Links and pics

Wanted to plug my friend Joel Davis's article:
Better Programmer Art
(or how to fake it as a game artist)

REALLY good tips on game art here for artist's and programmers alike.

Also wanted to mention Alchemy since it is my new favorite drawing program. This program is great for making loose concept sketches as well as abstract doodles as well as good old illustration.
Here are some examples of what I mean from their forum

Modeling done

Haven't unwrapped the UVs yet. Playing around with image based lighting and the skylight in 3dstudio max. Messed around with it in post (photoshop)

Update.

Minor update. The modeling is almost done.

End of term

The steampunk challenge had to take a back seat to finishing out the term and studying for my Max certification. Here is a character I am finishing for a class demo on character modeling. A friend of mine designed / illustrated the character.