A Tribute to The Banner Saga

Motor City Comic Con

here’s some of the sketches and fun from this year’s Motor City Comic Con.
AOA is planning on doing more local cons this year, so look for us around Detroit and Chicago!

Duckodile

Another of my favorite animal mash-up experiments, the duckodile.

"Oblivion Descends" - Zeratul Fan art

I decided to do a piece to really challenge myself, and after talking to my other half I decided to go with the very character that inspired me to get into art in the first place: Zeratul. The goal with this was to push myself as much as I could through the painting process, give myself a method to work with in future projects, and to get myself to a level I could be proud of. I feel very happy to have come this far with the piece, and now I'd like to put what I've learned from it into practice with my own designs. It's a big step for me, but this piece makes me much more confident in my ability to make art the way I envision it in my mind, and to continue to make things I can be proud of.
The art you see here is my handiwork, but the character Zeratul belongs to Blizzard Entertainment.

Weapons!

Here are some of the weapons concepts I've come up with for Mike Winn's ARMSmasters project. Some of these I will be model in Maya to test out an idea for making easier work out of animating them later. Hope you enjoy!

Le Paint!

Le Sheep!

A quick-ish speed paint today to try and get myself back in the groove of digital painting and to improve with it. Will probably start on another after dinner. As for getting the next one done tonight? Heck if I know.

The Busy Semester

This semester has been quite a busy one, seems right for the last hurrah though. Well, here's a giant chunk of what I've been working on aside from my senior film: a concept project that re-associates all the players involved in WWII to a dirtier version of the Sci-fi genre into a story based loosely on the events of the war. Here are all of the sketches that I have scanned in so far (there's just a few left unscanned) and even one that I put into digital paint. The goal for the project in the class is to leave with a full pitch-book for the project, and that is exactly my intent. So enjoy the mass imagery you've been missing out on while I was away!
Also, I included a quick little space-painting that I doodled up during class.

A Tribute, and a Life's Work

So I found out that Sunday evening George Carlin, a comedy hero and source of provocative thought had died. In memoriam I decided to do a little sketch of him, in appreciation for how he has affected my method of looking at the world, though I don't think I'll ever be anywhere near as pessimistic as him, I do think about weird things like why we drive on parkways and park on driveways.
Also, today I made what is probably my Magnum Opus of puns. I don't know if I can get any stupider with these, but here it is. "This is not Humerous"
...and it probably isn't.

Ramsey

The ram frog.
Y'know, they've got bullfrogs, but why not ram frogs? And what if rams and frogs actually bred to make them? This is me toying around to the point that if you saw it you'd say "what has science done!?" and then you'd probably just pat him on the head, and laugh as he and his kin headbutt in midair and flop around after landing. Fun times. Hope you enjoy him, just another one of my creature experiments.

The Challenge

Well, I decided that since I've been having a rather easy time improving (hell it's never EASY, but it went smooth in comparison) that I should go and challenge myself to things that I'm not used to. So I've got something dark, and macabre... definitely out of my usual range, and in fact, I've ALWAYS had a hard time making things dark, both in color and in content. It's just not in me, but I feel that I need to be able to make it when the inspiration hits. Also, I have a piece done in marker, because I've done everything digitally for the past year, and I feel that I really need to make sure I keep the roots. Besides... there is no fixing mistakes once you step past the pencil. So, here it is, my challenges for myself over the weekend. Macabre, and giving up my Ctrl-Z addiction. D:

Earthworm Jim

Oh man, I loved Earthworm Jim as a kid, and I still do. That's stayed the same, just like how much I suck at playing it.
Well, I'm pretty damn proud of this one, as of right now I think this one's set the bar again. I'm glad to see myself setting the bar over and over, one of my biggest fears at this school was that I wouldn't improve fast enough to make a career out of it, but for 3.5 years of taking it seriously, I feel like I've made huge strides.
So, I hope you enjoy this fan piece, as much as I enjoyed making it.

Back Log!

I've been neglecting to make some posts here, so here they be!
The first is my new ID badge for DeviantART, the second is fanart for The Maxx by Sam Keith, and the third is fanart for Okami, originally done for a contest on DeviantART.
Oh, and I got tickets to see Coldplay when they come to Auburn Hills! Woohoo!

D.O.A. --Dead On Arrival

Well, here's a collection of images from my final project in Environments & Characters called D.O.A. The story will follow Maxwell Adrene and his search for himself after suffering an amnesiac spell and waking up in front of a destroyed home, assumed to be his. With nothing to necessarily live for, as far as his memory recollects, he is convinced into joining the military and putting himself in line for military weapons experiments, thinking he should at least get a kick out of life, if he doesn't know what he's supposed to live for. Eventually, more and more of his past comes to light... and in the end he has quite the reason for joining the military.
This is, really the first time (except for an expressions project in this same class) that I have drawn the same character more than once, let alone several times in different poses and expressions. It presents quite a challenge for me, but not one I'm unwilling to take. It was really fun, I just wish it wasn't during finals... I would've taken a little more time, and done more than what was required. I am definitely considering this to be the beginning of my senior project as well. I think I could have a lot of fun fleshing this out.

Mass Art-Foolery

So here's a set of images that really have no relation to each other in any way. The first is a caricature I did of Harry, one of the most often used nude models at our school. The next two are projects from my sophomore year in Figure Illustration I. Both of which I was very proud of at the time, and I feel like I should post them because they've never seen the internet before. The last two are the first two of three maquettes that I'm making for my maquette making class. Yay sculpey! Though I am finding that I have a rather difficult time taking things from my imagination and putting them into 3D, no matter what I'm using, digital or traditional.