Mind Heist

So I listened to Zack Hemsey's "Mind Heist" the entire time drawing this. That song makes everything epic, and make's drawing extra fun! I also didn't save the file until I was done. /fail. Still not completely satisfied with the hands, I try to make them look natural, they come out mangled, blah dee blah dee blah~

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Sorry, I'm just typing the same thing over again because being the smart person I am, I accidentally posted this to Willie's "Weekly Scribblets", and then deleted the post before thinking of copy and pasting my post to my personal blog. /doublefail. So I can't remember everything I said... Oh well.

Anyway, here's what I worked on:



Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Oh, I also said something about how I've got the day off tomorrow, so drawing the night before is stress free, or something. Well, I suppose it was :D

Work Station pix

Cleaned the computer room today and did a little rearranging. I'm enjoying my current workspace:



"Quit procrastinating. Work on your art."
-The Goddamn Batman

He's a good motivational tool :D

Happy Holidays Artco!

These are caricatures of my co-workers that I did as a holiday gift. I started working on them around the start of the month and finished them up last night, just in time to show my co-workers on our last day before Christmas break (lol "break"). I was really shooting for having them finished in color, but I only had 4 colored by 3 a.m. last night and I wasn't gonna stay up all night.. so I'll have to finish coloring them later. Despite that, my co-workers loved their drawings, so I'm glad to have made their day a little brighter :D

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

Forgotten page

I thought I was missing a page yesterday.. here it is.

Not that spectacular. Some Bale Rage and UGUUUUUUU~

OH! I ordered some artbooks from Brand Studio Press and they came in the mail today!

I got Francisco Herrera's Sketchbox #4
The only one missing now from my collection is #1... Really should have bought it while I had the chance during it's second printing :( I can only hope there will be a third. Anyway, Sketchbox #4 was a highly anticipated book for me, as I'm a big fan of Herrera's work. If you haven't seen any of his art, I highly recommend doing so. He has such a unique style and attention to facial expressions that his characters easily come to life right before your eyes. I also enjoy his use of line weights, as it helps the characters jump off the page. If you're a fan of exaggerated cartoony characters and comic books, Francisco Herrera is not one to look past.

The second book I got was J. Scott Campbell's Blue Beauties. Many may be familiar with Campbell's art through comic books. To be honest, I haven't run into a lot of comics he's worked on, but I've seen a lot of his work, and I must say they've helped me in finding my own voice in art. This book is made up of a lot of his Comic book covers, so again, if you're a fan of comic books, and you're new to the name, be sure to check out J. Scott Cambell.

Lastly, the third book I received was Terry Dodson's Bomb Shells. Terry Dodson is an artist I wasn't familiar with, but upon looking at the samples of his book, decided it was in my best interest to buy it, and it does not disappoint. Dodson's book is compiled of a variety of pin-up girls, and wacky cartoon characters. It actually upsets me that I hadn't heard of him sooner, but I'm glad to have acknowledged another fine artist. Dodson's work is definitely on my list of inspirations. Again, highly recommended you check out his art!

So yeah! not much art to show from me, but hopefully you'll check out and become fans of the artists I've mentioned above. If you like their art, support them by buying their books!

And in non-art news, I got my haircut today. It's pretty short, so I'm hoping it won't be as uncomfortable when my head gets sweaty, as it was with my bushy pile of almost-fro. Then again, Seattle has decided it's done with it's 2 weeks of summer and is now giving us fall. Seriously, I should not be wearing a sweater in August!

Anyway, that's all I have to say for today. Until next time! Thanks for reading!

Sketchbook stuff

I just started a new sketchbook. Here's some pages over the week.. Been trying to design a character and keep her appearance consistent.. too bad I'm still not settled on an appearance I wanna go with yet!

I've also been busy with a lot of great stuff at work that I REALLY wanna show.. but there's something somewhere in the contract about me not giving away details to secret projects, etc.. SO YEAH. I HAVE been doing art, just not a lot I can post here.. So you'll have to settle for some meh sketchbook stuff.







Also, I feel really awkward about saying stuff in here.. which is funny, because I used to be a frequent Live Journal user, so I always had crap to say. Maybe if I post more, I'll get myself adjusted to this and things will stop being so awkward. Yeah.. Anyway, until next time. Possibly next week when I have more sketches, OR if I have something I feel I need to share.

January art update

Happy New Year, everyone!