Environment Painting

The top one is my final painted version of an environment I drew earlier. The rest were color concept sketches. Never really tried to do this before... Learned a lot. #1 thing learned: I need to learn a lot.

BATTLE! (but it's only a model)

This is a sketch of a battle between the Samburu Warrior and the Demon Five Heads. I tried here to show them both in a more dynamic pose. Five heads attacks with tendrils and heads up front while holding back and protecting the sorcerer's corpse, the source of his power. Perhaps if my paper had been wider I'd stretch out the comp even more...

Demon, Revised

All together, I was not satisfied with the demon Five Heads... Here's a revised version with a more unified design and looking a bit more sinister. I like this a lot better. Still open to suggestions.

The Demon Five Heads

Here he is... He ended up some sort of strangling tree monster with four heads. The fifth one is his victim's! BWA HA HA HA!!! As you can see, he has eaten the soul of his victim to take their powers and life force. Clearly.
Well, I'm not so sure about the background, and I'm open to design critiques... The faces were referenced from african masks.

Story

So, I'm going to do three more characters in this style, and an environment. Should be fun!

Not quite sure about the story details yet, but I know who the villain will be. He is the evil demon Five Heads, who was inspired (loosely) by an african legend of five headed serpent chief. I kind of departed from it a lot though. The Demon Five Heads is an evil spirit inhabiting the dead body of Africa's most powerful (Magician? Sorcerer? Warrior? King?). The demon had made a deal with the man that if he gave his soul to Five Heads, he would "never face the grave". When the man agreed to it, Five Heads immediately devoured his soul and entered the man's body. He died with a look of absolute horror on his face, which is still plastered on it today.

I'm trying to work out Five Heads' design. He started out as a voodoo doctor type guy with a necklace of shrunken heads and five living heads coming out from his shoulders. Then he became more of an amorphous blob with blobby heads sticking out, then he became more of a spider, then an octopus/tree blob. Now it's down to a walking corpse, bent over backwards with a look of horror on his dead, hanging face, and five demon heads protruding from his chest and controlling his limbs like a puppeteer. Hmm... We'll see.

African Warrior Design

I have to say, I'm pretty pleased with this design so far! It started out as an emulation excercise- I was trying to imitate the style of Samurai Jack. Then I started messing with colors and lines and stuff.

The character himself started out as a charicature of an african man I found online, then I started simplifying and exaggerating him a ton. Cool, eh? His costume is based on a Samburu warrior, but I've left out some things for simplicity. I may add them later.

Now, with Color!

But only one, in several values. Cheerio!

The Kiss

The theme here is "Pretty Ugly". Drew this for Joe's class. I'll throw in some value shortly. I was going for a Norman Rockwell type composition... But then, clearly not.

Robot again

I made some improvements to this image, and now I like it better.

One More Environment

The assignment was to do three. I have lots of other sketches that were pretty cool, too... I may post them. This one was based on Centre Park in my home town, Reading, PA. I massively altered some proportions and turned the trash cans into flaming altars! Neat, eh?Oh, I did work this one over a bit in Photoshop...

More Environment Design

Here's another environment design. By the way, these are all ink. Pretty much.

Environment Design

Also for Ryan's Character Design class. We also do environments. This is basically a bridge behind my apartment that I seriously altered in post.

Style Emulation - Hyung-tae Kim

I drew this for Ryan's Character Design class. The goal was to emulate the style of another artist. I chose Hyung-tae Kim because his style and subject matter was WAY off from my normal stuff. Also, it revealed to me that I need some more anatomy classes or something...

Model

I did this for Joe Olsen's drawing class. The assignment was to analyze proportions by first attempting to draw a diagram of the model, then exaggerating some characteristics to create a character. I've left out a bunch of sketches, but I've shown the final results...

I'm addicted

Both to drawing caricatures, and to this show, of which I just finished the first season on DVD. My roommate had it. It was like giving me crack. Too bad I can't paint the future.

By the way, this guy is an awesome villain... He's just so dang bad!

Another

I did this one a few weeks back, along with many others I did not deem worthy to post... I liked this one, though, even though it is not very exaggerated. I also did not do all guys, it's just that the girl charicatures sucked. I should work on that.

More Charicatures

I've decided that drawing charicatures is important to my personal well being. Hopefully, you can tell who they are...

I wear $85 tshirts

That's right, and you can, too, with these hip and trendy new designs by renowned artist, Brian Kohrman! Just send me $85 and I'll print you one! Limited edition!

Blog links, anyone?

Hey, any artists who read this- Let me know if you want me to link to your blog! Please feel free (or compelled) to link to mine.

Contact me here:
togglebob@yahoo.com

I'll erase this post later, to prevent my email from floating around too much, so please do it ASAP. Cheers.

Another departure from my norm

As I usually draw happy fuzzy things, I decided to do something different- mean fuzzy things. Here's a bear who could and probably would tear your head off if he found you in the woods. It's also a departure from my norm in that I used a blue colored pencil to draw it! Hooray!

Monkey

I attempted here to do a very graphic style monkey (similar to the previous bird design) but with a bit more personality. Not sure how well it worked, but I like him anyway... I drew it in pencil first, then cleaned it up in flash (with only the line tool and paint bucket!).

[edit- this is now a second version, added 3/8/08. I like it better with just a little texture.]

I drew this for Joe Olsen's drawing class. It's not my usual stuff! It was a lovely little bush branch, though.

Genuine, Legitimate Art

I just learned of the Holy Grail of all art tools: The AUTOMATIC MOTIVATIONAL POSTER GENERATOR!!! Yes, you read that correctly, as long as you thought you read, "The AUTOMATIC MOTIVATIONAL POSTER GENERATOR!!!"

Here's the URL, and I hope it is to you all that it is to me.

http://wigflip.com/automotivator/

By, the way, that picture is me, and I do have three heads, and it was not touched up in any way. It's a 15 second exposure of me lighting three matches in the dark in my car.

Gee, thanks, Steve!

This was a Tshirt Design for Threadless... My college roommate posed for it. It was inspired by some technical trouble with my favorite little piece of electronic fun... I'll let you know if it is voteable later.

Bird design

Part two of the animal character design assignment. I thought I'd do this one a bit differently.