WIP painting

Something I've been working on for a couple hours for the past few nights. I'm not too great with hands, so throw painting into the mix, and it's a mighty challenge. Anyway, I wasn't gonna show this until it was done, but Jordan wanted to see my progress haha. Probably good to show it so I can get critique anyway.

Digital sketches

I recently bought a new monitor, way larger than the previous, and let me tell you.. it makes drawing digitally SO much easier! Here's some sketches I've done in the past few days:

Did this a couple nights ago. Anatomy isn't so good


Just did this tonight, anatomy is better...


Here's a work in progress. It's gonna be a comic book cover-esque illustration. All characters are from a story I've had in my head for awhile, which I would like to somehow make into a comic someday. Heh, a comic. That's a long lasting dedication project right there. But you never know, I'm in no rush right now. Besides, I've yet to really write any of the story down... Should probably get on that.
Anyway, I'm currently doing the clean pass on this piece. It's taking awhile, but it'll get there.. Then onto coloring!

10/4/2010

Something similar to yesterday's sketch.. Guess I've got punk chicks on my mind, or something. Okay, time for bed...

Changes are to be made!

Alright, so I'm gonna have to set up a schedule for myself to make sure I get more drawing in. It's been exhausting at work lately, and when I get home I don't even wanna think about doing art.. But if I love it so much, shouldn't I try to put more effort into working more for myself? Besides, I need to try more experimenting and such to really find my voice. So, I'll try to do a daily sketch and spend around an hour on it every/every-other night.

There's a lot of things I wanna change in my life to make myself a better person and be more happy with who I am. Setting up a schedule for myself to make sure I get more art in my life is just one among other things. I hope to see changes for the better these coming months.

Anyway, to start out my new path, here's a sketch I did tonight.

1 hr 10 min.

I got lazy around some areas and even got stuck at a few points. It becomes difficult to decide which direction you want your lines to go.. especially when it comes to folds in clothing.. I didn't wanna spend too much time guessing and erasing, so I went with my gut. Not satisfied at all how that turned out, but it shows how much practice I need with that subject. and hands.. ugh.. HANDS... they're all floaty in this sketch.. lol

Comicon Challenge 2010

I entered a competition over at www.gameartisans.org

We're to choose a super hero and redesign them either older or younger. I chose to young-ify Power Girl to teen years. Check out my progress here!:

http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16605


(Above: Power Girl by Artgerm)

Bakugan Ability Cards

After my work on the environment concepts, they had me help out my buddy Kyle Steed with Ability Card art. Kyle had painted the cards with a wicked cool style that Spin Master loved so much, they wanted all the cards to look like his! Problem is, Kyle's only one man, and he had what seemed like hundreds more Ability Cards to go. So they had a few more of us help him out and try to emulate his style. It wasn't an easy task, but we managed to pump them all out. Kyle's Ability Card art had really pushed the enthusiasm for both Spin Master and FLS, as they are some of the most impressive pieces of art in the game.

There are many many more of these, and maybe I can get Kyle to share some, as his quality and skill on these cards greatly exceed mine! Even now he's still working on more Ability Cards and each new piece looks better every time! The guy's super talented. I'm very glad to be be able to work with such a talented team :)

(Let me add that some of these are NOT the final versions used in the game, as not all of them were to Spin Master's liking on the first try. So other artists may have adjusted certain things on them, or they didn't get used at all. These are all pieces I either did all myself or worked upon from a rougher stage that Kyle passed to me.)

Get your Baku-on with some Bakugan

I did environment concepts for the game Bakugan Dimensions last year. I found them today and thought I'd post them since the game's been released and I don't have anything else to share currently. These were put together with photoshop, with a few of the props having been rendered in 3D and turned into clip art which could be placed anywhere. So yeah, a lot of this was a design process where I reused a lot of bits and pieces from already finished art. Oh, and any of the foliage / most of the ground (grass, concrete, etc) was done by my co-worker, Jonathan Stroh who is a freakin' AMAZING artist! He and I both worked on the environment concepts, but his are way better.. haha