrait of Ashley

2007-07-21T23:13:00.000-04:00

Sweet Expression

Fall 07 Schedule

2007-07-15T00:55:00.001-04:00

Illustrator Vector Drawing

2007-07-14T23:52:00.000-04:00

Stages...

2007-06-08T16:06:00.000-04:00

The Final Poster

2nd Stage.. very far along.. compared to it's early counterpart :)

Poster Design, very early sketch

Photo Touchup

2007-06-08T14:22:00.000-04:00

Photo Touchup I did. Nothing Really Cosmetic... just Lighting Etc.

Colored Version

2007-06-01T22:26:00.000-04:00

Other Effects

Final

Colored Version of some dudes in the Iraq, one of which is my brother. The one on the far left.

The Original

Sunset (later)

2007-06-01T22:15:00.001-04:00

Same sunset but not as successfull, well I like the first one better :)

Sunset

2007-05-29T20:39:00.001-04:00

A quick painting I did that turned out pretty nice.

Cartoon of my brother and his friends in the Airforce

2007-05-27T13:48:00.000-04:00

New Painting

2007-05-17T22:43:00.001-04:00

This is incomplete, but it is pretty close to done. The photo isn't the best but its the best I could do for now.

Creature/Character Design

2007-04-09T01:21:00.000-04:00

This is just a creature/character design I was working on for fun, still needs some work, but I like it a lot so far.

Part 1 Sketch

2007-04-06T19:50:00.000-04:00

Part 2 Basic Form

2007-04-06T19:49:00.000-04:00

Part 3 Finished

2007-04-06T19:41:00.000-04:00

This is a photoshop painting I just did..

Landscape Study: Photoshop

2007-03-29T16:00:00.000-04:00

Photoshop Painting

2007-03-29T09:53:00.000-04:00

Amazon

2007-02-24T23:56:00.000-05:00

Don't really need to say much....

Bear Drawing

2007-02-19T18:14:00.000-05:00

Someone wanted me to draw them a bear so I did

Hand Drawing/Photoshopping

2007-02-18T01:20:00.000-05:00

Poster Design

2007-02-12T14:24:00.000-05:00

drawing

2007-02-01T19:44:00.000-05:00

The Woman, A Demon

2006-10-09T20:28:00.000-04:00

The Warrior Angel, She Waits

2006-10-05T15:39:00.000-04:00

This is a sketch that I later used to make a full sized charcoal drawing. I would like to do a Photoshop version of it, or an acrylic painting sometime.

1: Baditude: Nick Cage

2006-10-04T16:18:00.000-04:00

This is the first comic from Baditude. The idea is based off of my friend and I's conversations. My friend Paul does the writing and I draw the artwork.

Character For New Comic Baditude

2006-10-04T10:51:00.000-04:00

This is pretty much my first stab at drawing a comic character.

Just the other day

2006-02-26T15:46:00.002-05:00

My parents, my brothers and I were In our rickety house. The zombies were closing in, and we had to deal with it. Everyone unanimously decided I would stay at home with mom, but I objected saying I should go with my dad instead of my eleven year old brother. No one seemed to agree with me and everyone went out hunting. Later my older brother Jacob come home and for some reason I was now supposed to go hunt zombies with him, so I went to the rack of melee weapons, up in the attic, and chose the best two cutlass swords I could find. The blades have more of a curve with a notch on the back, and I thought this would help snag the zombies head if need be. They only had a little rust, but seemed unstable in the blade. Duel blades, that is the way to go, I cross the blades and them together in a decapitation motion. "These will work just fine." Jake and I start heading to the main floor when a zombie lumbers out of the darkness, with a quick cross slash of the double blades, the zombie’s head rolls to the floor. It was no match for my oxidized cutlasses. We start walking down the stairs when a zombie seems to appear out of thin air from above, Jake takes it out with three quick slashes. One to the arm, the next to the chest and a final heave decapitates it. I think, “This is going pretty good.” Another zombies appears out of the darkness and flings itself at me, I stab at it finally decapitating its bloody bubbling head. Finally we make it to the main floor, and we leave to go hunting for more of these evil putrid vile zombies.
After hunting zombies for quite some time we return to our house. It is set in a small clearing surrounded by brush and trees, the lawn has been mowed naturally by animals of sorts. Approaching the house Jake and I see Bender defending the house he is shooting rockets swiftly at the impending attack of a large female lion, twice the size of a normal lion, this lion is not phased by benders on slot of rockets. Jake goes in to attack first, swing and taking a step back at the same time, it look like a dance, as they swing around jumping and swing at the same time. I start in on the fray of swinging my melee weapons. The battle raged on, until we took the Lioness down, hacking at its throat it fell with a thud.
Once the lioness was killed we headed back into the woods to take on more zombies. As we were walking through the forest we came to a group of zombies lumber in a small clearing, their feet tripping on the roots that looked like sea monsters protruding from the ground. The zombies stumbled towards us, their flesh was falling from their arms, eyes protruding from their sockets. Jake and I started in swinging. I was overly confident and jumped into the center of the fray . Surrounded by three zombies, one grabbed my arm and I felt like everything slowed as I saw it open its jaws and start towards my arm with its half missing teeth. The zombie was going for a bite. I quickly started hacking at its neck, was I too late? The teeth had hit my skin, but had it penetrated it? there was too much blood, I could tell if it had broken the skin or not, I was in a panic. Frantically I asked Jake what I could do. What he had to say wasn’t comforting. He said, “well, we can only wait to see what happens, and if you do start to turn we will have to decapitate you.” I reeled at the idea of loosing my head, and stammered a stream of words as if to save time by saying things faster, “couldn’t we just cut my arm off and than I would be fine?” thinking id much rather loose an arm than loose a head. There was nothing we could do but wait. “I guess you will have to watch me and not let me behind you,” I said. There wasn’t much we could do now, and I was wondering where my dad and little brother had gotten to, so me and Jake head deeper into the woods. We came to a three-way section in the road and turn off to the left. By this time the forest had been cleared out mostly other than the part of woods we were heading towards, The Blood Moore. I wanted to find my brother and father. The woods seemed to be sectioned off into small clearings lined up in a row. We passed three clearings when we finally came to the section that wasn’t cleared. There were three to five skeleton archers lined up across a small chasm. There was no way we could kill them with melee weapons. We were about to retreat when Jake saw an old friend of his. The man was in his seventies and didn’t look like he was in good shape. We grabbed him an ran, there were arrows flying everywhere around us. Finally we got into a safe clearance, but we had to bring the man back, he needed brain surgery. His brain was practically falling out of his head. We rushed him back to the cross section in the road, where a brain surgeon happened to be operation on my friend Todd, who had had previous brain operations, the surgeons assistant started right away to work on the old mans brain, pulling it out and starting to poke inside the man’s skull, when all of the sudden I WOKE UP!

Bread...

2006-02-22T23:43:00.000-05:00

12:24
I walk through the door, back from work.
I am hungry, i had the oppurtunity to go to taco bell, but the fact that i am broke strongly discouraged that.
I eat a stick of string cheese, but the hunger continues.
There is only one option to quench the hunger: The Hot Dog.
I get a hot dog out walk to the nearest microwave that doesnt have someone sleeping next to it.
At the furthest end of the hall i emerge with a fully "cooked" hot dog eager to add the condements of ketchup and mustard, dont forget the relish! gotta relish that stuff.
In my room i grab the hotdog buns, whats a hot dog without a bun? not a perfect hot dog thats what.
I set it down and tie the bag of buns back up.
What! whats this, a squished hot dog bun, with a funny black mark? NO! it cant be.. frantic i grab the back rip it open to reveal my worst nightmare.. MOLD!
I guess ill just through these away..
I start to crumple the hot dog buns up when out of no where a memory hits my brain with a small echoing noise.

(Tim: "You wanna step on this loaf of bread with me? I imagine it'd be quite fun."

Me: "DO I!"

So we did.)

squish+bread+feet+stump= FUN! YEAH!!!
I through the buns to the floor and begin to trample them gleefully.
better than any hot dog bun or hot dog, is the memory and once again the glee of soothing bread squishing between my toes.
Thanks Paul for a bread squishing fun time.

First Post on Blogger

2006-02-22T23:30:00.000-05:00

Yeah, I might start using this.. since i think it looks cooler than most of the other blogs... I am at work right now.. and i probably should be working. so i will put a better message up later!
-Tim