Pause

EDIT: I actually meant to post this yesterday, but I was having problems with my blog.

It's really a shame, since I felt really good about posting this many consecutive updates..but I'm going to have to take a brief break from producing/updating artwork for the blog. Right now I'm trying to complete an image for Sijun's Challege and at the same time I'm going to be flying out to California this Sunday for my friend's wedding and to visit my friends and family. Hopefully I'll get the chance to update during the trip, but don't hold your breath! I'll be returning on September 8th. I'll do my best to have something prepared by then!

Coastal Farm Land

Really late night speedy I did tonight while munching on Subway, drinking Red Bull, and watching the Democratic National Convention on CNN. I'm really not that big on politics, but I really enjoyed hearing Bill Clinton and Joe Biden speaking tonight.

Sketches from Borders

So the concept art team was fortunate enough to receive some time off from work the past few days. It's been a great opportunity for me to work on some stuff I've been wanting to get my hands on. I also got to catch a few dozen z's. I'm a nap machine if I don't have any deadlines to worry about.

I do feel a bit guilty about not going out to draw this past week. Well, I did, but not as many times as I had originally hoped on. But anyways, I got to go sketching with my lead concept artist, Armand Dacuba and our recent new-hire, Mitchell Mohrhauser (with his girlfriend, too). It's always fun sketching with these guys. They're very passionate about their art and we always end up talking about different artists and games that inspire us. There's really nothing better than drawing at a Borders bookstore with your comrades. Okay, that's enough babble-speak from me.

Here's some of the drawings I did today. I'm going to try to take the character from the first scan to completion. She is sort of an extrapolated version of one of the witches from last night's entry. Every so often I like doing something whimsical and cute. :-p

Character design sketch

Character portraits


Small hand VS. Crudely drawn giant cell phone...pillow? 

Demonic Geckos, Beware!

This is an illo that I started a month or so ago and decided on "finishing" this evening. I think it could still use another pass, but this should ease my conscious for now. I'll revisit soon enough, since I really did enjoy working on it!

This image has lots of craziness:

-Fat Elmer-Fudd Looking Witch
-Skinny Stretchy Ninja-Witch (I'm going to try furthering this character very soon!)
-Demonic Fire-Breathing Gecko x 2 (the tail of the second one is only visible)

Escape from the Garage

 

I was originally going to make a garage with a bunch of ships and bots in there, but I guess I had a last minute change of heart. Maybe some other time. Till then, you're stuck with another spaceship :-p

Forward

Felt like doing some characters today. I wanted to try to stick to a consistent/shared color scheme (in this case: yellow and grey). I think the girl was a bit too anime-fied. Haha. T'was fun!

The Big Battle

Sort of rushed this one since.

EDIT: But I fixed some stuff up.