Saturday, March 26, 2011

Woyer Woman Wevisited

Spent a couple days painting her face. I think I'm getting the hang of this...

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Silly Stuff

Robots, bodysnatchers...


Monday, March 21, 2011

Warm ups!

Tiny studies of my wife doing pilates, and a sketch of crazy ol' Lawrence Fishburne.


Sunday, March 20, 2011

Robot Soldier: ...Day 5

So much for posting on Friday! My birthday took hold of my schedule in its jowls and shook it like a small animal. Here's as far as I got on my robot soldier in one work-week of spare time (probably around 6 hours):

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Robot Soldier: Day 4

Probably two hours, trying out some lighting.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Robot Soldier: Day 3

An hours' worth of line cleaning and fine detail decision making. Robot guts. Do I spend a bunch of time making it look like it could actually work? Part of me wants to. Hopefully I'll snag another hour tonight and get a hand and leg cleaned up.

Robot Soldier: Day 2

Man...had some struggles trying to figure out where to take this guy.
Tried a few things, nothing worked for like an hour. Frustrating. So I looked at cool art instead of staring at my own as-of-then sucky art. :P Found some really neat stuff, and loaded up my inspiration folder, then banged this out, mostly in a few minutes. The trick, now, is to make the sword handle not look like a big penis. Not super intimidating when you're facing an enemy holding...something that looks like that.

Also, I included some thought process.


Monday, March 14, 2011

Robot Soldier: Day 1

Hello reader(s). :) I'd like a word with you, if you would.
Right now I feel as though I'm looking at two doors, trying to pick between them.
I've really enjoyed keeping this blog updated regularly (more or less, time and life permitting), and drawing a lot more feels really good. Now, I've been a professional animator for the past five years, and during that time, I found I was drawing less and less, and I didn't like that. I've been drawing more for the past month and a half, and it's been great, but I haven't done any animation...and I can't say I miss it. Or maybe at least not yet, not like I missed drawing. So the two doors I'm talking about are a continued career in animation, and a new career as a concept artist. It'd be pretty much a career reboot, and if I can find me spot somewheres, I know I could rock some socks, especially over time.

I want to make the things that make me go "wow!" And that's usually concept art (I loved flipping through the concepts for Metroid Prime and Soul Calibur 2 when I unlocked them, and who doesn't like Craig Mullins' work for the Halo series? Crazy idiots, that's who.), and cinematic animation (and boy are they getting better every year! I'm looking at you, Uncharted, LA Noire, and inFAMOUS 2!).

Now, on to the art, which is really what this blog is for...

I saw a few clips of Jason Chan's tutorial videos on YouTube, and I got all inspired, so I decided I'm gonna play concept artist this week, using his process. An hour or so a day, with the goal of having a sweet finished concept done by Friday.

Day 1 progress: Happy with the visor shape. Need to figure out the rough a little more before I continue cleaning up the lines.


Saturday, March 12, 2011

1up

Took a little break. Painted a little head.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Sneak Peek!

Here's a little taste of something I'm working on lately...it's a big project, but if things keep going the way they are, it's going. to. rock.

This crop is a bit claustrophobic, but rest assured: the full panel kicks ass.
I'll probably post more about it within the next five weeks.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

iBalls

Some quick studies.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Hair Metal

Quick doodles before bed.

I wonder how MegaMan feels about finding disembodied, exact copies of his head lying around wherever he goes? And why is it that the hairier a character is, the less intelligent he seems? Hmm.

In other news, I seem to be in the mood for polearms lately.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

TCC: M-U-R-D-R

Ended up paying some homage to one of my favorite webcomics, here. If you don't read Axe Cop, shame on you. Shame on your family.

Which reminds me, I need to catch up on it, because I haven't read it in a while. Shame mitigation.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Woyer Woman

Whenever I think about woman-warriors, I remember all the fancy metal bikinis that perpetuate the market. Seriously? We dress our he-men up with enough metal to make a car, but the ladies could go tanning after slaying their hordes, and not have to go home and change. Yeah, yeah, it's sexy or whatever. But there's something to be said for practicality, and [rant truncated]

So anyway, I thought an Inuit-themed warrior woman would be pretty rad, so I sketched out a thing real quick. Might do more with her, might not. In any case, I like her face. Soft planes, smooth lines...mm. :)

Thursday, March 3, 2011

TCC: Made With Love

Sorry no posts lately. Life's craziness. The good news is, it's Trading Card Thursday! ...well, on my blog, anyway.