8 years ago

This painting is a portrait of my cousin's daughter, done 8 years ago
This is a simple illustration for a story I wrote.

I did this drawing 8 years ago.

Rejected.

This image was rejected for a magazine. But I did enjoyed creating it. One of the things about being a freelance illustrator is getting use to rejection, it's never fun (I'm still bummed that it didn't get picked) but at least it still means you still care about your work? It just makes me try harder next time.
This is part acrylic, part digital and even a little gouache if I remember correctly.

Process.

Ok, get ready to read, no seriously.
Two years ago I did a little comic called Team Kat-O. It was a fun little learning experience. Here is how I usually approach drawing characters for a book. First I try to do as many sketches as I can in pencil (some of these drawings are on newspapers, tracing paper backs of pizza boxes). Mixing and matching which features look best for the characters. Depending on how much time I have, I would then sculpt the character. If I had a lot of time I would use clay, either Super Sculpy or Paper clay ( I like paper clay because I don't have to bake it, I hate baking when i can't eat it at the end)

These are typical paper clay sculpts, not much detail, but enough for reference. The middle one is just acrylic gesso with a grey tone, the one on the left is partially colored and the monarch is fully colored.

Now if I don't have much time to work on a project, I would skip the clay all together. This is the main villian, 100 percent zbrush. I love using zbrush for these quick character sketches, where as clay can take 3 or 4 hours for something usable, this zbrush model probably took me about 30 minutes. The cat model took about 1 hour tops, maybe less.
Using these models I would refer back to the sketches and pose them accordingly. Photograph the clay, screen cap the zbrush model. And that's pretty much all I need to maintain the continuity of a character.

Noodles!

2 in a day?

two updates in 1 day? wow, sound the alarms! I must be feeling it.

new totoro

Hi guys, I took an old model and adjusted it a bit to look more like the original totoro, less sinister looking. this was done in zbrush. If I dont' lose my mind, I might even color this.

2011, I spit on you. jerk.

sorry for lack of updates

i had to completely wipe out my hard drive to get the computer working again, so I have to reinstall everything. luckily i have almost everything backed up. the problem with sorting through old work and old photos is you get nostalgic. nostalgia is terrible for someone like me.
Speaking of imagination, here's an oldie but goodie from bohemigrant issue 1, The DEAL.

some sketches

Hey folks, I had a few hours to kill so I took out the ole india ink and did some sketches. I'll develope them further at some point. On the top left is a vampire zombie ninja, top right is a fairy, bottom is an office monkey. the vampire zombie ninja might be a new teeshirt design. Tell me what you think.
the fairy will eventually be painted with wings. ps, she's not naked and I'm going to paint her with chinese opera makeup. She'll also have believable female features and not horney comicker portions.