Wonder Woman Poster

Felt like doing some poster art. I adore Wonder Woman, but despite several attempts I've never been able to do a satisfactory piece of fan art. Since I also like poster art and design, I decided to merge the two.

Heh. Two pieces of art within the span of a day. Not bad for me. (Also...Illustrator export to Photoshop options...really suck.)

Sorta Deco

I'm planning on redoing my art portfolio site, and I wanted to go with an Art Deco theme, to get away from the 50's drive-in theme I have going now (which I kind of re-purposed for this blog). This didn't turn out the way I wanted, but oh well. He was going to be shrunk down as a design element, so most of the effort I put into him would have been lost anyway.

Art update!

Wow, such an original title. 8D Anyhoos, I finished this one  September 5th. Honestly, if I could get away with grayscale value paintings all the time, I would. They're just much more fun for me. You can see the same guy as seen here.

Decided to do some color painting practice last night. This was done fairly quickly by my standards, but I like it. :3 My OC Ariel.

Tokka

Commission for my brother-in-law of his Pathfinder character, a half-elf barbarian named Tokka. I got to design her outfit and weapon, which was fun. There need to be more Art Deco swords in the world. :D

The first rule of Pug Club...

...is to tell everyone about Pug Club. 8D

One of my sisters has a pug named Ellis, and takes him to a "pug club" out where she lives in Montana. I thought this was too adorable an opportunity to pass up, and made a pug illustration for t-shirts I will have printed as a birthday/wedding present for her and her fiancee. The "Pug Club" bone is supposed to go on the front of the t-shirt as a small logo. The dog will be on the back (and will be much larger).

Done in Illustrator, for once. The font is hand-drawn, obviously based on the "Fight Club" logo. :B

Red Destiny

Painted character concept, based on this character concept, though I did make a few minor changes. I spent so much time on this piece, I nearly gave up a few times. He fought me every step of the way. In the end I like the way he turned out...even if he did make me pull my hair out.

I would also be a faster painter if the internet didn't exist. >_>;

Vulnerable

 

My OC Dragon. I kind of feel the way he looks right now. 

Moar Transformers!

More human versions of characters from "Transformers Prime". I tried to do Megatron, but for some reason I just wasn't happy with the way he came out, so this is as far as I got. I think it's because his face was hard to reinterpret as a human: as a robot, his helmet makes his head look wide, but his "cheekbones" are high and sharp, and his muzzle area is fairly narrow.

My troubles with Optimus stem from the fact that heroes just aren't quite as much fun to draw as villains. You have to play them straight, and can't do weird things with their anatomy or they start looking less heroic. I just couldn't bring myself to give Optimus a tiny little Bruce Timm waist and huge hulking chest, so this is as much as I could manage. (His hair was probably the next most difficult thing, since as a robot he has none, and his helmet doesn't really lend itself to suggestions.)

In the end, I went with what I hope is an ex-military feel to Optimus: stern, strict, powerful, and possessed of immense discipline.

Starscream Fangasm

So, uh, yeah. Starscream. >_>;;

I think this is literally the first robot/mecha I've drawn since high school.

Transformers!

So, been kind of a slow few weeks. Been a bit art-blocked and working on other non-drawing/painting projects. I also finally got around to watching a few "Transformers Prime" episodes for the first time recently, and liked what I'd seen so much I ran out and bought the first season on DVD.

LOVE.

I was never a fan of the original Transformers. I didn't hate it; I just never watched it. (I was more into He-man, She-ra, and the Ninja Turtles.) But this new series is amazing: amazing designs, amazing voice acting, amazing animation, scripting, etc. Also, I've decided that my favorite character is Starscream. There's just something about the "magnificent bastard" kind of character that I can't get enough of (it may also have something to do with Steve Blum's voice work). 

Anyway, I've never really attempted to draw mecha or robots, so I decided that for my first attempt at TFP fan art, I'd do a humanized Starscream. His robot face was really easy to reimagine as flesh, because he just has the coolest facial proportions ever. I've seen some people redraw him looking way too bishie and young, which really doesn't appeal to me. So I decided to make him look a bit older, deadly, and conniving.

Also...I can't draw dudes without drawing them naked first. It just...happens. :'D

Mad Dog Colored

Colored version of my last posted piece of line art! :D I wanted his colors to be muted, since he occasionally has to go on stealth missions to accomplish his goals. The idea is that he's wearing a somewhat mismatched set of leather armor. So he gets some very dark, muted browns and grays. The red is a holdover from a much older armor design. He also has a magic gauntlet connected to his tendons because he's missing 2 fingers on his left hand.

The name "Mad Dog" comes from a nickname Ryuuichi earned as a reckless teen. That's also about the same time he lost those fingers.

Mad Dog Lines

Ugh. It's been a very eventful month or so. In late March, my computer died. Everyone I asked with the slightest bit of computer knowledge seemed to have a different opinion on what the problem was. It seemed like the motherboard may have gone bad, and since my motherboard was about 4 years old, if I replaced it I would also have to replace my processor and RAM, which were also 4 years old. SO. I bought new hardware, but that didn't fix the problem. Turns out it was the hard drive. So I bought a new one, installed that, and installed Windows. Well, that worked, but my dad took my old hard drive and reformatted it...and that worked too. Since it turned out to be a software problem and not just the hardware, I returned the new hard drive and kept the old one to save $80. That's the thing that really got me...all the money I spent and effort I went to setting up a new system...and it turns out I needn't have spent a single dime for all my trouble. Note to self: ALWAYS reformat the hard drive first. (I couldn't return my processor since it was OEM, so I also decided to keep my new RAM and motherboard.)

In the mean time I'd set up an Etsy store to try and supplement my income, so most of the work I got done was towards that end. It pains me to say it, but I got very little personal work done. But you gotta do what you gotta do.

ANYWAY. It's my birthday, and to celebrate (or something), here is my latest piece. I decided to redesign a VERY old character of mine, the elf you can see in my previous post.

I realized I wanted to make him look a lot more well-worn. Given the fact that this character is a nihilist who has actively courted death, I decided to rough him up. A lot. So now he has quite a few scars and is missing a few fingers. I also included a few detail sketches so you can see the magical gauntlet he has rigged up to replace his fingers, and the hilt of his sword.

For fun, here's the character as I drew him the very first time, back in 2000. >_>

More March arts!

So I had the flu last week, which took me out of commission for...well, the week. I don't think I've had the flu since high school, and I'm glad it took 10+ years. I'm totally willing to wait another 10+ years to catch it again. @_@

Anyway, sketch dump today, since unfortunately I was too busy trying not to die last week to get anything accomplished. First off, an aborted character portrait. I really wanted a grittier feel to him, but unfortunately my elf came out looking like a Calvin Klein ad. Oh well. Second picture is a WIP. I love the covers to old sci-fi pulp magazines, so I am trying to recreate the look and feel of those...just with a few differences.

Two updates for the price of one!

Here's some art I did recently but forgot to post. An original creature design, the bone dog (original inhabitant of my previous forest picture), and an original costume (re)design sketch.

Bone Forest

This started out as a creature painting...but then I started having more fun painting the environment than the creature. So here you go, the Bone Forest. What that means, I don't quite know...but I don't think I'd want to visit. ಠ_ಠ

Grigori Lord

Character portrait and armor design exercise. I usually try to avoid really over-the-top elaborate fantasy-style armor, but as a result the armor I do draw tends to be a bit mundane and practical. I was trying to spice things up a bit, especially since I figure an angel would have some nice armor. This is Satomael, whom you can actually see post-fallen state in my banner above. Doesn't look quite so calm later on, does he?

Happy New Year!

HA! I made it in before the end of the New Year! Here's a male anatomy study I did (and turned into a quick and dirty illustration). >_> Also, I watched Disney's "Tarzan" last night, and was all into naked dudes with awesome grabby hands.

Bah. I hate to admit it, but I have a little difficulty rendering guys (as opposed to drawing them). I worked on this all day, longer than I'd intended. I didn't get to play Skyrim. T_T