Singer

Heyo. Just a little update today!



Enjoy!

Unused Caricatures

Hello!

So I had to caricature someone at work this week. I have a tough time with it, so I had a few of the talented folks I work with show me some pointers. Ultimately, I ended up going with something very similar to what one of the artists drew, so here i a handful of unused ones that I did. It was a challenge for sure, but it was nice to explore things I don't usually pursue!



Enjoy!

Unused Designs

Hi there!

Today I bring you some unused designs that I sketched up for work.



I drew this bird up and ultimately I had to cut him. Luckily I can use him for another bit of animation. The final design is a bit different, and once I can show stuff from work, I'll post him.

And as a bonus, because Ian Merch pointed out that today is Draw A Dinosaur Day, here's an unused dinosaur design.



The final is not an Apatosaurus, but it still has that same stupid face. Though, I tweaked it a bit to make him look a little confused. :)

Mikey

Just a little one today. This is Mikey. He likes the Ramones.

Tank Color Comp

Happy New Year!

One of my resolutions was to be much more active with this blog this year. I want to go back to doing at least one update a week. So here's the first update for 2011!



This is just a quick sketch / color comp for a drawing I was doing this afternoon. I've been recently playing Valkyria Chronicles (Which features a tank) and reading Dragon Ball (Whose creator, Akira Toriyama, sometimes draws personal sized planes, cars, tanks, etc.) so I was inspired to do something along those lines.

I will probably clean it up in Flash and do a different paint job, who knows. Enjoy!

It's Me!

Hello! Another drawing I did in Flash. Hooray.

And here is a variation with black outlines.

And here is the original sketch.

Lots o' Trolls

Yo!

So, I needed to do a troll design for my short. Here are a bunch of them. They are all very rough, but it shows a wide variety of directions I tried out. Enjoy!

















This is the final design. For now.

With The Rains Came The Wolves...

So I had this dream last night. It was a thematically recurring dream where I am desperately trying to get to work, but I just can't. I'm already late, I have no clothes to wear, no way of getting there, people keep distracting me. And in this case, it is raining very hard. Like, The Deluge hard. Needless to say, the tone of the dream was pretty bleak.

So, towards the end, before I woke up, I was walking up to my building, with this guy and this girl. The guy went on ahead, while the girl said she would wait for us outside. As I'm leaving, I hear the howls of wolves, and I turn to see two wolves slowly patrolling in the heavy rains. They weren't normal wolves though. They were much bigger, and their necks were a little more elongated.

That's about the time I woke up. It was pretty nightmarish. So here is a quick piece I put together, hopefully giving off the sense of dread I had in the dream. Enjoy!

Trees!

Hi! Been a while, I know. I've been busy with multiple projects going on at two different jobs, so... I kinda slacked off on my stuff. But I'm back!

Here's a series of tree sketches I did last night, just to try to get a feel for art direction for... Trees. I did a quick color job on them in Photoshop to make them a little nicer to look at. Enjoy!















See ya soon!

One More Quickie

Hi again!

Here's a quick sketch of, I guess, a football player, or something along those lines. I like how raw it is, but I'm considering adding to it. Maybe coloring it. Not sure yet.



I just love quickies! Getting it down on the page quickly, without laboring over details is the best!

Quick Sketch

Hello.

Here's a quick little image I did of a Kasa Obake, an umbrella spirit in Japanese folklore. I like them.



Enjoy.

Stuff From An Old Notebook

Found this in one of my sketchbooks the other day. It's a quick sketch of a bust I saw at the Art Institute of Chicago. I dig it, so I slapped it into Photoshop and tweaked it a little. Enjoy!



And yes, the title of this post is a reference to The Minutemen.

Random Sketches

Heya.

Just a handful of sketches I did earlier today. The one in the middle is actually a character I used a LOOOOOOONG time ago in my old webcomic.



Enjoy.

Variations On A Theme

Hello! Just two drawings I did the other day. Two singers for hardcore bands. One seems a little more angry, the other one just looks tired.

Poppa Tom

Yo. So I had this idea that involves me being a father. I sketched up some comps of what I might look like. Here are some of the not awful ones.



I kinda dig them, but I pushed it a little bit more and got this one, which I think will be my final.



I'm still collecting ideas for things to happen in this new project, but rest assured, it will be terrible! Look forward to it!

Unused Tyking

Hello.

This is a rejected design for one of the Tykings, but I really like it. Maybe I will do something with it another time. I think a cleaned up version would look awesome on a t-shirt!



Peace out!

Quick Tykings Sketch

Hi!

Here's a quick sketch of one of the Tykings. I'm still banging out final designs, so this one is a little off. Also, my great eraser makes it look like he has a black eye.



Enjoy!

Couple O' Sketches

Heya, I've been doing a lot of sketches and drawings lately. Here are just a couple. I'll post more later on, as I wouldn't want to give it all away up front! :)







This last one ended up too close to the center of my sketchbook, so it's not as clean as the others. Too bad, I really like it!

Titans

So, many of you know I have a sick obsession with Gundam. I'm talking about the original series, and the following series based in the Universal Century timeline. Not this Gundam Wing or Gundam SEED or Gundam 00 or Gundam X or.... Well you get the idea.

So I am rewatching Zeta Gundam and I am just flabbergasted at how cruel the Titans are. In fact, they just destroyed a colony just as a show of force! Geez. Anyway, I hate the Titans, but not enough to not draw myself in a Titans uniform.



God I am a nerd. Next thing you know, I'll draw myself as a colony. That would be SWEET!

Carpenters

So I was asked to maybe come up with some designs to paint on some drywall partitions during construction at this place, and here are a few designs I toyed with today. Yay.