Figure study

We have a figure study after work once a week that I've started going to. Here are some 1 minute to 5 minute sketches that came out well.

Old dead drunk

This old warrior is a bit more interested in a stein of the sauce than bothering the living.

More stuff from the archives

Here are some old personal projects that weren't quite tuned for portfolio showing. They can moulder here for a bit.

More unfinished biz

Cowboy robot..Maybe a la Westworld or something.

This guy I love. Just refound him. He's an old soddered king of the woods.. He is all texture.

unfinished biz

Above: Clean techno jumpsuit guy with uncontrolled plant hybridization. His arm is in a test tube of nutrient kindof like what you get when you buy flowers. He's rooted at the bottom and leafy up top. Losing his humanity a little in his masked face. Next is an idea me and a friend worked up about a victorian gentleman who has a twin body growing out of his back conspicuously. It thrashes and has "moods" all the time and in his conservative social group he just tries to ignore it..Imagine dinner party.. Puberty..etc..pink elephant.
I was looking at an old folder named "art" on my desktop and realized I have a ton of unfinished drawings that I may have to admit I will never get to finish. After not seeing them for several months I find some of them are cool and just to preserve them I've put em up here. Mostly character concept sketches. It's hard to look at some of them but I think there are some good ideas here.

This one I WILL finish..It's just too clean not too. Plus I really like her character. Typical chick in space suit with a way too big gun but she's still girly and swingin a purse.

Squid love

I really like the slick look that a lot of today's cartoons have. With such line economy they add a huge amount of style. Not my personal style but I wanted to give it a shot.

When doing the initial sketch for this guy, I tried to have geometric connections. Lines lead into other ones. There is a stiffness to this guy, lines are straight and curves are exact and inflexible. This hopefully is in contrast with octopus' curves.

The guy is a smoker, he likes fire and smoke. His outfit is brownish and his eyes are tired. His angles are stiff. The octopus is cool and wet - Feminine.

For this guy to work with an octopus he has to carry a water spritzer. It is obviously cumbersome to have an octopus on his arm at all times but he is willing to compromise his nature to keep her close. Is it love or symbiosis requiring lots of energy to maintain? The curl logos on his sleeves evoke a little oceanic, nautilus or octopus- arm feel or is it smoke?

Revamped Elf

11th hour, right before i was about to leave I get the request to make an elf for marketing.. 2 hour elf here.

More xmas stuff

This is a poster sized xmas thing for our upcoming title. it's a US dist game mostly but this is the localized one for Spanish.

I added Santa and the Penguin from another piece so the perspectives are off, no time to fix it! It is a little chopped up but I'm happy with how it looks.

Retro Diver a la Day the Earth Stood Still

Retro future guy, a little Day the Earth Stood Still, A little Rocketeer, a little Mysterio. I'm trying out a new coloring workflow, seems decent. Start with as detailed sketch as possible, fancy it up in CS then add overlay colors.

Halloween Hero

This is a title screen for our game Goblin Toss - Trick or Treat. Done from a sillouette and I think it came out cool, I'm glad the dirt color scheme got in there and I got paid to draw a dragon and a goblin, I have arrived:)

Painting over a screenshot

One of the fun things I have to do is to "uprez" a cell phone screen so it looks good in a powerpoint presentation. This is a 220x320 screenshot that I painted over a little to make it look cleaner, the present pyramid is still pixellated but what the hell.

Paleolithic project

Me and a friend are slowly working on a gritty caveman comic. This character isn't what our final look is going to be about but I liked how it came out. I love adding the rivulets of gore and flecks of ichor.

Finally had to accept that Illustrator has its merits! I got the program and this is more or less my first image. So easy to make it CLEAN. The shark guy I made a while back (with the cane) would have been dead on if I had made him in Illustrator.
I picked Sponge Bob just to try to hit an existing style. I think it's good but Patrick is a little beefy.

New gig

So I've been working at a mobile games company for a few months now. I did this piece of pixel art as a concept drawing, it's the good luck three legged toad from Chinese mythology. He loves coins so grab em before he does!
Minigolf btw:)

Geezer Jaw

An older great white, not in a good mood. He's all out of chondroitin and he has a bad "hip"

Here I tried to work up a cartoony shark guy - I never really do this style but I did want to have the ability to do it if needed.

His profile isn't really old - he could have been a little more withered and sharp but he's not geriatric. Sharks age well anyways don't they?

Loose again

Got caught up in an illustration. Just trying to model the form by using fast color swaths and pushing them around with the smudge tool. Interesting but I'm not going to do this one clean.

The vertical mouth is pretty cool but the carapace style head plates I have done before.

Parasitized undead

I got this idea while reading about chinese herbal remedies. Apparently the Chinese womens swim team some years back was accused of using performance enhancing drugs, their coach in a press conference claimed they were taking herbs including the rare and expensive cordyceps.

Cordyceps is a fungus that lives exclusively on a certain moth caterpillar, eventually killing it as it matures, feeding on the flesh of the animal.

This humanoid with some vague nematodic qualities shambles along and is driven to whatever misdeeds cross it's parasitized mind. Whether it still thinks for itself at all or is now a hapless host to a fungal entity is unknown - better to kill it first and ask questions later.

Like a coloring book

Still refining the pencil to Photoshop workflow. With some extra work this typical midieval euro-style frog soldier could be clean. Without his pencil outline he is actually pretty solid but would need some inking details. I left the pencil instead and called him done.

Right now I'm sketching...adding final lines with pencil and erasing older lines...scanning...digitally cleaning up a bit...dropping in base colors..layers layers layers..working from back to front. Not really inking with pen and seeing how that goes.
I am going to be doing some concept environments next. I have one more character idea to put forth..If I nail it then I'm gonna focus on them for a while. Cordyceps!

Little fella

This guy came out OK except his ink lines stand out and look a bit spotty next to the clean cel shading of the rest of the image. I might go back and stroke the body and get rid of the ink layer. We'll see.

Frankenbean...I have no idea what the Mercury part means..Maybe they know in Japan.

From what I read..

So I was re-reading some H.P. Lovecraft and felt the need to whip this guy up. "Yogg" is a pretty down the middle name for a Lovecraftian elder god. Following "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" this small village has summoned Yogg from the mists of the sea town, long fallen into decay but not abandoned. Sea soaked planks, ever encroaching cliffs and a sickly mist surround the place. Population 120.
Yogg is BIG. And hungry.

The REAL first post

OK! The blog is created. Nothing much on here yet but I thought it would be a good idea to preserve some of the half-baked ideas I work on and abandon. Hopefully some move on to be finished works but sometimes a decent sketch lies around forever without any attention so here some of em come to rest.