Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Photo paintover

I've been doing a few 1-hour portraits for a friend's project.  Kinda like how this one turned out.

Did cheat and painted over a photo though :P  For speed's sake.  Altered lighting, colors, and some facial features.  Added uniform from a separate photo ref.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Blue Warrior WIP

lunch doodle.

Yup, I'm a lot more comfortable with photoshop than pencil at the moment... Not sure what happened along the line, it used to be the exact opposite.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Dreamscape WIP

working on a new piece for game artisan's 2D mini contest.

I took the topic "dreamscape" quite literally :)  Once in a while I dream of trains.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Friday, March 15, 2013

Hordak -wip


WIP for game artisan challenge - redesigning a Saturday Morning Cartoon.

He-man and She-Ra look cheesy as hell nowadays, but I have fond memories of watching it growing up.  I wonder if that's where my love of fantasy themes and shiny things came from.

Monday, March 4, 2013

charcoal heads




Once again, I find myself in an incredibly lucky situation.

I've been feeling stuck when it comes to drawing.  I hate my drawings for being safe/stale, yet shy away from pushing it so far into stylization that it would become cartoony.  It's more of a mental block than anything.

Right at this time, they got a kick-butt instructor for our usual wednesday night life drawing session.  The instructor is an old-school commercial artists who stresses the needs to make people look attractive.  Having my head firmly stuck into the realms of realism, I disagreed inwardly but decided to give it a try.

Then it finally clicked.  Knowing what the ideal would look like does not take realism away from me.  It gives me more freedom to push things one way or another from the idealism, and allows me to capture the essence of people.  Pushing shape design is the only way I can break out of my current stalemate against myself.

Glen Orbik, you are such a badass.  Thank you.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Girl with Gun Final

calling it done :)

Girl with Gun wip

gonna catch some dinner and continue... trying to push my stuff in a different direction than usual.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

what's a pencil sketch



pencils.. they are like photoshop paintbrush tools, except with more pressure sensitivity levels :|

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Building study

  Ref:  http://penandink.homestead.com/files/OldForge.jpg

quick study before bed.  sloppier than usual...



Building study

Ref: http://penandink.homestead.com/files/cathedralarch.JPG

there we go again, learn to draw hard surface stuff attempt #... I have no clue how many!

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Word sketches 1-4

 " Discombobulated Cookies"


 Danger


"Hope"


 "Kickassness"


(All words are provided by people on the interwebs.)

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Character doodle: Lamia

Meet Lamia, the scout for clan Regus.

Got lazy tonight... didn't finish the doodle.  I blame League of Legends.


Monday, November 26, 2012

Twisted Xmasssss

Don't lie... some of you guys must have gotten worse gifts for Xmas :)

For a drawing jam, roughly 3 hours.


Monday, October 29, 2012

robot studies



Yesterday's and today's.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Robot studies

Robot studies today.  Pretty sleepy so it's all sloppy...

Annnnd doodle.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Lunch study

As I was getting started on this, a non-dev non-artist tour group walked by my desk.  I had fun imagining what must have been going through their mind when they saw the ref photo of half-naked dude on my screen.