HI! There’s some stuff to cover so let’s start!

1. I made two new Alice posters and it was kinda hard, it was more painted than i usually make, the project is really amazing and i think i’ll be focusing on Weapons. I suck at weapons But i want to try and learn to not suck at them. I suck at creating flowey movement too btw. If you noticed my work is usually dramatic and static, i’m not one of those artists that creates movement and characters that cool Anime/Action stuff.

Off With Her Head, american mcgee, alice, wonderland

I painted the shit out of these tentacles and they kinda look real! yea i used pictures of real tentacles underneath but it’s just for general shape and light. American said that he doesn’t know if this queen will get into the game but i just felt it’s correct to create her like this specifically with the hatter/queen/peeled Alice face like in the original game.

Alice: Asylum poster, for American Mcgee by Omri Koresh

I prefer the rabbit light gray on dark gray, i don’t like the red! sorry, not painting that in. the characters are inspired by the characters in the games/world. i copied attributes not the actual characters so it won’t look too literal. I like how it came out.

2. Some new paintings, i don’t think i updated these yet:

they are kinda small, 45*45 cm. I’m trying to paint that large painting i showed you last month, i’m only at my first layer. today i’m suppose to do the next one! so yay second layer! I’m kind of loosing it when it comes to painting in oils, i got maybe a day and a half in a whole week to paint. Things keep getting in the way! i just hope i could make enough paintings to pouch galleries.

3. IMI I had this idea for a new photography series that was bubbling in my head for a year and a half now. I M I, Which is a series of, naturally, portraits that explores feminine beauty, standards and perception. i usually create a sketch with my In-house model, Shelly. The bitch is so pretty, i can photograph her all day.

you probably know this but i create the same frame over and over again. This will have about 20 images in total. I already photographed the first model, I might show process or something but i don’t want to show the final outcome until i’ll be finished.

4. Pirate jam! Pirate jam is a concept by American Mcgee that is about having fun like a stupid pirate and to develop games! he just opened the list to participate in 2019 and of course i wrote him i’m in! It’s In April and i hope i’ll be able to afford the trip but it’s a once in a lifetime experience and i’m not letting that slip through my fingers! i’m looking for a cool picture to show you but they all look like nerds that need a shower. so I’m putting a wallpaper of Jeanette Voerman From Vampire Bloodlines. Cosplayed by Nina Naurielle and Photographed by PSK.Photo

you can save it directly to your computer, this is high res (:

jeanette voerman vampire bloodlines

5. Cool news for GeckoRouge (I sell Cross stitch packages with them) They are nominated to win something in Britain in some cool contest at British Craft Awards, I gathered it’s a big thing! I hope they’ll win! My latest design for them is actually a Real Alice.

So perhaps next month i could tell you if they won or not!

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update,

Update: 3d printer!

hey! so stuff is happening! i finally got my 3d printer, it’s so cool! Apparently when you get a 3d printer the first thing that you do is actually print out things FOR the printer. Like an arm to hold the printing material (that blue thing).

So tomorrow OR today i’ll be printing my dummy for the dresses hopefully it won’t mean i’ll have to re-sew the whole thing! I still hope i’ll get at least 2 dolls for the exhibition in march! i’ll update you of course.

Update: Stuff i painted this week

As i wrote you, my photographer friend, Grace Almera took these amazing pictures of women drinking coffee and i really loved them.  After seeing the series, I decided to paint one of the frames, but i added cats and changed the outfit and design a bit. I wanted to capture the concept of “what a girl wants” which is a lot of times just some quiet and cute stuff on the way. The comparison on top- because it came out really good!

Also for next week i’ll be publishing my own version of Corpse bride.

I told you earlier of who i based the face on. It’s this Iranian girl, “Sahar Tabar” who supposedly had a lot of plastic surgery on her face to look like a skeletal Angelina Jolie. After i examined her face and pictures i figured out, it’s all fake. this is her real face:

Yes, she did get a nosejob, lips done and cheek implants. But she’s not skinny/skeletal and in most pictures she has a bucket of makeup on her face. All of the pictures are heavily edited and photoshopped- pretty well i might add!

Anyway! corpse bride, Yea i loved the way it came out, i wanted to make the arms realistic but, it just didn’t work so i kept it semi-realistic and i tried to capture her in my own way.

Update: Cookies packaging

Last year i told you guys that i worked for a private client for some cookie packaging, well now they are finally going to get printed out and sold in China! It’s a Russian company and the brand is called “8 bears“. I’m creating some new designs for them, i’ll show it here

It’s super cute and i still have to finalize these images. I’m suppose to get a sample to eat this month, my client is coming for a visit in israel. This is so exciting, think like- people in CHINA will eat my artwork LOL

I’m the SOLE designer, art, painting, logos, everything. I dictated how this product will look like and the company pretty much let me go for it. At the beginning they thought like to create a flat background and a traditional packaging but i pushed to full blown paintings. I told them that THEIR audience WANTS ART so I made a sample and they put the idea in  a maybe pile and they showed it to people on their end- i won (:

I think there are about 10 different tastes, i’ll be able to create wallpapers if you guys will want to use one for your own computers.

Last Update: Got American‘s first assignment, I can’t share it just yet.

 

Thanks for reading my weekly update! believe it or not i got even more LOL so much stuff is going on.

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Omri

 

mobile games,

Before anything- Should i do a Christmas themed portrait? 

….i usually don’t do anything that’s holiday-like.

Mobile Games!

Hey! recently i told you that there’s this guy (ORI) that started talking to me about creating mobile games. well, it’s happening. i can’t give you any details just yet, but i CAN share the first concepts of our main character. It’s a penguin/post-office guy. I’m still not sure on his character- if he’s suppose to be Cute or Grumpy.

I want him memorable, don’t know what to do yet but this is exciting. Ori (The mobile game guy) is a really good programmer and you know me- a total workaholic and i know my stuff. So- This will turn out cool. I love mobile games, personally i’m addicted to Pet Rescue saga. I created some mobile games in the past in companies but in this case me and Ori are partners, so this will be created artistically 100% by me, so it’s exciting.

A bit different…

I’m still designing and painting digital sketches, but i had an idea lately, i thought of maybe taking old commercials/ads and re-create them. But sleazy or just plain disturbing like- “GOT MILK?”

i usually paint girls but i wanted to paint a guy for once, and personally- This is my taste, give me a viking!! i don’t know if i’ll release him on my FB page, he might be too different from the girls. What would you do?

I want to do a “Nuka Cola” ad and a GTA one. Don’t know if i’ll paint it in oils or not but- let’s just keep the creativity rolling.

Also- not finished but almost:

I wanted her to be more amorphous with less definition in the background and shirt, i wanted her to look like she’s swimming in a mesh of green. I’m still closing in the concept for this series, i don’t know how many portraits will eventually hit the canvas but i’m not worried.

Lastly- BREAKING NEWS!

I’m going to get my own store here on the site!

so i’m going to show off my dolls and all the stuff i make for sale. but to be clear- I’m not asking you to buy anything! i’m just so happy about it! also the site will go through an upgrade and also the newsletter listing was upgraded finally. So you might be getting this email properly- finally!

Thank you for reading! write back to me directly to this email OR ON SITE HERE

Omri.

Patreon, Alice: Asylum

Patreon is a platform for, well, getting money from people to create ongoing projects. American McGee asked me if i’d like to be the third artist on Alice 3 (Alice: asylum) for the pitch. Click here to get there and support him

DUHH i said YES! I jumped up and down like an idiot. Also you already KNOW that i’m going to create a lot of Alice fanart as the designs and art will unravel. So why not just make it official? it’s good for him and good for me as i can get the correct story from the horse’s mouth. I just hope that Patreon will work.

Below a new concept i’m working on. I want to merge the family’s screaming heads around Alice.

I loved “Alice: madness returns” but personally i found it too cute, too colorful and not dark enough. Story-wise pretty much perfect, but the overall look was too cheerful for me. The original classic “American mcgee’s Alice” pretty much changed my whole perception of gaming and art. It was Beautiful but still Ugly enough so it will look twisted and dark and WESTERN. My main problem with Madness is that it’s too eastern.

Color palettes and Simplicity as it come in the general designs of the buildings etc. It was too far away for me from the original London Vibe.

I HOPE my style will impact the direction the third game Can go to as I don’t believe Mcgee will take me for a Full job for the project. But i wish so bad that he’ll be able to hire me with Patron Money and i REALLY wish i could be part of the full game if Ea games would accept the concept and create a third installment.

I found this girl (Instagram link)

I looked carefully at her images- it’s all heavily edited, she’s just using makeup really well. But she really inspired me to paint Corpse Bride

She looks to me like the real version of Emily. And my friend Grace  Inspired me to paint one of her images too

Isn’t this frame just beautiful? of course there will be changes but i loved it.

I also made this week something i’ll publish next week, but you can see it first here.

 

sue me, i love rats. You know that feeling that you look at something beautiful and for a moment you are speechless? that’s what i wanted to paint, like taking off the headpiece to look at something. The rats for me are representatives of the people around her, with her, around her, everyone “full of air”.

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Alice: Asylum

HEY! American is extremely busy with trying to pick up Alice 3 from EA and i thought you know-

i want to help out. I really want this game and i CAN help. I already helped with “Alice Wake Up” image, so i thought i’d make another one- and made up a logo.

I don’t know how people will react to it, because mainly, i just uploaded it to FB. Today was a slow day, got so much to do i can’t find time even to myself. But with that said, it’s really all good! BTW to paint this image i had to really paint the Liddle family first and then do the frame and flames. So i still got the image itself, black and white, i can actually print it and frame it like it’s a real antique family photo LOL.

Also if you noticed i upgraded “Alice 2014” face in one of my wallpapers

and after i saw what i did, I had a hunch people won’t love her, and i was right!

I don’t like the original and i don’t like the revamp one. both for me are a no go, but people still seem to like her because, well, ALICE. perhaps i’ll delete it from the portfolio, but the important thing is that she kept people talking!

Obsessions

it’s still not done. i need to cover the pictures of the plastic bees. I thought of making a girl with flowers without making it too cliche. this is the sketch i’m on right now.

I actually painted her because i thought she’s randomly cool, no special reason.

and lastly for today… DRUMROLL… i finished

Loving Him, 2017

I think i dig it when you can see the canvas on the wall itself. what do you think?

Until next Saturday, perhaps i’ll have some news of another project by then (i’m in talks).

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updates… stuff is moving slowly but it’s still moving.

Updates: Bat Mitzva

My niece had a Bat-Mitzva, that means she’s 12. my sister lives at the edge of nowhere in Israel so we drove there and stayed the weekend, that’s why i didn’t update last week. It was fun but also… i pretty much helped her with.. well.. anything besides taking care of her 3 small girls. Kids are not my forte. I love those girls, they are so unique but i also really dislike children. Until- usually, when people turn 23 i usually find myself like “ew, you’re still a kid”. Yup 23, why 23? no clue.

DOLLS! + Berlin

I won’t be coming to Berlin at March as we just can’t afford it but- it’s all good. I’ll present two dolls there and hopefully there will be some kind of noise around my work.

Also btw, the exhibition is in 10th of march, my birthday is the day after- i don’t want to spend my birthday on a business trip, alone in a 2 star hotel, not cool.

good news- the 3d is coming along, I work with Kyle (Hi!) he totally gets what i’m asking. I can’t stress enough how important it is to work with people that understand your trail of though. When i worked with companies, there was usually like a graphic designer or a retoucher or someone i needed to work with. and apparently, there are so many dumb people in the world- you tell them A they do B. Why? no clue.

i’m dying to start sewing my first doll-corset. her waist-line is so tiny, i can finally do it!

Nuerva

Thank you guys for your amazing feedback on the book, i refined it and readjusted the whole thing according to your comments.

I also pitched it to Dark Horse Publishing. I don’t know if this is even their cup of tea but i always loved Dark Horse’s contents and books, so i figured that It’s OR doing it independently OR doing it through them. They only write back IF they want to publish it, i honestly don’t believe i’ll get an email back but i just don’t have anything to lose.

Also Thank you Lani Lenore the AMAZING Author, she pretty much re-wrote the pitch to perfection- as you know English isn’t my first language. It’s important to sound like i don’t have tourettes.

What i need to do next is Pretty simple, Render the Art to it’s completion and start campaigning! this is so overwhelming, i can’t believe this is so close to the end /:

Hopefully, i’ll show you my new oil painting next week! it’s not done! i’ll show you updates.

anyway even if you just want to say hi! write back to this email Or on site

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Alice 3 pitch,

HEY! So yup if you didn’t know my “Alice Wake Up” image became the poster child for the new

Alice 3 pitch, by American McGee.

This is so awesome. it’s been featured at Gamestar Germany, i have NO idea what the guy is saying as it’s in german and i’m sure he’s not saying “the most amazing artist Omri Koresh has painted Alice blah blah blah” but it’s awesome enough just to get my art shown. HERE is the video.

It’s been featured in several places online, of course by my direct permission. Everything about his Alice 3 Pitch of course. If you haven’t sign up to American Listing for Alice 3 pitch, click HERE.

If you want to see how i painted it Click HERE or Watch embed below

Model was Nina Naurielle, she took the photos as i requested and i made two wallpapers. One simplified and this one, i really love the way it came out (:

You ask “How it happened?”

I actually sent a message to American with a question on something totally different, I had an idea on how to Practice my texturing work. Also.. well it can turn out cool- Taking his flat ass game “Bad Day LA” and re-texture it totally realistic.

of course there are shadow problems.. which there are none and other stuff, but imagine what i can turn this weird ass thing into with my texturing abilities… anyway!

I asked american if he knows of a way i can crack open the textures and re-do them, well, unfortunately Not. But on the way he just asked if he could use my image everywhere concerning the Alice 3 pitch. and i’m like, “Sure, cool” and in my head i’m like “Aaiuih$##$of99434 OMG wi8833 Daaiw ALiiiccceeee 111 11222333333 3 3 33333 *drool*” obviously. Oh, and jumping up and down like an idiot.

I have NO idea on what he might want from me, IF he will even want from me any art, but i know one thing, I can create western ART. His team over there makes everything very eastern (duh) it’s pretty but it’s not British. Perhaps i’m not British but i grew up on western art and i understand the style. I really hope he’ll want to use me for this! even if it’s just small images or, well, anything, i’ll be so honored being a part of an Alice 3 pitch.

Image, “Alice: Madness Returns” just for reference. Characters look drawn and the building behind Alice, Very flat with almost no ornaments or detailing. No layers of wood OR/AND bricks. Flat surfaces of wood, Same simplified shapes and kinda clean. If you look further away this almost looks Anime.

Alice: madness returns

Also on a side note, I don’t know if i told you about this, but i thought of re-texturing the game. Making it so look Darker and Un-pretty it. Generally Make it look more western. If you take out the “Far East” world (i forgot the name in the game), and look at the rest of the package- It’s pretty much at the same style. Even London is simplified and too clean.

The reason i didn’t do it is because my old computer used to crash with too many new uploaded textures and it made the game run MUCH slower. IF i could make the game run at it’s normal rate and it won’t crash i’ll do it!

when i’ll have some time. For now you can download my Alice Tweaks HERE.

the tweaks are Minor but important, it gives her more volume and “correctness” for the total look. If i wanted i could of re-designed her something totally different, but for the time i just wanted her to stay the same. Just with MY aesthetics.

American McGee’s Alice HD pack

If i made you feel nostalgic i’ll remind you to Download my HD pack! HERE

I still hope that one day there will be a remake of this classic game! Or i’ll find a way to upgrade it somehow shape-wise. This game came out So long ago and the new one isn’t as creepy as this one, but it CAN be. It needs darker music and twisted textures and it will be wonderful.

Thank you for reading my weekly tale! I hope this Alice 3 pitch will work and i hope i’ll have something to do with it!

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i’ll dish out whatever i can to you, i promise.

Omri.

future, Hey! I finally rested a bit, painted a lot too but it’s fun.
I wanted to talk about some stuff that are brand new!

I’m going to exhibit some work in Berlin – march

this is going to be so cool. it cost me a lot of money, to participate in these kind of things it’s expensive but because my latest sales… well. all my sales pretty much went to the participation of this exhibition. (pic, Heweey was sold)

 

I don’t have a lot of details yet but it’s in March, and i might be able to travel there for 4 days, something like that. Never visited Berlin or Germany, any suggestions on what to do? I always imagined German men always looking pissed off, pink white and everything blonde. I know it doesn’t make any sense but it’s kinda hot.

Latest gallery opening

I had a great opening of my small exhibition on Wednesday, it’s what i needed. Not too many people, i did some networking, a woman who is a professional shoe designer LOVED my shoes and demanded to photograph them. I told her that i don’t think that the Chinese would have a problem with her stealing their designs… i buy everything from Ali express. and I talked endlessly to people and had great feedback. drank and walked around with a good friend who’s trying to learn networking- I really started to notice, It’s literally a skill, and i got it.

OH! i can’t wait for the 11/11 because then Ali express has deals and i want wigs! (and stuff for the dolls duh)

THE FUTURE IS HERE: 3d print!

I’m going to start printing my dolls in 3d! apparently it’s doable now! the prices are normal (my dolls are not HUGE so it’s great) and i can buy a 3d printer and i got a good friend who already has one! so he’s going to help me out with everything. I hate molds and i hate the dirt it comes with it and i hate the smells and everything around all that shit. In 3d printing i won’t have any of that and my dolls would be ABLE TO MOVE. (in the pic, my LAST object, from now on- just dolls)

the story of my dolls is never the actual body, i like to use the exact same perfect body anyway, the dresses and the makeup and hair- that’s what my dolls are. it’s the aesthetics not how the body is represented. don’t get me wrong, there are some dolls that opened real discussions on body image, i love it when people do that, BUT that’s not me, I prefer it in 2d. in the pic, Enchanted doll by Marina, fucking talented, she made this series of these AMAZING dolls, each talking about their flaws and uniqueness. i Just found her work inspiring! I’ve known her for years.

Well? what do you think? do you think 3d printing “Lowers” the artwork? Also any opinions on the blog?

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thank you for reading, Omri.