[mono]

[Sammy]

recent stuff ----- from paints to speedier sketch-paints.
MONO stuff from a fan-project working with a friend of mine [a.k.a. getting our mad "nerd" on!!] :nintendo: :nintendo: :nintendo: :nintendo:

[redehlert]

sit.
roll over.
beg.
fetch.
play dead....
stay dead....
good redehlert.....good.

holy crow sammy, you just keep on kickin' those pixels around. love the whole series. hot damn!
cheers,
d

[asoir]

Beautiful work as per usual.

[Ian Mack]

:drool:

Incredible works Sammy! I loved the "Viacom" touch on the first one and actually kinda hoped to see it in the 2nd one on the squid monster.

Your background paintings are inspiring. I'll def. be saving these images to my inspiration folder. Especially the ICO ones! I get the same feeling from the backgrounds as in the game...

[m@.]

mmmm

not bad for a beginner

;)

[Mr.Blonde]

i love these. every time I see them I like them more

[midknight523]

awesome!

did you work on the Ico/Shadow of the Colossus games?

[vigostar]

ahh man.. you did it again....

[SIggE]

i love them too (suprice :P )

[Verithin]

blink... blink... drool.

Man... so great on so many levels... I think the restraint and confidence shown is really what is blowing me away.

Amazing work... thanks for sharing.

[Idiot Apathy]

Much love, and not just for the shadow of the colossus /ico either ;)

[Theo]

sweeet! I always liked your industrial designs!

I'd love to hear your feedback on my stuffs if you ever have time. Its been awesomely inspiring watching your skills grow. Especially remember loving your dune stuff!

keep that awesomeness comin!

[James Kei]

These are great Sammy!

[Kian]

incredible. truly masterful Sammy

[[void]]

These are just incredible, its gonna be a while before i can think about painting again after seeing these.

The colours and textures are incredible, really inspiring stuff.

:star::star::star::star::star:

[Olof]

Fuck yes...

[Carnifex]

that mono stuff looks awesome. my favourite is the first piece right after the cover. so joyfull and full of life. i wonder what the whole backstory is...
oh,and that pic with the battleship getting owned doesn't happen to be out of "war of the worlds"? if it isn't,it could very well be...:)

[Jabo]

Wow, nice work. The first one and the one at the beach are my favourites.

[Diego]

bad ass, really great job
I love the first one, the composition and colors.

[Layil]

damn, you make it look so easy...
;)

[Sukhoi_Flagon]

love the war of the worlds one. i just finished reading the thunderchild part in the original book and thats almost spot on how i imagine it.

great work!

[I.was.ink]

ICO and Shadow at the same time?

You just made my day sammy!!!
:D :D :D
beautiful work

-ink

[rustikof]

mono.
holy crap.
dude.

is there any reason that you post coporate logo's on alot of the stuff you do?

[TheDirtSyndicate]

damn.... again, amazing work. there needs to be a bulletin sent out everytime you post work, "attention: sammy has posted more inspiration for you!!"
heh
btw, what is this "mono"
never heard of it before. i google imaged it but didn't get anything that looks like it belongs in the world depicted in what you've posted.

[Gilead]

So eating watermelon turns you evil? Well that explains a lot.
These are really nice. I especially like the last one. She looks like the evil queen in "Sleeping Beauty".
In the 4th one though, that's one awfully big horse. Is it supposed to be that big?
Good stuff.

[FatherWinter]

poetic, wonderful works...

Thanx for sharing

FW

[Jason Manley]

well done dood...send me your bio and jpegs and Ill put u up on the main page spots atop CA. You have earned it...if u want the space...it is yours.


Jason

[SIM-R]

Beautiful work - love the atmosphere and depth to each piece and also the story elements envolved . Sweet stuff .

[TheDirtSyndicate]

jason, he also deserves an exclusive sketchbook. have you SEEN his sketches? fucking amazing...

[dCepT]

Awesome stuff! Just had to jump on the asspat wagon here.. The atmosphere is off tha hizzle in these! Consider yourself saved to my inspiration folder.

d-C

[dkounios]

i second dCepT. saved and saved.
especially love the 3rd and 6th one. great atmosphere.

[Dile_]

lol, I love when I make a thread shinnnnny! :)
Awesome work Sammy, yeah, love all of em, great work!
I have to say i saved em all again, YOU DONT HAPPEN TO HAVE A WEBSITE OR BLOG??

~Dile

[trevor]

two words


"OH SNAP!"

[deschamps]

Those MONO pieces are sick Sammy!
-Eric

[Killer Napkins]

damn sammy.. you are nuts with your paintings!!.. i love em!!..

i bet you do these in like 10 minutes hah.. you awesome son of a gun of a pistol!!

[noiion]

Awright! More Sammy goodies! I already made a folder just for your stuff.

[Craig D]

beautiful stuff Sammy

[ItachiD]

Wow great stuff! As a SOTC fan i love these even more i would normally, especially since the end of the game left with such mystery, one could only think and precieve on what happened. Those paintings sure do put me back into that place. You captured the essense dude, pun not intended. :p

[Haxxxor]

incredible stuff dude!
i like the colours and shapes ...
what me impressed was the story behind all the pics esypecially i love the paintings with the devilchild.

keep it up, realy great!

[moonster]

Amazing Stuff

[Lotet]

Mindblowing

just one thing, is that photoshop grass on the firts one?

[Eric Gerhard]

A master showing his stuff around.... nothing but this!

Keep on inspiring us!

[walnut]

Not too shabby, not at all.

[rabeat]

absolutely beautifull, hope to reach that level some day
o_0
just a fan

[Shinryu]

woah amazing sammy

The mono stuff is Excellent! :)

thanks for sharing

[chr!z]

Damn, i love this strange and fascinating fictive worlds. Every picture is so weird and fascination in its own way. All seems to be so natural but its fictive :O

I love that!!!

[Simon Boxer]

Dear Lord.

You continue to thrill. What a great range of textures, very effective.

[P E N Ricklund]

God damn Sammy, just keep blowing us away. Fantastic work. You got that loose touch to them. Good work.

Hugs!

[designboot]

My favorite is:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=39302&stc=1&d=1161630669

Very good work.

[Aremah]

I do not usually stoop to such comments, but this time I will make an exception, having just had my breath taken away:

Dude. DUDE! :teeth:

[Phuzion]

Sammy! Beautiful stuff man. My only crit is on the first one. The stand of evergreens is too even. 50% is on one side of the pillar, and 50% is on the other side, and the trees aren't repeated anywhere else. Also, if their height was varied a little more, that would help. Other than that, I'm diggin' it all as always. Awesome job!!

Peace,

[Bomba]

Never fail to impress... thanks for the kick in the gut to get cranking on stuff.
-J-

[Beelow]

Strong work! Strong...Nothing else to say!

[JL.Alfaro]

I dont know if anyone said this before but, These are gorgeous brother!!

[Highfive]

It's incredible to see how much you're expanding your style, man. You've come a long way, baby!

[Moai]

I'm very intrigued by this Mono project. I want to know more about that woman and her devil child.
As always, very inspiring.

[Pacal]

Mono Is a character from the aclaimed Ps2 game Shadow of the Colossus. the little horned boy name's Wander. ICO is a related game to SotC and ICO is the Name of the main character. And it's the most incredible game I've ever played. and those pictures sammy did are just spectacular. blending the two stories in those pics.

this two games are related in the story ICO was released before shadow of the colossus. so SotC is some sort of spiritual prequel. not a prequel per se. you can find more about this at gamespot.com

[Deverion]

I love these!

Very cool how you mixed up the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus worlds, although they might very well both take place in the same world...

Nice work. :)

[Calined]

oh i love the fiction that connects sotc and ico you did! o.o

i never thought of the queen when connecting it o-o!

but also cool art style!
i like this rough look and how you did the "shadow"-style
fits to the games =)

[Mr_Joshua]

awesome.

[Nucleardan]

oh man i LOVE the Ico series. Those are hot. :D

[TheDirtSyndicate]

oh i love the fiction that connects sotc and ico you did! o.o

i never thought of the queen when connecting it o-o!

but also cool art style!
i like this rough look and how you did the "shadow"-style
fits to the games =)

do you realize that you just bumped a 6 month old thread?
granted the work IS beautiful... sammy kicks ass. but i just got an email saying that there was an update here, and it was just you, not sammy posting more work.
thats annoying.

[kev ferrara]

Great and impressive stuff! Is this a combination of painter, photoshop, scanned textures, 3D programs, reference photos and lighting effects? Or is it all one program?

kev

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=101106

[michaelh]

I love your relaxed style!
The "battleship attack" is my favourite - the sea is so well painted.

[gasmask]

I rarely come on these boards anymore but I saw this and I have to say, seeing your progess from years back to this......This work is beyond excellent quality, I am very impressed.

[Pound]

Beautiful.

I was notified by a post on Kotaku on these, but obviously I had seen them before (they are saved in "My Aim" folder). Beautiful.

Although I would have loved to see more of De Chirico's influence in these, it is after all one of the major basis of the ICO series.

[harachte]

I'm speechless... these are absolutely fantastic!!!

[TheDirtSyndicate]

Beautiful.

I was notified by a post on Kotaku on these, but obviously I had seen them before (they are saved in "My Aim" folder). Beautiful.

Although I would have loved to see more of De Chirico's influence in these, it is after all one of the major basis of the ICO series.

do you realize that you just bumped a 8 month old thread?
granted the work IS beautiful... sammy kicks ass. but i just got an email saying that there was an update here, and it was just you, not sammy posting more work.
thats annoying.

*wow... heavy deja vu...

[cubesoflard]

I love the 5th down from the top. Great use of color and textures. I love the two figures and how the mother is looking down lovingly at her child.
but for composition, it might help to move the horse more to the right and turned 180 deg cause the figures plus the horse looks a little too crammed. Plus the water looks like its higher the the horizon line for some reason. But overall, great pieces.

[Sammy]

YEA! talk about major bump action (thanks Kotaku ! HA)

to answer some questions, the MONO was mostly a nerd project with a buddy of mine -- for a spiritual successor to Ueda's games. The basic idea, was to have a game where you played MONO (the female) after Dormin has possessed Wanderer/baby (and started the curse of the horned children.) The game would be an art piece where you get to wander the landscape and have the child metaphysically create 'gardens' for you by giving him watermelons (a reference to the Japanese ending of ICO) .... but reflecting on the gamer as something so selfish MONO eventually uses up the boy for all he's worth, warping her into the Queen (who will need more boys for >:] sacrifice)

These were all done in Photoshop, i used some scans of pencil textures/hatchings to create brushes and canvases. Thanks everyone, sorry i haven't been around in a while i'm keeping busy at Retro.

laters ... and go play PataPon, it's awesome.

[Majora]

great stuff buddy,keep it up!

[liangwei]

wow~ very impressive!

[mysteryofalbesila]

lovly enviroments!

[Leo Snow]

Hellyeah, great environments, i like'em, my favourite is second image with devil-baby - it's very athmosperic stuff :)

cheers :)

[Lotet]

Frankenpost!

[nonie]

Awesome work dude. More!

[redrock0077]

Your pen quite brilliant, very able, styles